Bench School Week 4 Update

Week 4 started off hot.

I had freshly dyed pink hair (when I still thought it wasn’t a mistake) and a pep in my step.

Week 4 felt like the week where things were finally making sense.

It consisted of snack lunches, lots of 4 prong settings, bezel settings, and setting the most insane 70 stone ring.

70 stones!? I couldn’t believe it.

But you’ll never guess, I liked it.

I realized rather quickly that stone setting is just about the most fun skill I have ever learned in my short 23 years.

By week 4, it became easy to feel like this life of working and school and balancing relationships may go on forever, and may even drown me.

But week 4 was such a pivotal point for all of us, just like our instructor said it would be.

By the end of this week, I am feeling like I truly might be able to get the swing of things.

Ask me this in a couple weeks, I may feel completely different. But today, I think week 4 was just the encouragement I needed to keep going.