UFV

*picture from google.
I chose to go to UFV because I am considering going there, it's inexpensive and really close to home. You need to have graduated with your portfolio to attend there and to have certain classes for certain programs.
I'm not sure what I want to take for sure, but the program I was thinking about would take around 4 years for the bachelors degree, and maybe a couple more added if I wanted to get my masters. I would recieve my degree in kinesiology. There are a few jobs that I could get with that degree, although the only one i'm interested in is a personal trainer. Job prospects are pretty good, its hard if you just take a personal training course, but if you go and get your degree more people will hire you. It will cost a couple thousand a year, depending on how many courses I take. For a scholorship I would need to get good grades and apply. There is other opportunities like bursaries. What surprised me most about the school was how small the classrooms were, some reminded me of highschool classes.
Their website is www.ufv.ca/home.htm. The most useful part of the day was walking around and seeing what UFV was like. There was a Tim Hortons there, and the campus was nice and newer looking, it was interesting!

Remembrance Day

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I'm actually not sure how I will observe Remembrance Day. I hope I think about it more then just a day of school off, because that's how I usually thought of it when I was younger. This time I'm going to think harder about the people who died for our country, because it takes selflessness to go to war. Somebody else's dad or mom or brother or sister etc. is putting their life at risk for us and our country.

This is Captain Nichola Kathleen Sarah Goddard. She died only at the age of 26. She was from Calgary Alberta, and died May 17th 2006. Her unit was 1st Royal Canadian Horse Artillery. The Captain was killed on a ground offensive, which is like a miltary action launced on land, by ground troops.

Halloween Spirit Day At ACSS

Pooh bear.

Cleopatra.

Little Red Riding Hood And The Wolf.

Hippie, Prom Queen, 80's, and Mother Nature.

Nerd, Cat, Prisoner, and Hula Dancer.

Butterfly, Bumble Bee and Fly.

Hallowen

The idea of halloween originally came from the religious practises of the romans and druids. They worshipped various gods and eventually began honouring a lord of the dead, in a feast on October 31. They believed that on the night before November 1, Samhain (the lord of the dead) called together wicked spirits and souls that lived in animal bodies. They believed that the day was surrounded by elves, witches, fairies, etc. So they thought they had to sacrifice their gods in order to protect themselves from these things.

However, the idea of trick-or-treating and jack-o-lanterns came from Ireland. The carved pumpkin was a symbol of an irish damned soul. Trick-or-treating was when poor irish farmers would go door to door begging for food and threatening if they didn't treat them they would trick them in revenge.

Later on during the middle ages when the roman church became more prodestant, they decided to celebrate some pagen feasts. First it was call "Alhallowmass" but then since it was during the evening it changed to "All Halloweed Evening", and of course overtime shortend to "Halloween".

Essence Of Fall

Fall is an exciting season because the trees are pretty, the leaves are falling and halloween is approaching! My fall photos were taken at the park by parkside with a couple of my friends.

What's Happening at ACSS

What's happening at ACSS in the Phys ED department. The hockey team is coached by Mr.Renaux and consits of all grades. Sometimes when they're not practising at the ice arena, they go to the weight room to work out, and maintain their health.

Spencer Krause, Taylor Bergevin, and Mark Robson work out enthuastically......

Working out.

Alyssa Theodore gets in shape for hockey.

THANKSGIVING

The point of thanksgiving is to get together with family and remember to be thankful for what you have. Thanksgiving is a time to have relatives over and to eat a turkey dinner! The holiday's reason is to celebrate a feast with friends and family together, just like the piligrams and natives in the 1600's. The turkey is the main symbol of thanksgiving because it is large and offers food to alot of people.

I had my thanksgiving supper on sunday night, even though we had monday off. Different people celebrate different days. Most schools get the monday or friday off for a long weekend when thanksgiving comes around.

Aldergrove Spirit Day

On the friday of October 2nd, ACSS had it's first spirit day to start off the year. Everyone was told to wear blue and white, to represent our school's colours. Kids were also aloud to wear school jerseys and canucks! A few grade 12's handed out candy to the kids who dressed up.
Then during lunch, people piled into the main gym to watch participants getting parts of their bodies waxed. For different amounts of money we raised on the Terry Fox Run, certain people volunteered to wax their armpits or legs, or even shave their head. Mr. Steward had even dyed his hair pink for the occasion.

Composition and Photographic Techniques

My Examples:

2 Examples from the internet:

Artistic Composition and Technique: The arrangement of visual elements or things put together to make a work of art.

Rule of Thirds: Techniques used to locate saddle points in the picture, like putting a tic-tac-toe grid over the picture. When the main subject in the photo is one third out of the center

Points of Power: Points at which lines intersect in a photo.

The Golden Rule: Basically putting the main image in the picture a third of the way across from the frame instead of the center.

Vertical Lines: Lines that go across from angle to angle on a picture. When the picture is longer in heighth wise.

Horizontal Lines: The normal orientation when you look through the camera viewfinder, lines that go straight across a picture. When the picture is longer in width wise.

Oblique Lines: Lines that are neither perpendicular or parallel.

Curved Lines: They appeal to nature photos. Lines that have curves in them for example, S-curves are when they is something winding in the picture like a river.

Terry Fox Run September 25th

The Terry Fox run went pretty well this year. The weather was excellent and a lot of kids participated. The school raised enough money that some people are dying their hair, shaving their heads or shaving their legs.

Terry Fox

Terry Fox was a young athletic boy who was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 18. He made a pledge to run around Canada and raise money for cancer, after being in the hospital and realizing how big the effect cancer has on so many people. At the age of 22 he began his marathon called "Marathon of Hope". After being part way done, his cancer came back and spread to his lungs, causing him to stop running. Soon after that he passed away. However his memory lasts forever, and to this day schools around Canada are still doing his run.

Digital Tools

In this picture I gave it a glass effect, to make it look like your looking through glass or even at a painting.

For this photo of the drink machines, all I did was change the contrast to make it darker.

For this first photo of the parking lot, I added brightness to it and added kind of a purple shadow at the top.

Working With Photoshop

Photoshop with Omorean's Austrailia pictures. I straightend and cropped both of them. Also I adjusted the colour contrast on the racecar, and made it a bit more red. On the landscape I coloured out blotches and made them blend in with the rest of the picture.

What Digital Media Means To Me

Digital Media is a way of expressing yourself in a digital format. It means your given a way to be creative while using a computer. You can upload and make things on the computer while using photography, video, computer animation , writing etc. Digital Media is when you create a picture and change it to make it look the way you want it to look. Digital Media is also a form of entertainment, being able to watch films or listen to music, without Digital Media most technology wouldn't be here.
3 examples of digital media are :
cellphone -a cellphone is a device that allows you call and speak to people or send written messages via text .

computer -a computer is a programmable machine that contains the internet, which you can look up anything in the world on.
video game system-a console that you play interactive games of any sort on.