Pokemon theme song, Costuming design class, first week survival.

So, I should probably refrain from dancing like a maniac to the Pokemon theme song downstairs, because occasionally my family likes to come downstairs....Ahem, anyway, To the blog-mobile!(and hey, it's not late!)

    Today was a pretty simple day at school. I only have one class on Tuesdays and Thursdays and it's my Costuming class. If you read my blog from Tuesday, you'll see that I missed the class that day because I got the times wrong because I'm a failboat.xD There's only like 10 of us in the class, and I really like the teacher. She's from Montreal and she has a tiny hint of an accent and I like it. :] I thought the class was going to be pretty basic, like learning how to sew clothes

(sorry, I had to pause to get tea. We got a new kettle which boils the water super fast and I don't know why but even though our old kettle boiled the water as well, the new kettle makes the tea SO MUCH BETTER. Gah, I love tea....back to our scheduled program..)

Anyway, I thought it was going to be basic stuff, like sewing and putting iffy costumes together, but no, we're actually going to be designing the costumes for Romeo and Juliet that we are going to be putting on this year. First, the teacher started off by giving us a standard "Da Vinci" model that looks like this:

She had us trace it into our sketch books, which I was okay with, because, well, it's tracing and I can do that, haha. Then, after we did that, she made us free-hand it and I was like "er4tWIrhg$#%YTED" and made mine so disporportionate.

I mean, damn, girl's got stems! haha xD The legs are super long... blegh. After we were finished doing THAT, she told us now that we were going to do timed sessions where she would stand on a block, assume a position, and we would have to draw the shape of her body in ten seconds. She said we could start with stick figures with the ten second session, but then she asked other people to come up and model with 30 seconds, then a minute, then 5. She made us be really detailed when we got to the 5 minute sketches. I didn't realise how intense and stressful this was going to be for me until I remembered that I CAN'T DRAW WORTH #@$#%.
Here are my sad timed sketches:

They look like cave drawings. haha. Now, lastly, she had us pick a costume out of one of her costume design books and try our best and free-handing a costume. I chose a simple sketching, not a big elaborate thing, because I wouldn't be able to do it. xD I'm decent when it comes at looking at a picture and mimicking it, but when it comes to my own free-hand, I'm just complete shite. I chose an 18th century dress, because I love that era. Here's what it looked like:

It was actually a pretty intense class and wore me out, but I didn't take my nap today.:/
   Since that was my only class for the day, I headed home, and wow, I'm such a loser. xD It seriously took me, I kid you not, TWENTY minutes to locate my car. I could not find it for the longest time. I mean, how hard is it to misplace a tiny red car with an Autobot Transformer sticker on the gas lid?! Only me.....sigh...When I got home I edited my "Dear Future Jordyn" video for a while, because I've been busy this week and have had no time to edit it. But I am determined to get it finished tonight! At 3 I had a hair appointment (finally), and cut it a bit shorter again. It so much easier to manage when it's short. It just bugs me when it gets long. Then I came home and have been editing ever since. Oh, I did order some Toms shoes in between that. Their awesome shoes with a great cause. If you buy a pair, the company sends a pair of shoes to kids that don't have any.
    My pre-ordered copy of MockingJay hasn't come yet, which is upsetting me. Everyone I know that reads the Hunger Games trilogy has pretty much finished it, and I can't discuss it, and I have to be extra careful around the internet incase of spoilers. SEND IT TO ME NAO, AMAZON!
    I just got my financial aid all fixed and accepted and wow, oh my god, they are paying for my entire year at university. :') When I told my grandma, I was honestly crying because I had no idea how we were going to afford it, because I only got $200 of scholarship money from Theatre and Choir and that hardly covers the cost of books. I'm so relieved, and so incredibly thankful. Good things do happen to people who have patience and wait. <3 I'm so thankful, so so thankful.
All in all, my first week at university has been quite the success, except for the little mishap on Tuesday, but all is well. I don't have class on Fridays so my weekend starts now! :D And then auditions for my first university production are on Monday and Tuesday...I'm quite nervous.
Thank you to whoever takes the time to read my banters, I love you guys. <3

Day 1: Intro to Theatre, Plato, and Toucan Noses.

So, as promised here is day one of my university adventures. Yes, it 11:08 p.m., but that still makes it Monday! Also, I took an extremely long nap today because I got about 2 hours of sleep last night because I was so nervous. I totally did not have any reason to worry, though. Except getting there on time. And parking. I definitely need to worry about parking.
   Okay, so I came up with the concept that if I put my alarm clock across the room, when it goes off at 5:45 a.m., I'll actually have to get up and go turn it off, thus making me accept the fact that I'm already up and have to get ready for school. Not even I can fool myself. Once the alarm went off, I got up, switched it to ring at 6 a.m., then crawled back into bed. Now, you can't really blame me because I had only had 2 hours of sleep because I was so bloody nervous that I COULDN'T sleep. I always do that. Work myself up so much that I have extreme anxiety and can barely sleep. I need to stop doing that, especially when I had absolutely nothing to be worried about.
  When I finally got up, I already realised that I was more than likely going to make myself late for my first day of college because my hair decided to be a lion's mane that would not be tamed. So, after an hour of fussing with my ridiculous hair, I gave up, looked at the clock, realised it was already 7, did my make up, fussed with my hair more, got dressed, and then it suddenly became 7:30, to which I exclaimed "shit!" and hurried out the door. Now, let me tell you, with good traffic, the commute to my school is about 25-30 minutes. With bad traffic, it's about 40. Luckily, the traffic wasn't bad, but with my class starting at 8, there was no chance of me getting there on time. Let me just tell you now, I had to break a ton of laws to get to school by 8, which I did. Not proud, but I made it right? I proceeded to turn into school, and realised there was absolutely NO parking on the side street where I parked for my summer class. I don't have a parking pass to park in the parking lot because they are ridiculously expensive ($128 for a whole year. WHAT), but since there was no parking anywhere, I might just have to cave and buy one. Now it was like 8:04, so I decided to just pull into the parking lot and just park there, even though I was at a risk of being towed, but it's the first day of classes so I doubt they would actually tow me. Luckily, the theatre was right near the parking lot, so I hurried off to find my class.
   When I entered the class there were so many people in there! I didn't know if it was because the 60 people actually like theatre, or that about 30 of them were just put into that class because of budget cuts and they couldn't get into other classes they wanted. I like to dismiss the latter, because I think everyone should take a theatre class once in their life. So, I enter the class room, and it's completely packed, but the instructor managed to find desks for the people who were standing like I was. I did actually know someone in the class, which was kind of unexpected because I had no idea he was going to the same university as me. But, yay, friends! So, lah di dah, the teacher hand out the syllabus, blah blah blah, makes a few jokes, and talks about beer and wine. He's actually quite funny. I like him. I feel like I really shouldn't have to take an intro to theatre class because I did four years of theatre in high school, but I quite enjoy this instructor, so I don't think I'll mind. Plus, I have to take this class in order to get into higher level acting classes.  He goes on, talking about what we'll be doing, and making wine analogies with why he opposed of the department calling the class Theatre Appreciation. Saying like you can't learn to appreciate things, it just happens over time. Like, he used to hate wine and now he is practically a wine snob, so on and so forth. Thus, we have Intro to Theatre, instead of Theatre Appreciation.
   Class ended a little bit around 9:15, and my next class didn't start until 11, so I had no idea what to do with myself. I found a lovely, overly shaded region with a lot of trees and some benches stationed between the music building and the theatre building, and sat down to finish reading Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins because the third book in the trilogy, MockingJay, comes out tomorrow (which I am super stoked for!) The spot was very peaceful and cool temperature-wise, seeing how it was about 94 degrees today. There was a girl on the bench next to me who was smoking which I disapproved of, but I  was too entranced by the lovely flute music coming from the music building, and the epic-ness of my book to even care. This is destined to be my spot now for the entire time I'm in college. :] Soon, I got a text from my friend Heather,who's now a sophomore, came and retrieved me from my spot and took me back inside the theatre building into the Green Room where our other friend Sami (junior) was. They introduced me to more theatre majors, and I felt right at home. They had class about then, so I went back outside to my spot and read until I had to go to class.
When I entered my Philosophy class, of course, it was also packed. The teacher made the people on the waiting list leave to make room for those of us who were enrolled in the class. He talked a bit, handed out our syllabus, talked more about Plato, who we will be reading soon. The books that we have for the class aren't in yet, so no one had the books, so the teacher decided to dismiss us 17 minutes after class had started because he really couldn't start teaching until we read the book. It's online though, so I've got to go do that.... I quite enjoy college a lot already, though. :] 17 minute class? Yes please. Though, we are going to have to read Freud for this class, and I very much dislike Freud.
  My first official day of college was over sooner than I thought it would be, so I made my way through the crowd, passing fratboys trying to recruit new members, and a girl who was wearing a Toucan beak over her nose (which, I must say, was the highlight of my day). I got in my car, blared some Wrock, made my way home, ate an apple, drank some tea, then napped for about 7 hours.
Life is good, but I need a job.
Tomorrow: Costuming class!