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We showed our metaphors and our abstract drawings to our teacher and she accepted a few and rejected the rest. We had to redo a few metaphors and their abstract drawing. After getting all the metaphors and their drawings accepted by Ma’am, we started converting those drawings into 3D. We did a few in class…

Based on the metaphors given in the integrated seminar class, we had to draw abstract drawings of those metaphors in a box using black pen and a few shapes. The 10 metaphors I came up with are  He is a journal. always there for you. His thoughts are like champagne, overflowing when popped. He speaks…

Last week we made 25 abstract drawings and based on those drawings, Ma’am guided us on how to convert those drawings into 3D by using paper and cutter and shaping them according to our drawings. We made a few and the rest of it was given as homework. We had to show our 3D models…

The lecture was started with a TED talk video by Christoph Niemann called “You are fluent in this language”. It helped me to look at things with a completely different perspective which helped us later in the tasks assigned to us during the class. Learned about abstract drawing. Drew things using lines and dots only…

We completed the book Metamorphosis and had a discussion on the themes and metaphors of the chapter. Isolated(self) (He isolated himself from the others because of what had happen to him when he became a bug) Alienated(others) (As he became a bug, his family started alienating him, staying away from him. His boss ran away…

We talked about the second chapter in The Metamorphosis and had to read the chapter and find the main key words from it. The key words are: Grete, fear/panic, anxiety, anguish, finances, disgust, family bonds, abandonment, loneliness, trust, confide, dependent, familial responsibility, food-changing tastes, idleness, awareness of family’s condition, emptiness, suffocation, regret, alienation, shame, broken…

We read a book called Metmorphosis by Franz Kafka. The book is about a guy named Gregor who woke up as a bug one day, his body structure changed completely making it difficult for him to get out of his bed. He was never late for work in the past 15 years but being late…

Ma’am gave us an exercise in which we had to share our earliest memory with the class. It was a funny and an interactive exercise. We talked about retrospection. Retrospection is analysing the past events in ones life. We were thinking on how some changes in our past could have immensely changed our future. We…

Learned about the different kinds of poems(Limerick and Haiku)Limerick: Limerick is a 5 line poem which is humorous and has the rhyme scheme aabba. Haiku: Haiku is a Japanese poem with seven syllables only. A few pictures were shown and either a limerick or a haiku was to be written based on those pictures. A summer…