September 27

YAYYYYYYY!

Happy Zara!

finally someone emailed me back.
i think im going to interview someone from border angles and go to place water in the desert!!!!

talk about takeing a load of stress of my shoulders.

kinda worried about getting there though.

Zara

Wed. September 26

Sorry long time no blog. Today the flash was due and even though Junior told me that he had done it, it was mysteriously not done today. I'm getting really really worried about our expert. I have tried to email and call people but i am not getting responses.

Everything is pilling up.

List of Things I have to Do

1. GET EXPERT DATE SET UP!!!!!!!!!

2. finish script

3. do storyboards

4. flash overhaul.

5. talk to sence into Junior and get him to help me.


<3
zara

p.s. I was at my freind's house on saturday and we watched a cool movie. Serendipity. with John Cusak (or however you spell his name) check it out.

Monday Sept. 17

Ok I didnt work on the project on the weekend. So im not going to blog about nothing. Today still nothing back on any other expert. Gotta start on the script!!

really tired.

gotta sleep.

<3
zz

Friday, Sept. 14.

TGIF. Today was so hard to concentrate. Especially in Spencers class. Its been a really hard week and I was so tired. But I talked to Spencer about our expert and next week. Junior was saposed to get 5 more web pages. But surprise surprise he didnt. This better not keep happeneing. Getting a little tired of it. ANYWAY (haha Laura)

Spencer had some good ideas for our expert. He said to put the guy on speaker and tape it. So i dont have to meet him in person. and I can be really bias and crap. But i need someone else that i can do on camera.

<333
z

Thursday Sept. 13

hey guys. sorry got lazy this weekend to blog. So tonight I'm going to talk about last thursday, after my Aztec presentation. So on Thursday I was freaking out a little about our expert. I have the MM to tell Spencer tomarow but i really dont want to use him. He creeped me out. So I emailed a few more people, no replies yet. I also signed up for a Immagrants Rights Group's mailing list. So far I've gotten some good stuff. Like News and other stuff. The website for anyone who wants to use it:
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/

peaceout
z

Wed Sept 12.

Today I had my Aztec presentation. It went really really well. SOOO glad its over so now I can focas on getting a new expert. So tonight I emailed a very intesce looking Immagrant rights group. Hope they get back to me by friday. I want to also do feild interviews. maybe that counts.

I hope that Juonor or however you spell it is doing what I asked him to though be proably isnt. I really don't want to do this whole project myself. But I said that I could handle it so I have to stick by my word and stick it out.

z

Tuesday 9/11

Wow typing in that in the title box was weird. Its 9/11 again. sad day. sad day. But why o why didnt are teachers do or even mention it in class on tuesday. weird.

ANYWAY. today i was scrambling to get my project done. Tuesday night I stayed up really late working on it but I think that I do some of my best work under pressure. I put the board together and I think it looks really good.

I havn't really been doing much on the big project latley.

<3
z

Monday Sept. 10th

So after the schetchy email from the Minute Men i have to find a new person to interview. That is going to be hard since this week the mini project is due so I am working my butt off to get that done. So on monday night I worked more on my bowl for the mini project.

The bowl part came out OK but now I have to work on the stands. How the hell is little clay stands going to support my HUGELY heavy clay bowl . I also did more reasearch for the mini project. Got another good webiste.

http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CIVAMRCA/AZTECS.HTM

very usefull for aztec people. It talks in greater deatial than other websites about their daily life, the education of children and econimics.

Getting sorta frustrated beacuse I am finding info that turns out to be from a "banned" website like infoplease.com! Can't someone make a free online encylopedia that cannot be edited but is kept up by like, say a pannel of doctors of profesionals in that given feild. We need a good source!!!!

z

Sunday Sept. 9

So on sunday I got an email back from someone named Jeff from the Minute Men. I got a really creepy vibe from it so I decided that I don't think that I want to interview them. First of all he emialed me at like 4 in the morning on Saturday and wanted me to call him Saturday afternoon. He seemed very very very wierd and I'm weirded out.

After that little episode I worked on my mini project creating my bowl pottery while watching Britney screw up at the VMA's. I Made the bowl and now I have to make the leg stands on the bottem.

peace+love
z

long time no blog

Hey guys. sorry i havn't blogged in a couple days. totally forgot we had to over the weekend . SO i have some catching up to do. So on friday during school we checked up on our calenders. I emailed the MM agian after shcool. After that I didn't do anything for the rest of the night.

<3
z

Angry!

So the deadline for the expert is comming up on our project and I am really getting worried and kinda mad. I thought that the Minute Men would be a great expert to interview. I have tried every form of communication but nobody over there seems to care. I was starting to get really worried. So I made a list of good other people we can interview.

1. The migrants themselves. (translater needed in some cases)
2. Civil rights groups.
3. residence that live near Migrant Camps
4. Politicians
and others that i cant remeber right now.

<3
z

Aztecs

Yesterday I didnt really do any reserch for the mexico project. But I did do some on our mini project about the Aztecs. At school I printed out two web pages. One I read all the way though. It had useful history but kinda had stuffI didn't really need, like 2 whole pages on books about the Aztecs. http://www.indians.org/welker/aztec.htm
I think that this was a reliable source beacuse Spencer used it to get our creation myths and nothing was to far from the ordinary.


The second web page I found I read a lot less from. But it is from Washington University so it might be useful to other people who have the Aztecs for this project.


http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CIVAMRCA/AZTECS.HTM

-Z

Research

So, todays tuesday. Yesterday I got a bunch of websites for the project. I got a lot of sites about newspaper articles from both sides. Some advocating immagrant rights and others bashing them.

One that I found paticularly intresting is the website for the San Diego Minute Men.

http://unitedstates.fm/sdmm.htm

I gues they can justify it in their minds but people are just trying to survive. I also noticed that the group seemed shady to me. I mean the founders would not even put their full names on the page. weird. I also visited the main MM website for the whole country. On the side they have a counter that says " The Illigal Alien invasion countinues." Invasion. like people real people where ants or mice or something. There is even pictures of the Men rifeling though stuff