I hope everyone had a good Christmas, I sure did! It was so good to finally go home, I was starting to get a little homesick. We traveled to Albany Christmas Eve and celebrated Christmas with Aunt Kristi, Uncle Sean, Shannon and Grandma & Grandpa Bieg. I had a very nice Christmas, Mom & Dad got me a gift card to Big Bear Mountain in California and are sending my skiis and snowboard out there! I was really just thankful to be home for the holidays though, my Thanksgiving was not the same and was a lot harder to deal with than I thought. I had a good time though, I traveled to San Francisco with my roomate Jen's family and it was fun but just not the same without the family. I have attached some pictures of where I live, when I get back I will take some pictures of the inside of my apartment, I just love it! I did well in school this semester ended with a 3.3, hopefully next semester I will do better I had one class that gave me a really hard time this semester... Survery of Western Art. I also got an internship this semester, I work at a showroom called Kathy Walker Sales. For those of you who don't know what that is, a showroom is a big store that select a certain number of clothing brands to represent and they only sell the merchandise in wholesale. Overall it has been a great experience and the people I work for are awesome, they understand how hard the work load is at FIDM and cater to me when it comes to the amount of time I spend there. They undertand that school comes first which is good considering how much of my time is consumed with homework. My school has a 70% drop out rate because students are not prepared for the workload, therefore I have had to say goodbye to a lot of friends that I have met. I knew a total of 8 girls who have already dropped out. Though it is a lot of work, I really do love it.. I have never felt better about where I am and what I'm doing even though sometimes I really miss home. I have made some great friends at school and am getting along very well with all of my roomates, though living with other people isn't as easy as I thought! Well, guess it's time for game night! I hope all is well with everyone, please keep in touch I miss you all :) Love Always, Mandi
The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco at Thanksgiving.
My favorite place to go hiking, you can actually ride horses right up to the Hollywood Sign but I have yet to do so, it is on our to-do-list.
The most amazing sunset I have ever seen outside of my apartment one night.
This is where I go to school, The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising.. AKA: FIDM!
The view of downtown from the rooftop pool at my apartment.
This is where I live, 725 S. Bixel Street Los Angeles, CA 90017.
This is the ground level pool.
This is the private park that is attached to my apartment. It even has barbeque pits so we can cook out!
One of my favorite places to go at my apartment is this waterfall, those are the stairs up to my room from the pool.
