update

I've been here a week! only 3 weeks left and i'm enjoying every minute of it. So far I have only had Foundation of Art and Design and my fashion design class. Learning lots! In foundation we have nude models everyday for us to sketch and we have sooooo much homework with not much time to do it. Last night I stayed up all night working on my fashion design Illustration board then had to go to classes and survive the day with no sleep. I still have had no sleep. BUT most people here said they either stayed up late, got an hours worth of sleep, or got absolutely none at all (like me) due to homework. It was especially hard because of all our mandatory activities we had this weekend. Friday our fashion class had a field trip to Manhattan to visit the Fashion Institute of Technology's Eco Chic exhibit. The subway to Manhattan takes 1 hour. We got to stay at the museum for 30 minutes. I took a picture of Fashion Avenue! But didnt see much else due to field tripiness. Half an hour after we got back to the Pratt campus we took the subway to Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum (also an hour long subway ride). It was much cooler than it sounds. Not a place I would want to go often or ever again, but a good experience. Saturday our H group (campus divided into traveling groups to minimize loss of high schoolers wandering off) took the hour long subway to Madam Tussaud's Wax Museum. I got lots of pictures with celebrities! Wax ones that is. It was fun. Me, Cheryl, and Rowan got to wander around Times Square for 20 minutes and got pizza (which I dropped after eating only half). THEN came back to campus. 30 minutes after THAT we leave for the Carnival Sea Cruise Boat Tour, which is exactly where we had just been (except a couple blocks away, on the water of course) I enjoyed it immensely and took lots and lots of pictures (a plethora in fact) It was slightly annoying getting there due to incomunication with the leaders but it was worked out. Saturday night I worked on my inspiration board til 2am then slept in Sunday til 10:51 (though not on purpose. I had set my alarm for 7 then 8 then 9 and then just decided I needed sleep) Our H group left for Coney Island for the Aquarium, which had bad reviews from all the other pre-collegeians. Therefore, I and a few people skipped out and walked around the Coney Island Boardwalk which I thought was a wise decision. Twas fun. I bought a mango on a stick and fried shrimp and it was delicious. We wanted to ride rides but only had 1 hour and could not find the ticket booth so we just walked, which was nice. I also bought a few magnets to send home and a fedora hat for myself : ) We got home and everyone had a super ton amount of homework, most of which could not have physically been possible to finish. I walked around Myrtle Ave with friends in my foundation class because we were in desperate need of a copy machine for class. The one on campus was closed for the weekend and it was due monday. We coulndnt find a place with a copy machine anywhere so we got take out Chinese and went to finish other homework which is how I, and most other people, came to become sleep deprived little art students. I worked on my fashion board from around 8pm til 7am. Faithfully. I have no idea how it took so long but everyone else in my class didn't get sleep either so I guess I'm normal. It looks great though! I want to put pics on here but not completely sure how to get them from my camera or phone to computer to flash drive to here. But I'll find out. The computer labs close in 20 minutes. I've been trying to write fast to get this up to date. I may go sleep when I get back to my room and save my homework for tomorrow. We start our Portfolio Development and Art History classes tomorrow! yea.