6.2.14: 27
Today my hands were on fire. I couldn't stop folding. I worked a full day, stayed an extra hour for a few students and somehow folded 27 cranes at my brother's apartment. And talked him into making dinner for me. It's still to be decided which skill shows my true talent...
The sunlight altered the color in this photo, but still interesting. Close up like this I imagine the cranes as people. They are all trying to move around each other, like walking through a mall or at a school dance. Everyone's running into each other. Colliding. A rare few stand out. The yellow and orange bird aren't colliding, they're dancing. And it doesn't matter what's happening around them because they have each other.
6.3.14: 20
It's a beautiful thing when you don't have to go to your ESOL class for 3.5 hours a night, your grades are up to date, and you can spend the night watching a movie and folding art. Yes please, SIGN ME UP!
While arranging these I thought of these as being my crane mandala. (If you've never heard that word before look it up! If you've never made one, go do it now! It just may change your life. Any art therapist will agree.) Connected in just the right way they make a circle. And the shape inside is a multi-sided star. Depending on how I look at it, the wings are coming together to close the absence in the middle or being push apart by some kind of energy bursting from the center. The alternating of solid color paper and detailed black and white paper creates a pleasing balance for my eye. hmmm...balance, what a tricky word.
6.4.14: 1
My last day with my students. Yesterday and today were block days. So I only had my 2nd and 6th period students on the last day of school (4th period was my planning period). Yet one of the girls from my first period stopped by three times to see me, just to say hi. Best little seconds of my day.
This year has been huge for me. And the fact that I made it through the school year, is still sinking in. I remember waiting to take my first certification test. I was siting next to a girl, about to graduate from college about to take a certification test for elementary education. She was doing things in the "right" order, she actually went to school for this. We started talking and I told her that I was switching careers. She called me "brave." That was a year and a half ago. I have no idea what her name is, but I will never forget her. Plus she was wearing yoga pants and I was jealous at how comfortable she looked.
I aim to be brave.
Don't worry, I went back and fixed the "p" with the missing outline. And then it became a bird with wings.
6.6.14: 8
Today was the last day in my room. Very bittersweet. And very white with nothing on the walls or boards.
6.7.14: 1
Today is the beginning of a week long cram session for a test I'm taking on Friday. It's on Friday the 13th. Now is not the time to be superstitious. And maybe my color choice was not the most optimistic either.
6.8.14: 0
No cranes today.
But I did make pancakes.
With bananas.
And strawberries.
And whipped cream on top.
Did I mention I had to flip the pancakes with a spatula that I normally using for mixing ingredients in a bowl?
Skill.
And then I studied forever.
6.9.14:
I still have over 100 sheets of origami paper to use. However, I was feeling restless today and wanted something new to choose from. So many colors. One of the packets came with 35 different colors (Though between you and me, I'm pretty sure two of the pinks are the exact same. That or I'm colorblind between hot pink and really hot pink.)
And of course I made a bunch with the new paper as soon as I took this picture, but i'll save them for tomorrow's posting.
TOTAL: 462
