SF is on a Giants high

Pretty much everyone should know that the San Francisco Giants won the World Series this year. Man oh man, was this city going nuts when it all went down! I think it was good that they ended up winning it while they were playing in Texas at the Rangers' home stadium. I think if they were here when they won the series, things might have gotten out of control. It was great the night they won. Everyone in the city was hooting and hollering and honking the horns on their cars for hours on end. I decided that I needed to take advantage of the opportunity and go for a walk downtown. This is what I saw:

While I was recording this video, a homeless man came up and started singing to me and the man standing next to me, trying to get us to give him some money. It was a pretty funny addition to all of the other sounds that night. I'll include a few pictures of the Victory Parade crowd that was a couple of days later (this Tuesday). I wasn't able to make it to my class that day because the buses weren't running. You'll see why! It was a ton of fun and luckily the weather here has been SO warm! Summer days for sure.

This was the crowd leaving as I headed toward the main building of my school

The crowd... No class for me!

Hobart Building "Giants #1" in the windows

This right here is why I couldn't get to class. Just hanging out in the streets

Confetti Everywhere!

Me in the massive crowd

 

Me & The roomie

So that was the fun the Giants stirred up in the city. I'm glad I was here for it.  :)

Update on me now: I have been chugging along with school. I didn't get very good news on my Photo History midterm. Turns out the teacher expects us to have ESP and be able to read his mind on what he was looking for. Apparently he was surprised that everyone did horribly on it and went in to detail (AFTER the midterm of course) on what he wanted in it. Luckily, he's letting us redo it. I hate teachers like that and normally I can figure out early on how a teacher works, but we only recently started having to turn any assignments in. We've only had lectures before. So now I am 9 weeks in, just barely seeing what it is I have to do to get a good grade. Asshole. Oh well, such is life.

My other classes are fine though. I've begun working on my final project for my Photoshop class. My English class consists of writing papers... easy enough. And I did really well on my History of Film midterm. Apparently at least one of my teachers thinks I'm smart enough. Ready for this semester to be over for sure.

Work has been good and has kept me busy enough that I can't believe we're 5 days into November already. It's crazy!

I don't think that I had mentioned anything about looking into a Study Abroad program the school had for this summer or not. They're going to Italy, but in looking into the pricing of it, there's no way in hell it's going to happen. The school wants us to pay for the trip (which was fine and reasonable) AND the cost of an entire class. Total cost: way over $7,000. NOT including food and no financial aid can be applied to the course cost. So I decided, I will save up and take a "Yay I graduated" trip to Italy, or wherever, on my own... If anyone wants to start saving to go with me too, you're more than welcome. You have 3.5 years to go! :) So that was disappointing, but it's alright and I have a better plan I think.

I think that's about all that is going on in my world. I am looking forward to my trip to Vegas to see my Aunt and Uncle for Thanksgiving. I'm ready for a break for sure! And so the countdowns begin...

2 days until Daylight Savings Time ends... Fall back people.
18 days until my Thanksgiving Trip
44 Days until I go home for a LONG visit :)

Have a wonderful day! Off to class and work for the day.