The Exciting Adventures of Uncle Sam!

The Big Move ...
Howdy!! Sorry about the huge amount of inactivity, but I can explain! I've been really busy sorting my life out basically haha. It's halfway through the school year, and I decided that high school wasn't really benefiting me any more, so I looking into tertiary education (college for all you yanks )!

So anyhow, here's what's been happening! I turned 18 on the 4th of July (Yay!), then at the end of that week I moved out of my parents' house, in a little town called Waimate, down to a flat in Dunedin; which is about a 2 hour drive. Lots of changes went with this. I'm living away from home for the first time in my life! I'm flatting with a few friends from back in my hometown, and a few mates that I met at new years. It's a cute little house, not in too bad a condition for a student flat, and I'm really enjoying living here, though it does get a bit cold (it's winter here at the moment, brrrrr) and the shower is pretty pathetic (it's like standing under a dribble of lukewarm water!).

Moneys!!
I have a student loan, and am currently a few grand in debt I get $150 a week from my student loan for living expenses, and I have a little job every Saturday, working at a farmers' market selling pork lol, where I earn an extra $60 towards living a week! About a hundred of all this goes towards rent, and the rest is spent on food and alcohol (haha most of the time it's mainly spent on the latter.) So it's not too bad, but I have to watch what I spend money on, and I don't have too much left over for impulse shopping.

Also, I invested in a MacBook Pro! Cost me like $4 grand, but I think it'll be worth it in the long run! I won't get it for another week or so due to some worldwide shortage in the screens, and the suspense is killing me! It'll be my first time using a Mac, but I doubt it'll be too big of a transition. It'll be much faster than my desktop pc back at home, and I can't wait to do some new art again! Have been going through art withdrawal lately, so will be stoked when I have the ability to do some new stuff!

Education!
This year I'm just doing a small, one semester course. It's a Certificate in Information Technology (ultranerdy, I know!) and it's pretty easy so far, I think I'm going to be able to fly through it. Looks like it's going to be really boring though, my class mates aren't the most exciting people in the world to say the least, but the main reason I'm doing it is because it'll be really useful to have when I'm applying for the course I want to do next year.

It's called a Batchelor in Interactive Multimedia, and goes for 3 years. It should be really good, and I can't wait to get started!! Truth is what I'd really love to do is like a Degree in Fine Arts or something, it'd be so much fun and I know I'd love it (the art school here is really cool) but it probably wouldn't be the most practical thing to do, and the design course I'm going to be doing will probably be better to have in the long run. I'll probably get to do a few arty sorta things in this course anyway!

I'm rambling on, aren't I?
Well lots has been happening, and I'm really excited about it all! Gosh! But yea, in conclusion: I'm having a really great time, it shouldn't be overly long before I'll be back on DeviantArt a bit more regularly, and with that should come some new art from me too!

Hope all of you are well and I can't wait to chat with ya'll again!

Sweet as,
Sam!