VFS CA83 - Day1 - Welcomes and Pranks

Oh my fucking god, I'm a child in a candy shop with a pocket full of money that I found on the street.

No, seriously.

The Classical Animation section at Vancouver Film School has GOT to be THE single most awesomest, fantasmagoricalest place I've ever had the privilege to set foot in on the entire planet.
I can't quite believe I'm actually here now. It's actually happening.
"Yeah, it felt like a dream this morning." Malaika, one of my classmates very accurately commented on Facebook after I'd written those exact words in my status.

And the best thing? It's my home now. Or practically will be soon. Apparently in about two to four months time I'll be glued to my desk and probably wish I could be anywhere else but there hahaha.
But for now, I get to enjoy the amazing, earth shattering feeling of really, truly feeling like I belong, that I am exactly where I am supposed to be, for the first time in my life, learning about things I love and exhilarating in every second of it. How many people get to say that?
Honestly if this year isn't going to be by far the best I've ever had in my life then I shall henceforth be called "Normengard the Luckless" or something equally stupid of your choice.

And the very, very, very best thing?
In this place of awe and wonders I am surrounded by some of the funniest, diverse, fantastic, sweet, brilliant, kindest, nicest, geekiest and most loveable people I have ever met.
And they are ALL like ME. MUAHAHAHA! 

No, seriously, what I mean is that they are all super passionate about what they want to do and what they expect of this school. They are all giddy with excitement, they all have pretty much more or less very similar interests to mine.

Example: I was saying "Itadakimasu" one day at lunch which is kind of like "have a good meal" in Japanese and practically everyone knew what I was talking about. I just love it.

I think we were also probably all more or less outsiders at one point or the other in our lives and I feel like you can really see that in the way we treat each other with kindness and genuine interest and behave respectfully towards each other and get excited about each others geek attacks haha. Because I think we all feel more like we belong now than we ever did before.
Or at least I feel that way. Like I'm with my crowd now. :D
Finally.
No judging, no being made fun of, no feeling like people think I'm super weird because I luuuuurve manga and anime, or because I sit up until 5am marathon watching Avatar: The Last Airbender, or because I have seen and can probably quote from almost every single animated movie that ever hit the Cinemas (and then some), or because I have pretty much every single Disney song in my I-tunes Library as well as several Final Fantasy soundtracks and lots and lots of Jpop and Kpop and they happen to be mixed into my playlists and come on randomly between D&B and Jazz and Folk and Rock and French Hip Hop and I don't know what other style of music.
Because they are all like that. Not exactly like that of course, but we are all people that are crazy about some thing or other that, at least in high school, was considered "not so cool" or "weird".

Ahhhh this paragraph is way too long. Anyway - point being: I love these guys and I'm so happy to be part of this class and everyone in this whole school. <3

Moving on:

So today we had Orientation whiiiich kinda speaks for itself really. We got to our new classroom/future permanent residence (that joke went past several times...) BUT IT WAS JUST SO AWESOME.

I felt like I was 6 years old again on my first day of school. We even got a Schultüte in the form of a (mega stylish btw) rucksack full of lots of epic, useful goodies for heavens sake! <3 VFS might be fucking expensive but they seriously know how to make you feel like it was all worth it before the hard work even starts. I mean we even got a freaking umrella and a mug! And a sketchpad and lots of other materials like pencils, eraser, coal, sharpener, scalpel, scotch etc and several books among which was the extremely useful but expensive and unfortunately already in my possesion being "The Animators Survival Kit". 

A must-have for every animator. That Rucksack full of stuff was the best "welcome to school" present they could have given us. We all practically vanished into it the moment we got it. (As in we stuck our heads in so deep it looked like the Rucksacks were eating people haha)

À propos "welcome" hahaha.. So after our orientation we had our first class "Animation Assisting 1" in which we starded doing our first 4 "inbetweens" of geometrical shapes.

I said "started" because although this might sound like an easy task it was really not and most of us didn't finish it in that block (1 block = 3 hours) and we had to leave our sheets uncompleted and go to the IT orientation that was held in a different room.


Now, while we were away... THIS happened:

"BE PREPARED" - image of scar with a troll face LOL and I found a smiley face on my animation disk underneath my papers

Cory Evans is the guy that teaches Perspective. We haven't met him yet but this says: "St. Cory, Patron saint of perspective and composition" which sounds promising hahaha 

TERM 2 WILL KILL YOU! this is my personal favourite actually 

although this is pretty awesome too haha

I want to meet this person. she/he is epic.

DON'T SLEEP! XD

And this next one is such a treasure <3 I'm sorry it's so big but I HAD to show it in original size yo you could read all the hilarious (and scary) little gems of wisdom :D

 I reckon this is another teacher hahaha it's fucking hilarious either way.

So apparently, it is somewhat of a tradition to prank-welcome the "babies" that come in every 4 months. The newest batch of victims so to speak haha - I seriously can't wait until we get to do this. We'll have to think of something good... MUAHAHAHAHAHA 

Anywayyyyy~~~~ EPIC DAY! and now sleep. I have a Life Drawing class to attend to at 9am tomorrow and OHMYGOSH it's already past midnight AAAAAAAAHHHH! 

good night,

pice out,

a very happy Jill :D

PS: "VFS CA83" = Vancouver Film School Classical Animation 83
(CA83 that's our "name" since there are new takes of students coming in every 4 months in our course it doesn't make much sense to call them by the year so rather they number us. So "CA81" who seem to be the ones who pranked us since it reads that on the board would be the Classical Animation guys who are already here for 8 months and about to graduate. well in 4 months they will anyway...)