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As I am nearing the end of the school year, the seniors will be graduating soon. More, specifically next week. One of my school's traditions is to make stoles for the seniors. People will volunteer to paint and draw stuff that represents the senior they are making the stole for. I volunteered to do 3 stoles, but I did not realize how much time it would take. I did the first stole and I think it took me about 6 hours to complete. I am very much a perfectionist and wanted it to be perfect and very clean looking, so I spent a lot of time doing that. I also painted everything which I think made it harder. I was getting very stressed about the other two stoles because I had other school work to do as well. I asked one of my friends if she could help me do half of one of the stoles. She sketched out everything that I wanted to include in the stole. I was super grateful for this as some of the drawings on there were a little more complicated. When it came time to paint the last two stoles I asked my sister to help me to paint. She painted one stole, and I painted the other and did some clean-up on the one she worked on. It took us about 6 hours to do but we got it done. I was so thankful that she helped me because I did not know how I was going to get both stoles done and the rest of my homework. I am really proud of how the three stoles turned out. I really enjoy painting so I did like the process of making the stoles because I haven't found time to paint for pleasure. I also really like making stoles because I get to be creative in the composition of it and it is very satisfying when it comes our really nice. Painting the last two stoles with my sister was also a great bonding time for us because we haven't spent as much time together due to our busy schedules. 

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