Allen Hall

In a less flashy side of the main campus, meaning no sky high designer palm trees, of the University of Miami is the Allen Hall that houses the Division of Continuing and International Education. Here is its main entrance.

Breeze Way

On a hot day like today, it was 90 degrees Fahrenheit, but felt like 98, I made a mistake to take a walk in my alma mater the University of Miami just to take a few photos. Here is one that shows the prolongation of the breeze way bisecting the library toward the student union. The magnificent royal palms obscure the view of the post office building barely seen on the right. As you can see, this is presidential election year in the US. Things will get much hotter (politically) when we get closer to November. For those of you who do not know the American political system, we have two parties: the donkey (affectionately called the ass) and the elephant, the Grand Old Party (GOP.) That's Barak Obama and John McCain this year.

Whitten Student Union at UM

A lazy Sunday afternoon at deserted University of Miami main campus. This is what is called a "long" weekend in the US whereas Monday is a national holiday: the US Labor Day. The photo shows the olympic sized swimming pool, but it hardly has any swimmers today. I counted three or four female students getting sun tan. In a normal day, this swimming pool is quite crowded and there are always swiming team members practicing competition high diving.