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Doodly do, saw something somewhere that inspired this. I don't really know what else to say.Related content
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Wow, this is really impressive
There's something a bit odd about the birds turned body (somewhere near the tail) and the trees seen almost directly above, but that's it. The rest looks amazing ^^
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Hm yeah, maybe. Tried to make it look more like the tail was arching up rather than curving left.
It's funny you mention the foreground trees. As seniors we each had a section of wall in the school to put all of our pieces up on, and all the art classes spent the day touring the art hallways to see everyone's stuff. Some of the lower classes had to write critiques on some pieces. When I saw a boy doing one of this piece, I went over and asked him what he thought. He basically said "Yeah it's good... those trees are off though." xD. I made those front trees like that because the view angle on the bird wasn't flat on like humans usually see things, but at a 45 degree slant down. So they look more top view from close up but the further away you get they look more flat. In the end, the kid was unconvinced. Maybe I did them too top viewy, at least the one on the left. Its a shame because they were the hardest to paint, I've never even imagined what a pine tree looked like from the top before this hah
Sooooo~ howya been?
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I noticed, but it turned out a bit off, but only a little. Still looks great and I didn't really notice anything was wrong with the birds angle till I had been staring at it for a long time xD
HAHAH xD I can imagine. Top view is hard and I think you did really good. The first things I thought when looking at the background was, "wow, impressive perspective." So the trees in the down right corner looks good, they just don't fit completely with the rest of the picture 
Fine, I guess 
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Well, I'm warmed you bothered to stare at is long enough <3
Thanks! I guess they are a bit unconfomring. Definitely the hardest part for me.
Aahh I just went to my job meeting for my summer job that I like, and they told me they didn't need me to work full time so now I'm back down to four hours a day. I was going to quit my old job if they gave me the 8am-3pm time like last year. I was so looking forward to quitting my current job and was planning out and even researching how to do it correctly and checking for when the boss would be in. Ah, damn. They also changed the school it was at and my assignment; which will either be very hard or very liberating because I'm my own boss, but I also have no idea how to do it. I'm only going to be there three weeks, so there's only several hundred bucks to be made, so I'm debating if I should still take a break from my current job at the Ikea sort of store. ._. I just kinda wanted my last summer to have fun in. But there's so many complicating factors. Do I need more money? How important is my happiness? Should I stop being a spoiled brat and just take two jobs because I'm going on vacation later anyway. Eeeehhhhh I need to stew on it all.
Also, a young substitute teacher was talking to me today, and when I told him I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in college, he said maybe I shouldn't go. I wanted to punch him in the face and very rudely put my headphones in right after he said that. I should have asked where he went to school, I doubt it's better than mine. Hmmph, don't need no substitute teacher telling me how to spend my time.
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I see your conflict. Well, I can't tell you if you need more time for yourself or not, only you know. I guess it depends how you like spending your vacation. If I'm actually going on vacation, I don't consider it vacation and so I would want that extra week to do nothing. That's how I like it. But if you consider going on vacation and actually vacation and don't need that time to just be yourself, then I don't see why you shouldn't take two jobs - if you can think you can handle it. That's a very important factor.
I totally thought this was going in a different directions xD When you said you wanted to punch him, I thought, oh, okay, and in the next sentence, you'll say the opposite either 'cause he explains why he said so or you'll come to some sort of realization... So when you actually meant what you said in the beginning, I was rather surprised xD
Maybe that's a big difference between Danes and Americans? I don't know, I just don't get at all why you would get mad at him for saying that. I think it's a perfectly reasonable thought. If you don't know what you wanna do at college, why the hell go and waste all that money? What if you find out your dream job is something that requires you to go somewhere else to study? I don't know if it's like this whole McDonald's thing you have, but here, you're free to choose. No one will look down on you for not going to uni. It just means you did something else with your life. In many circles, you'll probably be "the weak link" for having gone to uni 'cause all it proves is that you can sit on your flat ass and read a book. Besides, Danes are all paced to go to uni and finish it as fast as possible so it's just become something we do. Like going to the gymnasium. We don't really think twice about it, it's just the next step in life. Which means we now have too many uni educated people and too few electricians, mechanics, etc.. We actually want and need more to get educated in things uni doesn't teach. So if your dream is to be a farmer or mechanic or nurse, no one will look down on you for doing so. As for myself, I went to uni and I had a great time there. I know I can do good at a place like that, but I don't think it's gonna be enough for me. Maybe I'll be able to get a great education, but an education in what? I don't know what I wanna do with my life yet so I'm taking a break. Most I know are only just starting to think about uni now 'cause they've been busy doing volunteer work in other countries, travelling the world or just working to make loads of money just 'cause they wanna. I don't see why you should rush yourself into it. I'm not sure if I'm going back to uni 'cause I don't know what to study there. At the moment, I would much rather study movies making or animation and both those studies are not uni degrees. They're called something else - it's probably still classes you take in college in the US, but you know our school systems are very different xD And it doesn't bother me that I'm not gonna get an uni degree 'cause in my work field, I'm not gonna need it (unless of course I choose to go back and study either Japan studies or odontology). Sure, dentists make great money and it's super prestigious to have a degree in that field, but if it's not what I really wanna end up doing, I'm certainly not gonna go for it anyway just to go for it. I would rather take my time to think it over. And I'm not even paying for school. You are. So I don't see why you would rush it and maybe end up making a mistake?
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Yup, all valid points. I think what my problem is, and I haven't told this to my parents, is I see my twin brother lazing about doing no job and getting Cs in his classes. Where as I'm gone to 11pm some nights while waking at 6 and managed to get mostly As and a few Bs. And when I compare myself to him, -the only family comparison I've got- It's easy to say I'm working too hard and if I feel unhappy at my job, I have every right to leave it. But my brother has some Aspergers and ADD and I don't know if it's fair to compare myself to him.
Heehee. Well, at least I gave you a little unexpectedness today then. Whamo, June 1st, Celt wants to punch somebody in the face!
I’ll explain a bit further how our encounter went. He was sitting in our math class, young and trying to make conversation said, “so, what are you guys looking forward to in college?” Being right in front of him by only about a meter I thought it would be rude not to answer, so I said “The freedom .” He looks at me suspiciously and goes “Freedom? Freedom to do what?” I guess he thought I was going to go there and just get high and drunk with this freedom. He asked me about where I was going and what I thought I would be doing. He talked about friends who went to school paid thousands of dollars and just dicked around for a few years. And since teachers usually encourage students to go on to a higher level of education if they think it’s right for them, I was astounded when this stranger doubted my decision. Yes, there’s people who aren’t cut out for college or who would be happier doing something else. But that’s not me. I’m probably in the top 10% of my class, have the money, am going to the best public university in the northeast US, which is reasonably priced as colleges go, and he suggests me to throw that away just because I’m not entirely sure what I want to do? Fuck him. Of course he could not know this, but it came off as him sticking his nose where it did not belong.
After about half an hour he started talking to himself again, and I was still stewing angrily in front of him with no escape, I thought heck, I don't want this guy to walk out thinking I'm just some partier. I'm smart and I deserve to go to college. So I started talking to him again, but really all he wanted to do was hear himself talk. He started talking about economics, and trying to sound smart I made a reference to that Dutch Tulip Explosion (not terribly well known among teenagers here; I just hapened to catch a few documentaries on it). And he want on and on talking about random economics things and he thinks he's educating me and he is eventually like "So I assume you are looking for something in economics then?" And I had to resist telling him that mathy stuff was the exact opposite of where I wanted to go and he went on for ten minutes about somethin I had no interest in. I just explained I was thinking something more in the liberal arts field. He was like that ship captain on the Olympia in Philly, just wanted someone to hear him. This teacher wasn't evil like that guy though.
He then spent the rest of the period talking about these 70 item matrices he had to do in college and comparing it to what we learned with 16. Of course his was harder, my dumpy little math class wasn’t designed to teach us to be Wall Street executives.
I think a difference between American style and Danish style universities are how you spend your first years. From the impression I received from you, you pick your specialization, in your case Japanese, and they sent you up on a fast track with that. Which definitely had its advantages; if you’re 100% positive you want to do Japanese stuff, you’ll get out quicker and have more time to work and build your life. In most American ones, you don’t have to ‘declare’ you major until the end of your second year and if you realize you don’t like it, it’s easy to switch. You spent the first year or two mostly on ‘General Education’ classes to round you out. Ei, even if you’re not going to be and English major, make you take three English semester classes because that’s a transferable skill that will help you express your thoughts and ideas in writing elsewhere and make you seem more intelligent and articulate. Medical schools, which after a 4 year college will accept students for training to become nurses and doctors if they score well on the doctor test, are starting to favor English majors along with biology/pre-med majors because they found the biology majors were often awkward scientists couldn’t communicate well or form bonds with patients. They did well on the tests, but they realized an English major who took a few prep classes for the test rather than four years of biology ended up being a better doctor. My dad switched from computer science to accounting when he was 25. I know enough about myself to know that at 18 my mind is still changing, rather than brainwash myself into pursuing a teaching career I don’t know I love.
And then, this guy proudly went on about how he was safe with his business and economics degree. Nay, he didn’t become an artist. He picked a nice reasonable safe finance career. But no! He then went on to say how he had no money! So now he has no money, and a career he doesn’t like! Why the hell would I want to follow his footsteps? I’ll just do what makes me happy and if a lot of money comes along the way, great,
Sure, I could sit in a circle of hipsters with a joint and say I didn’t go to college because that was too mainstream; but I certainly don’t know what else I’m going to do. There’s money and respect in trades like plumbing and electrics, but I know I don’t want to do that. “Oh, Einstein went to college?” says the leader of the hipster pot smoking ring “He therefore must be a schmuck who never accomplished anything revolutionary too.” I don’t need some drum circle calling me the ‘weak link’ for going to college just because a lot of other people do. Those stoners can go stumble after a cat laser, I don’t need their approval.
Well, I guess to sum it up, I was angry because though university isn’t the right path for everyone, I think it is the right path for me. It would be nice if I could come right out of high school and be a great historian, novelist, or artist. But I can’t, in order for that I need to learn more. And all the people I have talked to who didn’t go to college because they thought they could make good money in managing or restaurants say they’ve regretted it. Similarly to Denmark I believe, if a college grad and a high school grad do the same job in a company, the college grad gets paid more. The high school kid only gets paid more if he makes his own company or gets his money from private practice and it doesn’t matter what title he has.
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Took me a while to get to this, but I found it interesting so I had to answer xD hope you're doing well on your finals and take your time answering - if you're even gonna answer. Just focus on school ^^ oh, and the party is tomorrow, right? You must be excited 
Probably shouldn't compare yourself to him ^^' he's got his own problems and maybe school just isn't his thing. Which might also be why he might not care about it as much as you do.
Well, I wasn't there so I can't really take sides. He might have been a bit cocky and selfish and all, but it really doesn't sound to me like he was out to get you and maybe you took it a little too personal? At least when I read this, I feel no anger. Just remindsme of nu class' favorite teacher. Our history and social science teacher was fresh out of uni when we got him. He was still in debt and he had the most terrible hand writing ever and he excused himself, saying he picked it up from uni 'cause he had to hurry to get all the notes down on paper. We often talked about all if these things with him and he asked us what we wanted to do and why. But I don't know if it's just 'cause we often form sort of friendships with our teachers the older we get. We even partied with that guy. Got drunk and danced. I don't know. To me, that guy didn't sound to bad. Maybe you just misunderstood him and he came off as a prick... Or maybe - and don't take this the wrong way. You're a smart person so I'm sure you know this much already - but it seems to me you are rather easily offended when people do or say something that might sound like they're putting down your intelligence. You're a proud person, I understand, I've had these problems myself. Being proud and smart easily makes you undermine everyone around you unless they are someone you look up to. I've hurt plenty people on that account. Simply 'cause I knew I was smarter. So if they even as much as "poked" me, I'd insult them a great deal. And it wasn't fair at all, I just put them in a spot where they couldn't do anything about it 'cause what I said was true and if they fought back, I'd stomp on them some more. I'm working on that. And as I've been working in it, I've found out that sometimes, people like us think we're smarter than we actually are and end up analysing certain situations wrong and turn them to something negative. I'm not sure if I'm right here, but as said, I didn't experience this first hand. I just thought wanting to punch him was a strong feeling given the situation.
Pretty much everything is different, I can assure you xD we have "sort of" college, but it's not common to go to and I dint know anyone personally who had gone to such a school so I can't tell you if it's actually the same as the American college. When it's most common in America to go to college, in Denmark, it's morecommon to go to uni. In uni, you apply for a certain study and if you get in that's what you're going to study. You can't apply for uni, get in and then choose. A bachelor is 4-4 years and a masters is two extra years. Doctors have to study for 6 in total. Nurses don't go to uni. That's a lower education you take somewhere else and it's a shorter. Some studies require you to take a course in something else in the same fieldas your major, but yyou only study that for a semester or so if you even get it. You can study something else for you masters, but it has to relate to your bachelor and you might mot get into the studies you want 'cause bachelors who continue studying the same subject for their masters have first rights. Nobody only takes a bachelor 'cause everyone else takes masters. So you won't be able to get a job. They'll rather give the jobs to someone with a master, obviously. The university is about specializing. College isn't. So it's very far from being the same ^^ I think someone like me would enjoy college better 'cause I'm so indecisive and like many things. But that's not an option. I have to pick one field to specialize so fuck me -_-' I have no idea when I'll go back to uni 'cause I wanna make sure to choose right this time 
Well, revolutionary pot heads look down on college kids and college kids look down on pot heads and neither are definitely better than the other so no need to get or offended or look down on them. You're no better than anyone else then. I tend to look down in them too, but most of them got problems so I guess I should rather feel sorry for them. The pot heads that are not somehow sick or hurt usually go to uni to here so they're no problem xD
Ironically enough, I've never heard anyone say they regretted not going to uni. I actually think more regret going. There's no jobs for all the specialist and no one wants to hire someone fresh out of uni 'cause they no nothing besides how to read a book and write essays. Here, it's actually easier making it big if you push yourself, work hard and go for what you want as soon as possible - meaning no uni. I know a few who already owns houses, cars and apartments (no help from their parents and keep in mind that cars and houses are way more expensive here than in America). I wish I was a hard worker and the kind who would rather get dirt under my nails rather than sit in a classroom 'cause then I'd be riched already - not rich rich, but money would be no problem. As I've told you before, Danes put work before most other things. We work seriously from we're very young and keep on doing so the rest of our lives. So the adults now a days often look down upon my generation ('cause it's the generation that's been pushed to educate themselves as much as possible) 'cause most uni people can't do squat. They are useless unless you go into their field. They can't survive on nothing, they can't make fire from scratch, they can't do physically hard work, they suck at thinking for themselves and they certainly can't run a company. I guess uni people kinda become the dogs of society (dogs of the military, lol xD) All in all, they are good at things in theory, but not in practice 'cause they simply don't have the required field experience. I'm a uni person myself so I get mad when people say stuff like that, but I have to admit there's a lot of truth to it. I realize we need both uni and not uni people now. I didn't really think much of people who didn't go to uni earlier in my life, but I do now. I realize it would be better if the state didn't meddle so much and didn't kinda force students to go to uni right after the gymnasium. So, yeah, I try not to judge people for the path they choose. I just hope they're happy and we need all kinds of people in this world so it would be great if we chose different paths.
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Wooo, I’ve been a baddie at replying to you lately. But this week in school is a BS week and next-next Wednesday I’ll be graduating and free.
I remember when I sent that last message, I went into bed and wondered if I should have posted it. I sounded really entitled and superior and... it just wasn’t good feelings and I shouldn’t have bothered you with them.
Yeah, you’re probably right. It sounds a bit predatorial, but I find it safe to rank myself against others so I can make sure I’m doing alright.
I kinda wish you were there so it doesn’t seem like I’m overreacting xD. He probably was just offering advice that seemed the best, but advice that seemed the best in telling a kid not to bother being an astronaut. Being an astronaut isn’t very unrealistic. But he disobeys the advice and suddenly he gets into the NASA academy, and he’s the family’s favorite.
I think you described it well and you’re right, I’m very sensitive when it comes to matters of my intelligence and worth, and I’ll get offended if someone makes an assumption I don’t think has proof.
I remember once probably two years ago you asked me how college education worked in the united states, (how many years for bachelors’ masters in things, etc ) but I didn’t know enough to explain it to you well. Now I can say that the US and Denmark are pretty similar in this aspect. Only NJ is very strict with nurses for some reason in comparison to the other states and we make them go with the doctors and they work so hard and don’t get respect or money so I el bad for them. Here, the bachelors is much more common than the masters, and usually people go back to the masters only after working a few years. It’s also of course easier to get a job and you’ll get better pay with the master’s. But a lot of people here hesitate with the master’s because like the bachelors, it costs money. More money per year than college and most people already come out with some debt and hesitate to accumulate more. Is the masters program also free in Denmark, or is that just for bachelors education? Otherwise I don’t see a reason to stop you from going all the way up to Doctorates and then no one under 30 would work.
Oh, I’ve never been very good at feeling sorry for people. It’s a shame. I’ll blame the potheads at least a small amount if they mess up their life from drug abuse.
It might be where we live that provides the difference in viewpoints here, but I think we’ll just agree to disagree there. In my experience heard a lot more people regret not going to college than having gone.
There’s probably something similar in Denmark, but most American universities offer internships with companies –paid or unpaid- and some even require them in certain fields to graduate. This way your resume includes on the job experience rather than just knowing how to write a timed essay which you’ll never have to do again in your professional life. Sure, most university grads probably wouldn’t be able to start a fire, but they don’t necessarily need to be judged for their success in modern society by their survival skills unless they plan on living in the woods. And for many, living in the woods or in the time where they have to build their own house is what they went to university to avoid. But it was probably a bit better to be a uni grad when not everyone was doing it. Now that it’s so common in our countries, students have to work even harder, pay even more, just to differentiate themselves from the raising bar. But then it comes to a dilemma, of course it wouldn’t be good to make college (at least in the states) more elitist. The way they’re trying to rule people out is raising the costs, and that’s not good either. So I wish that university here, was if higher education was only a thousand dollars a year. (sorry I’m going on a utopian ramble now rather than continue our discussion). My mom told me, though we had some funds in place, that she wanted me to pay for a few thousand of my education each year myself. So I would ‘have some skin in the game,’ she kept saying. So college would mean something to me and I wouldn’t be so inclined to leave or not take it seriously. She didn’t want college to be the bright red ferarri given to me at 16 that I didn’t appreciate and would probably crash. But our education and government system allowing kids to have a hundred thousand in debt isnt moral either. But is it in part their fault they have a hundred thousand in debt when they need only be a few thousand in debt? What if they had just picked a more affordable college, than allowing themselves to fall in love with a really pretty flowery campus for three times the price? There’s affordable ones out there.
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