Lucrezea

Well, I did it. I saved up for a month and paid my tuition for my first course as part of the ACA Program at BCIT. Even though I had the money put away, I still waited on paying for about a week due to nerves. Taking the sewing course has given me a lot more confidence to approach schooling, but this is a lot more serious as far as I’m concerned. I committed myself though, so now I have to stick to that.

There’s still a bit of complications surrounding one of the pre-requisite courses for the program, but I don’t have to really worry about it until I sign up for program approval. I’m just going to take a few of the courses involved in the program first before I worry myself about that.

Well, my first class starts at the beginning of November, and after that I don’t get any weekends to myself (well, Saturdays at least) for a month.

In my last update about this I mentioned that I had signed up for the first sewing course in the program. I’ve had 3 classes since then, and it’s been a lot of fun. I’ve been learning a hell of a lot, and at first I thought my teacher was a little loopy, but she’s actually really helpful and knowledgeable.

Our project for the course is to make a pair of pants. I chose a cargo-style draw-string pattern and some super awesome Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fabric to make a pair of lounge/pajama pants out of. We’ve gotten as far as cutting out the patterns and playing around with the sewing machines (sturdy old Pfaff machines) thus far, and I’m really eager to start sewing my pants.

The class I’m taking is held at a secondary school, which is really weird. I haven’t stepped foot in a school before this since I graduated almost 10 years ago. Everyone else had the same feeling, so that was comforting at least. All in all, so far so good. I’m glad I took the plunge and proved to myself that yes, I can commit to something like this.

About a week ago I got a call from my bank saying that my account might have been compromised. This really isn’t anything new; I’ve had them put a hold on my account and call me to say the same thing about a year ago. While I was on the phone with a representative from my bank he informed me of an option to help me with my ridiculous Visa payments.

I won’t be able to do this until I can keep a balance on my Visa, which I doubt will happen anytime soon now that I’ve started schooling, but because I’ve had an account for so long he said I could apply for a loan. It was tempting when he was telling me about it, but I denied it for now, because that extra money after my interest payment comes out usually goes to groceries or whatnot. When I’m able to keep a balance and educate myself about this loan business more, I could save another 2-3% in monthly interest. Definitely tempting, considering how helpful my 8% interest drop has been since I switched cards.

I suppose it’s something to consider for the future. I really want to get this debt out of my way so I can wrack it right back up again with traveling.