All of these videos happened here around Cacak. It took me a few days to get them off the camera and upload them to google. On to the show……
It hasn’t rained–really rained–in quite some time. It did sprinkle one day. I was waiting on language classes (I had been around town and didn’t want to get wet so I went to the school early). As it was raining, I noticed that the water was evaporating just about as fast as it was falling. I took a video to try to show everyone. Once it was uploaded, it doesn’t look nearly as good as it did live. I decided to put up two versions of it….one from google video and the other the original file. You’ll have to wait for the second one to fully load (sorry, I don’t have streaming):
First from google video:
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The second local:
http://media.maxsons.org/20080903_RainInCacakEvaporating.mp4
download the file from here
A few days ago, one of the other Americans in town had a son who had a birthday. There is a go-cart track in town that we went to. It cost 450 dinars (about 9 dollars) to ride for 10 minutes. But, these weren’t the detuned US putsy go-carts. These things were fast. If there had been enough room, you probabaly could have fone a donut. And we didn’t have to wear a seat belt or helmet. And no one got hurt. Take that nanny goverment! Anyway, here is the video:
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This last one is of a random fireworks display. I was sitting at my desk last night working on the computer when I heard fireworks. That is something fairly standard here and random (people will just shoot them off. I wish I knew where they bought them from….I would have for the 4th!) so I didn’t think anything about it. However, when they kept going and going, I got up. I happened to grab my cell phone and took a movie of the last half of the show. It was amazing. I’ll ask one of my friends today if they knew what was going on.
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By the way, these videos are licensed under the same creative commons license this website is.
[Update 09-07-2008 09:00:00] I took the local video off. It took way to long to load. I left the download link up though.
[Update 09-07-2008 12:29:31] I found out that one of the daughters (or daugher) of one of the richest guys in town got married. The fireworks were at the wedding. WOW!