Krysta Figueroa: August 2012

Today is the first day of school, and I'm a mix of emotions.

I'm excited, because I've always (mostly) enjoyed school, but I'm terribly nervous too because it's been a year since I've had any classes, and I haven't been staying up with my graphic designing. Graphic Design is a competitive career choice, and I've been pretty slack on keeping my creative juices flowing.

I've been to one class so far, and it seems like it will be somewhat of a repeat class as one that I took at Cuyamaca. Most people would probably not be to happy about that, but I'm glad because I think I need the refresher class.

I also had History of Graphic Design and I hated it. I took a class like it in summer school at Cuyamaca and it was incredibly hard. It was the only class I was taking, I studied my butt off, and I barely made a B (I would have celebrated with a C in that class). Plus, now I have to pick between potentially failing a class I have yet to even take, or going on my pre-planned anniversary trip with my husband. My professor doesn't allow make-up tests, and of course the first test is on my one-year anniversary. I told her, and she more-or-less said "oh well". She said most people fail her first test because they're not familiar with the format of the test, but then do well in the future...so by her logic, I'll still fail the second test because I never got to see the first.

Ugh...

Tomorrow, I've got Typography, which is another repeat class, but it's another one I'm very excited to take, because while I did take a typography class at Cuyamaca, I feel that I got cheated out of a good education on the subject because my professor was incredibly old school and we hardly ever worked in typography...plus she cancelled class more often than not, so I don't feel I got my money's worth.

After that, I also have one general education class that I never took back home...American National Government.

One thing that sucks though, is being a transfer student. I'm not a freshman...though it's still my first time ever being on campus. I know I'm not the only one in this position, but it still sucks. I don't know anyone, I don't know where anything is... I'm just thrown in to the middle of everything and put in a group of people that have all already taken at least a year of classes all together, now I'm the new girl being tossed in there.

I'm hoping that it doesn't keep me back from making friends, because I'm really hoping that I can meet some new people at college. After a year living in Oklahoma, I don't have any friends. There are some people at work that I'd love to hang out with outside of work, but I want some more friends. I've lost my nearby friends and family, and though I can never replace any of them, I want to fill the gap that their absence has left.

I'm trying to be more outgoing in school, but once I sat down in my first class, I felt my old introverted, quiet self start to creep back. The professor said to get to know the people sitting next to you while she tried getting the projector to come on, and I felt myself sink in to my chair. Luckily, the guy sitting behind me rolled over and introduced himself. I know I need to work on it, and people say all the time that it isn't hard to just say "hi" to someone...but it is for me! Which is so weird because at work, I can talk to customers and my bosses always tell me how fantastic my customer service is...but yet when it comes to my personal life, I can't do it! I can't talk to people!

*sigh*

Well I've gotten off track, so I may as well go further off track and talk about the house.

I LOVE IT!

I love not sharing walls with people.

I love not having to hear my neighbors arguing.

I love not having to listen to their movies.

I love not having to hear them get ready for work in the morning.

I love being able to play loud music and not worry if the people across the hall or above can hear me.

I love having a laundry room INSIDE my house (though we don't have a washer or dryer in there yet...the hook-ups are there)!

I love living in a house!

It's not a huge house, and of course there are things I'd change if I could...but it's our first one and I love it.

Take a look!