Yes I know that it is a bit late to talk about the first week but I wanna do that! It is not only my first experience of ACC but also it is my first experience of USA! I arrived US only eighteen ( not sure about the number, more or less, who cares!) days ago. It was a long long trip from Iran to US but definitely it worth it! Since I arrived in Cincinnati before starting of classes, I had enough time to become familiar with living in this country. Frankly speaking, I was a little nervous about going abroad and experiencing completely new life style. Actually, I think every body will has a similar felling about traveling to another country. I expected to encounter a lot of issues during the initial days, but fortunately, I have had no problem at all! I believe the only think that made everything easier to me was the cozy and warm atmosphere of ACC. After a week of being in the ACC, I really felt comfortable and relax here. like majority of students, faculty and staff are so warm-blooded. All of them unbelievably want to help you in every case. To be honest, I didn’t expect that!

The first week also was a little hard to deal for me. Some courses – which I am not going to mention them! – took a lot of time to do their assignments and believe me there is always assignment for them, without any exception! The thing that made everything worse is the fact that I am not an organized person at all! And I am so famous in my family and friends as a person who always spouses ”to be late”. Let me put it this way, the most important challenge which I have to encounter with in my first semester in ACC is time management. In past, when I was working in Tehran as an art designer and Sculptor, there was no need to follow very strict schedule because that job was so flexible and I wasn’t obliged to participate in a certain place at the certain time! Oh god, I was free as a bird! anyway…

So, when you have lots of assignments to do and you are terribly disorganized and a little lazy ( just in case of routine appointments, meetings and classes , not about everything!) and not use to do stuffs on time, without any shadow of doubt, you will get in trouble. But good news is that I am working on it and sooner or later I will defeat ”the evil of disorganization and laziness”!