Oh, boy.
Just bought allll my lovely art supplies for Art 101 and 171 (Experiences in Art and Digital Image Manipulation). Vanessa was too good to me, giving me a ride to Target to gather all this junk the Profs have required of me. She bought some snacks for our dorm while we were there, and we also stopped by Kinko's and Sonshine (where I saw so. many. books I wanted to buy, but I held off! BE PROUD OF ME, mother and father).
She's going to be gone most of tomorrow to work and to see her fam; me? I'm going to be stuck here on campus; but I am one of those people who can find so many things to do alone, so it's not a big deal. It IS my first weekend here, after all.
I'm going to rearrange my dorm a bit, for one. Go down to the campus bookstore and rectify a few textbook issues. Get somewhere on my Kie outline, finish Neverwhere, work on RE, watch a DVD, watch Muse at Glastonbury, SLEEP... that'll cover a Saturday. Then Sunday Vanessa and I have decided to go see a movie together at the Spectrum. Yay!
She is very cool, I feel lucky to have her as a roomie. I've met some other spiffy people who I see around relatively often: Kelly who's workstudying at the library and has both Art and Sociology with me, Rori who is a sci-fi nut (yay! they exist here!) in Freshman Sem, etc. I am still not one of those people who talks well and makes friends supereasy, but I think I'm going to be okay. It is sort of unavoidable, in a way, on such a small campus. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed, sometimes I feel like I'm dealing just fine. For it being the first week of classes, though, I don't think there's anything to be worrying about.
As for classes themselves... the most challenging look to be Nature of Mathematics (211) and Digital Image Manip (two portfolios we gotta put together!), but all my professors are very cool, and I'm looking forward to getting into the meat of things. Writing and Research is going to be a breeze. So is Sociology. Oh! We get to write a Soc essay on a movie of our choice later in the semester! Gee... I wonder what movie Ali likes that would lend itself so gracefully to said analysis? All that time spent on TMC is going to pay off, I tell you. ;)
Anyway, Mother and Father - I should be getting my new RELEVANTmag in the mail soon, and I was hoping you could forward it my way? I need my Relevant. I heart it.
At least I have the online articles to keep me edified for now. Already, after just a week up here, I feel my relationship with God being challenged and stretched. I'm happy for it. I love feeling like I'm moving forward. Back home, during the last couple of years of high school, I felt very stagnant. That's part of the reason I pushed myself to get out on my own. I knew there would be difficulties, especially being such an introvert, but I wanted to face them and get through them, learn from them and grow from them. And I know God, my family, my friends - everyone's got my back. Which is more comforting than I can say. So thanks to all of you for your continued support.
She's going to be gone most of tomorrow to work and to see her fam; me? I'm going to be stuck here on campus; but I am one of those people who can find so many things to do alone, so it's not a big deal. It IS my first weekend here, after all.
I'm going to rearrange my dorm a bit, for one. Go down to the campus bookstore and rectify a few textbook issues. Get somewhere on my Kie outline, finish Neverwhere, work on RE, watch a DVD, watch Muse at Glastonbury, SLEEP... that'll cover a Saturday. Then Sunday Vanessa and I have decided to go see a movie together at the Spectrum. Yay!
She is very cool, I feel lucky to have her as a roomie. I've met some other spiffy people who I see around relatively often: Kelly who's workstudying at the library and has both Art and Sociology with me, Rori who is a sci-fi nut (yay! they exist here!) in Freshman Sem, etc. I am still not one of those people who talks well and makes friends supereasy, but I think I'm going to be okay. It is sort of unavoidable, in a way, on such a small campus. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed, sometimes I feel like I'm dealing just fine. For it being the first week of classes, though, I don't think there's anything to be worrying about.
As for classes themselves... the most challenging look to be Nature of Mathematics (211) and Digital Image Manip (two portfolios we gotta put together!), but all my professors are very cool, and I'm looking forward to getting into the meat of things. Writing and Research is going to be a breeze. So is Sociology. Oh! We get to write a Soc essay on a movie of our choice later in the semester! Gee... I wonder what movie Ali likes that would lend itself so gracefully to said analysis? All that time spent on TMC is going to pay off, I tell you. ;)
Anyway, Mother and Father - I should be getting my new RELEVANTmag in the mail soon, and I was hoping you could forward it my way? I need my Relevant. I heart it.
At least I have the online articles to keep me edified for now. Already, after just a week up here, I feel my relationship with God being challenged and stretched. I'm happy for it. I love feeling like I'm moving forward. Back home, during the last couple of years of high school, I felt very stagnant. That's part of the reason I pushed myself to get out on my own. I knew there would be difficulties, especially being such an introvert, but I wanted to face them and get through them, learn from them and grow from them. And I know God, my family, my friends - everyone's got my back. Which is more comforting than I can say. So thanks to all of you for your continued support.