In our most recent meeting, Isabella and I  got to work on putting together her digital story about crew. We now have videos and pictures of professional rowers and their coaches, photographs of Vassar’s crew team, and a few images from Poughkeepsie High School. Isabella brought in the transcripts from her interviews with her teammates. We began to extract quotes from those interviews and spliced the text in between the images. We found some other entertaining quotes about crew on this website. Isabella liked these three in particular:

“Rowers do more before 8:00am than most people do all day.” — Rowing Shirt Logo

“Real athletes row. Everyone else just plays games.” — Rowing Shirt Logo

“Crew is life … everything else is just details.” — Racing Shirt Logo

We also interviewed Fiona about her experiences rowing. (Shout out to Emily and Fiona who are making an awesome movie trailer – Isabella and I got to try out our acting skills, which are sorely lacking on my part, and play supporting roles! You can read more about their project here). Next class we are going to put in the last of the quotes and photos and write Isabella’s narration! We still have a lot of work to do but I am so happy about all the progress we made!