DEAR SCHOOL DISTRICT: you have ruined our school!

(this is a speech that i wrote and read to the school board on 9-27-10)  

you probably remember me as i am standing right before you once again to stand up for my rights as a student. I'm pretty sure you also remember a great number of other students who used to come and who are not here with us tonight, and i will tell you why!!! First, students are disillusioned. I talk to students who ask me what's the point of standing up for themselves. They tell me that they did so many things in which you did nothing. They came to all the school board meetings, and you did nothing. They walked out to stand up for their students rights, and you still did nothing. We filed a lawsuit in which we were victorious but you are still doing nothing!! So when students ask me what's the point, I honestly don't know what to tell them because i don't know if you will ever listen to us. I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY.
   Also,  there are other students who like the 6-period schedule better, but don't get too happy yet, because you will not like their reasons why. They really like the 6-period schedule because class time is so much shorter that they feel that they do not have to do work, and they feel that they can get away with not learning anything. Since teachers are busy doing topic after topic, and also because they do not have enough common planning time to talk about their students, they cannot have a teacher and student bond, and that just ruins the spirit of the school. Students know that they will not be haunt down for not doing the right thing in class, so they do not care. And once again, this is because of your schedule change. I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY.
   Finally, I want to touch upon a topic, which is also the main reason of why we are here, and that is because you are  not following the law. Last year we had the moral right on our side, but this year we also have the legal right on our side. We filed a legal challenge which said that you cannot under any circumstances reduce common planning time at our school because it went against the regions regulation.
Deborah Gist which is the commissioner of education, ruled that the schedule you implemented is in violation of the law, and we are here to call attention to that. You are breaking the law, and ruining our school, and you still do nothing. I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY!!!

MY MAGAZINE COVER

      For this assignment, we were asked to create a magazine cover.

In this magazine cover we were told to do it on something that you might want for the near future.

We first started creating the magazine, by choosing the logo we wanted to do it on. i chose "Theatre World." Even though it is a very old magazine that might not be on sell anymore, I thought that people needed to see what I'm interested in. After I had chosen a logo, I started coming up with headlines, but not just any headlines. Headlines that had to do with my logo.

      For my background I decided to use a stage with the traditional red curtains. For the photograph I decided to use a formal gown, that would give an idea to the person looking at it, the kind of play I might of performed. The logo, was bright red letters in 3-D. For my headline I chose bright yellow letters for the viewers to notice that the headline was about me. For the other three headlines, I chose softer colors, two of them were aqua, and the last one was lilac.

     In this magazine cover, I wanted people to know what my true passion is. The way I positioned my body was by me looking to the side, making me seem very focused on the play or the act I was putting on. As a prop I used a mask. I was not wearing it, but I was holding it in an angle that could be seen completely. I really liked the fact that my mask was the same color of my headline. 

    Overall I feel that my project was a success. I must admit that maybe if I was 100% focused, the outcome would had been better. I feel that I need to improve on my cutting skills because there were certain areas of my image that I could still see part of the background I originally took my photograph at. I also feel that I could of improved on what I wrote for the headlines. This was my very first digital media project ever done, so i feel that even though it wasn't perfect, it was still pretty good, and I'm very proud of it.

Carmen Azurdia: A true friend!

so my friend Carmen and i are having a very interesting conversation about life. She feels free and happy, feeling so much better about herself. And all i gotta say is that: ITS ABOUT TIME! lovely girl with so many hidden emotions, but not hidden to me...each day we get closer and closer and it feels good to be there for someone and her to be there for me. Any struggles we go through we will deal with TOGETHER, and thats what friends really is about, not only the good moments but also the bad.

The Unknown Truth

I am an 18 year old, who still doesn't know everything there is to life. There are times when i try to hide my emotions but my facial expressions gives it all away. I really try to live a normal life, but sometimes that just seems impossible. People think they know everything about me. but can that really be true? considering the fact that there are things about myself i have not yet discovered. All i pretty much know is that i am very sensitive, i love theatre, and i sing my troubles away. Something i must add that really bothers me, is that i have noticed that a lot of people get into a relationship based of looks, but let me tell you something. If u are only looking at the outside beauty instead of the inner beauty then you do not know what you're getting yourselves into, because someone can have the looks, but not what really matters, and that is what's in the heart. so I'm very happy to say that i am in love and trust me, it's the best feeling in the world.
Maybe you should focus on true love instead messing with different people.
And that is The Unknown Truth!!!