Calarts Program: Day 1

I am here!!! I'm at Calarts sitting in my dorm as I type this and today was quite a busy/long day.

I'm going to attempt to make this a daily journal for my program here Calarts, though I know I'm going to fail horribly.

So today was check-in, and my parents and I arrived just before the 1:00pm check-in time after we had lunch and went for a Walmart run. Check-in went pretty smoothly and I finally got to meet Hilary Darling, our director. She's super chill, like everyone else here at the school.

I have 5 other suitemates. One is our RA named Daniel. He's awesome. Another one is Syd, whom I knew of prior since I had seen her floating around AnimatedBuzz. The rest of my suitmates are pretty cool too, and with the exception of Daniel, we're all in the animation program! One girl here was actually already accepted but she decided to do the summer program anyway. haha

Hilary gave us a brief tour after check-in and I got my Calarts ID and my picture sucks. lol

After we got settled in, we went for a grocery run with another RA, Amanda Candler, a recent graduate and a person whose blog I occasionally visited. She was great too. She drove us to and from the grocery store and showed us around quite generously and I talked to her about the whole admissions process and stuff.

Once I got back to the room, I decided to break the ice and I suggested to my suite mates that we invite people over and exchange sketchbooks and draw together, which we did, and it was great. This is the result of the comic game we all played (I was making dinner for us while this went on, so I went last lol):

Yeah, so I made a bunch of food and almost no one had anything....except the tater tots. But it's all good I guess. More for me lol. But it was nice to get most of us together and just hang out.

Tomorrow I have Design for Film at 10am so I'm gonna head to bed. Here's a pic of my room by the way. 

I'll probably take pictures of the whole suite later on. Laterzzz