The Memorial Project

The Memorial Project

 

                I can be pretty boring and quiet.  When I’m in class, you can barely get a word out of me.  Now, when I’m with my friends…that’s a whole different story.  I talk and joke almost constantly, and the huge difference might seem strange if you don’t know me well.  My friends are pretty much what give me purpose.  Without them, I see myself as a hermit that sits in his house all day and never speaks out loud.

                I really like to paint and draw.  Most of what I do involves creating cartoon characters.  Sometimes I make a small backstory for these characters or sometimes I just doodle them all over my homework.  I have some sketchbooks at home and I only just got into painting last year.  I’ve been working on a painting for most of the summer and still haven’t finished it.  I have taken Drawing 1 with Ruder and 2 with Ingersoll, Painting 1 with Ruder and I’m taking 2 this year, and Commercial Arts 1 with Ingersoll.    

                I play a lot of video games, too.  My favorite games are probably Kingdom Hearts, God of War, and Halo.  I sort of use video games as a distraction because I don’t exactly think the world is working the way it should be right now. 

I like to watch TV, too.  Mostly comedies such as South Park, Family Guy, Tosh.0, the Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, How I Met Your Mother, and the King of Queens.  I love to laugh and make jokes so these shows are just right for me.  A lot of my friends also watch most of these shows so it creates some common interests between us. 

How much I like school sort of is like a roller coaster.  There are lots of classes I hate and some that I really enjoy.  The class that I hate the most is probably math.  Most, if not, all of what they’ve been teaching us for math in high school is pointless and will never be used in real life; unless you were planning to be a math teacher, which just creates a cycle of pointless knowledge.  My favorite class is painting because I love to paint and want to have an artistic career at some point.  I haven’t painted much more than common objects or landscapes, but the painting I’ve been working on during the summer has people in it and flames in parts of the background, adding some challenge and new experience.  I also sort of like English because I really like to read and sort of like to write a little bit.  The only thing I don’t like about English is when the teacher provides us with a book that’s really boring and makes us read it.  At the moment my favorite class is anthropology because I think it’s very fascinating to learn about who we are and how we came to be the way we are.