Elina's Blog

When we finished brainstorming our blogs, we started to plan and design it in class, and the first thing we did was to draw 3 blog theme designs and we chose a theme which looked most like the one we drew. Most of the themes didn’t look like my design,  but I found a theme [...]

Our unit question was “How does observing help us learn?”. The significant concept was “Observational skills play an important role in our lives and in our artwork”. My first drawing was not realistic and it was not 3D, and it didn’t have good shading. On my second drawing,the shading was better and it looked more [...]

On the 4th day, we went on the long day hike. When we got to the day hike starting point, there were two dogs that went on the hike with us. There was a playground on the bottom of the mountain and we played there for a while. When we started walking, there were lots [...]

On the third day, we went rock climbing and river cleaning. At the rock climbing wall,we got to chose the wall level and I went in the not-so-confident group. I climbed up to the 3/4 way resting point of the wall and when I looked down, I couldn’t believe I climbed all the way up [...]

What did I explore in this unit? How to make things up on the spot and to accept offers while acting to make a scene. What did I learn? Offering+accepting,naming the it,improvisation How can I use this in performance? You always have to name the it because if you say look at it, they won’t [...]

On the second day, we went mountain biking and Canoeing. First, our group went mountain biking and we went into the woods and when we were riding, there was a river called Himegawa, and we drank the water and it was very cold and refreshing. After the drink, we biked again back to the campsite. [...]

On the first day of camp, in the bus, a lot of us were whining about how long it will take to get to the campsite, or when we are allowed to go buy snacks, but in about 4 hours of riding in the bus, we saw Mt. Fuji and every one started to take pictures. [...]