unbelievable

i don't know where to begin...
on one of the highlights of my academic journey today
it was all very unexpected...

i have the internationally known architect
for my design studio course

and to me...
it's like tom hanks
teaching me how to act

or jack johnson
teaching me how to play the guitar
hahaha...

going on our design fieldtrip to the site
of our metal foundry museum...
first of all...
it was such an amazing experience
seeing metal being formed created
steaming hot liquid metal
being poured into moulds

and then touring the rest of the foundry
seeing all the history...
the thousands of old moulds carved out of wood
formed in sand

then...our prof...the architect...
needs to go to his infamous and internationally
known projects called 'ghost'
where he organizes every year
a design build project
with a group of 20 people across the globe
and asks if we want to go visit

yea...definitely go...
have to pay $5000 to participate in this two week ghost project...
only one student in our whole program gets to go...
and that one student is fully sponsored
i'm going to apply...
so we go to this amazing site of the ghost projects...
the landscape undescribable
the fog just moving in...
see the well crafted projects
...so good...

he teaches so well
knows so much
down to earth
friendly
i was purely in awe of the buildings
that him and his firm has put together

then as we head back on our 2 hour drive back to halifax
my roomate, another, and i go back in his car
and talk...
and talk...
learn and learn more
haha...
and he took us to other housing projects he had in the city
then again i was left in shock
at the well designed and detailed projects
and with him explaining them
with such passion and conviction made it
just that much better.

definitely a highlight in my educational experience
unbelievable.

pictures to be posted soon!