I opened my email this morning and found this message via Flickr:
Hi Michelle,
I am delighted to let you know that your submitted photo
has been selected for inclusion in the newly released fifth
edition of our Schmap Copenhagen Guide:
Botanical Gardens
http://www.schmap.com/copenhagen/tours_tour5/p=80030/i=80030_21.jpg
If you use an iPhone or iPod touch, then this same link
will take you directly to your photo in the iPhone version
of our guide. On a desktop computer, you can still see
exactly how your photo is displayed and credited in the
iPhone version of our guide at:
Botanical Gardens
http://www.schmap.com/?m=iphone#uid=copenhagen&sid=tours_tour5&p=80030&i=80030_21
Finally, if you have a blog, you might also like to check
out the customizable widgetized version of our Schmap
Copenhagen Guide, complete with your published photo:
http://www.schmap.com/guidewidgets/p=83416482N00/c=SH18011417
Thanks so much for letting us include your photo – please
enjoy the guide!
Best regards,
Emma Williams,
Managing Editor, Schmap Guides
Wow. I first heard from her a few weeks ago when she sent me a Flickr message informing me that my photo was shortlisted for inclusion. I filled out a form giving them permission to include it, but I never thought that it would actually be included! Wow. I mean, the photo that they selected is not the one I would have picked (since I took several better ones while I was at the gardens), but it’s still an honor! I’ve never had a photo of mine be used in anything (except for when I had to take some sports shots for the yearbook back in high school, but that’s not an accurate comparison I was already on the staff).
Cool!
I stayed up all night to see the results of the election, and I’m very happy that it was worth it. I’m also proud to be an American again, for the first time in a long time. There is still hope for America. However I am a little concerned that the popular vote does seem quite close. Oh well. It doesn’t matter at this point. I’m just happy that Obama IS president. I’ve watched McCain’s concession speech and it was actually quite impressive…he even tried to stop his supporters from booing whenever he mentioned Obama’s victory, haha.
Here’s to Obama and the hope and dreams he continues to inspire. Racism is real and will probably always exist to some extent, but Obama’s victory shows that there is still hope despite that fact. You can still work toward — and achieve — a dream no matter how much people say “NO” or try to hold you down because of your race, gender or any other quality. Progress is being made!
Now I am very curious and eager to see how Obama is going to perform as president and how he is going to put his plans into action. I guess we will have to wait til January!!!!
On a completely unrelated note, I’m also super excited about CNN’s election graphics. The charts, the reporting precicts % progress icons, the interactive “Magic Map”, all of ’em. They look so delicious, I want to eat them. I want to eat the entire CNN website, in fact. I love it. ;-) msnbc.com’s graphics are pretty sweet, too.
I am going to bed now. As you can (or maybe you can’t, lol) tell by the tone of this entry, I am quite excited…and tired. So I’m sure what I’m writing is much less controlled than usual.
(For the record, it’s 05.47. What a night).
Here are just a few of the pictures from Halloween. The International students hosted the Halloween-themed Friday Bar at our school! I have uploaded more pics at Flickr, as usual. :-)
Iveta and her big nose!
My long black wig
Yeliz's vampire teeth!
Maria (as a Zombie), Kathrine (as a cat) and Camilla
Hana as a pirate (at least, that's what I think it was, lol)
