camera story- my two years in the US

The very first day at Ithaca College, Sake lost her camera!

She was walking around the campus, taking pictures at the fountain and so on, and she even ate at the campus center dining hall, which would be, to her surprise, the one and only time in her 1.5 years' life in IC. Then of course she went to Park school to see what she would be seeing everyday from then on. She sat at the 3rd floor hallway, where there is a brilliant sky-light. She sat in the brilliant autumn sun for a while and then walked out of the building.

Then Sake is no longer holding her camera.

She looked at everywhere she went that day and couldn't find it. The next day someone asked her to try Public Safety, giv'em a call. She did.

And the camera was there!

This is Sake in front of Public Safety right after she got the camera back.

The date was Wednesday, Aug 25th, 2004, Sake's fifth day in Ithaca and seventh day in the United States.
I gave this pic to Kosi for her book. It was a brilliant book that she put together, with stories of US.
On a snowy day in Feburary 2006, I received a copy of "The Book". And there I was, looking totally green and puzzled, while the one who's looking at the picture had officially been an IC alum for over two months then.

Time flies...

The 19th of last month was my two-year anniversary of landing in the US. I did not write anything on that day. As you can tell, Sake's emotional response is always lagging years behind.
However there's always catharsis lying somewhere in your life, and I stepped on one today.

She's the one who picked up my camera and brought it to Public Safety!
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I never met Janice before, despite that I passed her office several times trying to catch her and say thank you. She doesn't appear in Park school very often, nor do graduate students. I'm just really glad