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It's been about a year since I wrote my last journal entry. This could actually mean one of two things. One that I just suck at keeping up with a journal or that my life and experiences are so boring that it takes me ages to start a new chapter. Hopefully I belong in the first category but you can never be too sure for that. Last May I graduated from my 3D Animation and Visual Effects course at VFS, with honors by the way. At first I was debating if I should take the animation or the visual effects route. After a while I just knew that my first choice was still visual effects. Why? Well to be honest, I have always wanted to be involved with

It's been six months since I truly started this very unique experience and overall I am pretty content with everything. Sure the journey began a year before I actually boarded my flight but I don't really count that because I didn't grasp what was actually going to happen to me at that point. I have met some extraordinary people while being here and for the first time in my life I know what it is like to be cut off from the people I love back home. This has been a major adjustment for me. I really miss my family a lot. Even though I don't really have a good bond with my...well, anyone in the family except for my mother and sister. It's just

Sometimes the world works in strange and mysterious ways. One day you're a student and within mere months you stand on the other side of the fence. Once you're on the other side you realize that the borders you hated as a student are a necessity to keep your flock in place. Without those borders you realize that students will gradually walk all over you whenever they can and that is something you have to be strong in. The problem I've experienced is in finding my own place and feeling comfortable in my new role at the very same school I once attended. Former teachers that you looked up to in the past have now turned into respected colleagues