Way to go, Tito. Promise one post every day and go the subsequent two days with no posts at all. Way to go.
In my defense, the past two days were CRAZY, action-packed, life-changing, superlative-adjective days. For starters, Monday was the final delivery for our reels. As you might’ve read in the previous post, I finished mine on Sunday, but still, I can’t remember having such a relaxing night of sleep in the past months. Being free from that project by completing it feels like the second best thing in the world.
Later on Monday we also had a huge class dinner, where I sat at the largest and fullest table I’ve ever seen in my life. By the end of it just the Brazilians remained, chatting about life and work. Lots of fun.
On Tuesday I had May’s graduation from Sound Design. We met earlier to chat with an immigration lawyer to see what were our odds of being able to stay in Canada, work permits, permanent residence and so on. After that we had the graduation ceremony, which was beautiful – specially when compared to our 3D grads, which are looooong. May gave the best speech ever, and her final project was pretty amazing. Later on we had a class lunch/dinner with everyone and families. That was one of those moments when I realized I’m very different now since I ordered a spinach salad – out of my own will – and enjoyed every single bit of it. If that wasn’t enough, afterwards we went to a nearby bar and lots of other sound design students showed up along instructors and further acquaintances. By then I was already too tired to go on and went home.
And then we had today. Today I was able to rip off one of the pedals of my bike along the seawall. I have a metal stump sticking out now, which I’m using as a pedal. Tasks for tomorrow include getting this fixed. Also on the task list is “find a proper huge personal project to invest some time”, since not having school or any responsibility at all feels weird and I really miss doing motion graphics and After Effects. I wanna see if all I learned at VFS will help me in some drastic way with the stuff I used to do before.
Very mudane posts, I know. I’ll change gears eventually, just hang with me. Getting used to writing more, writing constantly and writing in English.