Final Blog

This year has gone by so quickly. I can believe that it is almost over though, I have put countless hours into projects, homework, tests and presentations. Now that this school year is coming to an end, it is the appropriate time for me to reflect on the project I had the school year to do... the twenty percent project. I did not have too much success in this project. I changed my idea after the first semester to a completely different idea. That is when my other blog came in. I really hope that people who read my blog we touched by the things I wrote. I really put in time writing on my other blog and taking pictures for it. It is just that not many people saw what I wrote because it was not really publicized, I posted a link on Facebook but never really told people to view it. That was where I could have improved. Writing the blogs on my other blog helped me cope with some of my personal problems, and I do not regret it. So take the time to check out what I did, here is the link http://lookingattheglasshalffull.blogspot.com/
Peace out

Week 12

Three day weekend! In other words, three days to do homework. Today is tryouts for colorguard and I am pretty excited to see our incoming freshmen. After tryouts my two best friends and I are getting In-and-Out from a friend. We are then going to go to my house to watch movies. But the rest of my weekend will consist of taking pictures for a bonsi convention, so I can earn money and homework. I plan on finishing my presentation on Monday and practice saying it so I have confidence to present, when the time comes. I think my project is okay, but I just wanted to make a bigger change and get some feed back on my photos. Last week I posted on my other blog and it felt good to have posted it. This week is our second to last blog and then summer.
I hope my presentation goes well, and isn't a bumpy road for me :D (it is a joke, and I took this picture in January)

Week 11

Hey guys! Guess what is in two weeks... we are presenting our twenty percent project. Dun Dun Duuunnn! To be honest I am quite excited, although nobody has commented on my blogs and said things like, "thanks, that helped my day!" I still think I was able to help some people. My views from my blog have increased, which I am very happy about and I have still been posting. I am going to use a prezi for my presentation and keep things simple. I plan to map out what i am going to say, and rehearse it plenty of times. I will start creating my presentation tonight or tomorrow so I have enough time to prepare. On Sunday it was mothers day, so my dad and I went to the beach to release balloons in her honor. It was a tough weekend, but I am glad I got a chance to think about me mom. I am planning to post something about mothers day on my other blog today. 

Week 10

Our twenty percent projects are due along with a presentation in three weeks from today.  I do not know how I helped people because nobody has told me that I have helped them. I need to get more page views and plan to create a new instagram account because nobody really reads blogs, and instagram is all about pictures which helps me out a lot. I plan to make the account really soon, so I have more time to post things and gain followers. I have already posted pictures that have the same thing on my blog, on my personal account, so I am not sure if I want to create another account on instagram. Now that I think of it, I will just post some of the pictures that are on my blog, and see the reactions of my friends. Here is a picture I recently posted on instagram and will post on my blog.

Week 9

As I mentioned in my last blog, my sister's due date for her baby was on Easter, April twentieth. It turns out that my sister actually had her baby that day! My dad and  I drove five hours to the area where my sister and her husband live to visit the baby in the hospital. We stayed overnight on Sunday and left Monday evening around six. Because I was at the hospital I was not able to make it back in time for school on Monday. When I returned I had a lot of make up work to do. As you can tell, this week has been pretty busy for me. I only took pictures of my niece and family at the hospital, I did not have time to take pictures of anything else. However, I do plan on taking more photos this week to develop more ideas for my blog.

Week 8-

Happy soon to be Easter! On that note, my sister's due date for her and her husbands baby is in two days (Easter), and I am extremely excited to be an aunt. Just last weekend my team and I just finished our season for the rest of the school year and are now focusing on tryouts and field season. I know have more free time to focus on photography. I am really interested in photojournalism  now that I have been posting on my other blog. I have been pretty productive with writing on my other blog. I have posted twice in the past eleven days. It feels good to be productive. Now I am focused on being more productive and posting on the other blog more often.
Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to watch General Conference for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I listened to many amazing talks, and found some more topics for me to blog about on my other blog, here is my next idea...

Week 7 - VEGAS WEEK!

Well, first things first! Vegas is this weekend! The guard is leaving on Friday during sixth period and we are leaving Vegas Sunday afternoon. I am excited to spend the beginning of Spring break with my friends in Vegas. I will take a picture and post it on here.
I am back from the trip, and this is the view that my roommates and I had from our hotel room. We stayed in Circus Circus. Our varsity guard also got first place! It was an amazing feeling to have all our hard work pay off. It made our stay in Vegas a very memorable experience, and we made so many memories that I will never forget. That is what I love about photos, they capture so many feeling and emotions in just one photo. Well that is it for this past week, now I am going to enjoy the rest of my spring break!

Week 6

Hey , hey, hey! So I had my sisters baby shower this Saturday, which was a very busy day. Things have been so busy and hectic but I have been taking photos. It is kind of stressful to find time to download all of my photos to my slow computer at home. I want to make an instagram account for my blog so I can post things more often. And instragram is much more popular than blogs. I posted a picture on instagram that I also posted on my blog and wrote a description of what the photo means to me. Some of my friends commented on the photo and many liked the picture. That is my next idea for my next post on my blog. I am excited to finally download the photos soon after my sister baby shower and after I go to Las Vegas next weekend to compete for colorguard, and over spring break. Here is another picture I took last week.

Week 5- How does the beach look on a rainy day?

As I mentioned in my previous post, it had been rainy this past week and I wanted to take the opportunity to be able to go to the beach and take some photos. I went with one of my friends who is majoring in film. As soon as we got back in the car from taking photos, it started to pour. Since we are both the same religion religion, we also went to the New Port Beach Temple and took some pictures there too. I am going to write my next blog tonight because I know what I want to post next. I got some ideas from the beach for things that I could write about. Although, these next few weeks are going to very busy for me, I still need to find time to download the photos, tomorrow I will have some free time to download them. That is my plan for this week.

Week 4- Say Cheese!

I hope you enjoyed my last blog that I posted. But here is a link to my actual blog, looking at the glass half full http://lookingattheglasshalffull.blogspot.com/ enjoy! Well, it does not really rain in California so I wanted to take some photos today of the rain. I will download the photos today or Sunday, if and when I have free time. I posted this past week and made a goal to post within the next two weeks. I have received more page views now that I have posted more often. This is my next idea for my next blog that I am going to write.I took the photo below, here is a sample. The picture displays how we do not always see the big picture, or we do not want to see the whole picture. Sometimes, we just only see what is in front of us. 

Week 3

This past week, I have downloaded my photos to my computer and need to edit some if necessary. My plan is to not edit the photos too much, maybe just crop them. I have been thinking about some captions that I can use to make my photos more uplifting, and for the caption to actually go along with the photo. Not just have a random caption have nothing to do with my photo. Sometimes there is no caption needed, because one photo can expose many emotions. I want my pictures to make sense. Sometimes it is hard to come up with something that has an important meaning. It took me a while to come up with something about the photo here. I took the photo below in Old Sacramento, the stairs in the photo are what the clothes line lead to. The stairs display how in life, we choose our path, to either go up or to go down.  

Week 2 - Photoshoot

This past week I have found time to take some pictures at the beach. I will download the photos soon, when I find time and am not busy. Hopefully I will have time on Saturday or Sunday to download the photos. I will think of some captions as well. But I want to think of some other places that I can go to take pictures other than the beach. I am also going to brainstorm places where I can go to take some photos, and research some cool ideas online. Mr.Lee showed me some cool ideas for photos today in class, and that sparked an idea in my head. My roommate is studying film in college and enjoys taking to take pictures with me, she gives me advice as well as just taking me places.These are some of the things I have planned for the next upcoming weeks and I hope to post again on my other blog soon. Here is another photo I have taken.

Week 1

I have chosen to change my project, and write a blog about looking at things in a positive way. My partner and I agreed that our other blog didn't turn out exactly the way we wanted it to. So for my new blog, I will post photos and have a meaning behind each photo. I hope to inspire others who are going through a rough time in their life and are looking for help or advice. I plan to talk about some trials in my life that i have had to face head on. I wrote my first post in the beginning of January and have it posted already. I planned to have it as a personal blog, but now that I think about it, this is a perfect opportunity for me to use this blog as a project. I don't just think this new blog will help others, but I think it will help me emotionally as well. Here is a sample of one of the photos that I thought I would use for this problem.

Week 9

This week was not productive for our project. Although, it was very productive and tough for practices, we have learned so much choreography. We have been tought most of our flag work for our winter guard flag feature, and will soon find out what our theme for the show will be. Tomorrow we are learning dance or rifle work. We will also find out the costume, which I am very excited about. I am also pumped about our winter break from school. I have been stressed with a lot of my classes and some practices. I am just ready to spend time with my dad at home and enjoy each others company. I will post over break on our blog because I will not be so stressed and busy. Kena and I are excited for the future of our blog. I am going to share a link to our blog on our instagram page this Friday or Sunday.

Week 8

Since our last team member moved, my partner and I have been occupied with long practices and and tough nights with homework as our company. Last week I had the opportunity to look up some tips so that our blog may recieve more page views and become more popular. We are going to post more often to do so as well as advertising our blog on our instagram page. Kena and I have been talking about some things to post on our blog such as winter guard starting, adjusting to this cold weather while practicing after school till 7pm and 9pm. Kena and I plan to post a blog about enjoying winter break, and practicing over break as well. We hope that our readers will enjoy what we have been pondering about. Because Christmas break is coming up, Kena and I will have more time to blog about guard. These is our progress and plans.

Week 7

This past week my group and I have had a couple obstacles that we have to get past. As you know, one of our members moved out of the city and to another school. So now it is just my partner and I. We have to do the things that she had to do and take care of her responsibilities now. It may be a little difficult but I know my partner and I can do a good job at taking some of her responsibilities such as taking pictures of our colorguard while performing and thinking about what to post.  I will have my friend who lives with me take some photos of us, and we have a professional photographer for Band and Colorguard who takes pictures of us at every performance. This is our plan that we have to help us take care of some of the responsibilities that our other group member had. We plan to have our second post up within the next two weeks. Here is a picture of our band and colorguard at Finals.

Week 6

This past week I have had barely enough time to breathe. It has been a chore for me to do homework, and house cleaning. One of my team mates is moving which is going to effect part of our project. My other team mate and I need to plan on how to do some things without the extra help of our other partner. Without much warning my partner and I must find a way to work without her.We have not made much progress since my last blog, as I have been busy with colorguard, school, church, and family.We plan to have our next blog for the colorguard page, up within two weeks from now. Our colorguard team has another competition this weekend on Saturday. Life has been busy but we will find time for this project. We are truly excited for our page.  Here is a picture of my captain at one of our performances.

Week 5

Over the course of the past two weeks my group and I have achieved one of our goals. We published our first post for our life as a colorguard member blog. We wrote about our progress and how our hard work is starting to pay off. I wrote about one of the tournaments that we went to and competed at. On our blog we talked about how we are achieving our goals for our team. Our auxiliary scores were the highest scores of the night. We discussed how happy we were when we found out that we got sweeps at the Chaffey tournament. Words could not describe how happy we were to know that all our hard work and long practices are paying off. These past couple weeks have been pretty successful not just for our blog but for our team. Here is a picture from a tournament that we recently had.

Week 3

So this past week has been extraordinarily busy for my group and I. We took the PSATs today and were unable to work in class because we were taking the test. I have not had much spare time on my hands. I have been occupied with church, school and practice. School has been tough this past week, along with practices and personal issues. Because I have been busy, I have not had time to finish the other half of our blog. This week will be busy as well, but I plan on finishing the first post of our blog soon. My group and I need to brain storm what we will do after our first post. We will plan and share ideas about topics to post about weekly. This past week has not been productive for our project, but we will catch up on what we have not been able to do. The picture below is an example of a post or topic we will cover on our blog.

Week 2 of the %20 project

In this past week my group and I have been contemplating on what our first post will be. I have been extremely busy with personal events that is is hard to focus and think sometimes. My group and I were stuck on what we should post for our first blog on lifeasaguardie. So we then discoused  some ideas and opinions with another. We want to make our first post a good post, so that people will want to read it and not just skim past it. On Friday October forth I started to write a rough draft of the first half of our blog. I then corrected the grammar errors in the first half. At this point, I believe that the blog is well written and interesting. I will finish writing the other half of the blog on Thursday or Sunday night. If not I will ask one of my group members to help me out by finishing the other half. That sums up what i did this week.