California Sun

Growing up everybody seems to be going along more or less the same road.  We move at different paces and we hit different bumps along the way, but we're all headed in the same general direction.  But before we've been on that road long it all changes.  Our original road ends and about five million more pop up in its place, and we are given the task of picking which one we will go down.  Intimidating much? It tells a lot about a person when they get the chance to choose, and a lot of the time they take roads you never would have guessed.. or you would have guessed but that take them far away from you nonetheless. Its not easy and a lot of the time it takes people along time to make a decision...

Not me.

I have been one of those people fortunate enough to get a few good hints and find a spyglass along the way, I was one of the ones able to get a glimpse of what was ahead and start preparing accordingly.  So I have.

For about five years now I've had it in my head that I've wanted to do fashion design, and well for those five years there hasn't been a day that I've ever doubted that it was what I wanted to do.  I started to look at art schools around here a while back(I like to plan ahead) but quickly determined that it would be far out of my price range.  I still definitely wanted to purse fashion though, and last year I started looking into what was available at a community college level.  That's where I happened upon FIDM(The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising), or rather God placed it in front of me.

I was visiting a college in Tacoma, checking out a pre-fashion design program they had, and while I was there and they had a representative from the college come give us a little info on the college.  After she gave her speel and named a price tag that was half of the local colleges I was captivated..

That was about six months ago... After that I researched FIDM a bit more and always had it as the idea to work toward, but it was never anything definite. But this past month they had a big information session in Bellevue for all the prospective students in Washington.  After going to that and listening to the alumni speak, I knew that this is where I feel I need to go, this is where I feel called to go. God has put this school in my life and it is an amazing school at that!

Two days after Bellevue I met with one of the heads of administrations, as she was in town for a couple days, talked details and I now have my application.  I have an advisor at the school, I'm taking my SATs in the beginning of December, and once I get my scores and finish up a portfolio to send in, I will have my application turned in.

I never thought I'd ever go to California, and I never thought I would be able to afford a college as nice as this, but with hard work, scholarships, a little help, and a lot of God I really believe it will happen. Life is exciting, and if this works out it will be such a great chapter in my life, and I'm going to learn so incredibly much!

So, Lord willing, I will be going to the LA campus when I graduate community college for a fifteen month program in fashion design!

http://fidm.edu/en/Visit+FIDM/Launch+Virtual+Tour/ Check it out!!! :D (LA campus)

Godspeed and sweet dreams..

Xx Becfola