Cameron

It’s the end of week 3, and autumn has already wiped its feet at the door and invited itself in to stay a while. I find myself watching great misty clouds shift around in the sky and conceal mountains; and everywhere I look the leaves losing their chlorophyll stipple yellow orange and red spots on a backdrop of evergreen trees. I guess it was 85 degrees today in Fullerton. But I’m not jealous. Fall here is actually quite stunning.

I’m also really excited about all the things I’ve got in the mix. My classwork is starting to pick up, and I have lots of reading and an essay and a project all due next week. But that doesn’t mean I can’t find time to skateboard with my friends. We started an unofficial skate club, and we take any sunny day as an opportunity to shred. I have also been busy starting an official art club at school called “Colourators”. We want to help facilitate more student art to happen and be displayed on campus. I’ve also signed up to be on the Campus Land Use Committee and the Arts Annex Remodel Committee. I have also had a lot of creative energy recently, which has been really terrific.

Well, gotta do some homework! Peace!

-C

On Thursday, I safely returned home from a class field trip to Sun Lakes State Park in Eastern Washington. We left on Monday morning headed for this desert landscape we would be inhabiting for four days: a geological curiosity formed by repeated catastrophic floods during the end of the last ice age, about 15,000 years ago. I was driving a van with seven other people in it and all the food for the trip. It was sunny, and excitement was in the air.What could have gone wrong?

Nothing, really. It was a blast! The weather stayed beautiful, and I got to know the people in my class a lot better, including my faculty, which is especially cool seeing as this was only the second week of school. We definitely got in some quality bonding time, and we also got to experience this breathtaking area by hiking all over it for hours and hours each day.

Our assignment for the week was to produce 100 sketches. One. Hundred. It was quite a tall order, but it was actually a pretty fun exercise. It strengthened my observation skills as well as my ability to draw quickly and accurately.

On the last night, we had a camp fire, and I ended up sitting around talking to people until three in the morning, watching the fire turn to embers. So when I gave a campus tour on Friday, and someone asked me if it was hard to meet people and make friends at Evergreen, I smiled, and said, “It’s hard not to.”

(I’ll post pictures soon!)