- Print Production
- Computer Animation
- Poster Design
- Illustration
- Typography
- Computer Graphic Design
These total 30 hours a week and I'm expected to do some 15h+ more independently. So far it's been kinda rough & I've been spending just about all my waking time on school stuff. Hope it'll ease out once I get it going. It's immensely different from back home where we might have 4–5 months for a project, 2 months of which is purely concept hatching, whereas here it's five weeks for a project and concepts have to be done in two weeks. I'm loving every bit of it though. It's good to have both approaches I think.
Speaking of waking time, the courses start at 8am. I first went like "oh feck", but instantly realised that my sleeping rythm was topsy-turvy anyhows. The classes could have started at 5am for all I cared. Getting up on time was ridiculously easy (I barely had any jet lag) but is getting increasingly challenging & I'm dreading for next week since this weekend I've just lulled in bed till 11ish. Thankfully Jasmine's school's starting too so I won't have to listen to children's shows booming from the room next to mine till 11pm. Hopefully.
Which brings me to the topic of the family I'm staying with. It's Teena and Jason, a couple doing property business & wood & whatnot, and their adorably crazy still sickeningly annoying little daughter Jasmine who's in her rebel period and might keep on insisting on me having one of her tic-tacs till I completely give up and who occasionally calls me a "Lolly" which I suppose is a sort of chewing gum or candy. Alternate titles include but are by no means limited to Lollipop and a colourful set of imaginary names. They're really great though I'll have to see if I'm staying here for the whole year or what.
The other international student in da house is Meghan, a Filippine girl. She's a postgrad student who's already spent some time with her own company doing print design. When we were playing with the kids — Jasmine had her cousins visiting — she said I was good with kids, which was kinda new to me since I've always felt helpless with babies, kids, animals, and many a time people too. But I guess I'm pretty good at converting into a girl-eating Scot after all. She said she knew straight away I'm queer, which is odd, or maybe not so, anycase her best friend is gay and they fell in love and were supposed to get married! But then they concluded it wouldn't work so there we go. Now she's got something going on with a boy in the school and the gay guy's getting jealous. The reason I'm putting this here, if there is any: People are silly as life.
Other people I've met are mostly from Malesia. More than half of the int'l students are from Malesia. Crazy Malesians. There's a postgrad student who wants me to design sunglasses for him and he's god a business down in Wellington. One guy wanted me to move to the student flats so I can party with them all day & night :D Compared to Jasmine's cartoons at 100dB it's an option, really...
What else, well it's a bit challenging to get to the web since at home I have to use Teena's computer and at school they haven't given me a student card yet so I can't get into the building on my own. If I want to have Internet access at home I'd probably need a modem at minimum and participate in the connection costs, at any rate NZ ISP:s are yucky since you only get a snail speed connection and limited transfer with Finnish rates. Maybe I'll just linger at CGD (Computer Graphic Design) once I get the card.
Some rather impressive experiences, somewhat unexpectable perhaps:
- A rainbow, the brightest I've witnessed, seen from the plane from Auckland to Wanganui
- A park we went to with the kids, with huge pumpkins & shoes & whales & stuffs, along with a Flying Fox — I'll put on some photos later on
- I once watched the news, all sad; made me think how the whole world is bursting with sad news and in one country you only see the tiniest portion of it. Overwhelming, really.
2 comments:
Hi!
My internet connection is from woosh (woosh.co.nz). However, this is a wireless broadband connection and I don´t know if they have signal there. I don´t know yet what other groups did.. To become an innovation, an invention has to be commercialised (this is the definition of innovation basicly)
Funny that she somehow knew right away. Maybe its just something to do with people in English speaking cultures. People here know right away about me too. Admittedly though, this is my culture, so its neat to see that someone claims to be able to detect it cross-culturally, when the person in question isn't all like "käwheäää, nää farkut on just huonoooiii" or whatever.
Post a Comment