August 28, 2013—Visiting Air Academy High School

I crashed my younger siblings' Back to School Night so I could visit my old teachers. It was super great to see them all, especially my French teacher (the immortal Madame), and my art teacher (pictured above). That's him as a stormtrooper that he got at Disneyland. They scanned his head and made him into a stormtrooper using 3D printing.

Art class in high school changed my life. I learned so many skills and improved so much and just came to love art. I was originally planning on being an art major when I went to college. I have since decided on industrial design, which is basically designing the physical form of products. It's in the college of engineering, but it's very art-based. So I wouldn't have my major that I do now without high school art class. :)

Also, he cares a heck of a lot about his students. I want to care for people like that too.

August 27, 2013—Reality, Dad in the Park, and Geneology

First of all, let me point out that we don't look so good in this picture. Not to mention that the composition sucks and that it's a selfie. This is reality, people! This is what life is really like.

What we did this day was pretty important. My dad and I busted out an old box of genealogical research he had done back in the day. It was super cool. There were old papers belonging to my ancestors. There were church records from back in "the old country" of Slovenia. Then, when my family went and walked around the block, he told me a couple of stories about his visit to Slovenia to find the church records. Good times. Goooood times.

Introduction—What is this madness?

You might be thinking—

What? Camilla made another blog? For what purpose this time?

(Not that I'll likely be posting public links to this one, but if you've found it through stalking or cleverness, congratulations!)

Listen. I'm what some people call a "scatterbrain". My mind is all sorts of places at once, or else I get kind of bored.

Also, when journaling, like to compartmentalize. Meaning that I have, at last count, nine different journals at once in various forms for various purposes. (Ten if you count my sketchbook, but sadly, at this point I don't use that enough for it to really apply.) Typed journals, written journals, a couple different blogs, a scripture journal, one for thoughts I have when I'm feeling artistic.

Why not add another one to the mix, eh?

Some of you may have heard of Project 365. It's really simple—you just take and upload one photo every day of your life that is somehow representative of that day, write a short description, and boom, you've started a photo journal.

I want to do this when I go on my LDS proselyting and service mission at the beginning of next year. Wouldn't it be amazing to have a photo of what was special about my mission? A photo from every single day?

So why not start now?

I don't have a fancy camera (oh, I wish). My photography skills aren't great. But I'm going to give it a shot (haha), and that's what counts, right?

Camilla~