The Creation Of Richie's Video Essay

Making my video essay was really organized. What I did first was grabbed a piece of folder paper and wrote a first draft. After I made the draft, I read it to myself and timed how long I was reading. It was 2 minutes and 30 seconds long which was the perfect time. So then I grabbed the laptop and went to imovie. I only filmed it once and it turned out pretty good. So I had help moving it to my powerpoint and the added the music. I picked a song that matched my theme of the Air Force called "Learning To Fly" by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers. I tried to make it more interesting so I added the whole song to the whole powerpoint. After that my masterpiece was finally finished, and in my eyes it turned out really good.

Creating my hero PowerPoint

The weekend I had to create my powerpoint, I went camping so I only had one day to finish it. It was kind of hard finishing it in such a small amount of time. All in all, I still finished it. What happened when I was making it is I started with all the words first, then put the backgrounds. I had to do some research on my grandfather on the way through. I learned that he had a whole memorial dedicated to him and they fundraised over $500,000! Once I finished all of the details I added the backgrounds. My grandpa was the highest enlisted rank in the Air Force so I made my theme "Air Force". It ended up pretty cool if I was the judge. After the backgrounds went in I got on my Facebook and pulled over some pictures of him and arranged them in a decent way. Then I changed the color and font of all the words. Finally, I asked my mom to revise it. We changed a few things and finally saved it onto my flash drive.

My Hero

    My hero is my grandfather, Richard A. Gauvin.  He was a Chief Master Sergeant in the United States Air Force.  Which is the highest enlisted rank. He worked in a program in the Air Force called AMMO. What the AMMO's do is pack all the bombs and missiles on to the planes. Also, if you hadn't noticed, I was named after him! I chose my grandpa for my hero because he has served in the air force for over 20 years! I think it would be awesome if I grew up like him in the Air Force. He had passed away about a year before I was born, and since then there has been a memorial dedicated, websites made for him, and he is even remembered by staying at punchbowl memorial in Honolulu. Although we never met face to face I know he is my hero for all that he has done throughout his lifetime. My grandfather means so much to me, I would love to just tell him thank you for all the things he has done for me, my family, and our country.
       I think all heroes should be caring towards you and all other people. He or she should be a very generous person towards everyone. They should have done something great for you, your family, or even your country. Your hero should inspire you to do something important or successful for not only yourself, but helpful to others too. Heroes should be wise and fulfilling in their lifestyle. Also, a hero needs to be brave. A hero must be able to handle scary or stressful situations.
       My grandfather carries all of those traits. He cares for all other people. He inspired me to want to be in the Air Force. He is very brave. Plus, he served our country for over 20 years. I love my grandfather very much and hope I can be just like him someday. I hope I can serve my country, serve in the Air Force, and most importantly I want to make my grandfather proud to have me as his name sake, Richard Gauvin.

Secret Santa

    For Secret Santa I wish I could get the newest Foo Fighters CD. I don't remember the name, but it will say 2010 or 2011 on the back. The Foo Fighters are my favorite band. I only have their CD from 1999, but its so old. I mean the music is still good, but it leaves out do much of the new songs. If I had that I would listen to it like 24/7. If that is sold out the newest Smashing Pumkins album or Muse album would be awesome too.

    Also, I love starbucks so it would be pretty cool to have a gift card to starbucks.

    Thats what I wish to get for secret santa.

ISA's

ISA was pretty fun in my eyes. I had to do water. What that meant is I had to make sure nobody opened the top of the jug and if the jug got low I had to refill it. I was standing in the sun the whole time so it got really hot. The cool part was all the schools coming over. On the Waipahu and Kapolei team I knew people from my other schools. It was kind of like a reunion. Cleaning was terrible. The bathroom was disgusting. The food we got was pretty good though. We had teri burgers and chips. So all in all ISA's were pretty cool.

soccer intramurials

Soccer intramurials were really fun. I most enjoyed hosting Which is what i'm doing in the picture below. Hosting was a little hard, but I got the hang of it after like a minuet. All you really had to do was figure out how you wanted to mark the score. I chose to put 1 tally for each point scored next to the name of the person who scored that point.Then, there was goalie. Being goalie was really simple, all you had to do was get the ball and throw it to someone you work with. Somehow for me it wasn't so simple. I got hit by the ball like 5 times! That would be something I would like to change. But, all in all goalie wasn't that bad.Now finally for the last job... I'm not sure what to call it, but i'll explain it anyway. All you need to do is catch the ball and place it for the kicker. Somehow I even got hurt in that job. On the second day I got hit in the thigh really hard. I got over it pretty fast, but it hurt. In my mind soccer intramurials were pretty fun

First Quarter

         Finally, first quarter is over. I'll never forget the time I ran for secretary. I made posters, and spread them all around the school. I had a total of 6 posters! I even went on Ilima t.v and did my speech! On the day they announced the winners my heart was pumping. I thought it was about to burst right out of my chest! I was called out of my homeroom, at first I was kind of scared because its pretty scary to be pulled out of a classroom! But it turns out I was going to A101 to watch the morning announcements. I ended up not winning, but you have to admit I had a really good run so I wasn't that disappointed.
         The real rush wasn't until after t.v. Mr.Ing called me up to his desk and he said I have another chance to join leadership. My mom didn't answer to any of his messages, so he felt I didn't have much of a chance. So he made a deal with me. If I finished a school activity poster, a 6 page power point, and a talent ready in three days he would keep me in leadership. So I worked as hard as I could the past 2 nights and got it finished. During my interview I was really nervous and on the next monday, they accepted me into leadership!
         When I joined leadership we had jobs to do. I learned how to set up the mixer and the speaker for music, I learned how to make and print name tags I even learned how to make intros for t.v. Also, when we did intrumurials.
         I think first quarter really went my way this year.

Intrumirals

Intrumirals were pretty fun. I especially liked taking pictures. Im not sure I only took 50 per lunch, but it sure was fun. It would have been better if we could actually play in the game. All in all, doing intrumirals was pretty exciting.

Welcome Dance

The welcome dance was really fun. I was on snacks, but it was better than I thought it would be. I am pretty good at math so ging change wasn't that hard until King left to get more stuff right after the dance ended. I had to serve like 3 people at a time by myself. It was really annoying, until everyone left then a lot of people from leadership went on the waterslide including me. It was awesome. Luckily I didn't get in trouble for being soaked when I got home.

Flyer

I feel my flyer was really cool and creative. I figured out how to fade the pictures, how to add words, and a lot more. I feel it tells a lot about me. I added things I like and I also showed I don't like regular with my font style. It really was a lot easier than I thought it would be.

Group Members

When I found out all my group members were girls I was pretty shocked. I was expecting at least one boy in my group. But, I ended up liking my group. When I joined I felt very welcome. It actually wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

Bio-Cube

Making my bio-cube was a very... Interesting experience. After school, I got the paper to make a bio-cube. When I got home I was all pumped to finally finish it, then I unrolled the paper. I grabbed the wrong paper! Luckily, I only live 10 miutes away. So I had to sprint back to school just to get the right paper. When I got back home I worked on it. It came out pretty nice. When I presented it I felt I did pretty good. Ffom all of this I learned to check something before I take it.

First day of school

For me the first day of school was kind of scary. I moved from a completely different district. I was actually having a good day towards the end. On the first day I made 4 friends! All my teachers were awesome, too! All in all, my first day of school was pretty cool.