My name is Dean Santarinala, and I am a 20-something living in the Chicagoland area trying to find my place in the Universe. I have always enjoyed art and drawing, and along the way I picked up a camera and fell in love with photography.
Two weekends ago I went home for my niece’s 1st birthday party. Filipino parties are pretty boring for me when there’s no one my age to converse with, so I mostly played with my nieces, but the real treat of these parties is THE FOOD! I miss it so much when I’m at school! My mom made me a care package of Filipino food to take back to school with me, but I forgot to grab it off the coffee table before I left! :-(
Sunday: Part 12 of a 13-part series of photos documenting my trip to New York:
[Warning: the slides might take a little while to load on slower connections.]
My group of Moto intern friends and I had an “End of Summer BBQ” on Thursday night that was originally planned to be at Independnce Grove in Libertyville, but was moved indoors to Elissa’s huge apartment in Gurnee because of inclement weather.
I hung out with the fam yesterday to celebrate the 3rd birthday of my niece, Leila. I also got to meet my 3rd cousin on my Dad’s side, Catherine. That means that we have great-great grandparents in common. I had to look it up on this handy wikipedia cousin chart. Everybody’s family in the Philippines!
After playing unfinished bags for a few hours and hanging out last night, Dave and I headed out to the west suburbs to go to my cousin Alane’s graduation party.
Then we picked up Yoo Soo, returning from Korea, at O’Hare Airport. He was detained and customs questioned him in a room about his occupation and what he was doing in Korea. The airline also made him wear a facemask because he had a bad cold and they didn’t want people to worry about the H1N1 virus. In other words, Yoo Soo is a terrorist.
