A Tour of My Notebook.

I thought that since I have not written much about my school time so far here in Germany, I would give my readers a full tour of my school notebook, complete with full color photos and even a video!


This is the first page of my notebook. You can see that I had attempted to actually take notes and understand what was going on, but I gave up pretty fast, in this case a history lesson that went right over my head. (this was still the beginning of school). One day when I was just doodling, I rememebered doing this cool designs in math class a long time ago, so I thought I would try to do it again, and it worked. I created this one using a ruler and a pen, all of the lines you see are straight! Unfortunatly, it was not perfect because someone (I won't write his name for his own protection) decided to add a few of his own lines.


This next page is a rare site in my notebook, an entire page full of writing, almost completly lacking doodles (I don't know why I had to go and highlight my name in the bottom corner, ruining an otherwise pristine page of work). The next page in the notebook is covered halfway with writing on the same subject, and without any doodles. It may look great, a whole page of writing about a Franz Kafka parable, but it is in English and it was for the most part incorrect.


This design is one of my favorites. The sheet started out as notes on the formation of volcanoes, but once I lost track of what was going on, I think I mentally gave up on the notes and started doodling. the color was an afterthought, and I didn't finish it because I am not yet sure if these drawings are better left black and white or not. I think it would make a great stained-glass window.


I sincerely thought that this was the given assignment that day in German. We were told to listen to a parable from Franz Kafka and write down pictures that we get out of it. I guess in German, the word for picture is the same for "word picture", so in the end I was wrong, once again. For a little background info, the parable was about how the narrarator would love to be an Indian, blah blah blah. (I say that only because I didn't understand much more than the title.).


This masterpiece took a few class periods to complete. It was done completely freehand. Unlike other doodles, this one has it's own dedicated page. I opened to a new page to start taking notes, but there were no notes for me to take, so I did a little doodle, then I opened to it again the next class to take notes, and again there were no notes, so I started to expand the doodle to fill the page.


This last page is a page of notes from Philosophy class. I felt bad that I was doing so much doodling, so I decided to aim my doodles towards the class subject. Because the school makes you choose between philosphy or religion, I thought evolution would be fair game. I like how my little comic strip came up, and I even made a video of it!

Go here for the video.