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I'm not doing this project to necessarily make new longterm friends, or go have a drink with these people. Nor is it to pass any judgements on ones life. My goal is to simply meet interesting, and maybe not so interesting strangers who I wouldve never taken the time to talk to otherwise. One that may differ, or perhaps relate to my own life. So many times, you walk past someone, and they wont even raise their head in the slightest to say hello. I'll never understand why. The challenge to myself is not only to surpass that simple hello with one person a day, but to convince them to look into my lens and tell me something about themselves. My name is Amanda Surkin, and this is my journey of meeting 100 new faces. Take the time to listen, you may learn something :)

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Stranger #23


Stranger #23-

Meet Melanie Tanada. Melanie is a senior and is in the process of finishing up her last 2 months as an undergrad. Melanie has been taking guitar lessons and playing for fun, which helped contribute to her interest in learning how to play a ukulele as well!

"I've just been working on my graduating thesis. For my thesis, I'm doing a study on restrictive U.S immigration policies and how it effects immigrants who remit money back to their home country. After graduating, ill be working in Turkey. Last summer I participated in a summer program for Robert College which takes place in Istanbul. It's 8 1/2 weeks, and its a program to help teach English to children through a variety of performing arts! I also applied to a graduate program for international affairs but I'm heavily involved with campus life. I'm the president of student programming board here, and I would love to be programming a campus life! D.C is where the graduate program is, but at the same time, I would love to go back home to Vegas, I miss being on the West coast!"


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