Dear Reader,
Today is my final day and per it being my final day, I still find myself being quite confused. For instance, I have no idea whether I have to write a reflection here and then do my final reflection or just solely do my final reflection. I'm doing this late (like 2am late) as always so there really is no one to ask for a reference considering I won't get an answer until much later and I won't have friends anymore if I wake any of them up at 2am to ask them a question as dumb as this. Essentially I'm just gonna write two: a small reflection here and then a really big one to finish it out.
As I wrote yesterday, I've finally gotten into a routine: Spanish for four hours and then some other project related activity for an additional four hours or so. Today I settled for Spanish, movie editing and finally...blog editing! Yeah I know that sounds boring, but my blogs actually needed a lot of work from the grammatical stand point and I'm sure I didn't catch all of it. It's really hard to see the problems in your own writing (one would say it's your kryptonite...was that funny? no? okay), but that's what I tried to do today among other things.
I'm happy to note that the condition of my daily Spanish classes has not changed! Spanish has neither gotten harder nor easier. It's just well Spanish. I'm happy to note that I'm still studying the preterite, but I've also upgraded myself to learning some new vocabulary. I was only going to get by for so long on just knowing clothing, fruit and parts of the house a long with other random vocab that Jaime has taught me. I've decided it might be important to learn parts of the house in more detail (all I I learned with Jaime was basics like bedroom, bathroom, Kitchen etc.) and jobs. Basically I used my handy dandy Spanish website, took all the vocabulary and put it into a quizlet. I wouldn't say I'm an expert, but after four hours I feel pretty confident. The true test is if I can still remember any of it tomorrow.
I also did some video editing today. It looks a little more successful than before, but part of me is starting to feel that Kit and I can have the exact same level of presentation (maybe even better) without the video. I'm really hoping that the video doesn't ruin the integrity of our work. Basically my point is that while I'm practically (and that's a pretty faulty practically) done with the video, I'm not sure if it will actually be put to good use. It likely won't be, which is sad, because it means I've wasted two days of work, but at least this experience has helped me to see more so how I want my presentation to be structured and what I plan on saying both to the Board in my defense and to the audience during the assembly.
Lastly I did blog editing, which was also my last ditch effort to kill hours for the project. Kit told me earlier this week that I had to get 42 hours in total for my last week. I've been doing pretty much 8 hours a day, but that only adds up to 40 hours at the end of the week so my last 3 and a half hours (I wrote a lot of long, detailed, blogs, ya know) was dedicated to blog editing. My success rate on this was probably 75%. I have no doubt that anyone could go through my blogs right now and still point out errors, but I tried. I think I fixed the most egregious ones like replacing where with wear and other small errors, but I'm not perfect. Hopefully, you, as the reader, know this and don't judge me too harshly. I swear I know the English language frontwards and backwards (I mean it is my native tongue and all), but I'm definitely prone to some errors.
For my last day I think I had a lot of success. I did more Spanish, worked on an ill-fated video and made my blogs look even just a little more intelligent then they did before (careless errors can really discredit you, ya know). I'm very happy with the work that I've done on my project and I can't wait to show it to everyone in the upcoming week. Thanks to everyone who supported me through this and made all of this possible! It really means the world to me! And now I'm signing off for the last time (not really I still have to do my final reflection, but whatever)!
Sincerely,
Journey
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