(This post was delayed in production it was written about a week ago, but that's OK :) ) Hi everyone its the start of the new school year. I'm now on semester three of my college experience. its the third day of classes and I have had all of then by now and some of them twice. So far everything's seeming to be working out great. but lets back up to the end of last year, my last post promesses a wrap up of my impressions from year one. I never got around to that as i got busy enjoying being back in Seattle. I feel however that this is still a good thing to reflect back on my last year as I start my second year.
My First year was a mixed bag, and I'm going to say more bad then good. It was hard leaving Seattle, I never realized how much I loved the place I grew up in until I left and it was hard moving away, harder then I thought it would be. I missed my family, i missed my house and i missed my freainds who for the most part were all havering a great time back in Seattle at the University of Washton or a community college in the area. I felt stuck down here missing out on all the fun things and normal college life my freainds were having without me. I also found out that you are capable of missing a entire city. I had no idea that it was possible to miss a whole city. I mean i missed even the things i don't really like about Seattle, like the bus system. I think the move was so hard for two reasons, one I have never lived anywhere except Seattle, anywhere i would have gone would have been hard because of that. the second reason is that CCA largely is a commuter school, sure there are freshman dorms on campus but there new and by in large, most people live off campus in Oakland or the bay area. the school does not have a community, not really. there are no clubs, there are no communal dining hall so there is really very little sence of a community around the school, I think the feeling of CCA is closer to a community college then a university or even a small school. In fact I think that there was more of a community at my high school then there is here. For someone like me a person who gets on well with people but is really a introvert it was hard to meet people, even harder to meet people that I atchely would want to be freainds with. It wasent all bad tho, My classes (- one or two) were great. I lived for my classes, I was finally getting the instruction and support in my work and art education that I really wanted. Something that I knew I could not get back in Seattle (trust me, I looked. a lot). I am in one of the best jewelery/metal programs in the USA (also one of the longest running programs - this year marks the 100 year jewelry has been offered at CCA!) on top of that the bay area is humming with technology, if something new is happing in the tech world it probley started or is based somewhere around here. This would include Apple, Google, pixar, and Adobe as just a start, that's really exciting to be around. So most of last year I was torn. Socially being here sucked, but education wise, and corear wise this is the place I have to be. I think this year will be better so far it looks as if all my classes are going to be great. I'm out of the dorms witch is awesome on so many levels (yea good nights sleep, having a real kitchen and not being surrounded my crazy artist who think its great fun to run yelling down the hall at 3 in the morning.) I think I will start to really get involved in my jewelry department and get to know the people there better, along with the tech people on campus (the students not the staff). I'm still not ruling out the possibility of transfuring schools there are several that are more of a standered college with great jewlery programs on the east cost, but for now I'm here and going to try to make the most of it.
I'm also going to give you a little update on my Summer. Witch was long and awesome. I went back to Seattle as soon as I could, My dad drove down to pick up me and lots of my stuff and then we had a nice three day drive back part of the way on the cost. 
(A beach on the way)
lots of my freainds were still in school but that was fine i hung out on campus with them and pretend to be a normal college student. Some highlights were checking up with my best Friends, 
Feeding a Graff during a large joint Zoo birthday, 
working in my garden witch even thought it was kind of cold all winter did well, and getting all my jewelry photographed by a good freands and great photographer,
along with getting all the hard stuff done for my NEW website (also hosed by Wordpress!) that will act as a online portfolio (Its not up yet but I will tell you all when it is!)
Now back to this school year, as i said above i have had all my classes by now. Heres my schuagle 
it looks a bit weird but I think I will like it. Notice that I don't have any class on Friday (Three day Weekends every week!), and i have morning classes all the rest of the days. I'm a bit wearid in the fact that I like having morning classes, if i don't i will not get up and then i don't get anything done and feel lazy.
the First class I had on Tuesday I was almost late to, not a great start to the year but in my defense i had just found out that i could join it 20 minuets before it started so... Its Media history, every major (just about) has one I'm not surprising taking the history of jewelry. I have never had the teacher although he is one of the jewelry teachers, but i will be having him a lot this semester as if you look at the schuagle he also co-teachers the workshop class. the class only has jewelry majors in it witch is kind of cool and looks like it will be interesting but a bit hard as there is going to be a ton of reading to go with it. its also going to be really broad as there is a TON of history to jewelry, Jewelry is the first form of abstract ideas put into practice, it came before cave paintings. So there a lot of significant history there.
the class after that on Tuesdays/Thursdays is Jewelry Two A, taught by Marilyn DaSilva who taught my intro jewelry class and happens to be the head of department, I'm excited to have her again but the class is huge like 17 people, im thinking a few might drop but for now its a full class - not everyone is a jewelry major although there are some new people to my year and a few that are just repeating for whatever reasons. the class only has three projects but as you can emmagain they are big deal projects, and we have already started on the first called the Thimble project, the idea is to make a thimble (working or not) for someone famous (sorry mom I was going to make a thimble for you but...) some of the people who have been done in the past are lady Gaga, Emelia Earhart and the guy who invented mining lanterns. I think im going to do Lillian Moller Gilbreth (Click on her name if you want the Wiki page) she was a really awesome and busy lady, somewhat obscure and will allow me to make a functional thimble (hey mom maybe you will end up with a cool thimble!) but the thimble is only half this project as the presentation is about 50% of it, its a bit odd because I often don't have to think about setting, but in this case i have to. anyway its going to be a shot projects, at only two weeks long.
then there is my last class of the day. It's in SF so as soon as 3 comes I'm out of jewelry and heading down to chech the shuttle to the other campus the ride takes about 30 minutes. this is the first class i have had on the SF campus and so that will be interesting. I did not love this class as soon as I got there, its the into class for both Interior design and Architecture however lots of other majors take it such as ID major as its a basic class on space, planing and all that. I'm not found of the teacher or the class room, someone decided that having classrooms that were all contented and open was a good idea, they failed to take into account the noise factor so the walls don't go all the way to the ceiling and have gaps in the floor for who knows what. when the classes on eather side of yours are in section its noise. I know all about who the outer teacher feels about being professional in the art world but I'm not sure what MY teacher was saying half the time. she also made us do the worst class introductions EVER. I don't mind going around and introducing yourself, my all for that its easy and a good way to start to know your classmates. Hi I'm Blank, I'm from blank and My favorat Blank is Blank. Its a good way to start a class. I hate it when teachers make you intrduse someone else, you have a speed interview (what's your major, where do you live, your hobby's, how do you say your weaid name right) and then you are forced to stand in front of the class and hope you don't forget anything or say there name wrong. That sucks, I hate it there is not way to make that less awuard, I'm all for meeting my fellow students but this dosn not help - I have all semester to meet and get to know them, this just adds more stress on the first day. Okey so doing that is bad enough what she did was worst. she wanted us to "Meet" Three people do the speed interview and then when your called on intruduse someone who had not already been talked about to the class, this means that there are even more things to rember and even more things that could go wrong. on top of this she did not really explain or orgnise it right (or at all) so introductions turned into a even bigger, longer more aquared mess then normal, it took a two out of four hours to do the introductions. and to top that off I still don't know half the peoples names because the room was so noisy. I just hope this class gets better because what we are so-post to be learning should be really helpful later on and i want that information.
Anyway I still have not gotten to my living situation or today's classes but since this post is getting so long im going to sign off now and talk about both of thought in a later post, Untell then - Happy start of the School year everyone.