day twelve

Whatever tickles your fancy

Here's a relatively small Micron piece I just completed for my AP Art concentration. I'm not sure if this will make it in the long run, but I'm supposed to be working on concentration piece #4 and #5...and this would be #3 (#2's not even done yet, heh).

SO: improvisation was a bit necessary.

Pretty much: it's a tree, with wind chimes, a bird house, and a single leaf suspended. I do realize that bottom of the tree is not exactly proportional to the rest of it, but I like it in person. It has character.

I'm not sure if this will count, since it's almost painfully simple, but I like it. I love simplicity, but I'm not one to go for that in art. I like the illustration style (a friend from my immersion program is especially talented in this area), but I've never done much with it.

I also recently worked on a small piece inspired by another friend, who is actually pictured in the post below. She's planning on going to school for fashion design (and will totally make it), and her use of markers--markers!!! I was always confused by markers until she started using them; well, I still am, but it's much better now--spurred me to do a really simple Micron+marker piece. I want to work more with newer, more innovative mediums...I've been painting for over a year, and although I love it and have much more to improve on, I can't stay still.

...but okay, time to shower/study for my Physics test, eep!!! I'm sick again, which is a pain in the butt, and missed my private group art lesson today :( but hopefully this time at home helps me recover...I have no idea what's going on right now.

day seven

A photo that makes you happy

A friend of mine just recently tagged this picture of me...someone I don't know took it, but I remember that it was in Nova Scotia, on our last night. Some kids bought fireworks (illegal...) and sparklers and it was the first time I had ever played with anything of the sort, although I've wanted to for years.

Genuine bliss--and I'm grinning like an idiot--for the few short hours prior to our separation.

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I brought my Mac to school to finish a college essay during my free period (which I did!!!)...but when I took it out again after school, I opened it only to discover that various crumbs were sitting atop my keyboard. I flipped out, especially since one was precariously on the verge of falling into the 'r' key gap...and then it did. I'm eternally woeful. This taught me to take back out the keyboard protector my brother bought for it, wash it (the original reason why I hadn't put it back on since I received my MBP), and start using it again.

:( Now I can't consider my baby new anymore.

familiarity

Chez moi...pour la premiere fois dans trente-cinq jours. C'est vraiment bizarre, mais je pense que en ce moment, j'ai deja perdu beaucoup de mon francais. Je souhaite pour plus de temps en seulement francais, mais ce n'est pas possible. Et je ne vais pas revenir a Sainte Anne. Je ne suis pas particulierement triste, parce que cinq semaines sont (un peu) trop de temps sans l'eglise, ma famille, et mes amis; mais a le meme temps, il y a ceux qui je sais que je vais manquer, et je veux etre meilleure, et meilleure, et meilleure, a les langues. J'ai finalement trouve quelque chose que je suis passionnee. C'est un bon sentiment...Je ne sais pas. Il y a seulement cinq jours qui restent avant Haiti, et je dois faire et arranges des choses. Et zut, j'ai juste realise que j'ai oublie de ecrire dans mon cahier pour les derniers deux jours de l'immersion. Mais ca n'est pas grave. Et maintenant je suis completement hors sujet. Mon point est que je veux etre meilleur a tous des choses que je fais. Et je vais etre. Merci pour les cinq semaines; j'ai appris quelque chose important.

At home...for the first time in thirty-five days. It's really strange, but I think that at this moment, I have already lost much of my French. I wish for more time in just French, but it's not possible. And I will not return to Sainte Anne. I am not particularly sad, because five weeks is (a bit) too much time without church, my family, and my friends; but at the same time, there are those that I know that I will miss, and I want to be better, and better, and better, at languages. I have finally found something that I have passion for. It's a good feeling...I don't know. There are only five days remaining before Haiti, and I must do and fix things. And shoot, I just realized that I forgot to write in my journal for the last two days of the immersion. But that's not grave. And now I am completely off topic. My point is that I want to be better at everything that I do. And I will be. Thank you for the five weeks; I have learned something important.

PS-- Bon anniversaire a mon blog :). J'espere que l'annee prochaine a plus de pensees heureuses...et que je serai encore plus.

busy, busy!

So the whole blogging thing didn't work out so well, especially because Workcamp rolled around the week after. It was definitely great (and I did not outgrow it like I thought I had! How selfish of me...) and I got to be outside for almost the whole day, every day, enjoying the wonderful weather in Clearfield :). Such a difference from my normal being-cooped-up-inside...like right now.

Anyway, I'm rushing to get a bunch of little errands and whatnot done before I leave on SATURDAY! to Nova Scotia. I'm both petrified but excited; the extremely shy in me gets very anxious whenever I think about it, but upon realizing all my away-from-home-with-people-I-don't-know experiences turn out to be adoringly fun and memorable, I also can't wait. Mais il faut que je pratique mon francais. Beaucoup. C'est trop mal maintenant...bah.