squash it with the gauche ('cause that's how you say it)

I'm excited that school is back in session, I like the idea of school: learning new stuff, seeing new people.
Today, my class was color fundamentals. This is an introduction to the principles of color and an exploration of color theory as it relates to design. There are a few fashion design students in my class and the rest of us are graphic design. The class calls for no prerequisites, but I think design fundamentals should be one of them because when the teacher was talking today about it, I was lost already. That is the class I had to drop last quarter because I couldn't get the loan I wanted (and needed to stay in line with the rest of my classmates). But, I have that class later in the week, so hopefully I'll be ok. The first few weeks we will be using my "favorite" program: Adobe Illustrator. (this should also be a prerequisite, because if I hadn't taken the intro class for it last quarter, I would totally have no freakin' clue today, at all)  This is one that left me crying last time, I loathe it and I'm horrible at it. In class, while the teacher was zooming along, I really felt as if  I still don't know anything, I could barely keep up. Most of my classmates are already familiar with this program and with color theory and mixing colors and the properties because they've had art classes before or have taken it in high school.
I have not.
So every single thing that comes out of the teachers lips is brand spanking new to me, just like when I went to Mexico to learn Spanish. Hue, saturation, gauche paint, value....I've only heard these words before, I don't know what they mean!
Well, I managed to do the assignment today and got started on next weeks assignment so hopefully that will help me keep up, but I didn't really understand what I was doing. I hope this will come with time when I have a chance to read more and absorb it on my own time.
Two of my classmates that I had in last quarters classes did help me after class, and I thank them! I don't know what I will do without them when I won't have classes with them in the next few quarters...make new friends, I guess?

me leaving for school today...Zara says "bye 'icki!"

I've got a lot of reading to do now...