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Attend the kick off event of SLA senior Amira Young's capstone project, Project Give-Back Philly on May 13th! Also, there will be a bake sale on Tuesday, May 10th to raise money for the project!

Gisela Giolafina & Uyen Nguyen

"So we'll need about 6 hotel rooms to fit all of us." 

.....

"I'm looking for a house that will sleep 16 people." 

......... (13 bedroom house) 

"Well, now we have 21 people, is there enough space?" 

........ (someone else rents the house before we get our deposit in) 

"Well we need about 4 hotel rooms now."

..... 

"We just need two cheap hotel rooms for the weekend." 

...... 

"One room is fine; it'll just be 5 of us." 

​Prom dress: check. Up next: shoes. 

Prom dress: check. Up next: shoes. 

I have the greatest most loving, caring, and all around good person as a mother. And I am so lucky that she is all mine...well not all mine, I do have to share with my younger sister. But she cool so it's okay. But I love my mommy with all my heart and I know there isn't another person out there like her. 

Happy Mother's Day Mommy/Best Friend <3

Well I had off from work today so I suppose that was a plus and I got to spend some time with my mom, even if it was at home. Though one downside I would have to say was being sick. I mean having a cold can really ruin a day; you know? Though I am glad I saw my mom happy. Oh and my grandmother, cant forget her.

Stayed with my favorite cousins this weekend. It was the best 

Omg, I can't stand anymore. I've been trying to work on this same essay for three days straight. I keep getting the same answer that won't answer my question. I'm emotionally distraught, not only from this paper, but from my life. Oh geez, I'm at my limit. I honestly can't handle much more...

At least I was able to give my mom a good mother's day. This was the first one without my dad. He usually took care of everything. I didn't know what to do, so I started with the small things. I let her sleep in, pulled up ecards with out favorite characters on them, then I did her hair. I gave her bangs like me and curled her hair. It looked really nice, once she pulled them into a ponytail-ish bun. We went out to Ruby Tuesdays and got our favorite waiter.

I guess I don't care about how I feel today. As long as mom is happy, then I will be happy to.

Her face a bouquet

Butterscotch tulips in bloom

She be my grandma 

The interview went extraordinarily well. I'm 99% sure I got the scholarship (which will be notified on June 1st) and afterwards, I got to meet Ryan Howard!

Eat ice cream out of the carton. If nobody else wants it go for it! It taste better that way anyway. 

Mira las siguientes imágenes. ¿Qué crees?

 

1. ¿En qué país se tomaron estas fotos?
2. ¿Cuándo se tomaron?
3. ¿Qué pasó en la primera foto?
   
4. ¿Qué pasa en la segunda imágen? ¿Quiénes son?
5. ¿Por qué estaba allí el grupo en la tercera (third) foto? ¿Quiénes son?
6. ¿Cómo es la topografía de este país?

​PREZI - American History: Persian-Gulf War

By: Anthony Torrance and Daniel Quach

"You're sabotaging my ferret loving!!!"- Bethany Knibbe. <3

Aaron Johnson's Reflection

After an immense amount of research, Delesha, Sam, and I were able to create this info-graphic about the sludge spill that took place in the year 2000 and ruined properties in Kentucky and West Virginia. Something the three of us did well is that we were all able to display our ideas and the information we pulled and mix it together into one info-graphic. Instead of delegating the assignments, we decided to conduct all of the research as a team. This way, we did not have to take the time to present anything to each other because we learned every piece of information as a group. One thing I would change about our project is the photographs. I wish we were able to find more visuals to add to our project but since the sludge spill is so controversial with the Bush administration, there are not may pictures online. 

As I walked down the street today, a man stopped me. 

"Excuse me, could you call an ambulance for me? I feel like I'm going to pass out."
"You feel like you're going to pass out? Um, sure.."

I must have sounded ridiculous repeating his words in question form, but it took me by surprise and I didn't know what else to say. 

After I placed the 911 call, I asked him if he was ok and if I could leave.

"Yes, you can go. Thank you."
"No problem."

About twenty minutes later, the dispatcher called me back.

"Did you call about the man at 20th and Locust?"
"Yes, but I left."
"Oh, I'll let them know."

The more I thought about it, the more I wondered if I should have stayed. 

Homemade cookies, dinner and flowers. Moms reaction "Wow, you must love me a lot!" Yes mom I do. 

Today is Mother's Day just came from church bout to get all my ingredients ready for this afternoon. I'm making dinner for my mom, grandma, my aunt, and my sister, theses people deserve to be treated well because they are my backbone. I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE them so much.

Yesterday was my last day at Acme.  It was a sad day but now I'm actually kinda relieved.

No more pushing millions of carts.  No more leaking trash bags.  No more rotten fruit.  No more spills in isle 11.  No more shop-backs.  I'm officially DONE!

I told them that I'd come visit because I know that I'm most likely going to be in that store constantly.  After all, I want to keep in touch for when they do call me back.  And they have to call back the layoffs first before they hire anyone new so I know they'll call me eventually.

I start my orientation at McDonald's today! 

I'm ecstatic.

a. What went well?

Many things went well in the infographics assignment. My group excelled and worked together very well. Everyone was assigned a role of research and a certain part and they all completed it on time and throughly. All the information was placed on a google doc for revision and then placed into the infographic. We were on time and finished everything nicely. We also found a great amount of research that helped us in the long run.

b. What did not?

Nothing really.

c. What would you do differently next time?

Maybe take a different approach at the infographic and maybe change the actual topic of the infographic.

d. Specifically comment on the 10 tips for effective infographics.

Be Concise
Be Visual
Be Smarter
Be Transparent
Be Different
Be Accurate
Be Attractive
Be Varied
Be Gracious
Be Creative

We excelled in all the areas but the concise area because we were a bit off in the beginning based on the information. We did not know there was a pages doc we needed to put the infographic on. Everything else we pretty much excelled in. We were very concise and based the infographic on the one idea, not going on into different thoughts and ideas scattered around. We were very visual and we kept everything in line from words to pictures, conveying the ideas very nicely from words to pictures. We were smarter and the reader does not have to look too hard to understand and convey the meaning of the whole infographic. It has numbers and things that convey lots of meaning. We were a bit transparent, but that could have increased. We were also very different and changed up the plain style to a eye-catching visualization style. We remembered to use geometry and visualize differences using area. We added alot of attractiveness in the infographic; lots of pictures that go along with the text and make the visualization much nicer to look at. We added sources and "More and more information". We were also varied and pretty creative with the visualization overall. In conclusion, I believe we did a pretty good job.


To view the infographic below in a larger format, click on it.

Enjoy!

I spent the day away from my laptop, phone and ipod.