Showing posts with label CalypsoArtemis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CalypsoArtemis. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Day 7 : Fairy Tale Time
So I decided for Day 7 that I'm going to share with you a fairy tale, as reimagined by me~
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Day 5: Artists I Like
This one is kind of long, because I really enjoyed talking about and sharing these artists that I enjoy. For some reason, it looks like the video doesn't work, but it does when you push Play.
Artist I cover: Vincent van Gogh, Bernini, Naoko Takeuchi, Mary Blaire, Glen Keane, and Christina Powell.
Artist I cover: Vincent van Gogh, Bernini, Naoko Takeuchi, Mary Blaire, Glen Keane, and Christina Powell.
Day 1 : Introduce Yourself
Spoke today with a friend from college, who is interested in doing a show together. I'm very excited about making this happen, because our art will create some fun contrasts while still meshing thematically.
As stressful as it is, it's also really exciting to be working towards these goals. With the prospect of show exhibitions comes all sorts of other "adult" things that I never really wanted to do, and yet am tackling nonetheless. ("I'm an adult" I whisper as I try to fill out all these forms I don't understand.)
In others news, I have been working on a personal project revolving around The 30 Day Video Challenge. For those of you who don't know what that is, its a little challenge thing online where there are 30 things you're supposed to film for 30 days, etc etc. It's really not that complicated. There are a few things on there, however, that I do not wish to film (Like my room? That has no business being online, this isn't MTV Cribs.) so i've just been making films occasionally on whatever floats my little boat.
While its a dinky little project, I've been approaching it as a learning opportunity. While none of these are of professional quality, they've been really exciting for me to do. I figure i'd start posting them on here for kicks and giggles.
That being said, here is Day 1! Introduce Yourself.
As stressful as it is, it's also really exciting to be working towards these goals. With the prospect of show exhibitions comes all sorts of other "adult" things that I never really wanted to do, and yet am tackling nonetheless. ("I'm an adult" I whisper as I try to fill out all these forms I don't understand.)
In others news, I have been working on a personal project revolving around The 30 Day Video Challenge. For those of you who don't know what that is, its a little challenge thing online where there are 30 things you're supposed to film for 30 days, etc etc. It's really not that complicated. There are a few things on there, however, that I do not wish to film (Like my room? That has no business being online, this isn't MTV Cribs.) so i've just been making films occasionally on whatever floats my little boat.
While its a dinky little project, I've been approaching it as a learning opportunity. While none of these are of professional quality, they've been really exciting for me to do. I figure i'd start posting them on here for kicks and giggles.
That being said, here is Day 1! Introduce Yourself.
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
A video review:
So the other morning, while everyone slept, I was up and wide awake with time to spare. I ended up going through my pictures and putting together this tiny video. While abroad, I took COUNTLESS photos, and am in countless more on other peoples phones/cameras, and I realize that thats an insane amount of photos to go through, even for people who are interested in the trip.
So I put this video together, consisting of some, not all, of my favorite moments captured on my phone alone. I'm sure as the other girls post their photos, I will find many more that I adore and love, but heres this in the mean time:
So I put this video together, consisting of some, not all, of my favorite moments captured on my phone alone. I'm sure as the other girls post their photos, I will find many more that I adore and love, but heres this in the mean time:
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Packing
So packing has been a bit of a mother ducker. And yes, I wrote that, that wasn't auto-correct.
I decided to go with everything for the trip in a carry on bag, which was difficult in ways and then not in others. I can't decide if it was the packing that was difficult or just finding clothing to suit all my needs.
For Cambodia, I packed a bunch of plain t-shirts and loose pants basically, and, while I say "for Cambodia", these items will all double as items for Thailand as well for my free/exploring time. This basically means any time i'm not at placement. I also brought some cover ups for my shoulders for areas like Wats, The Grand Palace, and my placement.
Everything I packed had to be light weight, as both countries are tropical and heavy on the humidity, but I also shoved in a jacket and a hoodie because hey, I thought Peru was going to be warm and cozy too and I can think of quite a few days where I was more than thankful to have long sleeves and a hoodie. Speaking of long sleeves, I packed a few lightweight ones of those as well as my tattoos need to be covered for my placement. I've actually decided to list it out as I found when I was searching for what others brought, it was hard to find and I wished someone else had. So!
(I've also decided to make a Youtube playlist just for this process/trip in general because, once again, I was looking for these and found one and it was a HUGE help. So that can be found here, if you like, or if you hate reading, whatever floats your boat.)
Heres a list of the things I shoved into a Delta regulation sized carry on:
In my book bag
*for my toiletry items:
** Notebook with all my information:
I find it useful when going on trips to have a notebook of all my confirmation numbers and arrangements, directions, addresses and contact information, as well as information about the places i'll be visiting. It basically becomes a little guide book for me while i'm away since I can't afford to buy every LonelyPlanet or Top 10 book that I honestly want. This makes for good reading on the plane ride over, as well as serves as a way to educate myself about the sites prior to arrival. In the end, they're nice little scrap books as well of the journey if you like. I generally arrange them in the order of things that'll be happening, high lighting information for my eyes to go to if I'm quickly scanning for something specific, but that's just my logic and you can do whatever works for you.
For this one I have printed the picture Pimsuda sent of the Home base staff with names and put it in the front cover.
Inside:
I decided to go with everything for the trip in a carry on bag, which was difficult in ways and then not in others. I can't decide if it was the packing that was difficult or just finding clothing to suit all my needs.
For Cambodia, I packed a bunch of plain t-shirts and loose pants basically, and, while I say "for Cambodia", these items will all double as items for Thailand as well for my free/exploring time. This basically means any time i'm not at placement. I also brought some cover ups for my shoulders for areas like Wats, The Grand Palace, and my placement.
Everything I packed had to be light weight, as both countries are tropical and heavy on the humidity, but I also shoved in a jacket and a hoodie because hey, I thought Peru was going to be warm and cozy too and I can think of quite a few days where I was more than thankful to have long sleeves and a hoodie. Speaking of long sleeves, I packed a few lightweight ones of those as well as my tattoos need to be covered for my placement. I've actually decided to list it out as I found when I was searching for what others brought, it was hard to find and I wished someone else had. So!
(I've also decided to make a Youtube playlist just for this process/trip in general because, once again, I was looking for these and found one and it was a HUGE help. So that can be found here, if you like, or if you hate reading, whatever floats your boat.)
Heres a list of the things I shoved into a Delta regulation sized carry on:
- Dress
- Black Leggings
- Black pants
- Fancy shirt
- 7 shirts
- One lightweight button down
- CCS shirt for arrival
- Loose over shirt
- 3 pairs of pants
- 7 underwear
- 5 bras
- 7 pairs of socks
- two small bags of toiletries*
- Power converter
- Extra bag for weekend
- smaller bag for phone/camera/money
- money pouch
- Bug wipes
In my book bag
- small 2x4 photo album for placement
- Water bottle
- 3 books for the plane
- Notebook with all information**
- CCS handbook
- snacks ( food bars and cranberries)
- Passport and Visa
- Sketch Book and pens
- Shampoo
- Conditioner
- Body wash
- face wash
- tooth paste
- body spray
- deodorant
- Sun screen for body
- Sun screen for face
- Bug wipes
- Tylenol
- Cotton swabs
- Neosporin and band-aids
** Notebook with all my information:
I find it useful when going on trips to have a notebook of all my confirmation numbers and arrangements, directions, addresses and contact information, as well as information about the places i'll be visiting. It basically becomes a little guide book for me while i'm away since I can't afford to buy every LonelyPlanet or Top 10 book that I honestly want. This makes for good reading on the plane ride over, as well as serves as a way to educate myself about the sites prior to arrival. In the end, they're nice little scrap books as well of the journey if you like. I generally arrange them in the order of things that'll be happening, high lighting information for my eyes to go to if I'm quickly scanning for something specific, but that's just my logic and you can do whatever works for you.
For this one I have printed the picture Pimsuda sent of the Home base staff with names and put it in the front cover.
Inside:
- Delta flight itinerary
- Divider for "Pre-departure"
- Last minute tips for Thailand packing
- Information booklet for placement
- Divider for "Cambodia"
- Confirmation from hostel of airport pickup and instructions
- Confirmation for arranged tours and prices**
- Confirmation for hostel and final payment **
- Information on each of the locations I will be visiting on my tour
- Divider for "Thailand"
- Contact information for CCS
- Arrival instructions
- Divider for "Placement"
- Printed PDF information of my placement
- 'Tips for new volunteers' sheet
- 'How you can help' sheet
- Game ideas and activities that I looked up
- Divider for "Extra"
- Phrases in Thai that I might find useful
- Places of interest for my free time
** Everything in my notebook is in page protectors, and behind areas where payment is required, I place an envelope with the amount of money needed between the sheets and paperclip/secure the top of the page protector to prevent it from falling out. I find that dividing my money for exact change when possible is helpful as then I can simply hand that over instead of pulling out all of my travel money and counting it out in public. I also split up where I hide my money on my person when abroad anyway in case someone is extra free with their fingers. Put it where you like but keeping emergency cash in the boobs is useful ladies, and unlikely to go missing (at least without your notice, and if someone has managed to relieve you of this emergency stash then...well frankly, bravo. Dats talent.)
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