Jaki Portolese's Blog and Photography

I'm adding a few more photographs to the Campus album if you want to check them out. One is from an award ceremony for the photography students and the other two are from our wonderful Material Science department! They were all taken with my new flash and look great so I am super excited.

Anyway, Brier.. Oohh, Brier! I had to go through the new building they just completed on Edm… Continue

I am just too good at updating this thing.. I think I wrote in it about four times or so last quarter is all, and I've taken a bunch of new photos (I've gotten waaaay better with my camera since I started working at Edmonds CC) that I never got around to uploading. Go check out my albums because I added some good, new stuff to the Edmonds CC Campus album, as well as a few photos I took on New Years Eve of Parallel, an electro DJ duo made up of my two friends Ian Linden and Skylar Shelton.

Some… Continue

It appears as though re-adjusting to society never really became easy for the majority of the surviving Holocaust prisoners. Because they were so over-exposed to fear and distrust within the concentration camps that they found it was extremely difficult to adapt to society after their liberation. All everyday situations became things to be skeptical about. It was impossible for them to know who to trust and when to trust them.

Lack of trust became such an issue that survivors would even have an… Continue