week five

This was the most eventful meeting I have ever had so far with Sheryl. First we went to Pacific Spirit Park, up by UBC, which was really interesting. We observed a tree which had been eaten by termites and walked for about 10 minutes from the entrance of the trail which we went into. We went across a couple that smiled and said hello, and as we later noticed people in the city never stop to talk or say hello. We looked at the trees and I noticed that some of the really old looking ones, all of which were huge, had holes in the side. This would be from a lumber-jack propping pieces of wood into the side, making it easier to climb. They used to do this because it was hard to chop from the bottom. Now days you don't need to with the new tools used to chop trees down. Sheryl took a few pictures with her camera, and it was raining so I worried if it might die from water leaking in.

Afterwards, we left and headed down to down-town east side. After observing an internal court yard of an apartment building and wondering if that could be where the character, Mike, would go to get some peace and quiet because he doesn't get if often. Our next stop walk nearby a rooming house which Sheryl explained had a very friendly owner, and she knew this because her brother was staying their. We looked at this because our character lives in a rooming house, and it might be interesting to take a look at some. Sheryl took a few shots of the city with her camera that show some of the areas the character we are making, Mike, might go.

After that, we went to a comic store, but not before putting a few extra quarters into the parking metre. The store had many graphic novels, as well as a few There were a few cats which were probably tired of people coming up and petting them because they didn't seem keen on the idea of being petted. The owner of the store didn't seem to be keen on the idea of social attention either, and after being asked a question and making eye contact once, looked at the ground and barely spoke. We looked at a few comics, and while in the store I noticed the newest book by Eoin Colfer, which I haven't read yet.

After staying in the comic store for quite a while, we decided to go to a store to get something to eat, and ended up going to a Starbucks Coffee shop. I got a hot chocolate, which tasted warm as opposed to hot, but still tasted good, as well as some banana bread. Sheryl had a coffee, and after I finished Sheryl showed me a very interesting novel, from which I got a few interesting ideas in my head which I can't remember. Afterwards, we left the coffee shop and started on our way home.

week four

On this particular week we got a lot of work done on making accounts for websites. We got an account at the site for bookmarking sharing, Magnolia, which is very useful, as well as an account for photo bucket, an account for Blogger\, and a G-Mail account.

After all that we wrote the blog, which I am writing in now, and then we edited some images on Adobe Photoshop, which is really fun.