Bella+Z

= Bella Z. = ===Bella Z. was born in Sterling Heights, Michigan in July. She wants to go to college and become a pre-school teacher. She loves little kids! One day she wants to go to Italy. Maybe she can eat her favorite food, pasta! The hardest fear she has ever faced was jumping off the high dive when she was only six years old. Maybe that's why she likes to swim in her spare time! ===

I am from endless bowls of pasta. secret recipes and ingredients. Flour, sugar, and spices galore! I am from mouthwatering potatoes and pork like never before. My dad’s grilling brings the hole neighborhood to our house. I am from broken bones and bleeding cuts. Bruises and scars that last forever. I am from dancing and swimming, to bike riding. They have schedules beyond belief. Homemade Halloween costumes and artistic face painting. “Trick or treat,” and “YUM!” I am from dreams and wishes that make my life wonderful!
 * I Am From **

** Similes **

My voice is as dreadful as Hades and his obstreperous underworld full of dead souls.

I was drowning faster than a raging cheetah, which had not eaten for days, hunting for food.

The Red Cross is as important as fitting in and making a good impression, on your first day of junior high.

The blood on the shuddering man was as dark as my mother’s cherry blossom lipstick.

Gracie’s wedding dress was as graceful and delicate as the clouds floating up in heaven. Artist Statement I am an artistic, humble, outgoing girl who will not stop until her dreams come true. One big dream of mine has been inspired by my autistic brother. He inspires me to become a special education teacher. Along with loving teaching, I express myself through music, dance, and photography. I have been taking dance classes since I was five years old and have loved it ever since. I have taken ballet, jazz, musical theatre, and hip-hop. Music is also a big part of my life. I began playing the flute when I was in sixth grade. I have been addicted to my flute ever since I started. When I play my flute, it’s like I am in my own little world. When I grow up I don’t want to be a professional photographer, but I love to take random pictures everywhere I go. I love to take pictures because I want to make memories. I chose to make a collage because I felt like I could explain myself better using pictures. I did not want to just glue pictures on a piece of paper. I traced my silhouette and pasted pictures that really represent me and who I am. I prefer to draw, paint, and take pictures than to sit down and write. Pictures are colorful and unique, just like me. I want people to see that the pictures on my collage are neat and fill-in every inch of blue space. I am a neat freak, so I wanted my project to represent that. My collage shows that I am diverse. Pictures of all the different seasons are on my poster because I love all the seasons. This project shows all the different sides of me and what I truly am. The main point of my project is that I am unique. I think my readers will see that my project represents my uniqueness because I didn’t just put random pictures of things I like; I put pictures of items that I felt would represent me. I put a picture of an Ipod, for example, on the collage not because I own an Ipod but because it represents music. The flower on my collage isn’t just there because it’s pretty, and I like it. It’s there because it’s meant to represent the fact that I love nature. The Wii games aren’t my favorite Wii games. They are on the collage to represent the fact that my family plays those games together, and I love spending time with my family. One last example is of the present located on my nose. It is a wrapped gift. This isn’t meant to show that I love receiving presents, although I do, it’s meant to show that I am a giver. The biggest struggle I encountered while working on my collage was not being able to put all aspects of myself on the collage. For example, I could not find a picture that represented my sense of humor. I did not want to put a picture that was not out of a magazine on my collage. In result, I was not able to put a picture of me and my best friend even though our relationship is very important to me. I do think this project represents my best effort because I took my time, completing the collage over several weeks, and made sure everything was perfect. For example, if you look closely at the collage, you will see little to no blue space, and the pictures seem to be lined up in horizontal rows. The pictures that are glues diagonally or slanted are glued that way because it filled up the blue space. The part of this project that I am most proud of is how much effort I put into the selecting, cutting, and pasting of the pictures. I took my time and did the best that I could. I scanned through dozens of magazines to find these pictures. If I were to do this project again, I would change how I pasted the pictures onto the poster board. I know a collage has pictures overlapping each other, but I don’t like that. Next time, I will not overlap any pictures. To make this project easier, I should’ve cut out all the pictures first and then glued them on. Instead, I cut out a picture then glued it onto the poster board, then repeated that same step over and over. I would’ve gotten done a lot faster if I cut out all the pictures then glued them on.