So our mocho grande “Obamanation” (as Bryan called it) presentation came to an end finally, after a few problems along the way. First of all, why is it that when given an entire year to do a project, it always seems to be the last week before its even looked at? Take these journals for example! So when it came time to get’re done, it of course time felt like an issue. It also seemed like almost a struggle to get Bryan and Jess over at the same time for a single night. Personal issues aside, even when we agreed on a time to project it up, there was only ever a single person worth of blackup at a time. I guess that was ok though, as how many people can you crowd around a computer screen and actually stay productive? The real problem though was SLIDESHOWS! Where does Bill Gates get off, thinking he can charge me $150 for Microsoft Office. I was all like OH NO YOU DI INT! (and didn’t buy the programs, only used a free trial) However, this was back in January, when I had to make my English Slideshow, on Marcus Zusak’s “The Book Thief”, which was a reallllly long novel, but surprisingly good read about a young girl during the second world war. Thanks to Mrs Sirianni for recommending it! But anyways, back on track...how can you make a slideshow with no POWER!(point)?---> Trial EXPIRED!!! Well quite cleverly, I looked to Corel Presentations. This trial however DIDN’T WORK! Guess I’m not going to buy that full product either? So to solve this, the slideshow had to be created in my sisters room. Well her room is ORANGE, and filled with PENGUINS (also extra cramped, slow computer, etc) Well on the positive side, her chair is at least not broken, unlike mine. So after beasting up a slideshow for almost a whole night with my hombre life seemed good.
During the events of the above story, I was asked to help out at the spring show, as a tech crew stand in. I wasn’t totally sure of my “tech” skills, or my worthiness of being part of the “Krew” but as a favour to a cool teacher, who offered some nice music advice (like Andrew Bird / Camera Obscura) I figured I’d give it a go. Well the night went pretty smoothly, Brandon my hero even gave me a ride to the school so I didn’t have to work my legs at all...I got inside and found out there was still some tech crew people there! As soon as I saw Andrew Arbour, I knew we were all set. However, lots of them seemed kinda lazy, still wanted me to do some work. I ended up having to film the entire show! Well lets just say I’m not a camera guy...Brandon was definitely right when he said JASON THIS IS WHY YOU DONT TOUCH THE CAMERA! (since in our Com Tech video, I managed to film a 5 second shot, but mess it up by having Ashneet in the background, sleeping...arguably not my fault) So when I filmed the show and there was a long zoomed out shot of the band playing a song, I tried to spice it up by zooming in on people I knew, like JOEL BECKER! Not a complete loss, but a couple of the on stage stuff was likely pretty shaky, like watching the monster from cloverfield attack the girls dancing to thriller. Well if the show was about the 60’s why was there thriller, Michael Jackson would been a baby! Not cool black MJ, not crazy wonderbread MJ, BABBY JACKSON. But it was a good dance, and a pretty cool show. I was happy Jess came though, she told me where to point the camera when I was zoning out and stuff.
After all the Slideshowing, and Cameraing, what happened next? Oh no, not the presentation...MORE SLIDESHOW! My sisters computer completely ruined our slideshow, and at the very last minute I realized this and had to redo it in 1st period com tech. It was a lot easier the second time, I was happy that I managed to pull it off. (With several funny slides added in, to lighten up my mood) Finally the presentation could begin! I felt bad for not having Bryan and Jess see the newer slideshow before going, but there was no time, this was it, show time. In the end it went pretty well, everyone laughed at a lot of stuff, and a good discussion kicked off near the end, thanks to some well thought out questions by Jess and myself, and some revisions by Bryan when putting it into the slideshow with me the next day, in my sisters room. The discussion included some really smart points, like a comment Alexandria made (which I can’t remember now, but seemed to blow my mind when it happened), as well as some humorous ideas about the Simpsons, and stupid sexy Flanders, and the time Ryne knocked over Dean’s V8 juice!
The topic of school uniforms was an interesting one to me because it was a serious enough issue to be on the list, but not super serious, like abortion. It allowed for a more free and relaxed discussion environment, and I wouldn’t feel bad about trying to lighten things up. It was a good issue I found because of the idea that people consider uniforms a way to prevent cliques from forming, as well as allowing people to feel included as part of a larger group. Some other favourite points made during the discussion included Johnny saying that at his former school there was still a LOT of different groups of people, and Mr Mike’s point about how he isn’t really friends with some people from his work outside of the job. Also where does Kayla even work at?? It keeps coming up, but I think we’ll never really know for sure! In conclusion, I think most people agreed uniforms were NOT cool beans, although now its easier to understand why people can be for them.
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