Longest week of my life

Welcome week is over and it's back to real life tomorrow morning. I go back to work on Tuesday and I'm kind of nervous. I'm working in Rutledge late night for the first time to see if I can get this work done. No one is here with me and I'm jamming out and I felt like a quick post with some pics would be a good idea of a break... Since I don't have dinner. So some pics from my first week and then student takeover with Elevation church! I got to be a chaperone and see some kids do some great work. We went white water rafting, some outreach and some outreach within our church! Tons of inspiration to work farther to set and example for my girls.

Syllabus shock

Printed off the syllabi for drawing and 2D design. Everyone wants me to have a sketchbook... So I have one for each class? The only supplies that over lap are pencils, erasers and an exacto knife.

The individual things aren't expebsive but I know it's going to add up and I just really need that check to come. Let's go Winthrop.

Also let's not forget to mention that scholarship I should hear about in the next week.

Grilled cheese yum.

Bye bye $$$

So I just left my drawing 101 class and I'm sitting in this freshman meeting and Holy cow I'm going to learn so much this semester. It's odd though I thought I'd be behind everyone but I think on a happy medium. The only thing I'm kind weirded out about is I need to go buy all of these supplies and a lot I already have and I wanna get the big easy things like sketchbooks and such from online cause I have that certificate. Wanna wait till I visit all my classes though so I don't double buy or have to make more than 1 trip to hobby lobby. I gotta get that book... And read it by Thursday. Ugh


Here is my supplies list:
-1 paper
/newsprint pad 18x24... Two pads*
/Strath more or other medium weight paper 80lbs... Drawing pad 18x24

- pencils
/soft pencils 2B to 8b *
B is soft h is hard
/graphite sticks

- charcoal
/ compressed medium to soft*
/charcoal pencils medium to soft
\ vine charcole , medium to soft 2 sticks *

-conte crayon and or pencils
/ black, white * sepia sanguine or red brown

- kneaded erasers , pink pearl , art gum or vinyl

-sketchbooks
/11x14 or 8x 10
/ pocket sketchbook 3x5

-other materials
/ crow quill or other pen
/ portfolio *
/Pencil sharpener *
/ drafting or masking tape *
/chamois skin or other artist stamp*
/2 to 4 bulldog clips *
/workable fixative
/may knife , exacto knife *
/supply box

Some pics of our first drawing.... Still life. We had no direction really and u just kinda winged it. At least I'm not a photography major... They don't know anything drawing and some people are like self taught. :O I feel prepared. Much to do, laundry

Class is in t-minus 10 hours

Ok so I got a handy iPhone so that means on the go current content! Woo for documentation! So at 8 am I have my first meeting for my drawing 101 class. When was the last time I drew something?

With that being said I'm thinking I'll grab some pencils and my sketch book and just... Go to class.

The past couple days with welcome week and meeting tons and tons of people have been both hard on me yet so rewarding. I've realized so many positive and negative things about me.

Positive:
-I know everyone and everywhere in Rock Hill
- I am like ridiculously friendly
- everyone at winthrop wants to be there and learn, it's motivating
- most art kids don't know what they want to do, like myself... In terms of medium to concentrate in.

Negative:
- I find myself being very worried on what other ART Kids will think of me... As for other majors not so much.
- I realized that this whole college thing is like another world, people may not like me here
- commuting to school vs. staying on campus is almost more stressful than moving into and living in a dorm.
- I don't know when and what to eat
- walking around campus is a WORKOUT ( I'm so glad I didn't got I USC)

These are just some of really big things that I've noticed of the past couple days. On Sunday was so stretched thin by being leader and events and winthrop and not a good nights sleep and great goodness I had a meeting with my small group that afternoon. They were able to help me see through the rough patch in only the couple days that I had experienced.

Knowing that Jesus is with me through all if this is... Is making this experience to me in such a new light winthrop is like the battle ground an knowing that I can walk onto this campus being a light, not just through my word but my actions as well.

"An audience of one" is what I will live this semester by. Knowing that in everything I do should be in his name and what others think of me and my insecurities should hinder me from doing the best I can this semester. I'm going to get straight A's.


** pic if me is at convocation today! With some elevation balloons :) **

Schedule has been validated.

I am now officially, officially...a Winthrop student. My schedule is validated and I paid and everything! It really is a funny story, everything had to be done today so yesterday I tried to complete it. I saved up just enough to put down a heafy down payment and then schedule out my payments for the next 3 months. I went to pay for my down payment and I end up paying for everything! I tried calling the school and of course everyone is calling with the deadline and I wasn't able to speak with anyone. I let it go and deiced to wait until today to find out more.

I woke up this morning and my mom gave me the bad news that the credit I applied for at best buy was denied, basically that I wasn't going to be getting a laptop. I was so worried with that and the over payment in mind and decided to just let it go and let God handle it and if he wanted me to have a laptop he would guide me there. I then proceeded to get online to see if anything had changed in my bank account or Winthrop account.

Turns out that sometime between yesterday afternoon and this morning I was given a last minute grant...putting my balance in the negative...
SO I'll be getting a check from Winthrop....paying me about 1,250

That's basically a macbook pro.

Add that with my usual paychecks and school is covered, my books are covered and so is my laptop.

Kids and My Major

I met these two little precious girls the other night, actually they are the daughters of my moms friend who is a spanish professor at Winthrop! Anyways they were precious and they kind of just glued to me when I was there. We hung out for like 3 hours, I felt like a kid with them and didn't spend any time with the adults. One of the ladies that was there asked me if I was going to be a teacher one day, and well that is the plan. She said she wasn't surprised! Wow! Maybe I really am supposed to work with kids, my plans has always been to work with high school or university one day but this makes me wonder if I should keep the option open of teaching younger.... I guess we will see!

Also would like to mention a recent realization I have had about my major and everything at Winthrop. Turns out I have been confused all along... so basically for the next 4 years I will be getting my BFA and near the end of it I will start taking classes in the education field. THEN the 5th year summer, and year (3 semesters total) I will be getting my teaching certification AND my masters! How fabulous is that!!!!!!! I'M JUST AN ART KID. I CAN FOCUS ON ART. ARTY art.

Things going on

I know that through the summer my posts have been rather un-art related. Well...get ready because welcome week @Winthrop starts in only 3 weeks!!! Until then I have many things to do and get done so I'm just going to make one of my usual handy dandy lists!

• Salon meeting, class and hair day on Monday (I love my job) (I just got a raise!)
• Work, work and more work.
• Go on one final kayaking trip this week before my friend leaves for school.
•  Aug. 11th I'll be leading Back the Pack with Rock Hill School district. Ill be in charge of a section of events that day!!!
• Hopefully finish my room and nail all of my frames and things together! 
• ...Buy my books............
• Go shopping for like...a shelf, and weird house things. 
• Validate my schedule and decide on my payment plan before aug 7th, oooo
• Following that... finalize my budget for this semester. 
• ooo Find out if my loan can be taken out of my other account instead of my savings. Id like to save you know?
• Figure out a good tear down method for resources at Elevation....and recruit more peoples
•  WELCOME WEEK
• Start school
• Chaperone the student event at the end of welcome week with Elevation 

ARTARTARTARTARTARTARTARTARTARTARTARTARTARTARTART Until next summer or the rest of my life you know.   

Project Runway

I don't watch much tv other than style channel or E! but seriously I could watch project runway forever. There is something about the medium of fabric... that doubles as clothes...that you can use. Its phenomenal. I can only hope that I will come across a class or someone who knows how to make clothes that can teach me.

When I watch project runway I want to get up and go into my room close the door and create. All of these people are incredibly passionate about what they do, given these people that make it to the show are the top out of everyone who went out. There was a show about artist, I think there was only one season and I feel like fine art is so, there is just so much its so broad...

 With fashion, well you have to wear it.

That's it. I'm going to learn how to make clothes. I want to go to goodwill, get a piece and alter it. So many pieces are old and yet have wonderful fabric and basis... google take me there.

Things I need to learn

How to put images on a cd.

July 4th

So I have traveled 4 hours to little old Wilmington, NC. I have been staying with my friend and her boyfriend here on UNCW campus. Being here makes me like Winthrop so much more. UNCW is a beach school, there are a lot of really smart individuals who go here and well it's weird because I am not used to being around smart people. I know that sounds really weird but I just feel like in Rock Hill we are a different kind of smart. Comparing Winthrop and UNCW...I belong at Winthrop. The setting and the way Winthrop looks. It looks established. UNCW  looks like it was just placed here, like plop. I am ready to go back home. Every time I leave Rock Hill I find a reason or something comes up where I should be in town for. I love the ocean but I love my home. Can school start already?