Thank you for all the support throughout this summer. Without your help and kindness I would've never been able to be part of such a great opportunity. Attending the Academy of Art University's Pre-College Experience program allowed me to realize my strengths and weakens within art throughout my three classes.

I absolutely loved my photography class, and I was able to improve my photography skills throughout a variety of exciting assignments. For my photography final, I had a choice of my theme, which were flowers with color water drops. I was required to take as many pictures as possible in order to get a great result for my final. Thanks to my professor John, I will be able to be an intern with one of his colleges in order to fulfill my school's requirements and learn more about photography throughout my upcoming school year.

In my illustration class, I was able to learn different techniques about illustration, like telling a story, making it simple, using ink, watercolor paint etc. For my illustration final, we were required to create our own tarot card that represented my imagination but that still included characteristics from the original card. Throughout this project, I loved how I was able to include the characteristics of the card's meaning in a different way than it would've been normally shown.

Lastly, in my character design class I learned and talked a lot about a variety of characters since it was a character design class. But throughout this class I lacked imagination, it wasn't as natural as in my other classes. Even though I struggled with my creativity, I was still able to design a set of characters for the Little Red Riding Hood and Peter Pan. For my character design final, we were required to recreate or create our own characters based on our imagination or a story. I decided to go with the story of Peter Pan but changing things up and making them all fairies.

These classes were such an eye opener to realize my strengths, weakness, and what I would love to keep working on in the future. Not only was I able to learn more about art this summer but I was also able to get a sneak peek into the real world and what college would be. I learned how to take care of myself when nobody was there to look over me since I was required to transit on my own by taking bus and Bart to get to San Francisco. Because I had to transit four days a week I had to use my money wisely and still make sure I had enough to get to school and back home. Thank you once again for the opportunity to figure out my future. I will always be thankful for those of you who helped because without you I wouldn't have had the chance to improve and educate myself during the summer.

I would like to give special thanks to two of my amazing teachers Abby and Mrs. Chamberlain-Engel for all support. Abby, thank you for helping me and encouraging me throughout the Wishbone process. Mrs. Chamberlain-Engel, thank you for believing in me to aspire to be the best student I can be, I will keep on making both of you proud.

Love and lots appreciation,
Flor