I started a new module this week. The new mod always starts on the first week of every month. My second class for the day is Photoshop. Wow, what a learning curve!!! It feels great to use the muscles in my brain for the first time in a long while, but when you are in a class with young men that have been raised with computers, you feel a little inadequate. This week is the first week since I started school that I felt like it would be too hard. I am so very glad I pushed through though because today after class I felt so good about things. At least for now.
This is my cute little friend Max. This week I had to find clothes for him on the Internet and put him on a new background. Once I got the hang of it, I enjoyed doing it. At first I thought I would pull my hair out. I am excited about how it turned out. I got an A on the assignment. What an ego boost!!! Can't help but brag.
The other lesson I learned this week is something I still think about and feel a little bad. We have a lady in our class named Toni. She is 55 years old. Blond hair and wears a long hair piece that she pulls up on her head. She wears bright blue or green eyeshadow and bright red lipstick. Her lips are quite large and her mascara is always running down her face. Her tongue is very big and she smacks her lips and keeps her mouth half open with her tongue kind of poking out. She takes lots of medicine for depression and anxiety and got a DUI so she can't drive. All her life you can tell she has manipulated people into doing things for her. She has been trying to get people to pick her up in the morning for school. She lives in Provo. What a nightmare for one particular young man in the class. He is too nice to say no and she is really difficult because she won't take no for an answer. She is very disruptive in class and has never turned a computer on. She monopolizes the teachers time and it is probably the biggest annoyance I have experienced for a very long time. It is really unbelievable. I don't know how things will work out for her, but it has been an adventure getting to know her. The other people in my class are very dear to me and I have enjoyed my association with them. I am looking forward to an easier week next week. (I hope).
