Writing Center Conference.

Since the beginning of this year I've started tutoring English and writing at RCC (my 2nd job). I really love tutoring and the experience has reassured me that I want to teach someday. I work with a group of pretty interesting tutors. Back in February, a bunch of us tutors and the writing center director, went to the Southern California Writing Center Convention. The convention aimed to expand the techniques and skill in tutoring of all those who attended. This is us in the parking lot before heading on in. (above)
This is Heather, myself and Alex at the continental breakfast before we all split off into groups to attend various presentations. Each presentation covered one topic, like how to work with English second language students, or how to cover every type of intellegence. We had our choice of what presentations we wanted to attend and we gave our own.
This is our group above: Me, Heather, Bri, Mikey and Alex. We just finished giving a presentation to a class room full of people. I gave a short presentation on web resources and how to use them in a tutoring session. It was fun being in front of the class. We had to dress bussiness casual so I felt kinda like a teacher and I even looked the part!
During our presentation we broke off into small groups and each of us taught a handful of students our different techniques for tutoring students. Above I'm talking about how tutoring with highlighters can be good for the visual learner.

Art I guess...

Above is a painting I did on a canvas board of the "Catch-22" book cover. I painted this for my ex-boyfriend, Dylan, a few years back.
This is a painting I did of the Eiffel tower in France for my old roommate, Jackie, since she was leaving us to go live in France for a while. I left a large board for all of her friends to sign and to wish her luck. Then her jerk, best friend wrote on top of my painting... That was pretty rude if you ask me. Anyways, the painting wasn't meant to be anything fantastic, I don't possess that much skill, but it still came out nice and I was please with how the sky and stars came out.
This is a painting I did for my Mom for her birthday this year. Its a collage of the Twilight book series, book covers. She really enjoyed reading the series and I had no money to buy her a gift so I figured this painting might be kind of fun to do. My Mom loved it. I was pretty happy with how it turned out, especially the ribbon and the apple.
I don't claim to be an artist at all. I feel like these were some of my "creative" moments and I was pretty pleased with how they turned out so I thought I'd share.

Clay Creations

Since I was a kid I've always loved to work with clay. I use to make little cartoon character figures back in the day and figurines of Husky dogs. Recently I've been getting back into the hobby.

Above is a picture of a Dragon I made for Dave, since he loves dragons. Below is a picture of another dragonish character. It's actually a Pokemon called Charazard (basically its a cartoon from a kids show my little brother and I use to watch). Both of these are made with 'Sculpey' clay products. They were formed from colored clay that I mixed to achieve specific colors and hues, and then were baked in an oven for hardening.

Here's both my creations together. I'm quite proud actually! When I use to work with clay I was 11 - 12ish and now here it is almost a decade later and I'm actually much better than I was back then, and this is without any prior practice. I have some useless, but fun talents.