Summer 2003 - Microsoft internship
AIPT reception (a party for J-1 interns)
Here I first met many people from all around the world.
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Inside
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and outside
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The volcano (Mt. Helen)
This was our first hike.
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The volcano (Mt. Helen). It erupted in 1980's.
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The area around the volcano. You can see all the trees that were destroyed in the explosion.
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I'm there
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Trees in a lake
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Bear pass
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We are lost
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Microsoft company picnic
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Volleyball tournament
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Fight
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Golf
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All in a beautiful scenery
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Amusement Park (Enchanted Village & Wild Waves)
The glacier (Mt Rainier)
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we drove through some nice looking towns
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and bridges
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we walked through a big forest with big trees
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many small bridges
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over nice rivers
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some bigger rivers
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and even bigger bridges
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closer and closer to the glacier
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huge rocks
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the glacier (behind the fog)
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The Seattle Space Needle
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the Space Needle
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we went up there
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and had some nice views on the Seattle downtown
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The Boeing Museum
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a lot of planes there
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and even space capsules
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a fighter
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Olympic Peninsula
Then we went on a two day hike around the Olympic Peninsula, the north-west
corner of the United States.
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Mt Townsend - almost there
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The peak of Mt Townsend
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Some strange animals
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The next day we arrived at the ocean
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Some people swam
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The rocks at the beach got bigger and bigger
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The tide started to cut us off
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but we continued
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eventually we came back - one last look at the ocean
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then we moved to a rainforest
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Party at Andreea's place
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Peter & Andreea preparing food
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some Romanian barsh from Andreea
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Slovak halushky from Peter
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everybody is in
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party goes on
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Andreea & Kevin preparing for the concert
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sharades - Kris
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Andreea
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Tomek
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Skydiving
Andreea, Kris and I decided to jump from a plane. A plane took us up to
12,000 ft (4 km), where we jumped off it. One minute later, at 5,000 ft (1.5 km)
we opened our parachutes and descended nicely to the ground.
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Me and my instructor (we jumped together)
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Last preparations on the ground - Andreea in yellow, Tomek tying shoelaces
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That's me
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That's Andreea
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Andreea (left), Tomek (right)
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Me and my instructor landing
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Andreea and her instructor landing
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Andreea safe on the ground
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Tomek
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Kris, Andreea, Tomek on the plane
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More coming soon...
