Today is memorial day and I went to go watch the annual Park Ridge memorial day parade. Usually I am in the parade or at least I have been for the last couple of years, but this year I decided not to be in it because I went to watch it with a friend. It was cool to see all the veterans and people in the community that I usually don't get to see. It was also cool how we actually got to see the people who have served for our country and have them be recognized. At the same time I also saw many people I knew in the parade. Watching the parade was a good experience and I would also like to wish everybody a Happy Memorial Day!
This Thursday and Friday is our math placement test is you are in C of C math. I am so nervous! I have been studying a lot for this test, but I just can't keep my nerves down. If we don't pass this test than we will have to repeat Algebra 2, which would be really bad. My hope is that I will be able to be placed in the Accelerated Geometry Trig. class, which is the highest level we can be placed in. There's a lot of stuff riding on this one test grade. I also really want to be placed in that class because my brother was. It's hard to say this, but my brother is actually like a math genius and is way smarter than me. He's only a sophomore and he's already taking all accelerated classes and and an AP class. Therefore is really hard living up to his standards in my household. So I just really hope that I do the best I can do on this test!
This trimester I have the sculpture and ceramics class and we have been making some really cool projects. The first project we made was a slab pot, which is basically any type of pot made by scoring and slipping slabs together. For this pot we had to have a theme, so some how a theme of just a huge wave popped into my head. So my pot ended up being like a half circle with a dent in it and a slanted top (The shape is kind of hard to explain). Anyways the main thing that I love about my pot is the colors. For this pot we got to carefully paint the pots using brushes, so i painted mine the color of water, since it's a wave, but since water can be many shades of blues/colors I blended all the blue glazes there were. So my pot goes from being dark blue at the bottom to a very light blue/white at the top where the wave is which is my handle. Another project we have made so far is a wire sculpture. I chose to make mine Mickey Mouse, since it had to be a toy from your childhood and I really couldn't think of a toy so I just chose Mickey Mouse. I am currently also working on this plaster project in Sculptures and Ceramics which I particularly hate, but what we did was make an uneven plaster shape and now we have to carve something out of it by shaving away the plaster. I'm making a turtle. Above is a picture of my wave pot and below is a picture of my Mickey Mouse wire project. I'm really enjoying this class so far, well except for the plaster project, but hopefully it will turn out ok.
We are finally starting to have some warm weather in Park Ridge and its finally starting to feel like spring this weekend, of course this weekend is the weekend I have to be sick. For some reason on Friday morning I woke up with this huge headache and a really high fever. I stayed in bed all day and I wasn't able to eat or do anything I just felt so useless. Then my fever had to carry over to Saturday and again I had to stay in bed. Today, Sunday, I am feeling much better thankfully, but still have a huge headache. I was so sad that I was sick this weekend though because I love the warm weather. As I said earlier, this weekend was really nice out and I was kind of sad that I had to stay inside all weekend. I love how in the beginning of spring all of the flowers start to bloom when its warm out. I love all the colors of the flowers especially the bright red color of the tulips. Anyways I had a pretty bad weekend being sick and all, but I was glad that Spring is finally here and that the warm weather is finally starting to arrive!
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AuthorHi, my name's Alyssa and I'm an 8th grader. I enjoy dancing, playing the violin and piano, and just having fun! Archives
May 2013
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