First Week of a Second Year

so yeah - this is my last year of my course and i have just started on the first week.

my class pretty much started on tuesday; met up with a couple of my group mates whom i knew were in the same course last year but didnt talk to cos; well - they were in a diff. class. Ben was there though (ben's a mate from last year - same class) so i had someone to talk to.

anyway we were taught on how to animate on AfterEffects and utilising Lights, Cameras and Shadow effects to set the mood of a scene.

it turned out really awesome - i wish i could post it up here but i'm too lazy :P sorry.

next subject was a briefing on our group major project - but with different ppl again...
but i was fortunate enough to have 2 of the people for my group last year.

we were to make a short advertisement, a promotional poster, and a website for a charity of our choice (probably because of the whole bushfire thing).
we chose to do an environmental awareness group call "Friends of the Earth"
cos we didnt want to do a depressing charity like oxfam or world vision.
it's been done to death (no pun intended).

wednesday was a WTH day - i had to get out of the house at 12 to get to church, because i needed to film this week's Youth News; which btw i didnt get an email for.
so anyway since i had a class later in the day anyway i decided to stick around church.
i also started to do the rough cuts for the news so i dont have to stay up late editing the whole thing. but as i was capturing the video from the camera - it kept screwing up!
so the capturing (which was 13mins in total) took way longer than expected.
it was almost 5pm so i packed up and headed to the tram stop.

did i mention that my class was at 6:30pm? and it was my only class for the day?

i know, wth right?

that aside - i attended class and while the teacher was talking about the course we were doing, i fell asleep... for a good while, i woke up and only an hour had past...
=_=" it's gonna be a long night.
we ended up watching a 10 min clip of a movie 4 times and on the 2nd time watching it we had to list down all the noises we heard from the movie.
it was ok i guess.

thursday was ok too - Major Project class; had to share some of the ideas i had for a mojor project to the class - i was supposed to have 10 - i only had 4.
and seriously - it was like a freaking "Magic SchoolBus" Moment, my teacher was talking about Movie sets and he was like - "hey there's an exhibition in the ACMI (aus. center for the moving image) about movie sets; lets go!"
so yeah, we went on a surprise field trip to see how movie sets were implemented and created in the movie industry. and because of this trip - i was broke; i had to use my 10 bucks i was saving for dinner... i ended up getting dinner anyway but i had to use the money in my card.

I got told off during Design 3 (the class afterwards) cos i wasnt paying much attention to the teach.
i was on facebook and Aim talking to Elizabeth, a friend of mine from phils and my cousin in philippines (who by the way was telling me off cos i sleep late).

when i got home i finished up the Youth Video to show at youth today.

so Today - i only had one class but it was for 4 hours... but only went for 3 cos everybody just started to leave. it was pretty easy - basics of Website building and HTML... after that went straight to church and took care of everything that needed to be taken care of.
Loved the message today - really spoke to me; it was about relationships and about being with the right people and being in the right environment.

i got in a minivan - along with about 15 islander guys and girls (samoan, fijian... big guys) and me, my sis and this guy william were the only asians.

Dave (my fijian youth leader) drove us home and here i am; typing this blog and talking to garbo at the same time.

sorry for the long blog - just giving you the taste of what i'll be going through these next couple of weeks.

ugh... let this be over please.