Weekly Letter Home

Dear Parents,

First I would like to say I have survived week 2. The pace is fast and keeps me motivated. A care package would just be lovely!

It is now the second week of camp, and does time fly by (too) fast. Our camp counselors ramped up the amount of daily creates we do this week. I took a picture of the sky one day on a very dark and gloomy day. I uploaded this to my Flickr account http://www.flickr.com/photos/79114434@N05/. The other daily create I took apart in was take a picture of something relative to “destruction.” The third daily create was repeat DS106 ten times on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/user/TDC136fatherthelegen can be found on my channel.

I watched an interesting video on the summary of story telling, instructed by Kurt Vonnegut. He pointed out that most stories; movies, books, and so on all follow a few types of different plot lines. I worked on a plot line that is based on a hero who lives an ordinary life but then embarks on an epic journey in order to save something or fulfill something. This not only is good for the world (typically) but it makes the hero grow as a person too. The hero usually has a moment of weakness but then overcomes it with the help of a sidekick. The hero then fulfills their duty and returns back to their life, but have grown as a stronger person. I decided to do a comic strip of the Lord of the Rings. It is skimpy on details but shows the adventures Frodo goes to in order to destroy “the one true ring.” This comic strip can be found on my word press site J .

The campers, including myself also read works from Bryan Alexander. He wrote about digital storytelling through the years. A blog is a form of an online diary. This is something I’m going to try and work on during my next few weeks at camp!

Miss you both! Can’t wait to bring back blogging knowledge!

Katie