Art Collage

Recently I was assigned a project in art. The assignment was to create five monsters using magazine clippings. I was supposed to use creative proportion and alignment. Here is the result! My favorite is the crazy bearded man getting ready for a fight! I also like the cat/lady/baby.

Now on the general subject of bloggage. I'm working on getting my Spanish grade up so that I can get a license. The rule of my house is that I must have a 3.0 or higher GPA to get it. I hope I can do it.

Business Is Slow

Well that's the truth.  Not much is new.  I'm starting after school practices for our Spring Concert and we're doing world pop as a theme.  We're doing a few Bollywood songs, and some songs from Europe, Asia, and America.  It should be pretty fun.  That's about it though.  That's why I haven't posted in a while.  Business is slow.

High on Life...

I am. I truly am. I am overwhelmed. I have a lot to write about. I’ll just go in chronological order I guess. OK, so yesterday Emily and me went to the beach for our one-month anniversary. It was great. We walked on the beach, tried to make a fire and did not succeed, walked more and talked. It was really fun.
Ok but the main story was my adventure ride today with Michael. It was the longest and hardest ride I’ve ever ridden but it was probably also the most fun riding I’ve ever done. We did our epic ride at the park, Annadel, in Santa Rosa. First we started at the bottom of canyon, a fire road, and went up that then we went up marsh trail, then we kept going on marsh, past Buick meadow and South Burma, and kept going up, and we went around the marsh. Then we rode down bay area ridge trail and down marsh, up the rest of canyon and then down spring creek. To probably all of you, that didnt make sense because of all the trail names but it is a very long ride. AT least 10 miles of off-road riding. After that we were coming down to Stonehedge drive and we realized we had no idea where my dad was to give us a ride home so we just kept riding. We rode all over Santa Rosa and we rode all the way from Santa Rosa to Sebastopol. We got lost in all these ghettos and had crazy experiences with weird people. It was truly an adventure in the purest sense. It was so fun. We talked a lot, ate powerbars, drank water and Emergen-C, and had fun. It was so much fun. It was epic. We got home to Sebastopol, ate some Mexican food then rode home, showered, and then I came here and wrote my excursion down so that you, the reader could experience it as I did. I had an amazing weekend and I hope you enjoy this twisting line of pixels running down the page to create my thoughts into an intertwined mess of experiences and dreams.

Sometimes A Great Notion

Well about five days ago my friend Hannah got sick and I was with my friend Malia and we thought it would be sweet to go over and comfort her while she was ailing. So we went and hung out and talked to her and then left and walked around town for a while. About two days after this though, I was at Ragle and I felt that I needed to get home because my stomach was yelling at me so I walked home, ate a burger, salad, and then that night, the burger and salad came back up. Blech!
Now, I've been home from school for the past 2 days. I'm going tomorrow. It sucks being sick though. It's nice not having to go to school but also I can't see friends and I'm sort of isolated. It's been sort of fun. I watched a few movies, watched some Family Guy, read a little bit of this book called Sometimes A Great Notion. It's pretty good so far but I'm not that far into it. I've heard that's it's amazing from my dad though, so I'll keep chugging.

Annadel

I went on a long mountain bike ride with Micahel and my dad today.  Michael is the drummer in a band that I play in.  We rode a really long ways and I got really tired because I had been going to bed at around 2 for the past three or four nights.  I was really tired and got drained pretty fast.  It was still really fun though.  Now I'm listening to The Cure and eating.  Tonight I'm going on a date but it might rain so we'll probably go see a movie.  It'll be fun though.
I'm really glad because I have Monday and Tuesday off.  I'm looking forward to it!

Freedom

Why is this titled freedom? Perhaps it is because I have about 2 weeks of no school. Finals just ended so we have what is called intersession. Intersession is where we can do a class that is a really fun class like pottery or debate class or something like that, or we can travel to another country like China, Spain, etc. I chose do the History Rock And Roll but that was full so I got into an orienteering and outdoor survival one. They both were cool and the one I got was my second choice so I'm pretty excited. So we have intersession which is about 8 days and then we have like a one week break afterward so I'm really excited.
Life is generally good. Finals went pretty well. I finished my science poster, finished my Spanish final, and did well on the math. I'm pretty glad. Time to forget everything I just learned! Ah... Feels good.

Tears Of Blood : A Cry For Tibet

Well, tomorrow is my first day of finals.  I have a math and a science final.  I'm not too worried about the math one but the science one might be a bit of a challenge.  I have to know all this stuff about cell membrane's, plasmolysis, osmosis, and turgor pressure.  Complicated stuff.
In humanities we're reading a book called Tears Of Blood, which is an amazing book about the Chinese takeover of Tibet.  If everyone on the planet read this book, the situation over there would be over within a few years.  Easily.  It's horrifying what's going on there.  Did you know that the Tibetan mothers would have to feed their children with their own blood mixed with Tsampa in  order to survive.  Often they would eventually die of blood loss because of having no real food to feed them with.  Also, they had these gathering's called thamzings, where they would publicly humiliate and eventually kill all the highest lama's of the Buddhist religion.  They would make them eat their own urine and feces in front of a crowd of 30,000 when normally that crowd would have worshipped these lama's.  It's horrifying.  They would then beat them to death in front of the crowd.  It makes me wonder how this could be going on in our world and almost no one knows the truth.  It's still going on today also, which is the worst part.  Plus, the Buddhists belive in having no violence so they will never fight back.  The only end to this terrible situation would be the extinction of the Tietan's, or military force of another country against China.  The only bright side of this is that a young generation of Tibetan's are becoming sick of the situation and are beginning to revolt, but even so, China has a far superior military so this may not end for decades.  I really suggest reading Tears Of Blood    
though because I didn't know anything about this until I read it.