Date ideas for the Provo 123th YSA Ward

So... here's a list of dates that I have come up with that I consider are relatively cheap in essence, but
you can add things as your budget permits.

1 Treasure Hunt
 
    Plan:
         a) Choose a final destination. Maybe you already have this one in mind. You could choose your favorite secret place, your favorite restaurant, favorite piece of art, something else you prepared for it.
        b) Choose a big place like part of the campus, provo center, a park... and go beforehand and try to find things that you can use as a signal or sign (i.e. the only tree with a heart shape). Choose things that are not likely to move or change (i.e. the cloud with a heart shape). This clues are supposed to lead to your "treasure."
        c) While you are looking for this places, write down instructions or make a map of how to go from one place to another.

    During the date:

• I would suggest you go along the other person to help him/her understand the instruction. This should be a time perfect for you to have a conversation. 
• Talk about why you chose to describe something in a certain way, maybe he/she would have done it in another way.
• Find the treasure. Talk about why that thing is special for you, why you like it, why you made it... whatever the case is. 

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NOTE: Do not bring her to the temple on the first date and propose... 

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2 Be an artist

    So I really think everyone can create a something cool. Doesn't matter if you are in accounting, biology, or yeah, an art major. The point of this date is... well... to have a date and get to know the other person. 

    Plan: 

     a)  Take a deep breath and look around your room. In there something you don't like what it looks like ? Is there something that you haven't worn in a few months because it looks old? If it is paper, fabric, plastic... you probably can do something else with it. 

    b) Find color. Depending or your situation, you could find different things around your room. Look for markers, color pencils, crayons, paint, food coloring, anything that can be used as a medium to change the form or color of something else.

    c) Look at some other artists works. I'm pretty sure you can find something cool, kinda crazy on the internet. Maybe one of you is actually a pretty good artist and the other one... well, let's say they like to draw outside the lines...

Like look at this example of collaboration.

3 Create your own story

You could do cartoon strips-like stories, photo story, a dialog, a stop motion video, a book for kids. I have always wanted to do something like this
or this 

4 Go DI Hunting

Well... this may sound very self explanatory...   one, you go to DI. Two, you find something you like.

• Well, why not make it a double date, pair off and try to find presents for the other couple? I'm pretty sure trying to agree on what to give someone else can be hard.
• Why not make a little competition? Try to find the cheapest but coolest thing in less that 5 min. You can make as many combinations of partnering... (is that the word?) to find the different thing. The looser... or the person who didn't win (maybe that doesn't sound that mean) has to wear the ugliest t-shirt or whatever the other group/person decides. 
• Or find children's books and read it to each other. 

If I come up with some other cool ideas I might post them... :) 

Happy dating everyone... except if you date the girl I like 

 I'm kidding

many others are bored

So... someone pointed out the address of my blog was misspelled... so I tried to fix it but it said the address was not available... and that happened for all the other addresses I could think of including the word boring or any of its derivates... I actually went into some of those and they all exist... someone created them in a time of boredom but didn't post anything... they were mostly just blank templates...


but I came up with this new address...

Photo shoot at the olympic oval

So today I started working out again, went to the city library and also had a photo shoot at the Olympic oval.
It was quite a different thing.... It was way better than shooting at 103° outside. I wasn't really expecting to step on the ice... and I actually am afraid of ice skating... but there I was holding lights like a boss ;)

Trying to keep sunday productive

So many times we think we need a break, we think of things we would like to do; things we would like to learn... things we would just like to get rid of. Well, at this point of my life I have this time, a lot of it. Probably by organizing myself, I would have been able todo it before, but I didn't, so... now I don't have the excuse to say I don't have time. Some of this things are family history.

As members of the church we do family history. We do research of our own ancestors. This process may take time and may seen boring. However, it is pretty cool when you do find someone who is part of your family, someone who lived many years ago, even centuries, and was kind of just waiting for you to find him/her. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints provides many tools to find your own ancestors and help others find theirs.

One of those tools is called indexing. In old times, records of births, marriages, deaths and similar ones, were written down in huge books. With time, many of those books have been digitalized, now they are images that can be accessed on a computer. To further simplify the process of finding your ancestors, someone indexing will type all the information contained on some images to create databases.

So today I will be doing some indexing, and I will also look at the databases to see if I can find some of my own ancestors.

About my internship

So... in oder to receive my associates degree I need to do an internship which I am doing with Jon Woodbury. He is a very creative photographer who has a very unique style and sense of humor.

I do about 20 hours a week of work with him helping him on shoots and some album photo layout and other things. 

This is one of the photos I took while in a photo shoot with Jon a couple weeks ago at Thanksgiving point, UT.

Who I am

My name is Abraham.

I am a mexican student in the US.

I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (a.k.a Mormon).

I love photography and design.

  THE PURPOSE OF THE BLOG:

To keep me motivated to do positive things with my time.

what YOU can get out of reading my blog:

•Motivation to do great things.

•Inspiration.

•Good feelings.

A little more about me: I started studying photography and taking my general classes at the LDS Business College and I finished with all my classes last April and now I just need to finish with an internship. Being an international student in the US can be hard because of the employment limitations. For example we are not allowed to work more than 20 hours a week during the semester, and up to 40 hours during the break.