Week 1 of Digital Graphics

This first week has been a little upside down for me. I was excited to come back from the long break, but it turned into a struggle quickly.
There was a communication miss-hap and the university wasn't going to allow me to continue with classes, but I didn't actually understand what was happening until the Friday before our class started.
Once I was enrolled, I felt a deep relief and the group I enjoyed working with quickly started emailing back and forth that we would work in groups the third week.
Then as I was looking through the discussion board, I noticed I didn't see any of my group member's names. It was confusing, because I knew we were in the same class and then it came to me that my group and I had been split, I was in a different section of the class from my group members, all because I wasn't enrolled until the first day of class. With all of this happening, the week just kept passing quickly as I worked on the assignments. I waited for the web conference to see if being in a different section for group members would matter, I even emailed the IA, I thought was the person for my new section because she had emailed me the weekly overview, but I got no response.
After watching the web conference, I learned that groups should really be made up of peers from the same section.
So here I am, without a group. I have emailed another person in my section, but still have not gotten a response. I am so afraid this is going to affect my performance in this class. I just hope it will turn around.
As far as the readings this week of the ancient manuscripts, I thought it was amazing to see how all the principles were used through out the documents.
I also had an interesting time designing the teaching tool. I am a perfectionist when it comes to designing or creating and I didn't feel like my teaching tool showed the best of my ability.
I am hoping to find a group to work with and se how the rest of this class goes. Graphics and design is one of my fortes and I hope to enhance my knowledge.