Origami DYP

During Discover Your Potential Days, Origami was taught by Ms. Ahlgren. In Origami, we folded paper of course. Origami is the Japanese art of folding paper. The meaning of ori is folding and the gami means paper, so you really are just folding paper. In the class we transformed a flat square paper to a super duper cool piece of art. On the first day we made a crane...At first it was hard then after we had finished it, she let us explore the vast origami world.
Interesting facts about origami according to life123.com:
1. 250,000 paper cranes were folded and displayed in Hiroshima, Japan as a memorial to the bombing of Hiroshima in World War II.
2. Akira Naito of Japan made the world’s smallest paper crane measuring a 0.1-by-0.1-mm square of paper.
3. In 1999, the Wings for Peace organization made the world’s largest crane weighing a monstrous weight of 1,750 pounds, and a whopping height of 215 feet in the air.
4. Christian Dior, a famous fashion designer, chose a Japanese and origami theme for his Haute Couture collection in 2007.
5. Many buildings in Japan have a sharp origami look to them.

I liked this class because we got to choose what we made. Ms. Ahlgren would help us if we needed help with any kind of project. I also liked this class because she let us talk while we were working; it was sometimes silent and sometimes loud. I would recommend this class to people who have a lot of patience or who would like to develop patience and to anyone who would like to start a great new hobby. This class was a new way to let go of yourself and learn something new or get better at it. I think that if Discover Your Potential Days ever happened again, this class should be in it. It was one of the highlights of my first and last DYP Days here at Blatchley.