Monday: in the morning, we came to the lab and worked on our final project. we found out that we had to do the poster on a powerpoint slide. it took me forever to understand how we were going to fit a tri-board size board info onto one powerpoint. but after changing the margins, it worked fine. sam and i ended up working on it for 1.5 hrs at night. but yeah anyways, after lunch at the price center, we went upstairs for our session with joe. we went back to a deep discussion of what is life. i really liked it. and then afterwards, we went to the lab again. i worked on the picture slideshows and the cool effects we could do with them. the night activities were really boring. evelyn, eric and i ended up watching the 2nd half of benchwarmers. then we, or i, fell asleep on the couch for like 5 min. when it was floor time, our suite attacked the other suite with a pillow fight. pretty awesome. but then the 1st floor suite copied us and went around with their pillows. lame.

Tuesday: in the morning we went to the lab and worked on our final project. we finished our poster, it looks awesome. on the computer at least. and then i finished my "law&order" intro slideshow thing. its pretty cool to be able to zoom out and stuff. lunch was fun with lucia. in the afternoon was more lab time.

so i forgot to blog for the past few days. but a few highlights- we started our projects. we came up with a script and started to do a bit of filming here and there. i've done some stuff with pics for a slideshow type thing at the end of the video. i've been having an awesome time with the girls in my suite. we've gotten a lot closer, having lots of fun with roxanne and stuff. we had a floor party which was awesome. it was sam, roxanne, and me. we fooled around until 3. the san diego zoo was also a lot more fun than i expected. we also had a talent show tonight, which was pretty awesome. oh and last night, i played tennis with lucia, james, and james' friend. SO much fun. savages! haha. but yeah, im really bummed that there is only a wk left. enjoy to the max!

in the morning, beth & roshni gave us some more codes. we got codes on how to make collages, make negatives, grayscale and crazy rainbow designs. then we went to the lab and played around. each of us made a collage. after lunch in the price center, we came back to the lab and worked on videos, with a little bit of tetrinet on the side ;)

today was so much funn! the discovery lecture was alright-it was about natural selection and stuff. evelyn, tristan, and i ended up playing MASH. w00t. and then during our sesh with lara, we watched some more powerpoints. juan did his on corporations, which led into some really good discussions. so then we went to the computer lab to get our group camcorders. and then we played tetrinet again. eric, melissa, sam, and i stayed a bit longer to play. so we went to lunch late. but then after lunch was really fun. we went to the petco park. we got to see the stadium and all the behind the scenes camera work. then we got to full around with the cameras ourselves. and both on the way there and back, we were racing. lindsey's car vs james car. lindsey's car won the first time :), but then james won the second time. we were rocking the car and speeding, pretty awesomee :D

Sunday: so it was parent visitation day. but my mom didnt come until lunch time. so instead, i listened to some pretty awesome/crazy stories from sam (the guy). when my mom came, we went to eat lunch at this seafood restuarant and then went for boba. then we just went to a coffee shop and talked. it was pretty nice. and then after i came back, it was like dinner time. freaking full though. after a floor meeting, my group and i went to the computer lab to work on our mini movie. but we didnt get too much done because it took a long time to get the actual file.

Monday: in the morning we had a lecture on how to scale pictures. i actually got it this time, which was amazing, with some of tristan's help. in the afternoon, we worked on our mini videos. since my group finished, we played tetrinet! woot, i got everyone into it. we were kinda loud too. but it was so much fun. at night, we had a bonfire. right when we got there, evelyn, tristan and i took a "long walk on the beach". we actually walked really far. but yeah, the beach was really nice. the sand was soft and the waves were low. cant wait to go full into the water!

we went to balboa park todayyy! even though it was extremely hot. there was this cool fountain that evelyn and i wanted to go in, but we didnt. first we went to watch this imax movie, Greece. it was kinda boring. lots of the guys fell asleep. i almost did. but the music was pretty awesome, and some of the scenery. i guess i did learn some stuff about ancient greece. afterwards, 5 of us went to the japanese friendship garden. it was SUPER hot and quite short. so i got this one guy to hose me. and then we went to the san diego museum of art, which was air conditioned. some cool exhibits like the andy warhol exhibit. we saved enough time to go to the museum of photographic arts. some of the pictures of current events like of what's happening in iraq were really eye-opening. so we got back to ERC around 4:30, and i was really tired. some of us brought out sheets and layed on the grass making friendship bracelets. after dinner, we wanted to play tennis, and walked to different sets of crts, but there was a tournament and crt cleaning. so i only played for like 5 min which was a disappointment. i havent played in quite a while. but yeah, when i came back, i got a spot to go get ice cream with lindsey. we went to downtown la jolla, got some ice cream and walked around. even though most of the shops were closed, it was still really nice to walk around and get off campus.

Thursday: the discovery lecture in the morning was quite good. the speaker presented on tsunamis and the proper actions to take when a tsunami might be happening. the speaker walked around the stage, had some humor, and was thus an overall good presenter. afterwards, we had our sesh with lara, which was lots of fun. my group presented our ADHD powerpoint, oh man, lots of laughs there. and then mindi's & lucia's powerpoint was also hilarious. so it was definitely a time of lots of laughs. oh and i forgot to mention that gotcha had started in the morning. so at lunch, we were all running back to find out about the new safety. it was to hold ur nalgene bottle in your left hand. my target was running to her room after lunch, and i followed her. but she stopped on the stairs which is safe. but when she got off the stairs, she wasnt holding her bottle properly, so i "got her". and then my next target was juan in my cluster. i tagged juan on the stairs, which doesnt count, but i gave myself away :(. so the afternoon wasnt that interesting. we had a college fair, and half of it was about the SATs which was useless info. during our free time, roxanne toook some ppl from my floor to go get boba:) taro was sooo good. and then i brought some drinks back for other ppl-it leaked in the car. after our floor meeting, a couple of us wanted to go play tennis, but we couldnt. so i made friendship bracelets, which is prob my new fav thing to do, considering that i finally figured out how. pathetic, i know. so at night, we did karoke! which i also found quite fun. it made me want to go home and do it

Friday: so i just realized that 2 wks have gone by. thats really sad. i want my time at COSMOS to last as long as possible. i really really like the people here, and just the program and in general. but anyways, in the morning was our time with christine/roshni/beth. i got a bit fustrated in the lab cuz i couldnt think of the right programs. i get it after i see it written out, which is in fact useless. and then at lunch, i didnt feel like going back to cafe V, so some of us went to price center. our safety for the morning was to be tied to someone. so we all looked oh-so-cool. but yeah, then we came back and had our time with paul + nakul. i really enjoy the animation stuff/working with photoshop and stuff. we also received our assignments for our groups this morning. samantha, tristan & jon are in my group. im happy :) and we got our first assignment from paul-to make a 1 minute video was good effects. we planned it all out, its gonna be good.