Day 3

Tuesday, June 22

WOW!! It feels like it should be the last day because everyone now feels so comfortable around each other! I love knowing that it will last another 3 1/2 weeks, and I can't wait to see how much more I will grow because I have learned so much already! Today stared out with breakfast (cereal :D) and then we headed to the conference room at nine. We talked about the cubes that we made yesterday and looked at different thought processes. Most had jut the plain cube, but others had cut out/drawn on patterns, symbols, designs, etc. We got a hangout of what we had to do today and at ten thirty we broke into studios. Our assignment for today was to make two cubes. We had 3 materials (white template and two different colored card stock) and all the tools that we brought. We could also use materials we found in the studio/scrapyard. We were supposed to think about movement, flow, color, shading/light and a few other things I can't remember.

We broke for lunch at twelve and got back at one (had orange chicken and chow mien in case you care)/ When we got back we had a 2 hour discussion about where we were at and we looked at the unfinished models of some of the cubes. At two was our drawing class again. We covered vantage points and drew some 2 vantage point and 1 vantage point drawings. It was really fun and I def. improved. Our homework was to to draw our dorm with 1 vantage point and the lounge with 2 vantage points. We headed back to the studio at three.

Although studio ends at four most of us stayed until six to finish (I finished sex ten). We then had dinner (BBQ :D) and at seven we had a 1 hour lecture about architecture with pictures of some of Mark's favorite buildings and some of buildings he designed. Most people headed back to the dorms (including me) to do the sketching assignment, but some people had to stay to work on their cube assignment. It took me until nine forty-five to do the sketching homework but it was so much fun!! Me and 4 other girls and 3 guys sat in the upstairs lounge sketching and helping each other out while 2 guys were playing Brawl on the Wii we have in there. I then headed for the showers and am now writing this.

Although I do miss family and friends, I am making new friends and basically getting a new out-of-home family. The RA"s and TA's are so nice and super fun! Yesterday the RA's played soccer and basketball with us, and the TA's (mine's Patrick btw) are so helpful in the studio. Mark, of course, is awesome to have as a camp director and he is a very talented architect Like I said, I feel so comfortable here ad going back to HS after knowing what college can feel like will be very hard. Now that the groups are integrating(girls and guys aren't separating anymore and we wit/work/etc) and people are becoming more vocal, it is a blast :)

The teaching style is amazing as well. We try things out, then talk about them, and then do them again. This way we can actually LEARN from out mistakes and other people's mistakes instead of just being told what to do. We can be so creative because there are hardly any rules. I love the freedom we are given as well; I just love it here!

xoxo

Lisa-Marie