*Pictures of Everything*

Venezuelans love bright colors, and cleat-look alike shoes for boys.

All pictures in this post are from campus unless otherwise noted.

My favorite Venezuelan flower- a type of Bougainvillea.

I wanted to capture just how tall these palm trees can be! They stand as stately sentinels along the the street in front of the secondary buildings.

Another of my favorites- sometimes it comes in a striking shade of blue, too.

This is the only tree I've ever seen here that gets red leaves, though the reason has nothing to do with the season. I think it's just part of the leaf cycle, because it some of its leaves turn red during both the dry and rainy season.

I see these lovely flowers every day as I walk through the parking lot- yes, even parking lots have flowers and trees down here ;-)

I wanted to capture just how tall these palm trees can be! They stand as stately sentinels in front of the secondary buildings.

Arepas are one of the Venezuelan foods I love. I finally learned to make them myself! My pan is badly scorched as a result (standard procedure), but I was proud to succeed on my first try! Dave let me watch him make a batch a few days before. The scorching happens because the arepas need to heat on the frying pan well after the oil has been absorbed, and no one wants soggy arepas, so no more oil is added. The pan is sacrificed for flavor!

The clouds often seem to be advancing in mountainous shapes of their own. I'm still attempting to get a good picture of the clouds spilling over the mountain, but it's hard to manage. The clouds end up blending in with the sky, so you can't tell that they're "spilling" unless you take your eye away from the camera and look for yourself. (These last 3 pics were taken at my apartment)