Back to Learnin’

School started February first. We couldn’t have been more excited. THIS time, we were going to school cause we wanted to. Never been so anxious about school like this before. I gave myself a couple of weeks to prepare. Order school supplies, check. Backpack, check. Walking shoes, check. Umbrella, check. Schedule, check. I was all ready. Supplies were insanely expensive but thankfully, I’ll be using all of them. You wouldn’t think pencils would cost so much.

So school started and I didn’t have all of my supplies yet, some were on back order. I got 3 different shipments, a big one, a medium one, and the last one, was ridiculous, to say the least. The last item back-ordered was a blue photo paper pencil. ONE pencil. In one BIG box. You wonder where those shipping charges go. I was like “um…hello?! envelope??? anyone?!” Check it out, it’s crazy. I mean, all that plastic? for this? As if the pencil’s is gonna break?! What a waste!

Moving on…

The weeks have been nice, sometimes a little hectic cause we’re out all day and come back late at night just to hit the pillow (at least I do). I love having a schedule and having enough time to do homework but I do wish we had the time to do more, isn’t that always the case?

People are nice, teachers are nice, the buildings are great! The equipment is fantastic. Material…good. The city’s just filled with people who seem to always be “on the clock”. The kids at school are my favorite part. Everyone seems to cry out for attention and individuality. And at times it seems really ridiculous, other times it seems nice to be around an environment where no one cares what you look like, wear, sound like, what color you are, what color you hair is or your sexual preference, religion or ethnicity. That’s probably my favorite part. They express themselves, however, sometimes a little too “loud”.

By my second week I learned that an iPod is your best friend, (unless you have free text messaging on your phone, which I don’t) around public (& busy) environments or (possible) awkward encounters with strangers. What I find most amusing, is how people react around others. When I take the bus to my building, (leaving Ryan behind for a few hours at the library) unless we get there early, I’m forced to ride with a buncha socially awkward kids (I’m a kid too, I’m aware of that thankyouverymuch), who are uncomfortable to look at you in the eye when you sit across from them. Everyone walks around with headphones creating a bubble around them, keeping everyone else out of it, even if you’re sitting so close to each other, you can smell their shampoo, or worse, their breath (eeeck!).

I wish I had a camera just to capture it. As soon as you step into the bus, I mean immediately, no joke, everyone pulls out either their iPods or their phones. You can still feel the awkwardness as everyone tries not to meet eyes. So I became one of those kids, (I had to). I got tired of the silence and often meaningless conversations around me (although sometimes they are so stupid, they are SO amusing) and actually this terribly annoying CA (?) way of talking a lot of young girls have…I mean what is this?!

As far as the iPod goes, it’s like a soundtrack of my days. It’s quite enjoyable, when you know there’s all this noise around you but all you hear is The Andrew Sisters going “shoo shoo shoo baby…”.

Ryan gets my lunch on Tuesdays (thanks honeybaybee) and we spend 15 minutes together right before I go to my next class. After, we walk around the city and maybe have a bite before his 7pm class. That’s usually my homework time. We spend a lot of time at the library waiting for each other to get out of classes, either doing homework or working on something else. The facilities are great, you can come and go whenever, use the labs paid the fee. They have a free gym and free dance and exercise classes which I tried (not so great).

Needless to say, life is good and thank God for it. We’re more than blessed and are very grateful for such an opportunity. It’s nice going to school together. It’s pretty nice to talk about what went on in class, funny moments, comments with students or teachers, and to see each other during our breaks.

I do wish there were more people our age though. Everyone’s too scared or shy to communicate, it makes it hard to interact with others. It’s weird to see teachers our age teaching, *sigh* if only we had gotten our degrees earlier….but I wouldn’t change anything, I love how everything has turned out :) Thank you Jee-ay-sus!

I may post some of my funny/awkward moments if I remember them. Oh yeah, we’re both going to Art School at the Academy of Art in San Fran.

Toodles! Smile before the camera!

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