domingo, 8 de noviembre de 2015

A very stressing graphic novel

School is a very stressing place, first of all I hate getting up at 6 am, it is to early for me, my eyes are on fire and I am as clumsy as a drunk man. Even on the few days that I had the chance to go to sleep at 9 pm, I still wake up feeling horrible. Homework also makes school stressful, I hate when teachers seem to not talk with each other and give out projects, tests and assignments and a lot of work for the same week or even the same day but then suddenly after those stressing days there isn't homework from any class for a few days. Then after those days lots of teachers give homework at the same time and the cycle repeats. If there is something I have learned is that procrastination doesn't help at all with this, which is obvious, but I have also learned that I have an exagerated procrastination problem.

My english teacher on about October 26, 2015 assigned a short graphic novel of about 36 frames for November 6, 2015. We had to make a storyboard, which is a rough draft of the novel, for monday November 2 which I didn't do because I heard that it can be handed in with the novel on November 6 and not lose points. During the whole week (Nov. 2-Nov. 6) I was really stressed because really I wanted to start and divide it into a few days so it would not be so overwhelming. As the week was going back, while I just laid in bed doing nothing, watching dumb videos at most, the fact that I had to do it was always bugging and I always said to myself, "finishing this video I will start, which I didn't. I kept on procrastinating, Thursday came and I didn't even began my storyboard. I even procrastinated on that Thursday, I came from school at about 3:30 pm and thought to myself I would briefly rest and start but time just flew by, I don't even remember on what, and I started doing the story board at 8:00 pm, and I finished it at about 11:00 pm. When I had started the storyboard I wanted to do nice drawings but then thought on the fact that I had little time so I decided to make stick figures. When I started doing the storyboard I wanted to atleast make good looking stick figures and add cool effects but as time passed by, I stopped caring and started drawing whatever was recognizable, looking at the clock every 20 minutes and sleepiness starting to kick in. When I finished the storyboard, I started doing the novel. Since the novel was the same as the storyboard I but bigger I was more relieved or maybe I just didn't have anymore energy to be stressed. At about 3 am I was so sleepy that I had to put an alarm for 4 am, nap for an hour and continue. When I came to school I was still finishing my graphic novel. I worked on it on recess and I barely finished it in english class which is on the last period but I was very relieved when I finished it.

I shouldn't procrastinate so much and I has lead always to problems or to extreme lack of sleep but still, even if I don't that doesn't change the fact that at this moment teachers, especially english and Spanish, are assigning to much things. Teachers should talk with each other so that the homework we have is balanced and not all for one day, they should avoid overwhelming students so much.








2 comentarios:

  1. Amiran- I really like this post because I can just imagine you being stressed out, but I wish you would describe it to me more. Also, it would be helpful if you made your theme a bit more clear. I know what you're saying about how you finished it just in time, but it could be beneficial to address how this taught you that life is less stressful if you don't procrastinate and just get things done. So basically, use more description and tie in some sort of message/meaning/theme.

    Good work- thanks for sharing :)

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  2. Good work putting feeling to your writing, try to cut off on some repetition, and very good

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