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Here is my benchmark
I wish i had the time to work better on it.

I was sitting in the library, trying to decide on a topic for today's story.  Suddenly, in ran two juniors, covered in paper.  I was confused at first, and slightly annoyed that they had interrupted my work-space.  However, as they turned to run past me, I noticed that one was dressed in yellow paper, cut to that tell-tale sliced pie shape.  The girl behind was a red ghost. I burst out in laughter, realizing that I had found my story topic!

​ Drawing these specific figures and items were interesting but challenging. My favorite out of all seven of them would have to be the pencil drawing of my hand. It's simple because it's a hand, 5 fingers and a palm. But what made it so compelling was all the details and features that had to be portrayed, i.e the way the hand is positioned, shadows, and the hundreds of lines thats on your hand. 

Surprisingly I did a good job on my self-portrait. I think that was my most successful drawing because I doubted myself before I drew it. Once I go the outline of of face I knew from that point on I was going to do okay. A good start off for me is a success. The charcoal drawing of the snapple was also successful because it looks exactly like a peach snapple bottle and I didn't have a hard time doing it at all.

Drawing for a week was a bit draining but because all of my drawing were done and successful it was intriguing. At first I really thought I was going to crack and give up. But once I finished one drawing and seen how good it came out, that pushed me to keep going. 

This is my perspective drawing of the back wall.

 

In this project we had to learn some key things. One of those were the focus point. The focus point is drawn on the horizon line. The horizon line is draw from left to right on the piece of paper. The focus point is where all the things being drawn are drawn to. When things are drawn closer to the focus point the farther away they seem. That is true vice versa. Once we were done drawing we had to draw a box that would soon be the window. That was drawn by using the focus point as the origin point. Then you had to decide how long the tile spaces were going to be depending on how many tiles there are. Once that was done you had to decide how far the window was going to go down by using your keen eye. Once that was done all we had to do was draw everything you saw and detail it.

 

The easiest thing for me to learn was the concept of how to draw things that come out 3-d. For example when I was drawing the wall there was a part of it that came out of the wall. All I did was follow the vertical lines that came down from the ceiling.

 

The hardest part for me to learn was the math part of this assignment. What made it hard was that we used real math words in this learning process. To understand these terms you had to understand math. 

​Jovan Lewis 

Comment - Your picture is really drawn well. I like how the doors is drawn well coming off the wall. 

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​​​            For this marking period I had a lot of difficulties drawing these pictures. I'm not good at drawing from life and I am absolutely terrible at shading. The most difficult drawing for me was the hand. My hand has two totally different shades and it felt impossible to blend the two shades in like it looks on my hand. So instead of having a nice blend of dark and light shades I had a straight line dividing the two shades, making it look even more unrealistic. I also had a problem matching up where the shades were on my hand. Where the division of shades is on my hand is not a straight line so when I tried so draw the rest of my hand it came out inaccurate due to the confusion of the lines.
               The second most difficult drawing was the clear bottle drawing. The hardest part of this was, of course, figuring out where to shade the dark and light spots of the container. Anyone would think that a clear container has no dark or light spots because it has no color. However, when you look at an actual drawing of one you do see some gray and black shading here and there. Another problem I had with this drawing was the curves of the container. The pitcher that I was drawing had a lot of curves and detail and it was hard to make those visible the same way it was visible when I was drawing it. Also, the lines that went up and down the pitcher were sort of round so it threw me off when I was drawing it and made my lines look crooked.

Surprisingly, the easiest thing for me was the cluster of objects on the table. I personally liked this drawing the best. I did have some trouble drawing it, but it was not as tedious as all of the others. The shapes were much easier to make out than the others. The second easiest was the self-portrait. The problem that I had with the self-portrait however, was the shading of course. I had no clue how to determine the dark and light spots on my face so instead of applying more charcoal to the picture I just tried to bring out as much color from the sides as possible and onto my face and chest. It doesn't look like I shaded it that much but it is better than if I had applied more charcoal to the picture. Lastly, the full portrait that I draw of Trevor was in the middle. It was easy to make out the outside shape, but once I got to the actual detail drawing it became very complex. The eyes and the lips were all uneven and crooked, but overall I think I did okay.

So....

I ACED THAT CITY YEAR INTERVIEW YESTERDAY!

I was barely nervous, and I had the best interviewer ever!  She was so easy to talk to!  I felt like I was just having a regular, intelligent conversation with a friend at school.  I answered every question perfectly, and she really seemed to like me.  We laughed a lot, and I feel like participating in City Year will be the perfect job for me, at least while I get my stuff together and prepare for college.  Like I told my interviewer, I love the idea of taking a year off from school.  But I do not want to just sit at home and do nothing.  City Year will allow me to take a year off but still do something with my life at the same time. 

I will know whether I am accepted into the program by May 2, 2011.  Wish me luck!

Today I was awaken by a phone call from my mom:

Me:Hello
Mom: You know they canceled school right?
Me: For what?
Mom: Because it's Nor Easter
Me: What's that?
Mom: It's just a holiday before Easter
Me: Oh okay!
(Pulls Cover over head, closes eyes... phone rings again)
Me: Hello?
Mom: April Fools! Get up it's 6:30 so you can get ready.
(Throws phone off bed)

Yesterday the blogger wasn't working I have a snap shot of it but I wrote my story on paper.

But today, everything is just annoying me. I haven't slept in my bed in a week. Grandma needs to go home.

Hypothetically i'm done all my work. also hypothetically i'm claiming anything that is wrong is hypothetically right. Hypothetically i'm going to continue writing.

I'm so tired.
BLAHBLAHBLAH.
SHUT
UP.;
JESUS.
CHRIST.
WAH.

I'M TIRED OF SCHOOL.
fuck it.

daniel is so hot.

Una pintura yo pareció muy interesante es una pintura llamada “Retrata de Roma” por el famoso artista Oscar Domínguez. Me gusta porque me recordó un poco de mi vida.  Mis experiencias en la vida me han enseñado que cuando la vida parece que nunca hay nada más fácil, creer en Dios y el hará una forma de.

Creo que el gobierno no mirar hacia fuera para el mejor interés de todos en el país sólo para las personas que pueden ayudar al país a ser mas exitoso. Todo el mundo debería importar en el país

 Creo que las personas en este mundo que trabajo duro recebien ciertas cosas se merecen. Personas quiere tratar otras personas diferentes porque no viven un cierta estilo vida entonces ellos son tratados como ellos no pertenecen.  Creo que las personas no deben ser juzgar por que de lugar donde viven o cuanto mucho dinero ellos tienen. Todo personas debería tener mismos derechos viven y trabajan en el mismo país. Cosas que debe hacer frente ahora que pensé que el cambio no esta siendo capaz de cuidar de mi familia como quiero a.  Otra cosa es que yo creo que esto nunca va a cambiar. Espero que el cambio viene pronto.

 En el foto hay una mujer de pie al piano con su manos cortadas jugarlo. En su cara de la mujer su ojos su ven muy perdido y triste. Ella parece como ha sido protegido durante toda su vida. Ahora ella es atrapado en el mismo día a día de rutina. Parte de su quiere a dejar pero el otro parte no permitir su. Ella es como un fantasma en su propio mundo ahora. Ella es no visto o oído. Los colores en la pintura era brillante pero oscuro en mismo tiempo. El brillo en el vestido de la mujer más probablemente representa su personalidad que ella quiere a mostrar otro personas. Alrededor su manos esta es un tipo de humo que tiene su manos a al piano. Es como si el humo es algún tipo de fuerza de retención allí. También en la pintura notado que en el cuarto la mujer es en tiene al piano y dos otro pinturas nada más. Esto quede sugerir que esto cuarto es por bellas arte. Me siento como por que su crió en clase de obra como una señorita su es espera que actúe de cierta manera.

En conclusión, me pueden ver en las mujeres en la pintura. Ella es una mujer atrapada en una sociedad que ya no quiere ser parte de. Ella quiere irse, pero algo no se premite. Así que esacapes su realidad por deriva en su mente. Un día, ella espera que las cosas van a ser diferentes.

 

4:00-Okay, one more hour. 
4:14-I can do this. It's not that long.
​4:32-WHAT THE HELL IS TAKING SO LONG
4:47-I CANT TAKE THIS
4:52-I didn't get accepted. I shouldn't even be this nervous.
5:00-OMG I'M ACCEPTED TO PENN
5:01-Check Penn's financial aid availability: $40,000.
5:15-Mom walks through the door.
5:16-Tackles mom

Moral of the story: Ivy league schools cause so much anxiety, and if you're not careful, someone will end up with a bruised back.

Here's the link to my quarter 3 Globalization Benchmark: Click Here

The two countries that I've selected for this benchmark are Italy and Libya. Italy is located on the East hemisphere of the world. With a population of 61,016,804 , Italy is fairly small. Known for their exports of wine, oil, and wheat, Italy's primary exporter is Libya. Libya, located in North Africa is a country that is currently in great depression. In February of 2011, Libya's leader Gaddafi conducted his military to kill citizens and civilians protesting outside of his home. In order to gather information for my benchmark, I  first researched current news, because currently Libya is one of the most "talked about" countries because of the Libyan Civil War. Italy has some relevance in the Libyan Civil War because they have taken in some of the Libyans because their country was in danger.  My 5 point frame work was straightforward because the countries that I've selected to overview are "hit or miss" countries, meaning that either they are in danger of collapsing or not. If I had to change one aspect of my product, I would have made a video/typography like I had initially planned on. 

My benchmark:
 Globalization Benchmark
My Reflection:
I selected Japan and Germany to research on. My process was to find information about each 5 point framework of both countries, making it easier to sum up in the information I found. Then I would rate and add pictures to my slide show. The 5 point framework was easy, though climate and environmental change could be the same thing. If I could change something about my project, I would get it in on time, and put voiceovers of more detailed information for my Keynote if I had enough time. The two countries I chosen were very different but surprisingly I found a similarity. It's also crazy how one aspect form a country can effect the global market.

"Salt peppa ketchup and hotsauce."

I really like ordering my chicken that way. and I like that song too.
you ever notice how the chinese people in the chinese store say " small fry"
when you ask for fries
" one fry , one fry?"
noooo FRIES . WITH A S
ha , i love it though.
just like i love my chicken with salt peper ketchup and hotsauce.

12:46 

April Fools' Day

She made the project easy on purpose. I tried to make it more complex (on purpose).  

Why do people lie to themselves? For example, tonight I went to the Flyers game with my boyfriend and I just posted my status as :had a great night: don't get me wrong I had a great time at the game but I barely talked to steve so I don't get it, why do we lie to ourselves because I'm sure there is many other people that do the same thing.

So I was really excited about the near future, but then you came along and now I'm not so sure.

Cake, powerpoint presentations, and the promise that you shall attain some prominence in later life and buy them a petite scuba shop/free clinic as reimbursement for the years of expensive melodrama.

My immune system fails at life... that is all.

His name was Bryce and I was head over heels the first day I met him.  We were three, at the Caring Center and loving every moment of our friendship. At least I was.  I had my first kiss with him, in fact.  It was the end of our play date (the phrase seems so fitting now), but I couldn't just leave, so I kissed him.  Nothing too risque, just on the cheek.  I was a toddler at the time, but it felt amazing.  I rode home with "Won't you marry me, Bryce?" playing in my head. 

Senior year, a complete pain. Seriously