Count down

I am counting down the days.  3 more days of classes.
5 June - last day of school
10 June - graduation
12 June - go to Taiwan (tentative)
Yesterday, seniors got yearbooks (and other grades had to wait until today to receive them).
We haven't been doing anything in classes, except for math.  Tomorrow, we have a calculus test in math, and I will turn in my last French packet in for extra credit.  In art, we have a group project due next Tuesday.  I have no motivation to work in school.
The art project is in a group of four.  This is challenge #4.  We must choose 2 inspirations from 4 choices: 2 from the ICA and 2 from the MFA.
5June-9June is marching practice, from 7:45 to about 11:00.  I do not want to do marching practice because it's boring.  I just want to graduate and receive my diploma.
I hope that graduation day is outdoors and that there is nice weather.  But, right now, the forecast predicts cloudy/some-rain.
In Taiwan, I hope to spend some time at Nei-Le High School, travel different places in Taiwan to take pictures, practice dancing, and go grocery shopping in the farmers' markets in the morning.

On another level, I do not like to count-down.  I think that each day should have an additive-quality, that each day gives, instead of counting-down each day, with every day considered as "in the way".

Good/Bad

I do not believe that there are bad people.  Alternatively, I believe that there are good people.  By "good", I mean, with beneficial intentions.  Maybe it's a lie that I tell myself, for ignorance is bliss, but I don't think that this is it.  I do believe that all people are good.

A common example might be: would Hitler be considered "bad"?  While I don't consider his actions during the Holocaust "good", I don't believe that he was a "bad" person, though I consider his actions very "bad".

I prefer to be able to find harmony with all people.  I don't think that a person can inherently be bad, or become bad.  All things considered, this doesn't make me more trusting of people in general, nor does it mean that I like all people.  It means that I do not see any person as "bad".  This also means that I do not hate anyone.  I dislike/disappointed/disgusted by many actions of people, but I don't hate anyone.  No one is "bad" to me.

Done IB, sick, film

I finished all of my IB exams today, by taking two French SL exams.  I am so relieved.  I have no more major work for academics anymore.  :)

I have been in physical pain today; my whole body hurts.  This might be from the meningitis vaccination that I got yesterday.  My arm, where I got the shot, hurts the most.

I will begin filming tomorrow, for my comedy/satire film titled "Spy Club".  I am excited to begin filming.

Challenge 1

Our (IB) art class is doing challenges through the rest of the year.  We wrote a word (I wrote, "self image vs. others' image", "corruption", etc)  For the first challenge, we had three words to use to individually create a piece due the following class.  For the first word, everyone got the same word "watercolor".  Then, for myself, I got the words "monochromatic" and "blindness".
These three words (watercolor, monochromatic, blindness) have similarities and differences.  I wasn't sure how to use one-color with blindness.  Wouldn't the blind not be able to see any colors/thing?  Then, I thought about another kind of blindness: ignorance and unknowing.  I thought about this colored-water experiment, that people taste different flavors based on color (while the drink itself is the same, besides being different colors).  So, colored water--this would be different than using watercolors, and I could expose my strength if I used something other than painting; I am better at conceptual art and some sculpture.  I would recreate that experiment, but I didn't want to copy it.  I decided to use one-color (blue food coloring) and alter it with more/less water to dye ratio, with black (food coloring), and with white (soymilk).  I put each liquid in a different glass, because I didn't want to use the same glasses, and I took pictures.
The second part of this piece was to bottle each color, and severely tape the bottles together, only to expose a small window to show the color.
Monochromatic: it's all blue.
Watercolor: it's color in water.
Blindness: it's all the same liquid.  The blind can tell this (truth) most easily.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/78806292@N07/

The IB Biology exams, Paper 1 and Paper 2, happened today at noon.  I think that they went okay.  Tomorrow is the last IB Biology exam, Paper 3.

History exam 2

I finished the second history exam today.  It was to write three essays.  I think that I did well on two essays, and I did poorly on one essay, because I mixed up information about Korea with Vietnam.

Prom

Prom happened last night.  It was at the Nonantum Resort.  The theme was the good/evil garden, but there were not many decorations around that theme, but it was lovely.  There was a photobooth, with the photos online instead of printed out; I took some pictures with friends with the photobooth.  The foods were fruits and sweets, there was a lemonade fountain.  For the first part of Prom, I wore the duct-tape dress and 6.5 inch (16.5 cm) shoes, and then I switched to a red dress and shorter heels.  Near the end of Prom, there were hamburgers; I didn't have any.  I have no skill dancing, but I danced.

History exam 1

I just finished a 2.5 hour history exam (Papers 1 and 2).  The rest of history will be 2.5 hours on Monday (Paper 3).  Then, biology and French, and that will be it.  I am mentally wiped-out from taking this exam today.  It was difficult.  I hope that I did okay, but I'm not sure.

Tonight, I have work.  After work, I think that I'll have the energy of a brick.

Tomorrow is Prom.  I hope that the duct-tape clothes get finished in time.