March 15

Hello, hows it goes? Today we were in another classroom, since there were no seating arrangements, all the boys sat in the same corner of the room. How fun. We did critiques, had students go to the front of the class, present their cover, and respond to comments. Only a couple volunteered, the rest sure did not want to go up. A lot of them started frantically working on their covers when we told them what we were doing, but we made them close their laptops (they all said they were done). They don't experience crits often, but they did alright. There were two or three girls that had lots to say about each one. We heard many suggestions. I would say we just didn't have much time for each person. We tried to go through as many as possible, and we still only got through half the class. Hmm, one of my tooth hurts. Oh, we also had a shadowing day on Tuesday, it was quite fine. Neither one of the two students that we asked to come showed up! How strange (they were all excited last week), but the two that did end up coming were good and curious. We showed them lots (a lot) of art and design classes, got to talk with lots of teachers. It was actually my first time observing any art class at UCLA, art classes seem so different from design classes, it was certainly a learning experience for all of us. I'm pretty sure they now have a understanding of college that few middle schoolers have. Later gator.