Culture shock

Just when it is almost time to toilet paper my own house for the project, my father wakes me up at 6 am in the morning.

"You might want to see this...maybe you can use it for your practicum."

I wake up and go outside.
My neighbors car was trashed with toilet paper and their light pole that is between their driveway and doorway was broken.
I went out there with my cell phone recording this for another character named Josh.

It seems as though I am pretty fortunate these days.
Well it's unfortunate that my neighbors car got trashed, but it really represents how American culture is I suppose.

Although high school students trash people's homes when they have a crush...I think this certain incident might have been done through hatred...
Well I am not really sure though because I don't really know what goes through the minds of people who trash someone's house.
What I do know is that it seems a little too extreme.

The more I do this project I am noticing a lot of strange things that humans do.

Then I think to myself how weird people are including myself.

***Update
My neighbors daughter's friend trashed her car out of love.
Okay, now I am amazed with how people interact in American culture.

Public Performance

My first public performance for my character was a great success.
Many people seemed shocked and they were staring at me and pointing fingers.
It was really a very strange experience.
Somehow there were others who saw Kitsune.Suzuki's hair color and it triggered a conversation about what colors they wanted to dye their hair.

Below was the conversation that was heard.

A: Oh my god! Look at that!!!
B: (The girl looks trying not to be obvious) Her hair!
A: That's so cool! What color do you want to color yours?
B: I think purple...what about you?
A: I don't know...so hard to choose.

I found that funny.
There was also a family who started talking to me, but my other "fabricated characters" that were with Kitsune.Suzuki told them that she does not understand English very well.
They were wondering if her hair was a wig or natural.
The other characters told them they don't know, but her hair has been that color ever since they've known her.
They were amazed.

This triggers some interesting aspects about humans.
I also had experiences when I was tricked into believing things that were fabricated, but rather than getting upset I usually realize more things about myself.
Humans have the ability to believe in something that is so fake that it really makes me question many things.
Is it because deep down we're still pure and innocent.
Or is it because we are becoming one with advanced media culture?

Even though Kitsune.Suzuki was in physical space people believed her to exist.
I believe the other character's were a larger part of making this performance more "real."

I am really interested in creating more characters while incorporating real people so they become characters of this digital folklore.

This is giving me a headache though.

last 5 weeks

This last five weeks Kitsune.Suzuki will go through a complete different phase of her life.
She has lost the love of her life that she becomes a little bit crazy in a sense.
Her video journals would consist other characters and she will decide to explore more outside of her bedroom.

Unlike her culture after a break-up she will not cut her hair, instead she will go through the stages of eating enormous amounts of ice cream or cookie dough like an American woman.

There will be more things coming up.

9th week/ 5th week

So my senior project has been going on for about 9 weeks now and this quarter is in 5th week, which means in 5 weeks I need to somehow conclude the first half of the project.

Kitsune.Suzuki has over 100 pen pals and I personally feel stressed about it for some reason.
E-mails are taking a rather long time to organize.
She replies to all her e-mails which is surprising because if I were the character I would not...
It is interesting because sometimes the characteristics I have given her has been affecting me even though we have completely different personalities.

I need to update more about the character as well as my own identity.

(to be continued)