#my current theory is that she's in la and was just celebrating with them bc they live there >

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was he..........not there...................

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question tag

i was tagged by @ainstudiess to do this, so thank you very much!!<33

Rules: Answer these 92 statements and tag 20 people

LAST:

1. Drink: water

2. Phone call: mom

3. Text message: "IMSORYRYYYRYYYYY" to my friend bc I couldn't understand what she meant but finally i did soo yeah

4. Song you listened to: Sweet Creature - Harry Styles

5. Time you cried: yesterday

HAVE YOU:

6. Dated someone twice: nope (i’ve never even dated yet in my whole entire life)

7. Kissed someone and regretted it: nope

8. Been cheated on: nope

9. Lost someone special: yes

10. Been depressed: yeah

11. Gotten drunk and thrown up: nope

LIST 3 FAVORITE COLORS:

12-14: purple, pastel pink, white

IN THE LAST YEAR HAVE YOU:

15. Made new friends: yes!

16. Fallen out of love: hmm maybe??? idk

17. Laughed until you cried: yes lol

18. Found out someone was talking about you: yes ..

19. Met someone who changed you: yup :)(

20. Found out who your friends are: probably but maybe not, who knows

21. Kissed someone on your Facebook list: nope

GENERAL:

22. How many of your Facebook friends do you know in real life: i'm pretty sure i know all of em?

23. Do you have any pets: nope but i rly want to have a cat but my parents told me that i was allergic to fur or sth like that i'm not rly sure so :')

24. Do you want to change your name: in the past yes but i guess now not anymore 

25. What did you do for your last Birthday: nothing bc i never rly celebrate my birthday aha

26. What time did you wake up: 5 AM

27. What were you doing at midnight last night: sleeping or maybe dreaming

28. Name something you can’t wait for: be friends w my new classmates lol

29. When was the last time you saw your mom: a few minutes ago

30. What is one thing you wish you could change in your life: my personality maybe? but like not everything obvi,, maybe like decrease my shyness level so that i could make friends easier

31. What are you listening to right now: the sounds of the cars & motorcycles in the parking lot at my school and people talking

32. Have you ever talked to a person named Tom: nope

33. Something that is getting on your nerves: school

34. Most visited websites: youtube & tumblr but mostly youtube

LOST QUESTIONS. I JUST PUT IN RANDOM INFO ABOUT ME

35. Mole/s: none

36. Mark/s: none i guess?

37. Childhood dream: i wanted to be a dentist/doctor in the past bc apparently my dad wanted me to be one (until now actually)

38. Hair color: dark brown

39. Long or short hair: probably short but like not too short

40. Do you have a crush on someone: yeah kinda i guesss

41. What do you like about yourself: my hairr

42. Piercings: none

43. Blood type: O

44. Nickname: Dea, Oyong (Oyong is a type of vegetable and idk why but i liked to say that word in the past so my friends call me Oyong and i also call them Oyong am i making any sense)

45. Relationship status: single

46. Zodiac: virgo

47. Pronouns: she/her

48. Favorite TV show: big bang theory bc that's the only tv show i watch haha i know i'm the lameststtt when it comes to tv shows lol

49. Tattoos: none

50. Right or left hand: right

51. Surgery: never had one

52. Hair dyed in different color: in the future i rly want to dye my hair a brown ombre

53. Sport: i ' m b a d a t s p o r t s although i rly wanna work on it so bad but procratination !! :') but at least i like to play badmiton

(this wasn’t supposed to be a part of this but where did  question 54 go?? did i accidentally delete it or was it originally non-existent)

55. Vacation: the last vacation i went to was to Malaysia and it was gr9!! i made a travel video kinda thing on youtube so if u wanna check it out

56. Pair of trainers: um what

MORE GENERAL:

57. Eating: nothing rn

58. Drinking: water is good 4 u

59. I’m about to: go to the mall

61. Waiting for: school to be over

62. Want: an instax mini 9s sooo baddd

63. Get married: later la

64. Career: i have no idea yet abt that

65. Hugs or kisses: hugs i guess

66. Lips or eyes: eyes but lips r cool too

67. Shorter or taller: taller? but like not too tall

68. Older or younger: older i guess¿¿

70. Nice arms or nice stomach: hmmh

71. Sensitive or loud: sensitive

72. Hook up or relationship: relationship

73. Troublemaker or hesitant: hesitant

HAVE YOU EVER:

74. Kissed a Stranger: nope

75. Drank hard liquor: nope

76. Lost glasses/contact lenses: nope

77. Turned someone down: yeah

78. Sex on the first date: nope

79. Broken someone’s heart: idk man i guess so

80. Had your heart broken: probably

81. Been arrested: nope

82. Cried when someone died: nope

83. Fallen for a friend: yep

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:

84. Yourself: hmm sometimes

85. Miracles: guess so

86. Love at first sight: yess ahha

87. Santa Claus: nope

88. Kiss on the first date: idk

OTHER:

90. Current best friend name: Kayla

91. Eye color: black/dark brown

92. Favorite movie: (current) SPIDERMAN HOMECOMING!1!1

NOW, TAG 20 PEOPLE: @juliasacads, @yumicademy, @headgirlstudy, @quipsterlotte-studies, @studykitties, @architstudy, @moonshinestudies, @ellastudyblog, @biolcgy, @aureatestudy, @studylilium, @studylilacs, @secret-student-claire, @ttstudys, @lattetudes, @lilypadstudies, @ii-humss-life-ii, @kankenstudies, @noteriser, @intcllctual

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Initial Impressions

So I have been asked to start a blog to record how my exchange goes by the Dean of my homeschool. To give you all some background, I am studying a Bachelor of Design in Graphics through the Academy of Design Australia. I have  come to Vancouver, Canada to spend two quarters studying at La Salle college, which used to be the Art Institute. This is my first time blogging so I hope it doesn't become too boring. 

My exchange here was necessary for me because my Permanent Residency card was about to run out and I need to renew it. The exchange all came together really quickly and I didn't have a full two weeks to get everything together. I finished my exams on the 21st of June and then left Australia on the 1st of July to Arrive in Canada the same day (time travel!). 

I am lucky to have lots of friends in this country because I used to live here for many years. My friend Katie picked me up from the airport, late as usual for her, and brought me back to her place where she had a free room while she was waiting to find a new room mate. I wasn't planning to live with Kate, because the rent was a little higher than I thought I could make work, but when I got here and remembered how beautiful the view is, I couldn't say no to living here. So finding a place to live short notice became the easy task! 

Since I arrived on Canada day, my first night was celebrating and fireworks all over the city which we could watch from the deck outside my room! Canada was celebrating me getting back home. Not really but it sounds good! After my first night I had a day or two to settle in because the semester started on July 3rd, but my first class was the Tuesday the day after. 

Coming from the Academy where all classes are between 9am and 6pm (for the longer ones), I have class Tuesday which is scheduled from 6:30pm to 10:30pm. My instructor is super nice and let us decide to have the class from 6-10 instead so that we can leave a little earlier. My other two classes are 1:30-5:30pm on Thursday and Friday. I like having classes so spread but it does make it harder to find a job which will work around that. 

My classes are Art Direction, Ethics, and Foundations of Electronic Production. I only have three this quarter which is nice for workload but I don't know what my next quarter will look like. Before I get into describing my classes, I will tell you about the other struggles. Finding a job was tougher because of my schedule. It took me about three weeks, which has eaten away all of my measly savings, but I am working at a company which I worked for previously. My first day is today! It could have been a week ago but I had a big project which I wanted the day to prepare for. 

Ok, so the classes! After my first class in each of them I was panicking! I thought that the workload seemed massive and the amount of work that we would be producing would be very crazy, but the stages are more manageable than my first impression. I also thought that I was very far behind the rest of my classmates when I started because of the discussions and the way they seemed to shrug off the pressure. My first submission was the very next week and I was embarrassed to show my work, but I soon discovered that I was not at all behind and I shouldn’t have worried at all! 

My school in Australia is very theory based and we generally have one main assignment brief each class, each semester. We learn a lot and then at the end of the semester we have exams to test what we have learned. Here, only one of my classes has an exam and its a mid-term! We create a lot more work here and its all to create portfolio pieces! Another comparison I have is that my instructors in Australia talk a lot about how competitive the industry is over there because of the large number of Designers. Over here, the industry is huge and designers are in demand which is amazing for me because I plan to move here at the completion of my degree! 

OK! Art Direction! This is the first class of my week each week. This class we learn about being an Art Director. My first assignment was to direct a photographer to create three magazine covers to match a current food magazine. I chose the magazine Prosto, which is a Russian food magazine, and has a wonderful messy cover style. I encourage you to look it up and I will add my covers as soon as I can figure out how! We had to create our covers as mockups using found images from the internet to show to our Photographer, which was another member of our class who we chose by picking names from a hat. We had a few in class exercises about photographing food and consistency. The photoshoot was to take up a whole class and we had to bring in the food we were to photograph along with all our backgrounds, props, and of course our camera and any gear we needed to be the photographer for someone else. My photoshoot went amazingly well and I got the exact shots I wanted because I prepared really well and I had a fantastic photographer! That all gets handed in today for class. 

Ethics is a theory class. We talk about ethics, morals, and how they should influence decisions. It is the most boring of my classes on paper but its actually a really interesting class and the discussions are really engaging. This week is my mid-term and then it’s all small written papers and one final large written essay. I should mention now that in all classes we are graded on participation as well as our work, which means that we have to participate in discussions and show up on time to every class. 

My final class each week is Foundations of Electronic production. This is the class which I was warned about because it has the highest workload but so far I am finding it comfortable. My first assignment here is to rebrand a destination or town. I have chosen Nelson, BC where I used to live. We have a lot that we have to create, but the largest part of the assignment is to create the branding guidelines. We have to make this professional and well written which will be the hardest part. The other assignments for this class will also be big. This class has a lot of in class work which needs to be created within the small amount of time we have in class. This adds a lot of pressure but helps to generate ideas quickly which we can refine later at home for the homework. 

All of the instructors that I have here are amazing! They are very helpful and understanding. The campus is so much nicer than the temporary campus that the Academy has. There is also a lots of interesting courses offered on the campus, which is neat to look around. Music production, Culinary, Video game production just to name some of them. 

All in all, I’m having a good time and learning a lot. Living with Kate is super awesome! We have been floating on a small lake a couple of weekends, we watch baseball, have poker nights, and nights in watching TV. There is a lot of good options for food and many which are really cheap! Living in the city, means I can find just about anything I want and usually pretty cheap. I’m getting lots of sun, which is fixing my vitamin D deficiency, and I’m getting my Canadian life back on track. I will try to keep this blog updated as much as possible with impressions and work! 

Thanks for reading