A Wolf’s Thoughts

Well, I guess it’s about time that I share the reason why I spent my thursday two weeks ago, in a car for about 12 hours. Yep. 6 hours there and 6 hours back, all in one day. It was fairly tough, but we survived.

Algonquin College was having an open-house for the course I’ve been accepted to, and am probably going to be taking next year. And I thought that it would be awesome to go check out the campus, check out the course, and check out…well…basically, everything! I’m pretty confident that I’ll be able to do fairly well in the course. I’m taking it just to improve my artistic skills, because I know I’m not the best artist in the world.

The artwork the students were displaying were a-mazing! I look at it and wonder if I’ll ever be able to do something of that quality. I was scared at first…but then I noticed that they had some before-to-after pictures. And many of their before work look similar in quality to what I can do.

We had coffee, chatted with a lot of the students(who all said they loved the course, and the prof) and we talked with the prof himself. His name is Rich, and he seems to be an all-around awesome guy. Very friendly, and a very good teacher, according to everyone. Me and my dad even went to apply for residence while we were there. We got a nice tour of one of the rooms, and they look sweet ^^. Not too big, not too small. Just perfect. They have internet(without which I wouldn’t survive), TV, local telephone service(you pay for long-distance), a massive bed, a desk to work at, and a load of other things. We were told that they try to get all 1st-year students into dorms, and we applied early, since it’s a first-come-first-serve deal. I hope to get one =D.

I am so excited to go! And after the open-house, we went for dinner at Crystal View Lodge, another retirement home that’s just 2 minutes away from the campus. It’s also under Holiday Retirement, so they said I can transfer there when I come to Ottawa for my schooling.

Man…I just can’t wait to go. Of course, there’ll be a lot of people that I’ll miss here. Like friends and family. But this is going to be an amazing experience. And I just want this year to end, and next year to start. Fast.