My Summer Experience

Cameron Schille
American Studies
september 10, 07

There I stood on a commercial gillneting boat in Bristol Bristol Bay Alaska and we started pulling in the net and then we realized that there was a whole bunch of salmon in it. As we pulled it in we were picking the fish out as fast as we could, it was just fish after fish.

It was the most fish I had ever seen in one set in my life, there is a thing called fish rope that I have only seen in pictures which is fish in every mesh of the net, it makes all of the net sink, and you have to pick them all. This wasn’t quite fish rope but it was close. It took us about three hours to pick the net but we did it. Normally it only takes about a half hour to an hour, but not with the quantity of fish we had in this set. A normal set usually catches anywhere from 0 fish to about 400 or 500 salmon but this set caught about 800 salmon. Which is about 6,000 pounds.

Now looking back at it I realize that i’m pretty lucky because at the end of the season we ended up with 160,000 pounds which is the best we have ever done and i got paid pretty well. That was my third year going up to Alaska to fish and I hope to do it every summer again until im 18 years old.

Skateboarding

When I was about ten I went to my mom's house for a weekend. On saturday we went to the park, I brought my skateboard, I had just got the board and i hadn't tightened up the trucks or anything. I tried skating down this hill and i realized that the board was wiggling alot and once i got to the bottom of the hill the board came out from under me and i fell on the hard asphault, sliding on my knee and rolled into the sharp, spikey sticker bushes. I immediately crawled out of the bushes and looked at my knee, a heuge gash covered my whole knee it was very deep, then i had to retrieve my skateboard out of the bushes, i limped to my mom and told her what happened. She took me home, we wrapped it in paper towels until the bleeding stopped. A day later there was a scab that covered my whole knee.

Stop Frame Animation Reflection

Cameron Schille
American Studies
11/6/07

Stop Frame Animation

I have just Completed my stop frame animation project. I did my project on Christopher Columbus. My partner was Patrick Riebel.

The part of this project that was the most fun was probably making a picture of Christopher Columbus talk about himself. Me and Patrick got a picture of Christopher Columbus from google and used the computer to make his jaw drop up and down. After that we recorded our voices to talk about him. We made Christopher Columbus say that the most accurate picture of him was painted by Alejo Fernandez, and that in some paintings he had white curly hair and in some paintings he had brown curly hair, and that he wore old style clothing.

The most difficult part of this project was making Christopher Columbus’s ship sail across his map. Patrick and I had to make a map, put it on the computer, and make his ship sail across the map. It isn’t as easy as it sounds. Once the map is on the computer you have to go on the internet, find a picture of his ship, and copy and paste it onto the map. The hardest thing about it was moving it over and over again, every time you move it you have to save it too, so that took forever.

The most important thing i learned was all of the Places Christopher Columbus discovered. Another important thing I learned was not to leave my project on the desktop. My whole project was deleted. It was ok though because I still got the grades, but it sucked because I don’t get to put it on you tube.

This project was pretty fun because I liked how we were really for example being able to go up to the annex, the library, and the classroom. It was my favorite project that I have ever done.