User:Chris kerls


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bio
Chris Kerls was born on Oct. 13,1973 in a tiny city called Camp Hill,Pennsylvania(5 miles south of the capital-Harrisburgh). I have lived there until high school graduation,(1993)then moved to Everett,Wa. 1 year later I moved back to Pa only to take care of my grandparents. My grandfather passed away in 1998.My grandmother,who is still alive today(94)is in a nursing home in Pa.Our family sold the house in August 2005,and at the end of September(same year)I drove from Pa to Port Orchard,Wa,traveling through 14 states including Pa and Wa, with a 1 day pit stop in Colorado Springs, Co. The total trip took 4 days.I have been living in Wa ever since. I currently reside in Gig Harbor.

assignments
"I've always wanted to"{research}travel to Victoria,BritishColumbia,Canada Location:Southeastern end of Vancouver Island;southern tip of Saanich Peninsula;65 miles northwest of Seattle. Description: Metropolitan area of approx. 290,000 residents;Provicial Capital;Oldest city in western Canada;Downtown business distrct overlooks Victoria Harbor;Surrounded to the west,north,and east by residetial areas and suburbs of Esquimalt, Saanich and Oak Bay respectively. Victoria was named after the Queen of England who ruled from 1837-1901;which has retained the charm of it's British heritage.The Songhees Indians were natives to Vacouver Island when they encountered a "smoking tree" approaching offshore in the spring of 1843.they couldn't realize how life was to change the isolated ever-green covered island. In 1851 it had established it's first governing coucil, comprising James Douglas, John Todd, and a Captain Cooper.The first steamship to visit the area, called the "Beaver" carried the chief factor for Hudson's Bay Company.(It's considered the oldest charter company in the world.)The company was seeking it's third base,more northerly, for its rapidly expanding trade system with the Pacific Northwest Indians. The company had monopolized trade in beaver skins, sea otter fur, and other commodities until that point. At this point, I unfortunately, hit a wall because of my backround, but I did research on what to do to travel in and out the United States. I did the research off the internet and printed out a total of 6 pages of legalities on how and what to do. Here is a summary: I would have to contact the U.S. Embassy and apply for a special waiver to leave and re-enter the U.S., then I would have to take the approved documents and apply for a passport. When all the necessary steps are taken and everything has been approved then I would be able to execute my original plan to travel to Victoria, Canada. The whole entire process is going to take 3-6 months if not longer. That is just for the special waiver and passport. Hopefully this is a reasonable explanation on my part of being in a slump for the last couple of weeks. The disappointment was so extreme I was about to give up on this whole entire project. I took some time to rethink and redirect my project from its original plan. Although I still plan on making my travel to Victoria, Canada, I also feel that this will help to accomplish other places outside the United States, for example "I've always wanted to" go to Amersterdam, England, France, Italy, and Germany, along with Mexico, and The Bahamas. As far as staying inside the country, "I've always wanted to" go to Las Vegas, The Grand Canyon, Mount Rushmore, Mardi Gras, and Walt Disney World. I'm going to redirect my travel from Canada, to Las Vegas. Before I get into the research and planning for Las Vegas, I want to say that the trip to Canada was as follows: I was going to drive up to Port Angeles and then take the ferry into Victoria and stay there for 3 days and nights and explore as much as it would deem possible in that amount of time. I will accomplish this destination, but for now I'm setting it aside. Moving on, I really want to go to Las Vegas as much as I want to go to Canada. What I am planning so far is that I will go to Las Vegas in July 2009, for 4 days and 3 nights, after the second quarter of school is completed. My plan for Las Vegas is schedled for July 6-9. I went online and checked out package deals ( cheap tickets.com/LasVegas and found that hotels are going for as low as $40 per night and round trip airfare is $200 from Seatac to Las Vegas. I have not purchased anything yet, but I plan on doing that at the end of April or beginning of May. As far as the other places within the country my goal now is to make and accomplish these destinations on a yearly basis until I succeed, all the while setting forth to apply for the special waiver and passport while I'm still attending school to convince the U.S. Embassy to approve the special waiver to "continue my education worldwide." Thank-you for helping me create and set goals for some things that "I've always wanted to" do.                 sources:International Dictionary of Historic Places Vol.1 Americas{AIS Library};Google-victoriabritishcolumbiacanada,scroll down to information,click-on"special info links"then scroll down to picture of "Spring Apple blossoms at Henderson Park in Oak Bay"

midterm
Part 1 Olympic Sculpture Park Find a sculpture you don't like, Manipulate yourself into liking it. When I walked to the park on Thursday the first piece I had seen was the "Typewriter Eraser", scale x. I continued on and looked at other sculptures, with the fact that this artwork gave me the visual of a broken guitar and the strings going in different directions, because it had no neck. I particularly didn't care for the stone plaque for reading what the artwork was made of and painted with. I read the quotation from Claes Oldenburg, who is one of two artists, the other is Coosje van Bruggen, to my surprise, is a female.(It was only because of the name.) Here is a quote from Claes Oldenburg: "I make my art out of everyday experiences, which I find as perplexing and extraordinary as can be. We don't copy the objects we use, we try to transform them and we hope to go on transforming as you look at them. The idea of endless public dialogue...visual dialogue... is very important to us." I arrived home and immediately went online to learn more about the artists, as I was intrigued to discover what other work they could enlighten me with. To my amazement, they have sculptures all over the world! Their artwork consisted of bowling pins, a buried bicycle, cutting knife through a wall, a clothes pin and a toothbrush with paste mounted on a part of a sink! They have so much more online than what I have mentioned. If you haven't explored this already, I encourage you to check it out. (Google- Claes Oldenburg). I went back to the park and took a closer look at the "Tyoewriter Eraser". I discovered that looking at it again and from the back of it, I was able to manipulate my mind into thinking it could be a bagpipe. Therefore, I want to go back and see what else I might be able to transform it into. I was so fascinated by all the artwork that I discovered from these artists, I completely forgot about finding other artists that would relate to theirs. I feel in a sense that, with sculpted artwork, in a weird way, they're all related in a sense that they are larger than normal size and life, for that in one way or another, because they base it on one's unique experience that has transpired in their own lives, even if it is taking everyday objects to mainipulate one's mind of what they may make out, or their creativity to pursue what their own personal goals would set out to be.

final
Self assessment- What I have learned in this class is how creative thinking was administered through different ways of reflecting ones ability to be creative in their own way and the age groups were from young adults to adults up to and including their mid 30's. I know how to organize things and scenerios but I am not a well organized person that I have to learn how to do. I thought I did well in getting projects and homework done on time (except this one!) As far as keeping paper work and taking notes, I am scattered all over the place even though I have a 5 subject notebook and 3 folders I'm always finding myself having to reorganize, but this is how I am at home and been this way for years and its driving me up a wall! I feel prepared going into the next quarter, but I know by the time the quarter is over it will be that I wasn't as prepared as what I thought I should,would, and could have been. I feel that the "I've always wanted to" project would have contributed to the other students in class because they could have a misdemeanor and knowing that they would have very difficult time to leave and re-enter this country. I am not assuming anything but my educated guess is that out of 20 or so people in the class the other people that have had to more to get their passport than others in this country. I feel that I have the worst case scenario, with having a felony record that happened 10 years ago, but it will never go away. How do you maintain organization? How do you stop procrastinating yourself? What are the steps to maintain organization? Where and how do I begin maintaining organization and stop procrastination? Repitition? I see it, but what do I do with it? I have answers but they are not or don't work, or does it?

reflective assessment
"chris kerls 05:53, 21 January 2009 (UTC)"