Comic book reflection

Reading graphic novels makes me think deeper, using my imagination when there were gutters. Some challenges for me were the gutters and looking deeper. I dealt with the challenges by re-reading the parts and looking into every part of the picture. I changed by writing less and drawing more. It was hard to change words into the picture for me because I was used to describing with words. I also had to put more thought into the story because normally when I am brainstorming I think of it as words and in graphic novels I have to put it in both words and picture. For my story Earth has been destroyed and there are two spacecraft that travel to the nearest exoplanet “Proxima Centauri b” and have to survive on it. One person gets lost in the story but everyone else is fine. The people build a civilization on the exoplanet and live there. I chose my story because my passion project was Exoplanets and I am interested into them. Exoplanets are planets that orbit other stars other than our Sun. In my passion project my research led me to realize that the sun was going to make Earth uninhabitable in 1-2 billion years and I made my graphic novels setting far in the future 1-2 billion years.

Capstone Interview #1

Last week I had a interview with Andrew Rader, a rocket scientist at Space X. We had a two question interview via email. I learned about Whipple Shields, they reflect off micrometeorites that fly 10 times faster than a bullet. If micrometeorites hit a spacecraft, it could rip out a huge hole in the spacecraft. He also gave me a link about Whipple Shields on Wikipedia which gave me much more information.

Pollo a la Brasa Misti Restaurant Field Trip

Today we went to an amazing restaurant called Pollo a la Brasa Misti Restaurant Field Trip. The food there was so good. Me, Arav and Erik were a group, we managed to stuff ourselves with the five plates of delicious food and chicha morada (a Spanish drink made with corn). For the whole time we had to speak in Spanish, which was hard because we didn’t know everything. My favorite dish was Lomo saltado, which was Beef, tomatoes, French fries, and rice, the others were really good but Lomo saltado was a bit better than all of them to me. I think this trip deserved my first place for field trips.