Settling in

I've officially moved into college.  Concordia University has two campuses, Loyola and SGW. I'm on Loyola campus, a bit further out of downtown but a much prettier place to be. (SGW is literally smack bang in the city, with high rise buildings and busy streets.)

I'm in a large single room, in HB hall. It's a very newly renovated campus, and we're the first students to live here. As a result there's still some construction going on which seems to haunt my life. Bonuses include everything being brand spanking new!

 This was actually my view in San Francisco, pretty cool.

 Starting to decorate my room!

 Pretty spacious wardrobe, but look how little clothes I have! I was only able to bring one suitcase of things (which was barely 1/4 of my stuff.) It makes me wanna buy so many things. There's a four level Forever21 shop downtown.. I found these amazing $20 each blouses! It's so weird seeing all these shops that I used to buy online from, but IN REAL LIFE. Forever21, FreePeople, Topshop, etc.

 I get my own minifridge in my room! (Which isn't even mini.. you could put a ton of stuff in there. So far I have two bottles of wine and some Ikea chocolate. Classic me.)

This is the view from my window, I'm pretty spoiled.


It's been so ridiculously hot here. Averaging 35 degrees each day! How insane is that? So unexpected but amazing. I might even get a tan?

College is a bit strange because you're only able to live here if you're a first year student or an exchange. So 99% of people are 18. (That really annoying 18, where drinking till you puke every night is sooooo cooooool.)
This one guy tried to show me how to work out how much alcohol each wine bottle was. I was like, are you serious little boy lol? Not really, I was polite - but I'm pretty sure it showed on my face how stupid I thought he was because he backed off hahahaa.

Weed is pretty much legal here! I was soo surprised. Every single person in this building casually smokes weed. Even the RA's!! On the introduction with rules and such, the head RA was like "Sure, go smoke weed or whatever we don't really care, just don't do it in your room! it's much better in the fresh air outside anyway. You don't wanna stink up your clothes."

After turning down some like a bajillion times, the girl was like wow you're so straight edge and innocent!

THIS COMING FROM AN 17 YEAR OLD. wtf

anyway..

I've been following this site called CGsociety. They run all sorts of amazing courses online, but not very often. I received an email that the course I've been dying to enter has just become available again. (Run maybe once every couples years, only 35 students allowed.)

http://workshops.cgsociety.org/courseinfo.php?id=309

In a spur of the moment, probably stupid decision, I enrolled. Despite my extremely tight budget, I couldn't let the opportunity pass - it's pretty much perfect for me. It's amazing! The guy running it is doing my dream job. Kind of my idol. But now I'll be a full time student on exchange as well as doing this online course. Hmm.

Totally worth it.

I bought a kettle for my room today (shh it's not actually allowed). The kitchen renovations haven't finished and I've been in physical pain withdrawals from not having tea 20 times a day. That changes today!

I really miss playing pool.



Someone send me vegemite stat!