First days of classes...

Well, day three of classes are over and so far so good. I'll be taking a total of 15 hours this semester, 3 of those hours will be an online class. This online class will be my first official online class. The reason why I say official because I have had classes where we still meet in person but we do a fair amount of work online for the class (ex. quizes, tests, exams, assignments, and discussions). As for the non-online classes, 9 of those hours are retakes and the last 3 I needed to take in order to be a full-time student. The retakes I believe that as long as I stay consistent and don't fall behind I should be fine. As for the class that I'm taking to stay a full-time student, well it should be fun since it is a basic guitar class. I'm pumped about this because I'm learning how to play the guitar and I'm getting college credit for it. If I would have just did private lessons at a local music store, I heard that it would cost $45 an hour for one lesson a week. So to get the same number of hours that I will be putting into for this guitar class, it would have cost $2025 dollars for the semester. And by making a rough estimation from tuition, this class is costing $600-$700 for the semester. So if you look at it like that, I'm getting not too bad of a deal.

This coming weekend is Labor weekend, and that means college football. I'm really pumped about going to a Texas Aggie football game because I haven't been to one for a couple of years. Plus I get to hang out with one of my cousins and a good friend of mine. The only thing that could make the weekend better would be no school work, but that isn't likely. Oh well, I'll survive.

So that brings ya' up to speed on what's been going on.

On my way home...

Well, my time here in California is over for now. I thoroughly enjoyed my time being a part of the Summer Seminar program at USC. After being a part of this, I definately want to do this again. Possibly next year try to talk one of my friends into coming along with me. It's kinda sad to leave all the new friends that I made and see the progress that my kids have gone through. Like I mentioned before, I am a bit disappointed that I won't be able to see all of my kids presentations. However I did get to see two of my kids that are in the acting class perform in a act that they rehearsed for. But I am looking forward to going home and seeing my family again. I've been keeping up with my oldest brother's blog on seeing new photos of my nephew, and I can't wait to see how much he's grown.

Now I promised ya'll some pictures so here are some. One friday night we had an '80s glow party, so every dressed up for the '80s including me.

Several people told me that it was kinda scary that I was able to pull off that look.

Also, I mentioned before that we went to Disneyland.

While at Disneyland I definately noticed that the castle at Disneyland is definately smaller than Disneyworld, but at night it still looks cool.


Now this past weekend I went to the Universal City Walk. Now that area is basically a big shopping area just outside of Universal Studios Amusment Park. While there I felt like that I had the whole world on my shoulders...

While there at the City walk I got to enjoy some good seafood...

Not only that I got to drive a motorcycle...

Okay, I wasn't really driving a motorcycle, but that's still a cool and funny picture.

Well, I hope you enjoyed some of my updates from Cali as well as some of my pictures. I'll be on my way home here in a couple of hours. Thanks for tuning in on this part of my journey through life.