Vicky's Blog

This week was an amazing week and I was able to accomplish so many things. Some successes I had this week was that I finished my whole trifold board on Friday because I worked on it a little bit at school and I worked on it at home. I was happy that I was able to finish the whole title in class because I know I couldn’t have taken the stencils home so I would’ve had to freestyle it. Luckily, I didn’t have any struggles this week which helped me a lot because I feel like if I had struggles, I would be very stressed to work on the trifold. Since nothing negative went wrong, I didn’t have any adjustments to make, which I am glad about. Since this is the final week, I don’t plan on working on it anymore. But throughout these few weeks, I have had a lot of fun working on my project. I found it very fun because we had six Fridays to work on this project and while we were working on it, I took so many photos and I learned so many new things which was my goal. I’m very proud of myself for completing my goal. Thank you for joining me on this journey!

Seventh grade gave me many fun memories, here are my three favorite. My first favorite memory from core is the Night at the museum because I had a lot of fun researching my information and putting it on my trifold. It was a lot of fun when we were all in the gym and it was so crowded but everyone was having fun. I also found it very fun when we were working as a group to work on our big people and draw them. My second favorite memory from 7th grade was when my friend group and I were playing volleyball during lunch and we had so much fun that we couldn’t stop laughing so we could barely play. We didn’t have enough people to play against the other group but we still won even though we were messing around. My last favorite memory from this school year was when we did a chip salad with a lot of my friends. Everyone brought chips and put it in the container. This was so much fun because we brought a container and it filled up to the top and it was a really big container. At the end when we got full from eating so much, my friend brought out zip block baggies and put the rest of the chips in the bags and gave them out. These were my top three memories!

This week was an amazing week and I was able to accomplish so much. The main thing that I was working on was taking my final photos on my camera and editing them. I spent the entire period outside, taking pictures of three of my friends. What I am happy about is that I got many photos that I needed because I was missing a few photos. The successes that I experienced this week was, I got all my photos done and I am going to print them this week so I can start working on my trifold. This week was a great week and I didn’t have any troubles or disasters. An adjustment I would like to make is be quicker in taking photos and not taking so long. Next week I plan on working on my trifold on  Wednesday, Friday, and at my house. I am pretty much almost done with everything and I accomplished all my goals, but the final things that I need to work on is just my trifold. See you next week!

The thing about jellyfish 

This month I read a book called “The thing about jellyfish” by Ali Benjamin

This book is about Suzy , who has always known things that none of the other kids ever cared to learn about or know. She knows everything about jellyfish, Their sleep patterns, how many stings each year and much more. She was having trouble with her best friend changing Into a self-absorbed person because of the people she was hanging out with. Then the worst thing ever happened to her best friend she passed away. Suzy couldn’t believe it That she struggled with, excepting the fact that her best friend passed away so young. Then Susie thinks of a plan to travel across the world alone to learn the truth about how her best friend, Franny passed away. She realizes that the answers she was looking for was so close to her that it was in her own backyard.

I really like this book because I enjoy the journey that Suzy went on to find answers about her best friend’s passing. She went through so many struggles while her best friend was alive, and when she was no longer with her. When her best friend was alive, she couldn’t figure out a way to tell her that she was changing, and that she didn’t like that about her because she knew that Franny never wanted to be like those girls, but she turned out to be one of them.

My favorite character, of course has to be the main character Suzy Swanson. She is my favorite character because she went through so much with her best friend and yet she still thriving and trying her best to keep going. A quote to prove this is “ I don’t want to talk about how sticky hot it was, and how crowded, and how my mom and I got there early, but there were already so many people we couldn’t get a seat. I don’t want to remember how it felt to stand in the entryway of the church, trying hard to breathe, even though the air felt like soup, and everyone was standing too close. This quote obviously shows how Suzy felt very uncomfortable at her best friend’s funeral.

My favorite quote from the book is, “ Maybe you’re waiting to talk to me. Maybe you’re planning your own message. Or maybe you know, above all, that your silence is the worst, hardest thing of all.” This Quote is very meaningful to me because you can tell how Sad and frustrated Suzy felt over the fact that her Best friend passed away. She clearly misses her best friend Franny, and she’s always going to miss her.

This week was amazing I was able to accomplish editing a bunch of photos on the camera app that I took on my iPhone  and send them to my iPad. I figured out that I can mess with the exposure, brilliance, contrast, vignette and many other things but the ones that I listed were the main things that made a big difference with the photos I was working with. The main thing I struggled with, was trying to figure out how to send them to my school iPad without the photos getting blurry, and sometimes they wouldn’t want to send. So I figured out that I had to send them in pairs And not all the photos at once. An adjustment that I wanna work on is finish taking all my photos by next week so I won’t have to be rushing to print them out and edit them. What I plan on doing next week is finishing taking all my photos on my camera at school and a few outside of school. I also want to start printing out my photos, so they can be ready to add onto my trifold. That’s it I’ll see you guys next week!

Somebody that has been very influential in my life is my mom. My mom is one of the most important people in my life  because ever since I was little she has always been there for me with whatever I needed. Like ever since I was born she has always woken up early to make me breakfast every single morning without missing a day. I appreciate her for that a lot because I realized that not that many people eat breakfast in the morning and my mom. Always made it a big deal to always eat breakfast. Ever since I got older I understand more of my moms troubles and what she does out of her way just for my Dad, siblings and I. For example she takes me and picks me up school every day. I always appreciate the effort because she is very busy throughout the day since she works all day. I love that my mom is always a really nice person to everyone including me which makes her look really good. Speaking of her looking good , she has always been a very stylish and dressy person which I love about her. My mom always makes me laugh so much and I always make her laugh, so we are just a laughing mess altogether.

This week I was planning on taking photos on my digital camera, but since I wasn’t at school, I wasn’t able to take photos on my digital camera, but I did take a few photos outside of school on my phone. This week was a great week and I did didn’t have any struggles since I didn’t get to use my Camera to take photos. It was also a good week because I got a lot of process done by taking photos on my phone  because I wasn’t able to take photos on my camera, I want to make changes and what I want to do is start learning to adjust the camera settings to get different Filters and Exposures. What I plan on working on next week during class is figuring out how to change the lighting in Photos like how I was talking about earlier and I wanna start taking photos on my digital camera. I want to continue taking photos of scenery around my school, but I Also, want to take photos outside of school to have a variety of different photos. This was all for this week. See you guys next week!

This week was an amazing week I was able to accomplish taking photos around my campus on an apple device. I took quite a few photos at school but I also decided to start taking photos outside of school. I was able to take a few really nice photos that I am proud of because I have never made a photos quality look that good. I edited the photos by using the own camera editor on any apple device which 100% made my photos look better. I didn’t have that many struggles this week but I did have a hard time finding things to take pictures of around my campus because there were a few things I could take pictures of but I did wish there were more. I want to work on how to edit the photos I take to make them look better and expand on what I know about them. For example I learned how to make the main thing pop out from the background or crop out distractions from the photo. What I plan on doing next week is starting to take photos with a digital camera and expand my horizon in the photos I take. I noticed that I took a lot of photos of plants and flowers but I would like to take photos of other things like maybe animals but I am still not 100% sure. Overall I had a good working day. See you next week!

The room in my house that is my favorite is my room. My room is my favorite because my room is where I basiclly spend alot of my time other than school and outside. My room has a lot of things that keep me busy so Imwomt go bored like my TV, books, and many more other things. A few months ago I did a room makeover so I really love how my room looks right now because I got a whole new set of furniture like a new bed,dresser,vanity,nightstand, and a  shelf. I recently also finished my sticker door which is on my  closet door that has a bunch of different stickers from a lot of places I have been to and a stickers from Tilly’s,zumies,vans and other places. I think that door being the accent wall of my room really brings my room together and it compliments my room really well. My favorite reason on way My room is my favorite room in my house is that it has my bed and I love talking naps on my bed because it is so soft and comfortable with all my blankets and my fuzzy comforter. This is why its my favorite room in my house.

Hello my name is Vicky and for my 20% project. I chose to learn about photography. While working on my 20% project this week, I finished researching on how to get good quality on an Apple device. I realized there is a lot of Tips that you can use to take nice photos on a phone or an iPad that give your photo nice photos. For example a few tips I learned about taking photos is having a clean camera lens, good lighting, hold steady, adjust exposure and use timer. I also learned that you can use the rule of thirds which a lot of photographers use to balance their photos, make them look more natural and compose better shots. Instead of continuing to research about good quality I want to start taking photos soon. Since nothing went wrong and I had no struggles this week. I had no adjustments to make this week. Next week I plan on starting to take photos on my school iPad so I can start getting the feeling of taking photos.