Soccer October 7

Today we had a game against Cape Cod Academy. We went into this game

Destination Imagintation October 5

Today I had a brief meeting with people interested for DI for this year. Mr. Newcomb (the coordinator for the school) informed us that this year the school would not be paying for any of our funds and that we have to some how find ways to fundraise the money. This means about $50 a person. We have a lot of work to do for fundraising.

Soccer October 5

Today we had a game against New Testament. Which is defiantly an easier team to play. We new this going into the game and I think as a team this got to our heads. When we got to the field we were there for about a half hour before the other team showed. After all of that warming up and waiting the refs never showed. The coaches debated over what to do for a very long period of time. Overall my team was there for an hour before we played. Since we started our warm ups when we got there half of our team got bored and stopped warming up, instead of constantly moving around. The beginning half of the game was proof of this, we all did horrible as a team. To the point that our coach was in awe and confused. The other team made one goal that should have never have been able to get past our defense. However after the second half our team finally got their act together and we ended up wining 4-1. In the first half I did not do to amazing. However at the beginning of the second half my game improved greatly. Then the strength in my knee slowly started to decrease until it gave out. After that my performance was not my best.

Horseback October 4

Today I rode Rebel again. Since it had been raining the last few days the horses have been stuck inside, and Rebel had a lot of energy. Today we made huge progress in having his neck stay straight throughout the ride, which in turn lead to him achieving straightness throughout his whole body. We worked mainly on leg yielding, and trying even harder to keep his body straight while moving sideways. Now that Rebel has been taught the basic understanding of how dressage movements work I have been working very hard on perfecting the movements, and making him do them without fuss or confusion. My instructor said that today was the best lesson i've had on him, and it defiantly felt awesome to hear that.

Art Portfolio October 4

Here is the finished result. The picture doesn't really show the colors as much as I would like, the dress and mask is more neon orange. I'm very proud of this piece but still stressed out over little details at the same time. This took me a few hours today to finish. Its hard to see in the picture but the mask has grey and gold swirling details. The card background is one of my favorite parts. Originally I wanted to cut the cards up an make some type of swirl pattern. Then I decided that the background should be something repetitive so that the main focus would be on the girl.

Art Portfolio October 3

Today I spent the whole day sitting in my house, from when i woke up till when i went to bed creating an art piece. Last year my TOK class went to go see an art exhibit for Obey and since then I've been fascinated with the way he created his art. He uses lots of spray paint and his own created stencils to produce his art. Also he normally uses newspaper print or some type of pattern as the base. I did not want to use his technique exactly so I came up with the idea of using playing cards. I've always been inspired by masquerade masks and I wanted to somehow incorporate that into my artwork. By doing so I could focus more on the mask rather than the facial features, which are one of my weaknesses. I tried to give the piece a Renaissance feel, by making the dress like I did. I have not yet decided what color I am going to paint it however. I feel as though this is going to be one of the stronger pieces in my portfolio and I'm really looking forward to the outcome. This has been a huge challenge for me. Today I had to sketch out the girl and turn my sketch into the stencils that I would use for the spray painting. I have always felt that I am not strong at sketching which made it harder for me to have confidence in what I was doing. I am still unsure of how I want to do the background, but I do have a few basic ideas to get me started.