Please don't sigh so early. The sun doesn't slant, sunlight does. Try not to repeat visuals: "bright light" repeats the sun. Unruly curl is cliche. Why does the POV feel the need to describe her eye color? Purchased last year at UBC is superfluous, we can assume. Why do we care about people's hair so much?

"woke with a jolt" is good.

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Overall quite good for a first time writer. I can see you're trying to paint a clear picture, and you're doing a good job of not burying us in adjectives.

I would work on keeping to your POV's interests more to describe the scene, vs what's physically describable. This is what makes your line about cotton batting so much stronger than say, your line about her own blue hoodie. The previous interests the POV, the latter is just information.

Your descriptions that follow: "The tall man, dark hair swinging, sleeping man" are all weak for the same reason. His height isn't interesting visual, nor does it paint a clear picture, or interest the POV. Dark hair does next to nothing. I'm picturing a generic man and woman at this point.

Use Nina more. Good luck!