3 days down

First three days of school our done..... Wahoo! It was an interesting week that is for sure. It looks like I will like all my classes. I found out a girl in my ward was in my Art for Elementary teachers so that was a pleasant surprise! There is only one class I do not know anyone... and it happens to only have 15 people! I'm pretty much guaranteed to meet someone and become friends realllll soon. My Spanish class is simply amazing. It is a bit of a challenge because our professor only speaks Spanish.. no English! Which I guess isn't too much of a problem because I can understand most everything, but the key word is most. There are definitely a lot of words I do not understand! And I realized how much of the grammatical concepts I forgot! So there is definitely a lot to take on but I am so excited to hopefully become almost fluent in Spanish. Because let's get real. THAT'S MY HERITAGE! It embarrasses me sometimes that I can't speak it. But soon, my friends, this will change. Brace yourselves.
One of my goals this year is to become closer to my Heavenly Father. I have been doing the little things like daily scripture study and prayer... and let me tell you. It has done wonders already. Its not that I wasn't doing it before, but it was never 100% consistent. Sometimes it was one or the other, or sometimes both did not happen that day! But so far, it has been great! I feel so grateful to go to BYU. In all of my classes we begin with a prayer. In my religion and Spanish classes we sing a hymn! I felt so lame, but my first day of Book of Mormon class I cried, just overwhelmed by the Spirit. These classes are so edifying and I can only imagine all that I will learn!
So those of you who know me well know that I have embarrassing things that happen to me... a lot. Of course multiple things happened this week. One of them happened to include a guy... big surprise. I was walking to one of my classes and I was on the phone with my mom! I don't know how Missouri was incorporated in our conversation, but it was and after I hung up the phone this really cute guy came up to me and asked if I was from Missouri! I told him yeah and in fact I was from Independence! He got all excited and has asking me things and then BAM! I tripped. Stupid sidewalk. And I was totally embarrassed. Luckily my building was right on my left because I could already feel the awkwardness seeping in.
This week was also a little odd. I love food. I really do. So why couldn't I eat this week!!?!?! Gah. It was so frustrating! For some reason, the smell, sight, or taste of food made me feel queasy. I only ate about 5 times ever since I've been home... weird right? And I thought yesterday was the end of it, but I feel that way again this morning! I dunno what is going on! This is nonsense. I am praying really hard this goes away soon because I know for a fact this isn't healthy. On the other hand, Markie and I got a gym pass to Gold's Gym this week! We are going to be working out at 5:30 in the morning... this shall be very very interesting. I am so excited for it though!
Last night was also great fun. Markie and Liz had been telling me about this place called Spark earlier this week. Basically it's like a classy lounge (Mormon style of course). They told me about all these awesome drinks they had like pina coladas and martinis, non-alcoholic of course. So we decided we were gonna go this weekend! We then decided we would make it a girls night out! Then it changed into girls night out + James. Which then turned into girls night out+ James+ other guys! In the end, it was a lot of fun! We all dressed up classy (James even wore a tux!) and we all enjoyed each others company! Afterwards we went to James and Ethan's apartment to watch Lord of the Rings (which I had never seen). Allie, Markie, and I shared a couch. They knocked out pretty fast! But by the end, we were all out. Good times.
Today I am going to the basketball game with Liz! I am excited! I love BYU basketball! yayyyy. Hopefully we win! Well, I hope everyone has a great weekend! And remember, God loves you.
P.S. IT SNOWED!!

Round Two

So.. this is my first time having a blog. Yipee! I am about to start my second semester at BYU and I am quite excited! A lot of it has to do with my classes I am taking, which are: Spanish, Art for Elementary Teachers, New Testament, Book of Mormon, and American Heritage! I think another key factor for my excitement has to do with having friends in my classes this semester! Yay! I start tomorrow and already have four classes! Luckily, my first class is at noon. Thank goodness. I'm learning more and more I'm not a morning person like I used to be. Glad I figured that out last semester!

Being back in Provo is bitter sweet. More sweet than bitter though. I had a great time at home! I had much needed time with my family! The statement absence makes the heart grow fonder is definitely true, and although I have only been at college for a semester, being away for almost 5 months made me realize how much I truly love and appreciate my family! While home we took some family pics! That was an adventure... we hadn't taken them since my freshman year of high school and I remember my brother Chris being a goof in all the pictures. Yep, things didn't change! It was a struggle to get him to smile instead of making silly faces. Oh well, it was a fun experience to say the least. Being home I was able to see lots of friends from school and church! It was actually a strange thing. I was amazed to see how much people had changed and although we still shared memories and experiences, I felt really distant from many of my friends! Even so, it was still fun to reunite and swap college stories and experiences! I spent a good amount of time with a good friend of mine, Torrie, who is starting at BYU-I this winter. She's basically been my best friend since we've been 12 and the reality finally set in that we are going to be a part! To this very moment, it's still an emotional roller coaster of how I feel about that situation... in the end, I think it's a time in our lives where we have to spread our wings and face it all! I know we'll still always be friends.

Since I've been back in Provo, it has been an adventure. I got back Sunday night and I was super tired. I had an.... interesting flight back. If you would like to hear the story call me, beep me, if ya wanna reach me. I was super tired when I got home and the battle between unpacking and laying around and be lazy occured... of course laying around being lazy won. Rachel was excited for me to get home so she made a chocolate cake from scratch! To top it off, we had ice cream to go with it! It was a pleasant surprise! I was too tired to stay up for too long though and crashed. Monday, though, I was very productive and unpacked all of my things from good ol' Missouri! I realized that I had wayyyyy too manyclothes and had to put some clothes in tubs. Butttt I gave myself two new drawers by putting all my school stuff into one drawer as opposed to three! It was fun times being all productive and organizing.... NOT! It's okay, I had my Pandora station on so I jammed out. After I was all organized and feeling good about myself, Katie, Jesse, and I went to Ruby River for lunch and then our usual Wal-Mart run. Except I had a teensy eensy little problem on our way to Wal-Mart. Well ya see, I kinda sorta had to pee. Like REALLY BAD. The kind where you feel like one jerk of the body will result in a yellow waterfall. So yeah, no bueno. Luckily I was able to waddle into Wal-Mart safe and sound. So there's one thing about Katie and I's Wal-mart runs.... we make 2 mistakes. One mistake is we tend to shop hungry. As a result, usually our carts contain a lot of things we do not necessarily need. Most of the time, though, we have enough self-discipline to take out a lot of the things we do not need before we check out. And the other mistake... well we like to get a lot of silly things. Like yesterday I made the comment, ooh I want to get a lunchable!! We walked over to get one... 6 lunchables in the cart later we were on our way off. Yep, that's us.

Last night I went to Liz's apartment with Katie to just chat because well...I missed her face! Phil came by and said he had fireworks so we got a little group together and watched him shoot them off. Then he and Liz had a Roman Candle battle... it looked like they were having a wand battle. Seriously, they should have shouted wingardium leviosa or something! Katie and I went back to Liz's apartment afterwards and then Katie got tired and left! Liz and I wanted to stay up for Markie to get home and then we ended up falling asleep on the couches. I barely recall Markie getting home. All I know is I awkwardly patted her on the back and said welcome home... then fell back asleep. Yay for first college sleepover! Liz, Markie, and I got our textbooks today from the bookstore. Afterwards we got Jambas! Yummy! Good times, good times.

I am so excited for another new semester and I hope it goes well! To the new semester!