Requiem for Summer '17 — dina solovey

- spontaneously booking a ticket and jumping into an absolutely mind-blowing road trip adventure
- sending tons of love to a biggest friend across the ocean, i know you will read this soon and all i want right now is to be there for you <3 we will carry the sadness with us, but we will continue to live and remember the best times
- spending early mornings at Rockaway
- catching sunrise with Mt Rainier view
- waking up on a beach of the Pacific ocean
- waking up on a beach of the Atlantic ocean
- dealing with a lot of goodbyes
- almost dying of fear of falling down, of freezing, of bears, of elevation
- taking polaroid portraits
- randomly catching Ksusha & Nathan in Seattle
- surviving 4 days without a shower
- hiking during night time
- chilling at Vimeo Camp
- visiting Charleston and being 100% charmed by the city
- learning how to wake up at 4 am
- solving the mystery of a Train guy
- learning to play beer pong and a bunch of other red cups games
- helping out Mikey with his evil plan
- watching solar eclipse with my fav coworkers and sharing those special glasses
- swimming in Crater Lake in a freezing water
- swimming in my clothes in a river to wash away all the dirt and sand from the craziest and toughest hike
- visiting alpaca farm and being so welcomed by the owner who also had a cutest service dog
- seeing shooting star
- singing Ed Sheeran's "Castle On The Hill" with the girls in a forest somewhere in Oregon
- mountains are killer whales
- attending Pride in Philly and having so much fun celebrating love and equality
- listening to Антоха MC
- reading "Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life' by William Finnegan, this book is instantly became my favorite
- taking a random day off and spending it on the beach and walking around Brooklyn and catching up with amazing people
- buying my first ever sleeping bag
- working together with Cquad and learning tons of new things from designers and engineers
- buying matching tshirts at TJMaxx
- dancing spontaneously with Anya at 1 am
- feeling way better with all the anxieties
- finding the saddest but inspiring email in may inbox when my manager left
- walking in Brooklyn with a papier mache head stolen from Pratt campus
- starting my days with playing my fav songs on a record player

Short version: friends, oceans and mountains are everything.