Erin's Blog

For my 20 percent project this week I decided to change what I am going to do my project on and I decided that I’m going to make an elephant instead of making an octopus. I started by sketching out my wire and started to sketch out the design on top of the wire with another color marker. My plan is to get started to molding the clay next week once I start to finalize my wire concept. Next week I plan on getting at least halfway done. Starting out by getting any tools I need to sculpt the art and make any small details that are important. Like the elephants wrinkles for example. So this week I started off strong and plan on staying on schedule with my 20% project.

My favorite room in my home is probably my room. I really like my room because I have a comfy bed and I love to keep it clean. The only problem is that it has a sliding glass door and it’s huge so I can’t put anything there. There is also a pretty large window on the other side of my room and my blinds are not the best at covering my windows. But it’s also a good thing because in case of a fire or any emergency I could just run out my door. I also love my room because that’s where I get ready in the morning and where I do my hair and all that stuff. I also have a custom closet so it just makes getting ready and picking out an outfit in the morning so much better. So that’s why I love my room so much.

This week for my 20 perfect project I finished my sketch and now all I am waiting to get my wire so I can start putting my wire together. This week I started off by using my apple pencil to scetch out my first drawing. Obviously it didnt go as planned and I had to try at least 5 times. Once I have my final drawing I plan on making adjustments on that and maybe make a whole new idea. I would start by sketching out than starting on another concept. But that’s just only an idea. I currently need to sketch it out on my iPad in 2 different colors. One representing the wire under the clay and the other representing the color over the wire. That will be my overall plan next week and hopefully it will be a better week than my project sketch this week.

People tend to ask me why I can never go back to sleep when I wake up, the answer is quite simple, nightmares. That I get whenever I go to sleep. I don’t get them when I first go to sleep at night it’s whenever I fall back asleep. When I was younger it wasn’t really a problem and they weren’t really scary since I was just a kid. I used to get them all the time when I was around 8-9 but it stopped once I hit the age 11 and I thought that I didn’t have to worry about it anymore but in the middle of the year it started to happen again. When in the middle of the school year last year they started up again but they weren’t often at all. The only problem was they were lucid dreams. It’s where basically when your aware you’re in a dream but you don’t know how to wake up. They stopped happening but all of them were lucid. I always knew I was in a dream. But that just made them a lot scarier since they felt real. An example of once of my dreams are things that usually happen that day and turn it into a traumatic event. Like yesterday I was feeling dizzy and nauseous. In my dream my friends decided to jaywalk and all of them got hit by cars. I don’t know what was wrong with me but I was so dizzy that I couldn’t even walk across the street. I backed up and my friends went getting hit by cars and I don’t want to get into the gruesome scene but it’s still impacted me to this day since the dream was just yesterday.

This week I was coming up with ideas to create my clay sculpture. I started by making sure it was okay with Mrs. Moffat that I could take out my phone and I used to to google some ideas and things I was curious about because I do not have my clay yet nor the metal to make sure it stays how I want it. I also want to make sure that I had the correct kind of clay for any ideas I had gotten from on the internet.I made a list of things I had found on the internet and put it onto a doc so all my ideas are spread out ready to go. I have all of my supplies ready and I’m going to bring them this Friday to get started. My supplies are clay, clay tools, and more clay. My plan is to make an octopus so hopefully that idea stays.

If I had to choose three people to go to dinner with I would have my sixth grade teacher and I would go and have two of my old friends there, Siena and Jocelyn. Me and those two friends and I were really close and we always had a ton of drama (what my realistic fiction was about.) My sixth grade teacher helped all of us a lot and got us through all of that. We hadn’t thanked him enough and were planning to surprise him. But the next week we had soon found out that he had either left the school or was fired. We figured he had been fired because he had done a lot of things that a lot of teachers shouldn’t have been doing. Meaning like he had let a few bad words slipped, talked badly Against the principal and played videos that we probably shouldn’t watch in school. It wasn’t anything to do with drugs or anything like that. So I would just want to sit down with him and those two friends and just thank him for everything he’s done. I have so many good 6th grade memory’s because of him. I just want to thank him for all of that. He had made me laugh even when I didn’t feel like it. He helped me be the person I am today. Even thought he was annoying sometimes and nagged me about home I would still just want to say one last thank you.

Shatter Me

This month I read a book called Shatter Me and Tahereh Mafi.

The story is about a girl with supernatural powers. She has the ability to kill anyone with her touch and she locked away for good the she got taken away so a man named Aaron Warner takes her out and is trying to use her as a weapon.

I liked the book because the characters development was really good and all the characters were really good.

My favorite character is Juliette because she’s super strong and she finds ways to entertain herself even though she’s locked up in that facility. A bit of evidence is “A small notebook and a broken pen and the numbers in my head”

My favorite quote is “you don’t have a choice” “No. I always have a choice” I told Adam.” I liked this quote because it shows the power that Juliette has over him without her supernatural power.

Twisted Games – Ana Huang

This month I read a book called Twisted Games by Ana Huang.

Twisted Games is a book about a princess and a bodyguard. Bridgets old bodyguard quit and they got her a new guard from Harper Security the best security team in the state. Rhys, Harper’s best bodyguard is assigned to take protect Bridget from harm but things take a massive turn.

I really liked this book because It was definitely a page turner and the twists in the book were really good. I also loved how it continued on from the first book twisted love. The character development was amazing and everything the characters past was perfectly put together.

My favorite character was probably Jules Ambrose because she was always there for Bridget and she is ready to fight whoever gets in her way or her friends way even if it means she goes to jail.

My favorite quote from the book is “I don’t care how many years it takes, but I will find a way for us to be together.” This is my favorite quote because the law states Bridget must marry a prince and Rhys is not a prince he is a bodyguard so now they have to fund a way for them to convince the government to change the law.

If I had to choose, my dream job is to be a lawyer. Specifically a family lawyer. I find it fun to argue my point against other people and I don’t like giving up. I want to resolve peoples family issues and help them let go of griefs or grudges they hold against the other person. I also want to be a family lawyer because I want to fight for someone and have the feeling of winning. I’m also really good at arguing so it would be fun for me to argue as my job. If i were to become a lawyer i doubt I would give up and I would continue fighting until the judge makes their decision. I like being independent and making my own decisions so I always thought being a lawyer would be one of my best bets. Those were some of my main reasons why I want to be a lawyer.

I woke up that morning and heard my mom yell for breakfast. I walk downstairs and yawn and sit down. She yells my name again, I look at her confused, “Mom I’m right here?” Her head whips in my direction. “H-Huh?” She ran upstairs looking for me. Confused and agitated I walk upstairs grab my backpack and lave for school. I walk up the stairs of my school and sit in my first class. “Erin” My teacher yells. “I’m here.” I say. He looks directly at me confused. “Has anyone seen Erin, I swear I just heard her voice. I was confused and yelled it out again. The class fell silent and started screaming. I was confused and ran outside to see if something major has happened. Nothing so I looked in the mirror and I wasn’t there. I was invisible, I immediately ran to the nearest gas station and grabbed all my favorite snacks. I ran out and as i made it home my mother was nowhere to be seen and I was all alone. It was late so I got into bed and fell asleep.