My whole week has been awesome. it was filled with christian activities. You;d think that Art School, let alone ART SCHOOL IN AMERICA would have so much christian stuff going on. My school has 2 christian fellowship, CSF and RUF which operates on Tuesdays and Wednesdays respectively. and then I have the awesome kickass bible study - Downpour on Thursday nights followed by Bible study by CSF at bull st baptist church on sunday mornings followed by normal church service and a college students lunch fellowship and then at 7.30 there's 180 which is a youth fellowship for college students. WHEEEEEE :D :D

On saturday evening the bible study grp took us out to Weston Gardens which is a retreat centre that belongs to the church (it was donated to them) and it's like on this island surrounded by a lake with gorgeous holiday houses and lo

g cabins and a small open area where we can have a grill and next to it is a camp site :D The bus came to pick us up at the dorm and there we were chugging along. a whole bus full of us freshman girls :D 

we were there kayaking and obviously...i can't take my

 camera along with me :( sad. it was so fun :) michelle and i just can't go in a straight line though and it was nice and peaceful with the sun setting and ducks and birds around us and yeah...the weather was awesome. like it got hotter again, but it was cool but not too cold to kayak in fbts :) 

the seniors were really nice to help us get into and out of our kayaks, but we had to carry our kayaks from the house to the dock and after that i just couldn't feel my arms. but it was a damn good workout! :D 

then we had a bbq. which was all ready for us by joe and gang by the time we got back from kayaking. hotdogs and burgers and chips :) not the kind of stuff i get at bbqs back home. this is like the american bbq man. haha. after which we had a campfire going. it was massive and it was SOOO hot we couldn't roast our marshmallows after a short while. picture below!! we used MASSIVE crates thingy to burn. oh yeah. and we use twigs to poke our marshmallows to roast them over the fire. like we just pick them off the ground and put our marshmallows through. no sterilization or whatever. like in barney :D 

we started out really small...we had a big of a pyrogenic problem but then they got all crazy with the palm leaves and spanish moss. ..which resulted in...TAADAAAA...BOOM. no more making smores over the fire. 

the fire just got bigger. so no more roasting marshmallows over the fire :(  so smores are basically roasted marshmallows sandwiched between two chocolate biscuits and a square of 6 rectangles of hershey chocolates and it is SOOO GOOD. picture of me and my stick and my smore :D my very first smore :D that's me standing inside the bbq hut with tables and stuff..like those cabins u see on tv in the US :)

church wasn't quite what i expected cos it leaned towards the traditional side with hymns and stuff, but the sermon was good and i did enjoy the sermon. the people there are fantastic. and they prepare lunch for us college students and we sit down for fellowship and stuff. so i signed myself up for a small grp and i'm putting myself up for adoption so i can have some "parents" from the church to take care of me and bring me out for dinner and provide a place to stay when i need to. haha. yay ness :D

soo..this weekend is thankfully less stressful. just a chapter of reading for art history, shading practice for 2d Design and 8 drawings for drawing. which was the most stressful cos we had to draw cubes at different eye levels and we had to make sure the lines were straight and parallel where they should be and no rulers or straight line drawing. so i haven't gotten back my first project for 2d design...but here is my second one. shading using black micron pens and the usual gradients followed by using gradient to create volumes, using pure shading, no lines allowed. TAADAA!!