I haven't written a blog post in nearly a month. I don't have a particularly good excuse for this, besides laziness and possible busy-ness. It's now the second month of the school, the third week, and I'm finally getting in to the swing of things.
This is my first semester ever taking art classes. I have to take all the foundation courses, which are basically every medium 101 (for example, there's one for drawing, painting, sculpture, and photography). Most of the students in those classes are freshman, with age ranges from 16-19. Yeah, there's a sixteen-year-old in my photo class. I don't feel old or super behind or anything. I'm the oldest person besides the teacher in these classes. Anyway, these classes are only half a semester long, so in total I was taking four of them this semester. I have to take six before I can move on to the real classes. I am now taking three this semester and I will take the other three next semester. I'll explain why I dropped one. I dropped the drawing class. Not because I hate drawing still lifes (that's actually the plural of still life and I do hate them). My teacher was 1.) a bro and 2.) listened to the most awful dubstep during class. How am I supposed to create art when I have to listen to dubstep? Besides that, he wasn't the best teacher. I wasn't sure what he wanted me to accomplish from the assignments and didn't really give a lot of feedback. So I dropped the class and will take it next semester, ideally with a different teacher.
The other foundation class that I'm currently in is awesome, though. It's the photography one and it's super fun and wonderful. We had our first critique of our first assignment yesterday, which I was super nervous about. I was feeling confident about my work until I saw everyone else's and saw mine up on a wall from a distance. There were some seriously cool pieces. We had to make collages of a special place; I'll post a photo of mine when I get it back from my teacher. Anyway, when we finally got to mine during the critique, people actually had almost entirely good things to say about it, including my teacher! There were definitely people who did better than me, but there also were people who didn't do as well as the rest of us. I'm feeling much more confident about my photography abilities. Our next assignment is to make a pin hole camera and take a series of photos about an alternate universe. It's going to be really cool and I have a few ideas that I definitely need to start working them out on paper.
I've realized that this blog post is definitely very rambling, but I feel like I need to talk about EVERYTHING I've done in the last three weeks or however long it's been since I last wrote a post. So I shall continue.
I got a new job the week before school started. I miss Safe Ride, no doubt about it. I had a lot of fun there and had some amazing coworkers. The schedule was killing me though. There was no way I could have continued working until 1:00 AM and still get my act together in the morning before school. My new job has a great schedule and I can do my homework or watch TV or movies and listen to music while I'm there. I work at the Information Desk so I'm still helping my fellow students, just in a different way. It's really nice and I definitely am enjoying it. It's also pretty cool being able to just come home after school instead of work. It's nice to have the evening to unwind and relax.
So school is going really well so far. Even so, I can't wait until Christmas so I can go back to New Hampshire. I'm definitely missing it a lot. I'm feeling very homesick lately. It's tough being so close to being able to move back permanently, yet still being so far. I'm eagerly awaiting the day I can move back home, for good.
Sorry again for the super long, super boring blog post. I'll do my absolute best to post more often and post more interesting things. I hope everyone else is having a good time at school or work, and as always have a beautiful day.
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