Romeo and Juliet comic

For the play Romeo and Juliet, we were divided into groups to convert each act into a comic. This project was extremely fun because it is a different way to understand the play, and much more easier to read. I had a good time trying to be creative with the photos and the text that me and my team-mate wrote. The part in which we had some type of difficulty was when we had to take pictures of more than two characters. Adriana and I had to look for other people to help us interpret each character. In my case, I found it very easy to work with my partner, and that helped us put our ideas together for the comic and do the absolute best we could. I believe that this type of projects help us work together, but also learn together. I'm convinced that our final product really deserves to be put in the library for sign-out. We worked really hard for other people to be able to understand Shakespeare in a pleasant and clever way.
I disagree with the statement that says comics are no way to learn about serious literature. They're actually a much more fun way, I believe. It helps the reader have an image and understand better, specially if it's about an old text that the language is very difficult. Maybe comics are not a very smart way for some people to learn about literature, but for others it is quite the opposite. It is much more simpler, and it might be shorter that the original text. Comics might also have more of a clever way of writing, which can provide interest in the reader. Although, if comics probably have a large amount of text in a small space it might annoy the person reading it. Comics are an excellent way to learn about serious literature, but they have to me written in a creative and entertaining way.

A day in the bay

Fuel efficiency

I own a 2009 Ford Edge and in a year I use 241. 7025 of fuel. My dream car is worse than the car I have now because it is a 2010 Volkswagen Beetle so obviously it is going to use more fuel. I would use 425. 685 with the Beetle. Even though it is my favorite car, I admit that in wastes too much fuel for such a small car. Though, I would still buy it.

	Liters per 100 kilometers	Day	Week	YR (185)
2009 Ford Edge	6.7 L/100km	1.3065	9.1455	241.7025
2010 Volkswagen Beetle	11.8 L/100 km	2.301	11.505	425.685
2010 Mazda Tribute Hybrid	7.8 L/100 km	1.521		281.385
2010 Mini Cooper	8.4/100km	1.638		303.03

Joy

Something I just was go on a great vacation with my best friends. First, we went to Miami for just one day. While we were there we went to Bayside, which is a really cool outdoor plaza. Next, we went on a cruise. It was so much fun! We went to St. Marteen, San Juan, and Labadee. We met so many people and truly enjoyed ourselves. After that, we went to Orlando. It brought back so many memories of my childhood, and of how much I enjoyed being a child. I had the time of my life and I'm so glad it was all with the people I love the most, my friends and family.

There's so many things I would like to do for myself but the principal one is to get along with my mom. I'm usually fighting with her, which causes us to separate and to lose the trust we have on each other. I try to behave the way she wants me to, but sometimes she just provokes me. Also, I get a lot of my rights taken away if I fight with her. Since I disrespect her, she won't let me do the things I want to like go out and stuff. If we would get along, our house would probably be more peaceful. There would be less fighting and screaming. I feel that getting along with my mom is something I should just do for me.

Well, all me is very special, but something that makes me extra special is my wanting to make everyone happy. I love to see people smile and laugh. Usually, I do very crazy and funny things to make sure they're happy. When people are sad for a certain reason, I like talking to them and try to cheer them up. Letting people know you are here for them and that you'll support them is a way to cheer them up little by little. Another thing I like to do is just try to get along with people. If you do that, I know they'll be happy because they've got a friend. Making people happy is something that makes me special.

Oil Spill

On the late night of April 20th, a fire occured in the Transocean Deepwater Horizon oil rig, about 50 miles from the shore of Lousiana. There were 126 men on board, and after an enormous explosion only 11 didn't make it. The rig collapsed and ended up sinking in the Gulf of Mexico. The safeguards tried to put a cap on the oil well, but it didn't turn out so good. Now, about 200,000 gallons of oil is spilling to the Gulf of Mexico, everyday. This could probably be happening for months, because people haven't really found a solution to solve the oil leak. This is the worst oil spill in history.

This oil spill can cause lots of harm in the world. The tourism of the southern states would obviously lower because the ocean would all be polluted, and thats what people go for during their vacation. Not only that, but also all the coral reefs, and the fish will get polluted. Right now, people can't go fishing for food, because everything in toxic. The company is trying to stop the spill with a gadget called "top hat." It will be positioned a mile below the surface. No gas problem will occur with the new cap. I think this will probably work, or atleast i have hope for it to work. This will defineatly help a lot because it's really an expensive solution, and scientists have really tried it.

Sites: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/oil_spill_approaches_louisiana.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/30/louisiana-oil-spill-2010_n_558287.html

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Oil-Spill-Near-Louisiana-In-Gulf-Of-Mexico---Obama-Proposes-Law-Change-To-Increase-Maximum-Payout/Article/201005215629444?f=rss

Testing

Finally, for the last time this year, we did MAP Testing. It is the the most BORING thing ever, but it's also good in way, because we get to sort of skip classes. I honestly try to do my best, but sometimes I just get tired and start guessing. I know that these tests help teachers know at what level of math and english to put us in, but it also makes me sort of mad to be reading all that stuff that reall doesnt intreast me on the computer. Math isn't so bad, but reading and language...WOW! Well, that's what I think of the testing, but I hate them.

Presentations

Today, I saw three presentations about animal extinction, that my classmates did. They were all very well done and completed. I honestly think that they did an outstanding job. They were very professional, and complete. Mine, was also really good. It had all the things it needed, and some extra few details which made it even better. I honestly liked doing my presentation, it made me learn about endangered species. There were somethings about my presentation that I had to change. Certain images were not very professional, so I have to change them.

Presentations

During my time in school, I have seen some HORRIBLE presentations. There is this one student that every time she makes a powerpoint, it's like torturing me. The schemes she chooses honestly drive me CRAZY. They are way to colorful, I mean some color really isn't bad, but what she uses is excessive (The font she uses sometimes, gets lost with the color of the background). Everyone simply gets a headache just by trying to read it, and she automatically looses the interest of the audience. Using font colors that are too bright, makes it hard for the people to read and understand. While they are trying to do that, the presenter will keep presenting and no one will even know. This is just an example of someone who makes really bad presentations.

25 things i love about Facebook, and 25 things I hate.

Love:
1. Finding new friends
2. Tetris Friends
3. Watching photos
4. Posting cool web pages on people's wall
5. Knowing people's birthday, that way you never forget
6. Receiving gifts you actually requested
7. Communicating quickly with friends
8. Knowing about people's relationships
9. Farmville
10. When people comment on your stuff (positive comments)
11. Having private inboxes ;)
13. Catching up with the news
14. MindJolt games
15. Getting event invitations

16. Graffiti

17. Famous quotes

18. Comparing people

19. Poking

20. Funny videos

21. Quizzes

22. Writing on your friends walls

23. Playing entertaining games

24. Knowing all the new gossip

25.

Hate:

1. Gifts

2. invitations to stupid groups

3. when chat gets all stupid and annoying

4. Stalkerish

5. Can become an addiction

6. Getting notifications on people that comment on things you like

7. being added by people you dont know

8. Celebrity posers

9. Annoying people who think you are best friends

10. people complaining about the pictures i put

11. wannabe sexy pictures

12. girls thinking they are all that because they have a million friends (they probably dont even know a quarter of them)

13. when people say you can be kidnapped by having an account

14. they change it soo often

15. too much photo editing

16. kids that are younger than 12 having facebook

17. Fake information

18. blurry pictures

19. too many requests

20. getting fake notifications

21. Confusing applications

22. people who write like this, "Oo0olAa ch0m0 tHaZ? BiieEn ii TU??

23.

Earth Day Project

This project was lots of fun for us to do. Hope and I are both people who care a lot about the nature and would love to have it for much longer. Telling everybody that we should protect the earth by doing a video and singing a song was incredible. Hope loves singing, and I love making videos so it was a perfect mix for us. We only had one difficulty, which was the pictures. We wanted pictures that showed the Earth both as beautiful and ugly. They were both extreme parts of nature, so we both found it hard to find really good pictures. We didn't leave this project for the last minute, so we had lots of time to find the pictures. Not all the pictures were taken while doing the project, some were taken a long time ago, but still match with the presentation. In conclusion, this presentation was lots of fun and I hope we get to do something like this soon.

Spring Break

Having fun was basically all I did this spring break. Well, sort of. The first few days were just like lazy fun. Laying around in my house and maybe going to the gym was all I did. Oh, and go to parties and stuff like that at night. Then, a few friends from Mexico City came over and stayed at a super cool hotel named the Mayan Palace. During almost all of the vacations I basically stayed with them. It was so much fun because we did whatever we wanted.

One day, we went to another hotel called Vallarta Palace, and it's an all-inclusive hotel. We arrived super early and didn't leave until late at night. There, we did so many things. First, at like eleven in the morning we went on a kayak and saw like a GIANT fish trying to eat a smaller one. After about one hour, we rented boogie boards and we were having so much fun trying to catch waves. While I was catching a wave I accidentally hit this lady and she yelled at me. I was honestly laughing so hard and then I apologized.

Another day, we went to a boat and snorkeled. It was like a two hour ride to get to Caletas but we saw so many dolphins, and they were all babies. When we got there I was so scared to be in the water because it was so cold. Finally, I got in and saw so many cute fish. There was like a huge school of fish that were gorgeous. I loved snorkeling so much because I got to actually see fish in their habitat. When I got near a rock, all of a sudden an eel came out and started chasing me so I had to get back on the boat. When we were sailing, I was sleeping so I almost fell of the boat, but thank god I woke up just in time. Well, that was the best thing of my spring break.

The best thing in life is....

The best thing in life is....LOV and friends! Love is probably the best feeling you can receive and give.Without love there wouldn't be anything, every single thing is created by love. Even the bad things come from love, for example, the love for destruction makes bombs, the love for power makes money, and the love for territory creates war.Although the love I'm talking about is the good one, the one that makes us be blind and just be simply crazy. The love that makes me feel incredible and that I'm in another planet. That is one of the BEST things in the world.

Friends are like family but better, we get to chose them. I personally couldn't live without my friends, they are everything to me. I never keep anything from my friends, I think the probably know me better than I know myself. Not only that, but they are always there for me when I need them. Friends help you when you're in need and will always be by your side no matter what. Friends simply love you no matter what. A friend is like your brother or sister, but even better.

Rotoball Difficulty

8th Grade RotoBall from mistermark on Vimeo.


During this rotoball project, some people had certain difficulties while doing it. When I was doing it I had trouble tracing the roto girl. Well, it wasn't trouble but it was simply boring. Tracing the same little dude over and over again is really tiring. Another thing I personally didn't like, was converting the ball. It was difficult because I had to put a lot of detail so that people could see what the artifact was. If I wouldn't do that, then no one would get confused while seeing it. As you see, there wasn't that much difficulty while doing it, most of it was just boring.

rotoball

The video our class did actually impressed me alot. I totally didn't expect it to come out that great since I believe we didn't have much time to be that detailed, but appreantly we did. I can see everyone put their best effort on doing a good job. There were just small details we could have changed like how some videos lasted a bit too long. For example, there was one that the ball had already left the scene but you could still see the little dude and the backround. There were also some that their persons weren't very visible because it was the same color as the backround.

Comment:

I just want to congratulate everyone for doing such a good job. I know it took a lot of everybody's pattience but the final project turned out amazing. Rodrigo, thanks for everything. The music is great, well, everything you did was great.

Identity Play

Us, teenagers, all have certain type of communaction net work. It could be either my space, facebook, hi-5, twitter, or MSN. Some of us actually have more than one. When I post things on my profile, I'm communicating to mainly my friends. They are the ones who are constantly checking my updates. Now that I think about it, maybe friends of other friends might be checking my pictures and maybe some information too. Maybe the friends of my friends can be stalkers or something like that. I personally don't have any information about where I live or what school I go to, in all I don't have any information about my personal life.

Internet in the Home

Us teenagers use internet at home all the time. We use it for homework, but most of all for chatting and comunication. The film we have watched was defineatly produced for parents and teenagers as well. It was produced by a very famous TV channel in the United States. I feel the parents are the ones that mostly viewed this docummentary, but teens did too. Most of the commentaries made in this movies were probably from teenagers with problems of an addiction to the internet. The voices that are left out in this film are the ones of teenagers who do spend time on the computer, but it's not their only priority.

Winter Break!

Finally, we had vacation! It was extremely exciting and fun. I spent a lot of time with my family and friends. We stayed in Vallarta during the whole break, that was one of the bad parts of the vacation. My family and I spent christmas dinner at my house. It was pretty cool! I got a few good gifts. Most of them were clothes though. During the morning, I had to pretend I was excited because Santa came. I didn't expect a huge present, but I got a new camera that is great! I really love it!!

After christmas, more friends arrived and it was so much fun. One day I went to the beach with Courtney. We were totally crazy that day! We took so many pictures under water, we looked so retarded. Another day, I went with Debora and did the same thing, but that day we also saw a friend named Reid and had lots of fun! We swam and swam all day until we got tired. We went home, changed, and then went to a cocktail party at Adriana's house. We met all her cousins and had lots of fun.

On New Year's we went to a friends house. A lot of other friends such as Debora, Rita, Courtney, Billy, Juan Carlos, Marco, Paul, Dani, Feris, Axel, and Frank. We spent time with the family for and also spent the coundown with them, but later, we went to the Marival and had a party at the disco. We danced until about 3:30, well that's when my parents picked me up, and my feet hurt so bad. I wore heels so my feet were sort of swollen! That night was probably one of the best ever. I had so much fun and will never forget it. Winter vacation in all was great and I really loved it.