Wednesday, December 8, 2010

What are your plans and how do you spend the holidays?

In my family its a tradition to spend the holiday the whole family together. Normally on the first weeks of December we put up a Christmas tree on the living room where we give the gifts, the same day we put a "Nacimiento" which is a tradition in my house, we normally had two a little one for the main table and a big one, but unfortunately the big one is incomplete after all its years of use. The tree was decorated is decorated as a family, some people put the lights and then the ornaments. When school is over and my aunts jobs have holidays, we do the "Hayacas" and "Boyitos" which are the traditional Christmas plate in Venezuela. This is also done in a family reunion that weekend when we are all free. That takes up about two days to do. Normally there is a week between the day we get out of school and Christmas day. On that week, we all go out to do our Christmas shopping, which is done pretty quickly. Some years we decide to do a kind of Secret Santa, where someone buys a big gift for their person, and then a little gift for the rest of the family. On Christmas day, we all come to my house, and start giving out the gifts. The youngest of my aunts lives outside the country, so now, we put one of the laptops that have a camera, and have a skype conference with her while we give out the gifts, so she and her husband can see us. Afterwards there is normally a party in which we invite close family members and friends to have a good time and eat, we sometimes serve hayacas, pernil, and chicken salad, but lately it has only been chicken salad and pernil, because of time and space. This year, we already put up our Christmas tree, our Nacimiento, and are planning on doing the Hayacas this next weekend to follow the family tradition. We will do the same as every year because we like to have a tradition on Christmas. I love Christmas and I think its one of the most beautiful holidays.
Have a nice Christmas and enjoy!

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Reflection on the process of the Project

This project for me was kind of a last minute thing, I knew that I had to do the project since months ago, but I always thought oh I have lots of time still so I left it hanging for a couple of weeks. At first what I did was to choose my topic, which was how to classify triangles by their sides, that part was very easy, because there is a general explenation everywhere, and we were just studying that in class, so that part was very easy. Afterwards I got stuck on the secon part of the project which was to find two people who contributed on the dicovery of it, this part was very hard, because I coulnt find any information anywhere, and I got stuck. I then asked Mr. Davis what should I do with this part, and he told me to be creative, by being creative I found two things that were made out of triangles and had a good explenation on how they were made and why. So thats how I did the part of the research. Then the part of creating the web page came, I am very bad with the computer, I only know how to do the basics. Creating the web page was easy because it is a simple process, but then when I pasted the project there, like from a word document to the page, it moved, and the images didnt appear, it was a mess. So I had to save the images, copy it again and then put the images back into the actual page of the project. Then I had another problem with the page, which was that I had two because of the first one that I did that hadnt worked and the second one, so I spent a good 15 minutes figuring out how to take the page that didnt work from the site.
In general this project was very easy at the end, only that it needed like very small pieces of information, that in some topics were hard to find.