Enrollment fees were somewhat near $270 per unit for my choice of subject. And, guess what, there are altogether 6 or 7 units per month. Imagine the total cost to offer in one month, it's almost $1500 or more per month. How do I pay such humongous fees? This fee structure is for International students or alien students who come from their countries to study here, well normally, on student Visa. I asked him about any other choices. This is second time, I was shocked to death when he told me if I became resident of California, I'll have to pay only $20 per unit. Now compare $270 and $20. Quickly, I asked him, how's that possible and he replied me back with the idea of living here in California for whole 1 year and 1 day. It put me into thinking. I told him, I've green card and so but even, he told me that this rule is not only for me, but even for U.S citizen of another states. I somehow then convinced myself that it was not only me being made deprived of my right of education just because of Fees. I was not even qualified for financial aid because my guardian's income exceeded their income level marked for the eligibility for Financial Aid. I was in dilemma and that's how I'm spending my good time in SANTA CRUZ ADULT SCHOOL. I study ESL(english as second language) there and I meet friends from all around the world. During this waiting period of one whole year to get enroll on college, I've to engage myself with ESL learning and the people out there, they are amazing. I'm learning lots of things about America, life and cultures over here which I think is good for me. I'm not wasting my time, at least, I'm learning things for my own. So, within these 4-5 months, I've made many friends. Some already left the school, I miss them a lot and some old friends are still in the same class whereas New students have joined. I'm on ESL level 5(final level), that means, only students with good grip in English are managed to be on that level. I was firstly admitted to Level 1, but after they took my assessment, they directly put me into level 5. My dream is to get Associate degree and then master degree on my subject of interest from highly recognized college and university here. So, without further ado, lets meet my friends and my teacher.
Last week, we had this event in our class which included photo taking and writing things about ownself. Later, this took form of autobiographies attached to message board on the class wall. I took snapshots of those affixed profiles(or say autographies):

















Last but not the least, this if for you my friend, Yeap You. You asked me once how and where I blog from. From left, is my HDTV, Laptop and my old desktop at back.
So, I watch news right by my side to keep myself updated, Satellite A215 as my laptop is great performer loaded with Vista(great OS, never gave me any trouble but it has some minor glitches anyway, which I think is needless to mention) and that's my station, BLOGSTATION(as like playstation,.. wink:wink:) you could assume, from where I'm typing these words. And the old desktop behind me is where I intend to troubleshoot people's computer, it's for testing purpose. Do you believe it has 100 MB unique but old ZIP disk drive. I've couple of them(zip disk) and I still love them,so I kept it with me else, it's supposed to be in junkyards. Anyway, thats where I blog from and publish my online contents.

I hope I didn't bore you with my personal useless rantings.
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