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February 10, 2006
Tired
I'm so tired...I'm exhausted! Classes, assignments, relationships, life, feels so draining. I literally feel like fainting. Anyways a few updates. I got a job. So that's another thing to add to my already hectic life, but hey, the extra income will come in handy. Oh and we had a male model come by to pose for us in drawing class. I have to say, it is definitely something new to me, an experiance. Something I would never had a chance to experiance in Malaysia! LOL anyways I'm having alot of fun in that class. It's one of the classes I can just relax and not get all stressed out about assignments which I have to complete within a week or think of midterms and all that. I can just let go, and draw.
I am also currently reading Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld, it's one of my ways to try to not just focus on school. Plus I haven't read a good book in awhile, at least a book that's not ITP related. I got it from the NYU Bobst Library. It's a pretty interesting read and in a way I sort of relate to the character Lee, the feeling of being an outsider, especially during my highschool years.
I will give the book a proper review once I've finished reading it, but since I'm only halfway through I'ld just like to share with you guys what the book is about:
Curtis Sittenfeld’s debut novel, Prep, is an insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well as a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition.
Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. She leaves her animated, affectionate family in South Bend, Indiana, at least in part because of the boarding school’s glossy brochure, in which boys in sweaters chat in front of old brick buildings, girls in kilts hold lacrosse sticks on pristinely mown athletic fields, and everyone sings hymns in chapel
As Lee soon learns, Ault is a cloistered world of jaded, attractive teenagers who spend summers on Nantucket and speak in their own clever shorthand. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of–and, ultimately, a participant in–their rituals and mores. As a scholarship student, she constantly feels like an outsider and is both drawn to and repelled by other loners. By the time she’s a senior, Lee has created a hard-won place for herself at Ault. But when her behavior takes a self-destructive and highly public turn, her carefully crafted identity within the community is shattered.
Ultimately, Lee’s experiences–complicated relationships with teachers; intense friendships with other girls; an all-consuming preoccupation with a classmate who is less than a boyfriend and more than a crush; conflicts with her parents, from whom Lee feels increasingly distant, coalesce into a singular portrait of the painful and thrilling adolescence universal to us all.
Posted by zaianne at February 10, 2006 12:01 AM