Trying to be a Pirate Or Draw me a Blank

Hello Dear Readers, So I had a idea for a post early last week but then after sitting on it for 5 days I changed my mind and decided that that would have been a stupid post! And now I don't have anything even remotely interesting to write about, which usually means that I would just say "hey its going to be a short one this week" but I did say that last week so I feel like I should at lest try and write something interesting for you so here goes I am literally going to just dig up some of my old projects and ideas, to throw at the post this week and we will see how that goes? (spoiler it goes bad so you might as while stop reading now and save yourself)

Well this went not great turns out that I don't have the documents that I thought I did and I do not have time to recreate them, so here is my pet project this term.
Being a vet student in the Caribbean means that you absolutely need one thing, a pirate flag! Now obviously I don't have just buckets of free time so it takes some time for me to decide what works and what looks good, now this started because 1. I felt like it would be fun to have a pirate flag hanging on my apartment, 2. since there is a large banner of Nic cage hanging in one of the buildings on campus, I wanted to make a Nic cage flag since he is the patron saint of SGU.
This is what came from that endeavor

This one is pretty bad but I liked the skull

 This one was better but still not great

Since I already had the stuff together I had another Idea for a more vet/Grenada and this one is what came out of that, (this took about 8 weeks of very very rarely working on it)

but this still looked like crap but I let it sit for a couple of weeks during midterms and the following weeks, but we had that long weekend so I jumped back on this purely selfish project and see if I could sort this out.






So I started by figuring out the V I wanted it to be a bit more medical while still trying to keep a realistic feel, so this is what came of that.
Then I turned to the center peace the Heartskull (fun fact I used a dog heart as a base) then I needed a bit more behind that in the center I started with just lines but I didn't like how clean that looked so I went with period fishing spears and that fit so nicely.
Finally I needed to put all of this together and make a flag (or at least a mock up of a flag) which lead to another small problem where do I put everything, I liked that fraction look that the last prototype, but I wanted to have a better balance so I staggered them across the flag, I really like the way this one turned out.
Sorry this one was pretty random, the next week will hopefully be better, it will also be the last scheduled post this term so I will make sure it is on time. TTFN

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The art of Snake catching Or cultural cross reference!

This last week was mostly uneventful other then studying for the first Quiz, (quiz = small test) most people seem nervous about it. However I feel like its coming more from the strict testing procedures then the material it's self, but we will see Tomorrow how it goes.
So what did happen this week well one yesterday was one of my classmates (and Fellow Tennessean) birthday there was a nice party, cake, I made Sweet tea which is already becoming something I talk about far to much, along with other southern tropes (hey I like the south). Moving on to the other thing that happened, I went snake hunting with the herpetology club which was very fun we where driven (almost to quickly) to Grand Etang where we where split up in to groups and sent down trails, oh did I mention it was dark, and it had rained the day before (MUD!) this lead to lots of almost falling over even when standing still. I almost slide right in to a stream, lucky I didn't and we went on looking for snakes, unfortunately we did not catch any and by we I mean my group one of the other groups did get one. my group did hear some monkeys, one lizard, some bats, a bird, a frog, a male and a female wolf spider (not in the same place), a scorpion, and a Opossum.
Well I think that's it for this week sorry it's so short I will be sure to have more news and adventure next week, But in till then just remember Do Not Go Walking in the Jungle After Dark Alone, Bring your friends.
Also Photos are very hard to take on rough roads in a moving van but I did my best here you go.