i miss my dog.

thing i ♥ (and miss) of the day: Woody.

 

art class

twice a week at school, on Thursdays and Fridays, i have my very favourite class – IB Art. i’m taking it as one of my three HL – higher level – courses, and i love it to death so far. by the end of the year we will have to have completed 15-20 pieces on a theme that we will choose ourselves, and they can be absolutely any medium we want, we just have to try new things and be creative and all that crap. it will be really fun, though, to see what everyone chooses as their theme and how they approach it, because the thing about art is that nobody does exactly the same thing.

also, we will have to have completed what will probably end up being two full sketchbooks, in which we write about our finished pieces, things that inspire us in other art, and everything else that the teacher tells us to write in there. we also have to print out pictures and put them in and explain why we put them there, and put in just anything else that inspires us. we haven’t done all that much with these yet… even though we’re supposed to have, and we’re turning them into the teacher tomorrow; i have a lot to do tonight… but they’ll end up being really cool, i’m sure.

so far we’ve just been doing projects that the teacher has assigned. the first was awesome; we had to outline our reflections on small mirrors in marker, get a piece of paper a little bit wet, and then put the paper onto the mirror and the drawing came off onto it. we did several of those in different colours and they all turned out different, and we put them on black paper. then we chose our favourite one and painted it, but with acrylics.

now what we’re doing is we’ve sketched the statue of Venus if we are girls and David if we are guys, and we have put rectangles on different parts of it to act as x-rays, and in those parts of the people within the rectangle we put different things that represent ourselves. it is supposed to make a collage. the background is up to us, as well. mine is turning out pretty cool. i made a tutu out of scrap tulle and that is definitely my favourite part of it.

after this the teacher is going to give us a mock theme to work with and we will practice making a piece made entirely on our own to fit the theme. i’m excited for this; it’s going to be good practice for the real thing. i’m having a hard time deciding a theme for myself… i think Stories would be a good theme; i could do stuff inspired by Alice in Wonderland and fairytales and anything to do with books or people’s background stories. there are definitely other good things i could do, though. something broad, and vague, so that you can make a big range of stuff to fit.

anyway, Art is my favourite class. i’m very glad i took it – i was unsure whether i should or not – because with all the work i’m going to do within the next two years, i’m going to need a creative outlet, even if that will be a lot of work as well. plus, i like the teacher and the people in that class a lot, and we have a lot of materials to work with and it’s very much up to us what we do.

i would scan my finished pieces and put them up, but they’re at school first of all and second of all i don’t have a scanner. sorry bout that.

thing i ♥ of the day: pretty skirts.

 

 

i have caramelldansen stuck in my head.

so, i haven’t posted in 10 days. that’s a fairly long time. in that amount of time, we did a lot of crap with the Polish students until they left last Monday, and it was really fun with them here. we were really busy all the time and it was just very awesome. i loved the Polish students and i can’t wait to see them again in May <3

     

my memory card for my camera has been really weird lately and i think i’ve permanently lost some pictures from their visit but i have most of them. all of the good ones, i think.

also, i’ve started taking piano lessons again. every Thursday at Kulturama, with a different teacher than the one i had before. i think i’m going to be learning piano from a completely different angle now – music theory and stuff – which is good because before i was just learning how to play specific songs and it wasn’t really helping my overall piano skills.

school is still stressful but i’m not like dying or anything right now; the break is in something like 3 weeks which is nice, especially since we’re probably not going anywhere.

but i hate Sundays ): i mean, they’re nice, i don’t hate the days themselves, but i hate knowing the next day is Monday. it’s a weekend day, yes, but it doesn’t really feel that weekend-y knowing you have to get up early the next morning.

i watched the fist 4 episodes of season 7 of The Office, which is coming out now, and it’s definitely good so far :D i laughed many times watching them, which is a good sign. even though i agree with what many people are saying that it’s starting to hold on for too long and isn’t as good as it was earlier in the show. i think this season isn’t too much, but if they make the 8th one without Steve Carell being in it then it definitely WILL be too much. for shizzle.

i have so many shows to watch, though. Grey’s Anatomy. Lie to Me. Dexter. House. etc. and tons of movies, as well. and lots of books to read.

okaaay well we’re going to go take fall pictures for 2010. a tradition that has been going on within this family for almost my whole life. not that i’m especially excited to do so, but getting it over with until next fall comes will be good. and then when i come back i absolutely MUST do homework. i promise i will. at least English and Art.

oki doki byebye <3

i have a polish student living in my home.

her name is Nina and she is awesome. lots of people in my class are doing this exchange student thing with their class and it’s great fun. they got here yesterday are staying until Monday.

tonight, my class is hosting a dinner for them that we planned ourselves. or, one overly ambitious student in my class planned it, anyway. but we’re providing the food… we’re making it all. Nina and i made an apple cake last night, and it looks reeeally good :D

so yeah. hooray :D

<3

gross. YAAAAY :D

and also, this.