I don’t have anything new since a week but I just was so busy with homecoming spirit week. Last Friday, my roommate and I went to Wheaton mall and brought many stuff from Hot Topic, Target, Claire’s, etc for our big spirit week projects. Our projects were to create a mascot, paint a banner, paint a class flag, made a class video, and create a float. My roommate and I searched all stores at Wheaton Mall and couldn’t find a black cat stuffed animal so we decided to buy “Hello Kitty” cat doll and we just paint it black! That assignment was a success!
A banner, we need a long banner which five people altogether can hold it up. So my roommate is an artist and she drew an awesome concept of design. We drew and paint all day on Tuesday, added some details on Wednesday afternoon. Finally the class took the banner to the event on Wednesday night and the chairpersons were so fascinated with our class banner, thanks to my roommate!
A class flag, on Sunday, all of us completely forgot that the flag was due that night so I spent my relax Sunday on that flag. We pulled the sheet up on our sixth floor wall and painted it with black, red, blue, yellow, and silver. Added our motto, Curse The Curse on the bottom of the flag. Unfortunately we didn’t have time to go to Home Depot and buy some poles. We ended up holding the flag on our hands all night. Other classes have beautiful flags with huge poles which they can put the pole in the ground and the flag will still stand! That is so unfair that we are freshmen and almost nobody have a car!
A class video, I was so overwhelmed with those five projects so one freshman young girl offered her help so I gave her my camera and the class script on Saturday and I hoped that she would follow the script and give me all the video so I can edit into a real movie at end of Tuesday. On Monday evening,the girl gave me the camera and I assumed that she actually did very well. On Tuesday when I uploaded all videos in the laptop, ehh, she went to the wrong way! She videotaped too much kissing, holding hands, hugging, and none of café chatting, studying, cheering at a game, and generally freshmen walking around the campus! So I kind of panicked and asked my best friend to help. Thank god that he is a expert with making a movie. On Wednesday, he gave up his free time and he videotaped all over again and he edited the whole movie until Thursday 4AM! On Thursday, he gave me the DVD and I watched the movie on my television with my nails biting and hoping that he went the right way! YES! He went to beyond than my goal!!!
A float, it is the most major project and the most HELL job! My friends and I spent all of our free time on the float since Saturday early morning. We finally completed the float on Wednesday late night. We created a go green float, all is cardboard instead plywood. We added some tissue paper and gift wrap of red, black, blue, and yellow. Spray painted all cardboard boxes with black, red, and silver. Decorated all over the float with silver and gold glitter and added some aluminum foil (look like silver) and white fluffy foam (look like spooky fog). At the end, we added our big cat mascot on the top! We actually appreciated our work!
Now we are so excited for this Saturday to show off our hell work with class of 2013 projects!!!!
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
First Year Experience #5
What a day, on October 15, 2009, I went to a food store with my friend, Jessica Israel and we got stranded on the parking lot because my cousin’s car battery went dead. When Jessica and I got in my car at Field House parking lot, the car refused start so we called the department of Public Safety to come and recharge our car. Jessica and I went to Blockbuster and rented “The Proposal” and brought a DVD, “Drag Me to the Hell.” After checking out the movies at Blockbuster, we went to the food store, Safeway next to the rental movie store.
I brought some soup and tea because I was stuffed with colds in my head and Jessica brought some stuff for the movie night tonight. When we brought all the food and stuff, we went out, and stuffed our stuff in the trunk. And when we got in with our teeth chattering because outside was raining and COLD! When I tried to start the car… The car refused start but only feel the clicking sound from the steering wheel. What a bad luck because my cousin was in a class and everybody we knew was too busy to check their pagers. So we got out with our thin sweatshirts and asking anyone who came out from the store, we were running around the parking lot and waving our phones with a sentence saying “Do you have a car jumper?? Please help us!!” Finally we got one, actually we thought she don’t have one because she is so old like a grandma and she drove a station wagon!
When our car was started again and we zoomed back to Gallaudet University and parked the car at SLCC area. Tonight, my cousin asked me if I can drop her off at her home because today her street needed to be closed for cleaning so I tried the car again… NO LUCK! So we waited for the department of public safety guy to come back again. We waited for almost thirty minutes and because they emailed us that something has happened at Benson Hall. We looked at each other and said, “Oh yeah, freshmen!” After another fifteen minutes, a policeman came out and he was carrying with a bucket with beer and in his other hand, a beer bong!!! We laughed and waited until he came back and recharged the car again! Gee, what a day with stupid car battery!!!
I brought some soup and tea because I was stuffed with colds in my head and Jessica brought some stuff for the movie night tonight. When we brought all the food and stuff, we went out, and stuffed our stuff in the trunk. And when we got in with our teeth chattering because outside was raining and COLD! When I tried to start the car… The car refused start but only feel the clicking sound from the steering wheel. What a bad luck because my cousin was in a class and everybody we knew was too busy to check their pagers. So we got out with our thin sweatshirts and asking anyone who came out from the store, we were running around the parking lot and waving our phones with a sentence saying “Do you have a car jumper?? Please help us!!” Finally we got one, actually we thought she don’t have one because she is so old like a grandma and she drove a station wagon!
When our car was started again and we zoomed back to Gallaudet University and parked the car at SLCC area. Tonight, my cousin asked me if I can drop her off at her home because today her street needed to be closed for cleaning so I tried the car again… NO LUCK! So we waited for the department of public safety guy to come back again. We waited for almost thirty minutes and because they emailed us that something has happened at Benson Hall. We looked at each other and said, “Oh yeah, freshmen!” After another fifteen minutes, a policeman came out and he was carrying with a bucket with beer and in his other hand, a beer bong!!! We laughed and waited until he came back and recharged the car again! Gee, what a day with stupid car battery!!!
Library Research Project: Beauty Evolution
No wonder our perception of beauty is distorted...
Introduction Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4TV_Avo4zg
An article from Dove.com, Nancy Etcoff researched about women and beauty and she found that all of women are struggled with their inner feelings being beautiful. Many women and men feel excluded from soceity’s sterotype of ideal beauty. Only two percent out of the women around the world feel that they are comfortable telling people that they are beautiful.
Introduction Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4TV_Avo4zg
An article from Dove.com, Nancy Etcoff researched about women and beauty and she found that all of women are struggled with their inner feelings being beautiful. Many women and men feel excluded from soceity’s sterotype of ideal beauty. Only two percent out of the women around the world feel that they are comfortable telling people that they are beautiful.
How we evolved from many years ago, beauty started in Egypt with Cleopatra. She was short, chubby, wide nose, and rings of fat on her neck but all the Egypt people worshipped her because she is so beautiful to them. In 1880’s recipe of beauty were wide hips, wide bottoms, show off your busts, and slim hips were hid under fake fat pads. That period were c
alled the curvy period. IN 1920’s recipe, slim hips were accepted to the society, flat chested, corsets were used to hide the women’s breasts to sides, wearing push up bras or having a breast implants were a disgrace to the society. The beauty recipe for 2009 is very tall, very thin, small hips, big bust, large eyes, large lips, and small nose.Over the years, the technology became a huge influence in media and it changed our perspective with beauty. Therefore, it gave us an impossible image of beauty because those beautiful models were cheated and rigged with technology of software with kind of Photoshop techniques. All of women actually believed in a fictional image. So the result was the women feeling down because they are impossible to meet the beauty images.
Beauty is a product of Photoshop and all the photographs are refined with kind of techniques to mess your eyes up. Plump or thin, tall or short, curvy or flat noses, bubbly or rosy lips, curly or straight hair are mixed into today. And today we were deceived by a false beauty images! So, how can we improve, only solution is believe in yourself and you can create your own image and you will be so beautiful.
Conclusion Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o-fEsTMlq0&feature=related
Thursday, October 8, 2009
First Year Experience #4
Last week, I started my first job as a notetaker for three classes. At first, my friends told me if I was boring all the time so get a job. I did, I went up to the career center and asked them if there are jobs available around the campus. They told me I have to go to every department and give them my application then they will email me if they have job openings for me. I don’t want to spend one day giving out my applications to every department around the campus. So I gave up and I walked down the SAC hall next to the bison bookstore sulking. And suddenly I saw one bright yellow paper sticked on a wall. It says that OSWD office needed notetakers so bad. So I turned around and went to the OSWD office next to the G-spot.
When I came in and I asked the front desk clerk where is the man who is responsible with notetaking. The clerk said “that will be me.” “Oh, okay. I am interested to be a notetaker.” I told the black man. He said “Well, do you have some notetaking experience before?” “Yes, I do when I was in high school.” “Oh great, you are hired.” He smiled and gave me a handout with how to note take and stuff like that. I was like SWEET! I AM HIRED! And then he took me in his room, asked me for my class schedule, and he found the available classes to fit in my schedule. He told me, “Wonderful, you will start working tomorrow at 8AM.” I nodded and grabbed the chance.
Since a week and half, I loved my job so much because I can learn a LOT more from those classes without doing homework and tests. I learned a lot about aging and development, communication between children and adults, and advanced Spanish. Those classes were interesting. The best thing is getting paid by learning. The worst thing is getting up at 8AM every Tuesdays and Thursdays. The notetaking job is my first job and hopefully I will continue this job for four years until I graduate from Gallaudet University.
When I came in and I asked the front desk clerk where is the man who is responsible with notetaking. The clerk said “that will be me.” “Oh, okay. I am interested to be a notetaker.” I told the black man. He said “Well, do you have some notetaking experience before?” “Yes, I do when I was in high school.” “Oh great, you are hired.” He smiled and gave me a handout with how to note take and stuff like that. I was like SWEET! I AM HIRED! And then he took me in his room, asked me for my class schedule, and he found the available classes to fit in my schedule. He told me, “Wonderful, you will start working tomorrow at 8AM.” I nodded and grabbed the chance.
Since a week and half, I loved my job so much because I can learn a LOT more from those classes without doing homework and tests. I learned a lot about aging and development, communication between children and adults, and advanced Spanish. Those classes were interesting. The best thing is getting paid by learning. The worst thing is getting up at 8AM every Tuesdays and Thursdays. The notetaking job is my first job and hopefully I will continue this job for four years until I graduate from Gallaudet University.
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