life as erica: October- December Happenings

Wow, I can't believe that it is already the middle of December! Time sure does fly by fast. I feel like it should still be November. The past few weeks have just gone by too fast. I have been pretty busy lately though. My classes this quarter really took a lot of time, and there were also a lot of things going on at the Institute as well. But, I am very glad that fall quarter is done and that I will now have a little break before winter quarter starts. Despite the fact that it was incredibly time consuming, this past quarter was a good one. I finished my last quarter of Spanish, which also happened to be my last general ed class. Now it is all design and art history classes from here on out. WooHoo. I also took a pretty cool art history class this past quarter and finished my first class in the UW design program. Bellow is a drawing of a zipper that I drew for my "drawing for designers" class. It was a pretty interesting class. We were not allowed to draw with pencils.... or rulers. All of our drawings were done with cheapo Bic pens on 11x17 copy paper. This course was geared more towards those who want to go into industrial design rather than graphic design. All in all it was a good class though. We started out drawing a TON of cubes and cuboids and eventually made out way to drawing cameras, kitchen utensils, coffee makers, zippers and finally crazy drafting lamps.

When my classes weren't keeping me busy my calling on the Institute council was. I am the ward rep for institute, as well as the historian and the interim secretary, so I have been pretty busy. It has been fun though. The institute here has some great activities and it has been fun to be a part of them. In October we had our opening social. It was a blast. It had a western theme. Here is a scrapbook page that I did about it:

We also just recently had an opeing social, which was very fun. We had Santa and everything! Here is a scrapbook page I did from that activity:

The institute activity was a great kick off to the holiday season. My ward also had a Christmas party... last night in fact! It was a lot of fun. Each year the ward has different people from the ward decorate and supply dishes for a table. They also have a nice cattered dinner and some sort of musical program. I wasn't originally planning on going to the activity, but they needed someone to decorate a table, and so I decided to go and decorate a table. It ended up being very fun. Some crazy people sat at my table... but it was fun. By the time the party was over it had started to snow! It was great! It doesn't snow very often in Seattle... but man when it does it is beautiful! Here are some pictures of my table and of the snow: