Metacognition: Mind Book Entry

        This past week when doing my mind book entry I realized something about myself. It was something that was there all along. It was something I knew before, but had just forgot. I realized I am creative.
        Most people can be creative, some more so than others. I am a very creative person and I love to do creative things, but I had forgot that. The last time I was given an assignment that was basically unstructured and creative was probably art class in middle school. Looking back at my high school career I wish I hadn't waited until senior year to take a class where I can do creative things. Doing an assignment in my mind book reminded me of my childhood when I used to love doing arts and crafts.
       When I first learned about the mindbook I was nervous because while I had some ideas and some of the projects interested me, I didn't think I could come up with enough ideas to complete all the assignments and make it through the year. I looked through the ideas of for mindbook assignments and changing a picture was the one that caught my eye. When I was down town over the summer, I was looking at the fountain in Millenium Park with the different faces, and I got the idea of putting together different faces to make one face. I started off by printing eyes, a nose and a mouth from different pictures. I soon realized that I used pictures of people from all different races. I decided to color the face and hair all different colors too so there was no destinction of race.
        Creating this first project and seeing my creativity come alive inspired me. I then thought, "how can I personalize my mindbook so it will be different from everyone else's." The one thing that came to me is that most people will write about music in their mind books, but no one will actually have music. I used one of those talking greeting cards to make a contraption that would sing everytime my mindbook was opened to my cover page. To my surprise it worked perfectly. So, now when ever Mr. Allen grades my mindbook he can enjoy that timeless tune by the classy group The Baha Men.
        I'm glad that I have restored faith in my creative abilitites. They were there all along. All they needed was a little stimulation and the mindbook did just that, but I guess that's why we do them- to get the creative juices flowing. Now I am looking forward to completing future mindbook assignments and have no fear about not coming up with new ideas.