Wowwww!! Where have I beeen?!!!

Hummmmming... I have been wanting to write a blog....  hopefully I will do that soooon!... now Im babysitting two adorable nephews- Eitan, age 3,  and Samuel, age 6 weeks, Sofia's boys! ;)

Just wanted to say Happy Holidays!!

HUGS y'all!!

Dear friends, I must share this with you! Carol Finkle, remarkable, hardworking, and big hearted lady who is founder of Creative Access non-profit organization for 15 years in Philadelphia, PA. This organization was founded to promote the accessibility and equality for deaf people in visual of arts, cultures, communications and music. What inspired her to set this organization, by her two deaf beautiful full grown children Joshua and Abby Finkle.  Carol is going to retire in the fall, she wont retire until she accomplish something big, which is one month LONG of Deaf Arts/Culture PaH Festival in October 18-November 20.

I'm lucky to be her intern student for the summer, working as project assistant to Carol Finkle. Please check her website at www.creativeaccess.org for more information.

It'd be awesome if you copy/paste this blog entry to spread out the words.

DEAF ARTS/CULTURE PaH!! Festival

PaH IS A CELEBRATION

OF THE BEAUTY OF AMERICAN

SIGN LANGUAGE - NOT ONLY

AS THE ESSENTIAL MODE OF COMMUNICATION

FOR DEAF INDIVIDUALS, BUT AS A HIGHLY VISUAL

FORM OF ART.

(in American Sign Language, "PAH!" means success.. finally!)

JOIN US FROM OCTOBER 18- NOVEMBER 20 IN WELCOMING PHILADELPHIA CITY!

HIGHLIGHTS OF EVENTS:

* October 19- Dedication & Ribbon-cutting Ceremony at Independence Seaport Museum

Opening of Seaport Cinema, the nation's most cutting edge captioned movie theater. Event to honor Marlee Matlin who will be serenaded by Deaf Rock n Roll Band, Beethoven's Nightmare!

*October 20- Deaf Artists Exhibition & Photographic Retrospective

To show case Deaf painters, sculptors, and photographers; And offer up over five hundreds archival photographs of Deaf performers, performances & audiences by Harvey Finkle and Rodney Atienza from 1980s to the present.

*October 22-26- Deaf Holocaust Testimonials

Dr. Simon Carmel's powerful and rarely experienced presentation of the tales and images of Deaf Holocaust survivors

*October 27-28- Extraordinary Deaf Cirque Carnivale

Hosted at the Reading Terminal Market (Food/Restaurant Market) and Philadelphia Mummer's Museum

*November 3- Sign Dance Collective in Concert: "But Beautiful"

A sign dance and musical tribute to jazz great Art Pepper at Philadelphia Cleff Club of Jazz.

*November 9- Bernard Bragg in Concert: Theater in the Sky

Father of Deaf Theater in America will bring his final, national tour to Independence Seaport Museum

November 9- The Wild Zappers at The Painted Bride

Thrill to the sign-dance and poetic beauty of The Wild Zappers: seven Deaf male hip-hop/pop/jazz dancers internationally and critically acclaimed since 1987.

*November 16- Deaf Comedy Central

The amazing Living Cartoon.. CJ Jones's  "What are you... DEAF?"

*November 16 & 17- Deaf CABARET Nights Friday & Saturday

Come drink, eat, Sign/Dance, & Schmooze at Dowling's Palace, brand new jazz club on North Broad Street! Deaf Burlesque and Baw-DE-Ville will delight and surprise you!!

*November 14- Prolific young author, Mark Drolsbaugh, will present his first book, "Deaf Again", at the Free Library of Philadelphia's popular Author Series, 1901 Vine Street- 7 pm sharp

AND MANY MORE!!!

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED TO BECOME A SPONSOR, PERFORMER, SPEAKER, OR DANCER- PLEASE CONTACT  CAROL FINKLE at Cfinkle@creativeaccess.org

WWW.CREATIVEACCESS.ORG

Ah, I tried to order the pictures in timeline of journey. I wouldnt do it right before I goes to bed next time. ;)

This picture was supposed to be the last one to tell you that I will continue with more pictures- its in toledo, Spain. Wow, its our favorite city- (Nina & me) beautiful! Historic!

The original painting of Mona Lisa, in Louvre Museum, France. THis museum was really HUGE!!! Many tourists came just to see this painting, not any others, maybe few!.. Im serious! Mona Lisa was just like a celebrity on the red carpet, with pictures flashing all the way at her. Or is it him? That is the question. ;)  It was really hard to get a good picture, due to the reflection of glass. Smart huh? ..  There were people just like bugs swarming in circle trying to get a good picture of this painting. I was one of them, heh!

Eiffel Tower! In case, its in paris ;)~

The Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile, the world's largest triumphal arch, in Paris near Louvre Museum.  Nina was a bit grouchy on that day, yet she was wonderful sport, being very patient and walked all day! Her big toe was in pain for no reason, it finally went away after few days.

Guess what it is? It is a cover wall of renovation of a building inside! Awesome, its fun to look at, rather than looking at the wooded board covering up the renovation like in DC, right?

Gare Du Nord, Paris -  its famous plaza where people goes to shop! We were supposed to go, time was not permitted. DARN!

We were fooling around, it looked like as if we were standing on it.

Train station in Paris, front of our hotel balcony, probably on Thursday evening- it was packed, that people couldnt move fast, VERY SLOW. We were fascinated, it was like that for almost an hour. POOR those people!

City of Paris...

Canals were also everywhere in Amsterdam.. which helped Amsterdam to be chilly, it was not so hot.. thank god!

Heinekein Brewery Museum, factory of making beers, it definitely smelled like wheat!

trams! We got around easy in Amsterdam, thanks to TRAM!

City in amsterdam! Von Gogh Museum nearby, we went to cafe, on that corner, "Small Talk Coffee House."

In Central of Amsterdam, coffee shops, red light district, train stations, restaurants, bars, stores, etc!

Amsterdam..

Nina finds it fascinating that almost all statues of king/queen or royal people died with dog, lion, cat front of deceased person's feet.. we re wondering why, Nina is gonna research and find out why.. ;)

Sexy asses!! Ooo, its my favorite statues..

Beautiful canal in amsterdam!! Good picture of Nina and canal!!

More to come, in Spain!

Dear friends, I must share this with you! Carol Finkle, remarkable, hardworking, and big hearted lady who is founder of Creative Access non-profit organization for 15 years in Philadelphia, PA. This organization was founded to promote the accessibility and equality for deaf people in visual of arts, cultures, communications and music. What inspired her to set this organization, by her two deaf beautiful full grown children Joshua and Abby Finkle.  Carol is going to retire in the fall, she wont retire until she accomplish something big, which is one month LONG of Deaf Arts/Culture PaH Festival in October 18-November 20.

I'm lucky to be her intern student for the summer, working as project assistant to Carol Finkle. Please check her website at www.creativeaccess.org for more information.

It'd be awesome if you copy/paste this blog entry to spread out the words.

DEAF ARTS/CULTURE PaH!! Festival

PaH IS A CELEBRATION

OF THE BEAUTY OF AMERICAN

SIGN LANGUAGE - NOT ONLY

AS THE ESSENTIAL MODE OF COMMUNICATION

FOR DEAF INDIVIDUALS, BUT AS A HIGHLY VISUAL

FORM OF ART.

(in American Sign Language, "PAH!" means success.. finally!)

JOIN US FROM OCTOBER 18- NOVEMBER 20 IN WELCOMING PHILADELPHIA CITY!

HIGHLIGHTS OF EVENTS:

* October 19- Dedication & Ribbon-cutting Ceremony at Independence Seaport Museum

Opening of Seaport Cinema, the nation's most cutting edge captioned movie theater. Event to honor Marlee Matlin who will be serenaded by Deaf Rock n Roll Band, Beethoven's Nightmare!

*October 20- Deaf Artists Exhibition & Photographic Retrospective

To show case Deaf painters, sculptors, and photographers; And offer up over five hundreds archival photographs of Deaf performers, performances & audiences by Harvey Finkle and Rodney Atienza from 1980s to the present.

*October 22-26- Deaf Holocaust Testimonials

Dr. Simon Carmel's powerful and rarely experienced presentation of the tales and images of Deaf Holocaust survivors

*October 27-28- Extraordinary Deaf Cirque Carnivale

Hosted at the Reading Terminal Market (Food/Restaurant Market) and Philadelphia Mummer's Museum

*November 3- Sign Dance Collective in Concert: "But Beautiful"

A sign dance and musical tribute to jazz great Art Pepper at Philadelphia Cleff Club of Jazz.

*November 9- Bernard Bragg in Concert: Theater in the Sky

Father of Deaf Theater in America will bring his final, national tour to Independence Seaport Museum

November 9- The Wild Zappers at The Painted Bride

Thrill to the sign-dance and poetic beauty of The Wild Zappers: seven Deaf male hip-hop/pop/jazz dancers internationally and critically acclaimed since 1987.

*November 16- Deaf Comedy Central

The amazing Living Cartoon.. CJ Jones's  "What are you... DEAF?"

*November 16 & 17- Deaf CABARET Nights Friday & Saturday

Come drink, eat, Sign/Dance, & Schmooze at Dowling's Palace, brand new jazz club on North Broad Street! Deaf Burlesque and Baw-DE-Ville will delight and surprise you!!

*November 14- Prolific young author, Mark Drolsbaugh, will present his first book, "Deaf Again", at the Free Library of Philadelphia's popular Author Series, 1901 Vine Street- 7 pm sharp

AND MANY MORE!!!

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED TO BECOME A SPONSOR, PERFORMER, SPEAKER, OR DANCER- PLEASE CONTACT  CAROL FINKLE at Cfinkle@creativeaccess.org

WWW.CREATIVEACCESS.ORG

Amsterdam, France & Spain!

EDIT*** I removed the pictures from photo publishing, so pictures were removed on this entry, so I can post more pictures in future entries. (thank you so much for your comments! *HUGS*)

Nina & I went to Europe for 2 and half weeks, it may seem short time- yet it was long and we had absolutely wonderful time!

I already missed the journey with Nina. :)

Amsterdam, France and Spain are very beautiful, although it was not what we expected- we think we will want to travel in places where it is so completely different from America or at least in non tourist places, to see the depth of the inner culture and diversity of people.