endlessly entertained

this couple in Bryant Park would not stop making out. At one point they were eating orange slices out of each other's mouths, yes, like birds.

Check out this lady's hair. I thought she HAD to be wearing a red wig on top of her brown hair. What made it even better was that she was with her friends who were eating cherry-dipped ice cream cones that matched her hair perfectly! you can kind of see one on the right...i thought it was hilarious.

My huge kitchen. I tried to broil something this morning, but the oven didn't get hot and my kitchen started to smell like gas...thought that was probably a bad sign and just turned it off.

Yes, those are my real muscles.

Sleeper Hold

I LOVE SCHOOL. Both of my professors are amazing and the subject matter…well obviously it’s the greatest topic to study. I have two classes, Design Concepts and Fashion Drawing. I have Design all day on Mondays, then every morning from 9-12 (except Friday) and Fashion Drawing in the afternoons from 1-4 and all day on Friday. It’s not as confusing as I just made it sound. My design concepts teacher is a black lady with a lot of spunk. She showed up today wearing a cowboy-ish hat, and big sunglasses with purple lenses. As far as my class goes, there are 14 girls and I am one of 4 who are from the United States. There are girls from Taiwan, India, Nigeria, France, Canada, Mexico, Japan, and a few other places. It is pretty amazing. No one is good at fashion design, so that is kind of a relief. For the most part the girls are pretty timid. There are some characters though, I will briefly describe the ones that stand out the most.

First there is Hawua. She is from Nigeria and is super tiny but definitely thinks very highly of herself. She seriously looks like she is 12, braces and all, but she is graduated from college. She sat by me on the first day and our classroom was FREEZING (mostly due to the fact that it has two air conditioning systems in it and they were both on full blast). We were all cold, but she was being super dramatic about it and kept saying “I can’t even concentrate it’s so cold” in this angry tone of voice while she violently (dramatically) rubbed her hands up and down her arms and legs. Our teacher asked us where we liked to shop, when it got to Hawua’s turn, she said, “IIII mostly shop in EEEUUURRROOOPPEEE. I only like thing of really high quality, so I really only shop at Ted Baker because the quality is soo good”. She used the word quality about eighty three times that day. Oh PS, she does not look like she shops only in Europe or at Ted Baker. She had on Target jeans and what looked to me like a shirt from Wet Seal, which is totally fine, but not after you make statements like that aloud to the class. Then today, our teacher was telling us about how this one movie star wore this Tom Ford dress to an awards show and that the dress alone weighed 40 lbs, Ted Baker girl chimed in “Oh my gosh! That is like HALF OF ME!!”. Yep. Not kidding. My friend Rebecca and I just looked at each other, let it go for the time being, and moved on.

Then there is Forever 21 girl. I am not sure what her real name is….oh wait! Yes I do. It’s Megan. The first time she told us all her name I couldn’t understand what she said. I thought she was from a foreign country because she pronounced it “MAAghAn”, or something weird. Then she said she was from Buffalo. She is going to be a freshman in college (a design school, surprisingly) and is majoring in fashion design. She totally fits the mold of small town girl who shops only at Forever 21 and thinks that just because she likes to shop, that she can go to school and be a fashion designer. She asks about 50 questions a day, mostly about things that the teacher has just finished explaining, things that happen to be pretty basic knowledge to most people, or instructions on how to swatch (in order to do this, you ask someone who works at the store to help you…not a hard concept to grasp). Anyways, she is a little bit clueless about everything, not saying that I am a fashion expert, but I know what synthetic fabric is. We went to Mood today as a class and in the front of the store they have these forms that have been beautifully draped with fabric, the fabric is pinned and pleated and they are just amazing. Anyways, my teacher told us that in our Fashion Drawing class we will have a day where we will learn how to do this; I for one, can’t wait! I am so excited to learn how to drape, but after my teacher said this, I heard Forever 21 girl heave a sigh of complaint. I couldn’t believe it! The girl who is going to be starting school as a fashion student doesn’t want to learn how to drape?! I wonder what she thinks fashion designers do exactly… anyways, we call her Forever 21 girl because she said her favorite store to shop was Forever 21…obviously. Rebecca and I totally called it before she could even get the words out of her mouth.

Rebecca and I have two cool friends in our class, there’s Genevive (a darling girl from New York) and Marouchka, a French girl who barely speaks English and has a Russian name (even though her parents are both French and she has no Russian ties whatsoever).

OH! I almost forgot about J. Crew girl. She is majoring in psychology, looks like she is a hybrid and used to work at J. Crew. She raises her hand at least 15 times a day and always starts out with “ok, yeah, I have a question…” (if you have your hand raised, obviously you have a question, you don’t have to tell everyone that, it is assumed)…then she somehow ties everything back into J. Crew, then apologizes that she “keeps bringing up J. Crew. I just used to work there”.

That class ended and we ate lunch in Bryant Park.

We had our first Fashion Drawing class today. We were all in our classroom, patiently waiting for our teacher to arrive. He did. A staggering 5’3” (half black/half asian?) man in a white linen outfit, wearing big sunglasses and carrying a Louis Vuitton briefcase/bag; standing next to him was our model for the day, a really tall skinny black girl in a leotard. They were quite the pair. He is an amazing teacher and I have learned so much already. It is going to be a really fun class.

We had a ton of homework to do today, one thing being getting 10 swatches of fabric. So Rebecca and Alexis and I went to this fabric store right by our school. While in there we totally saw/said hi to Emilio Sosa, one of the top three designers of last season’s Project Runway. I didn’t think he was that great on the show, but still, he is kind of a celebrity, so that brings my celebrity sightings/run-ins up to 2! I’m on a roll. PS he looks a lot better in real life than he does on tv. I guess he is just not very TV-genic.

I am tired so I am going to wrap this up, but I spent the rest of the evening in Bryant Park sketching my mini-collection for tomorrow and then in the New York Public Library where they have an amazing photo collection. We had to get pictures from every decade from the past century for tomorrow morning. They have folders and folders full of all these old, amazing pictures! They had several for each decade and they were amazing to see, because they were all about the clothes! Seriously, best homework assignments I’ve ever had.