Lefty #5

I'm sorry everyone. I have been getting really lazy and I have been procrastinating a lot. I was suppose to go to Taylor's house and film some more left handed tasks. I am planning to go to her house soon and then once I film I will edit. I am thinking of playing ping pong and using the remote control at her house. So far I think I am getting better at using my left hand but it just takes a long time too do thing the right way... not too shabby..

http://www.anythinglefthanded.co.uk/being-lh/lh-info/advantages.html

This link shows some of the advantages of having a dominant left hand. Playing sports, multitasking and being more artistic are a few of these advantages. I definitely agree with the one about playing sports because while I play field hockey I feel stronger and I can rely more on my left hand to take control of the ball in tight situations.

Lefty #4

So far I have spent about 2 hours practicing every day tasks with my left hand I have even moved the mouse from my right side to my left! I has not been an easy transition. it required much more focus and time. I now have to actually think about forming letters instead of memorizing sentences. I have also started combing my hair with my left hand which was a lot harder than it seemed. I realized how weak my left arm is and that I cant easily move a comb through my hair. Opening doors with my left hand requires brain power and it is unnatural but hopefully by the end of my 20 hours these tasks will be easier.

Lefty #3

I started to add music to my video!! It was really exciting and I choose the song according to what each clip was about. I figured out how to cut the music to a specific place in the song and to place it in time with each video clip. It was fun finding the type of music that fit the theme of each clip. Unfortunately I found out the hard way that if you change the music in the beginning of the video then all the music after it changes. That was really annoying because I changed the music multiple times over the course of 3 days and that made the other music messed up so I ended up correcting my whole video... Over the course of 3 days it took about 3 hours to properly crop and edit the music to my video clips. From now on i am going to make sure that i perfect the videos in the front so i wont have to change it later and mess up the music.

Lefty #2

I have uploaded the video clips onto movie maker which was hard to find at first. I have never used movie maker before so I had to learn how to transfer videos from my phone to movie maker. Once I figured that out I had to rearrange the videos into the right order. I started to fall in love with movie maker because when you click on a video it automatically gives you options of trimming the video or transitions which make the clips easy to edit. Although it was simple it took me a long time to figure out how movie maker worked and to trim all the videos to the right size. It was about an hour to complete these steps.

Lefty notes #1

For my Dream Big Project I have decided to become proficient in everyday activities with my left hand. To add to that I will also research about video editing so I can make my video interesting and fun! I am getting my cast off soon so Allison Miller helped me record challenging things I do with it on. It took about an an hour and a half to create all the video clips plus some extras just in case. Allison's acting added a lot of humor to my video and I  am really excited to upload and work on the video clips in movie maker.

Lefty for dayyyz

"Life is tough" is what my dad always says. It was #Game Day for field hockey against Mission Hills. We were winning by 1 and it was the second half of the game. I was running to the ball when a Mission Hills player stepped in front of me, she turned around and swung full force I quickly saw the ball and hit it out of the way. It was so fast that the player did not realize the ball was gone. She ended up hitting my right thumb. At first it hurt but I didn't think much of the injury. I had been hit multiple times in the same spot but it always healed by the next morning. After winning the game I  went home and inspected my thumb. It seemed as though my thumb had become pregnant because it was purple and swollen. The next day I went to the doctor and he confirmed that it was broken and that I needed a cast for 3 weeks. Life with a cast was no as easy as it seems. Yes, I did get out of coping notes in class but it made everyday life activities much harder.