I’m really happy with where I am. I think that my drawing of Fez is really good. Getting Fez really helped because when I’m drawing, I know that I should make his eyes almost completely hidden because in real life, you cant see them. My next step is to color him in. Here is what I have so far.
My idea is to draw my dog, Fez on Manhattan. I’m going to color him in and I think that that will have a cool effect because of the color that is already on the map. The strategy that I’m using to draw Fez is grid drawings. I chose this medium because drawing is something that I want to work on. I have had some practice with the grid drawing technique. We had a project on grid drawings and for guilds, I used a lot of grid drawings. Grid drawings are helpful because you can find certain places on the subject of drawing easily. If I have time, I might make Fez on a 3D platform.
The theme of this project was to write about foods that we had over the weekend. We had to take pictures of the foods and then we had to write sentences about the foods. Nouns and sentence writing knowledge were being tested because we had to put everything in the correct order. All in all, I thought that this project was really fun.
There have been some interesting weather patterns throughout Pakistan recently. But the main story has been the sandstorm that covered all 10,200 square miles of the Cholistan Desert. Some families have had to deal with the sand covering tobas and animals and family members blowing away in the harsh winds. We interviewed two residents of the Cholistan Desert. Shabanu and Dalil Abassi. Here are some things that happened during the sandstorm according to Shabanu:
“The night that the [sandstorm] happened, I was sleeping and my sister, Phulan woke me up. I thought that my skin [because of the sand], was being pierced by a thousand needles.” The storm’s high winds prevented Shabanu from seeing anything until the winds subsided. Her luck didn’t turn out very well.
“We found that our camel, Mithoo, Sher-Dil, our dog and my grandfather were all gone. The storm injured Shabanu’s grandfather fatally, but he was found alive under sand. He survived for a few days. He died in his sleep. After talking to Shabanu, we interviewed Dalil Abassi, Shabanu’s father. It was a very scary moment for him because he was the head of the family. He had to make sure that everyone was safe.
“When the storm hit, I was very scared. Not for me, but for my family. I didn’t want anything to happen to them.” They stayed inside and waited out the storm. Somehow, Dalil’s father blew away. “I was very scared [for my father], but I knew Allah would save him.”
We also talked to Dalil about his other daughter, Phulan’s wedding. “I wasn’t worried that the storm would hurt the wedding. “I knew that Phulan wanted this very much, and I knew she would do to what she had to do [to make the wedding happen].”
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_SshuhdDpkBVjZHQy0xZV9KN3c/view?usp=sharing
This was a very interesting project, I thought that it was a lot of fun. We got to make a newscast and write an article. I hope that you enjoy my project. The process was really hard. We had to take a lot of attempts to make it work.
How To Survive In A Sandstorm
1: Get inside for cover
2: Bring your chadr/turban tight around your head to stop the wind from getting in your face
3: Get your eye protectors
4: Put cloth and water to keep your nose wet so that you can breathe
5: Find Something big to hide behind so the wind and sand can’t get to you (maybe a camel)
6: Get to the top of a sand dune. There is less wind and lower chance of getting hit by flying animals or trees or something
7: Wait out the storm in one of the safe spots I told you to hide behind
These are some of the best ways to survive a sandstorm. I wouldn’t listen because I have a suspicion that his ways aren’t right. I don’t always listen to him even though the Quran says
I’m “…as wild as the wind.” (Pg. 28) so I don’t always agree like I’m supposed to. I still follow the Quran as much as I can because I try to be a true Muslim and follow the Quran but I can never follow that section. How can I not say no to them? What if they ask me to jump into a very deep well? Would I do it if I never abandoned the rules of the quran?
How Do You Deal With The Unexpected
In order to deal with the unexpected, you have to think that it will all be ok. If you can’t convince yourself, it’s going to be a bad time for you. The main thing that you have to focus on is yourself. Like I said before, it will be really hard to deal with the problem ahead if you don’t believe that you can get through the time. My example is when Hamir dies. That means that Phulan gets married to Murad, the man that was supposed to be for me. And who does that leave me with? Rahim-Sahib. Do you really think that I want to marry a man like him? No. But what do I do, I convince myself that everything will be ok. I think that it will end up being ok for me because if I don’t want to stay with Rahim-Sahib, I could go live with Fatima and Sharma. So I think that It could all turn out ok.
Some Images from weatherwizkids.com
Quran quotes are from quran.com