Hello, and welcome back to my blog! This time, we did something very very special. This time, we ripped animals apart limb from limb and stuck them back together, creating a BEAST!
Of course, I’m over-exaggerating, but don’t leave just yet! There are more interesting things to come. After all, these are frankenstuffies!!
To start, my crazy wacky humanities teachers introduced this project to us using AI and a book called “Leviathan” (if you haven’t read it you totally should). And so we began creating our creatures after reading the book. People had to sew together stuffies and create an entire new monster! For me, I did a wolf mixed with an octopus. So many legs!!

Anyway, after this, we were instructed to make a mini movie featuring our disfigured mistakes of god. While most people did live action, I did a mix of live action and drawings! Super fun, right? No, super time consuming! While the end product was probably the best thing I’ve ever produced, it took me a long while to complete. Worth it, though.

You know what, you’re probably wondering what my story was about. Was it a romance? A comedy? An adventure in which a wolf-octopus hybrid searches for the equivalent of god in their universe and murders him? Well, you’d be right if you chose the latter. If you’re SUPER curious, here’s a link to my video!

Now that you’ve seen and watched my beautiful masterpiece, you can question your own existence!

Now, PLP teachers ask me what I’ve learned. And, well, I’ve learned quite a bit. Mostly I’ve learned more about CapCut, the editing software I use, but I’ve also learned how to work more efficiently and effectively. Working on this took a lot of time, but had I done it last year, it would’ve taken twice as long! So, I suppose I’ve worked more on time management over the years? Who knows, but I do know that while this did take a while, it’s amazing.

Hello, and welcome back to my blog. Today, I will be talking about DI (Aka Destination Imagination). It was a fun time, a stressful time. But now it’s over, at least until April 6th, when we will be presenting provincially. Fun!
While me and my group prepare for the provincials, I will be writing this blog and reflecting about how we did, what we did, and how I felt during the experience. Hold on, because this is going to be a long one.

At the beginning of the day, at 8:30 in the morning on a Saturday (and I’m not joking!) I had to get up and be at school. Of course, I showed up at 9:10, but luckily our presentation wouldn’t be for another 4 hours, so I was safe. I walked into the Quire room and said hello to my group members, and sat and rehearsed my lines… which I didn’t even get to say during our presentation!
Now, everything went good overall during our presentation to judges, but there was one issue. People took my lines, and I was just standing there the entire time! I wish I was able to say my lines, but I kept getting talked over. And apparently it was… very, very noticeable. Whatever, no biggie. Luckily, since these are the regionals and not the provincials, this is kind of just a practice round and I can talk everything over with my group before we present.
Anywho. I stood on some planks to help one of my team-members saw it, and brought some materials.
Unfortunately, though, my team members didn’t use any of the things I brought for the presentation. I brought a smoke machine, helmets, amongst other things, and on the last day, they decided that they didn’t need any of it. Hmm, okay, I’m fine with it.
After a few hours of practicing my lines and perfecting them, we went to present. Safe to say I was anxious, mean, I was presenting right in front of my parents. Luckily we were fine, but.. my team members kind of dragged me around, which I really didn’t like. In general, actually, I don’t like people touching me. I couldn’t say anything though, because we were in the middle of a presentation, so I kind of just… went with it. Luckily I don’t think anyone noticed that, but it was still a bit embarrassing for me.

And, actually, we got first place in senior fine arts! Our group did, anyway. It was pretty nerve racking stepping up to get our ribbons in front of so many people. Very nerve racking… but fun! I put it up beside my other achievements, but that’s besides the point. I wonder if we’ll win provincials, let’s hope so!