How Ironic

I'm here in a beautiful place with beautiful people and lots of inspiration.
However nothing is coming to me yet and we have to have a story for our 3-4 minute animation by Monday.
My class is like a philosophy, psychology and animation class put in one. So the first half of the class we analyze a bunch of animations and then the 2nd half of class we talk about philosophers and what not and trying to relate it to our animations.

I HAVE NO CLUE WTF TO DO GUYS. Ubahlaksdjf.

Well, here's some pictures I've been meaning to post. lol



There's a guy who brings his goats all the time to school so they can eat the grass and play. Cute.



This was at west lake, everyone here has umbrellas. No joke. You don't see someone without an umbrella...It's also kind of like a fashion statement here. Lol I caved and got an umbrella. It rains everyday in the winter.



Perhaps my good friend Tsingtao will give me some inspiration

omgg shit's crazy

Everything has been crazy since I got to "my part" of the school.
It's a lot more run down than the fine arts department, which i was very sad to leave it.

Here is the place I am staying for the next 5 months, I live by myself on the international floor (All the international students live by themselves):







This is my view from my porch. It's awesome:



And this is my actual school:









Yesss...Apparently there is 22 buildings here but uhm, I've only been to like 6 of them. Lol.
I haven't even stepped foot in the library yet! I gotta go do that tomorrow.

So, CAA is very much like MCAD. This place is in the middle of nowhere and all you have are markets and more markets. And it's work, work, work all the time.
I takes 40 minutes to get to the city by bus and I haven't taken it yet. Perhaps this weekend.

I had a very hard time adjusting, but I am starting to get use to it now. I have essentially one class for the semester. We meet everyday and it's the same 2 teachers teaching the class. I think it's an advanced animation course.
I have to produce a 3-4 minute animation 5 minutes is max.
The longest I've done is 3 minutes but that was working with 2 other people and it was stop motion.
MCAD said if my animation is up to par then they will give me 15 credits upon my return. WOOOOOooOooOo hopefully all goes well and I finish the damn thing huh?

Also, it's really easy to get lost in the school because it's so big. They don't have elevators...except for one building which I accidently went into and it was some other like design firm (like design works) and I ran into some other sculpture professor...kind of and he told me to sit down and drink tea with him. Lol.

Shit is crazy here but I like it. It's a new story and a new way of thinking.

I'll post more pictures soon. <333

Hangzhou People

Today I decided to take some pictures of the people.



















I'm starting to get use to China, earlier I had a huge culture shock.
Because I was born in America I everything seemed "normal" and nothing out of the ordinary.
Now that I am in China I realized that we're really, really spoiled.
If 1 us dollar is 6 dollars and 84 cents rmb in China, then hell, we can live like kings and queens!
Everything is becoming more clear, I understand a lot of the things my grandmother use to tell me when I was little that didn't make a whole lot of sense because we were living so well in America.
People are really respectful to others here. They call the elderly "old masters" or "teachers" because they are, and they have plenty of stories to tell and wise things to say.
People don't speak english here, everything is in Chinese and everyone speaks Chinese. The Chinese MAKE FUN OF Americans. They say it in front of their face, even if they are friends with them because they don't understand Chinese.

I think coming to China was a really good idea.

Especially with the few days to myself before school starts.

Speaking of which, registration is tomorrow! My new friend is picking me up from the place I am staying and then we're going to register tomorrow. I finally get to pick my classes. Awesomeeee.

Walkin around school

So I walked around my school today, well the fine arts department and it is amazing.
Of course everything is closed so there isn't much art work up.











So then I decided to go inside and I started seeing some student work, probably from last semester.








Students hang their clothes on the roof of the dorms









Anyway, that was just the roof top.
The school seems endless. I think i'll go around tomorrow and look some more.
Also China has these really adorable buses

They look like bugs. Hahaha.

I have some more photos of today, but i'll probably post them later on tonight.
Food time. Laterz