Long Needed update. I’m not dead.
6 years ago
General
Hello everyone! Sorry for disappearing for over 6 months. It’s been… Very complicated… Last I remember when I last posted, was before Christmas time in 2019. Hoping to draw more, but that didn’t happen. There were a few pet deaths that really hurt me, especially when they have been almost and over a decade with me and that I cared very deeply. When the year 2020 rolled in, I was hopeful for a new amazing year, but where I am living (Puerto Rico), there was so many tremors and earthquakes that we were so fearful about losing our home since we live on a mountain. We were so scared, that we stored our important belongings in our cars, including my drawing tablet, just in case if anything happened to our home. I think we left them there for a month until we got fed up about it. We still had tremors, but we got to the mentality that if we lose everything, we lose it and that our lives are more important than that. I had to go back to university during this period too. My university had emergency plans if such things were to happen during university hours. Then March rolled in and news of the COVID-19 was announced to be present in the island, so my university closed up and decided to give classes through Zoom. It wasn’t easy, but I managed to pass all my classes with no issues. News about the virus everyday was very depressing, but I was happy to be able to stay home because I hated driving to university every day. During that period, Animal Crossing New Horizons came out and I wanted to play it so bad on the day it was released. I hate digital downloads, but I had no choice, and played that game every day. Love spending time with my villagers. Which I hope to draw art of them one day. Then on May, my father was moving out to the United States for a better pay. He had discussed to us about his plans, and honestly, we didn’t want him to go, but we didn’t want to get in his way. When he left, I cried in silence because I care about my dad a lot and didn’t want anything bad to happen to him. Especially 4 days after my birthday. During this time of May and June, I was adjusting to living without my dad and just living with my brother and mother. It has made us grow closer during this time, but we all miss him a lot and we do talk to him every day. He is going through a lot of highs and lows and my mother can tell he regrets leaving. We hope to one day move in with him and be together again. In the end of June til now on July, I was taking my final university course through Zoom. It was for 3 weeks, but it was 3 horrible weeks due to not understanding the course. I was able to pass this final class thanks to my classmates constantly helping me out during quizzes and exams and ending the course, on the 20th of July, with a good high grade. A grade I did not deserve, but I certainly would have never passed the class without their help, which I deeply appreciate. So now I am here to tell you that I have officially graduated from university. Almost 6 years of studying, finally comes to an end and I can finally do whatever I want. During this whole disappearance, I have been gaming a lot and just going through Twitter, so I hope I can transition back into drawing again now that I don’t have the pressure of having limited time due to the next university semester rolling in. Today I received news from my university that the upcoming semester, on August, are going to start back in campus (Depending on the class), so I dodged a bullet there. Thanks to everyone who has stayed this long waiting for me and very sorry for all of this. Hope to actually post more. Stay safe everyone.
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Glad to be back here too.