Journal Entry 2

Yesterday in Graphic Design we started working on our 15 photo slideshow. I was able to finish most of it except for adding transitions between slides. The rest of the school day was average, nothing really exciting happened but after school, my family and I got a new puppy named Max. He's a mix between a Golden Retriever and a Miniature Poodle.

Journal Entry

Yesterday, in Graphic Design, we were introduced to Adobe Premiere for the first time. We were shown some of the basics including, how to open and place pictures on the timeline, how to move them around on the timeline, how to make each individual picture last for a shorter or longer time, and how to place pictures over other. We were also given an assignment to create a slideshow using 100 pictures.

Career Goals

My career goal is to do something in the medical field. I'm unsure what exactly I want to do though. Some things I'm looking into are a radiologist or a pharmacist. In my opinion, these would be two jobs I would enjoy because other than the extra four years of college, they're pretty easy and have good pay.

Ride

Graffiti

Sports

I love to watch and play sports. My favorite sports to play are soccer and football. I've played soccer since I was 6 or 7 and I love it. I play on a club team year round and also for school. Over the last two years I've quit playing football because I enjoy soccer more. I prefer to watch football, though. There isn't enough scoring in soccer which makes it a bit boring.

Bad Parenting?

Parents that leave their kids in the car on hot days aren't good parents in my opinion. Unless the kid wants to stay in the car, they shouldn't have to. What's so important that your kid can't come into the store with you? If you are one of those parents you should be punished by being locked in a car on a hot day just like your kids. Then, hopefully, you'll see how bad it is and you won't make the kids stay in the car again.

Masking

In Graphic Design yesterday we learned to use the mask tool. I took a picture of an abandoned building and masked large flames onto it coming out of the roof. I also masked a piece of graffiti onto the side of the building and a small fireman walking through the front of the building ready to put the fire out. In my opinion it looks decent for my first time but you can tell it's not real. When I finished that, I got an image of a beach and an image of the moon and masked the moon onto the beach as if it were rising over the horizon.

My Weekend

Over the weekend I went up to my friend's cabin in Munds Park, just outside of Flagstaff. While we were there we went fishing and boating a couple times but came up empty on the fish. We also went quading and I got to drive their Rhyno for the first time. It was pretty fun because we ended up finding a hidden trail that took us to the side of a mountain that was carved up with trails to go on with the Rhyno or quads. There were also lots of jumps but we tried to avoid those as much as possible because we were new to Rhynoing. All in all it was a fun weekend and I hope to go back up soon.

TED Talk

As a high schooler I feel that I can really connect to what Ken Robinson had to say. I strongly believe that the potential of many kids, no matter what the age, are being wasted every day because of the focus on education, such as math and language instead of something to do with the arts. This really makes me wonder what or how I could have turned out like if I hadn't been driven away or, "educated out of creativity," (Ken Robinson).

Just My Luck

Yesterday I entered my second blog post in Graphic Design and I continued to work on the design of my blog. In Chemistry I was the only one in all of her classes that was able to tell her how to make a PB&J with my procedures. Because of that I got to eat the PB&J in class. Later, after school as I was on my to soccer practice it began to storm and a tree nearly fell on our car while we were stopped at a red light. It ended up landing on the back of the car in front of us just a couple of feet away. It was pretty scary but we were able to get around the car and to practice in time to find out that it was canceled. Just my luck.

Day 2

Yesterday in Graphic Design we made our own blog on http://www.blogger.com/. I got to design the layout and look of my blog.  At first it took me a while to make my blog because the website didn't like my password so I had to make a new g-mail account for it. I also posted my first blog about what we did yesterday, which I'm doing again today appareantly....

Blogger Day 1

Today I made a new gmail account and I started my blog!