Surroundings

Chinese New Year at the downtown mall. There's a tree around the corner, but it was much less exciting than a giant balloon dragon who's tail wrapped around the entire first floor.



Everything here is centered around the river. If you don't learn to love it, you'll never truly love Spokane. But what's not to love about a giant waterfall that some crazy guy ventured down while trapped inside a wine barrel? One of the parks here in Spokane. I really don't know why the community felt it was necessary to make a rainbow out of painted pipes, but it was a pleasant reminder of what spring feels like through a long and dreary winter.




Please don't think that the school you attend it the only place that matters. Everything from the surrounding city to the cities beyond that are important when it comes to picking your school.
I never imagined Spokane as a place I would call my home. And it is definitely separate from the atmosphere of the college I'm attending. The city is lively in some areas, rich with culture and architecture. Other areas are, for lack of a better word, avoidable. The job market currently is one of the hardest things I've ever tried to enter, and some of the people I've come across are monstrous in more ways than one. But there are plenty of events and people that make it worth living here; they are the soul of the city and makes Spokane someplace worth looking into.

INTRO

I've never been good at keeping a journal, much less a blog, for more than a few days. Life always catches up with me and throws me for a loop within the real world outside of the rules where pen and paper (or keyboard, in this case) are the only ones that matter. So, to get right to the point, I'll tell you a little about myself.
I moved around a bit as a child, and right after high school graduation, I moved to Spokane Washington to live with my aunt while I attend college. My parents moved out of the country and since I didn't have a job or much money, I had no choice but to live with family while I chase after my dream of a college education. I just finished my first year of college and the experience has been nothing like what I expected. The last year of my life, for that matter, has been entirely unlike anything I imagined it would be.
I'm writing this for future college students. I was completely naive about life after college, and I had no one to answer my silly questions. Consider this a College 101 blog, where you can learn about the average, and sometimes not so average, happenings of a college student. I hope it helps, and I hope my experiences can provide some knowledge to those readers who are in the same place I was in as a high school senior.