Bear Lake

I thought that since I had a bunch of really cute pictures I might as well post them. We went to Bear Lake for general conference this year and had a blast, all things considered. Haha.

A Moment to Reflect...

So I have had very little time to myself lately. I've always been surrounded by, not boys, but by homework. I swear, it's a living thing! It breathes, crawls, kills, and multiplies!! No one is safe! I had three exams this last week and had to write a song for my english class. My ENGLISH class! AND we only had TWO, let me repeat, TWO DAYS to write it! Most people took the easy route and wrote a rap to one of their favorite songs. I was the only one who took the challenge of writing not only my own lyrics, but my own melody as well. Can you spell hard?!?! I worked for hours on that thing and I had so much other stuff to do. I showed up to class the next day after only a few hours of sleep and our teacher never showed up. He had the flu and class was cancelled. I had worked so hard on that song and was so frustrated that I had worked so hard for nothing that I didn't look at it again untill we had to sing them for the class. Yes, you read correctly. Each and everyone of us had to sing for the class. And let me tell you, we would never make a very good choir. Overall, school is fun. I am going to the gym three day a week to do physical therapy for my knee and feel so dumb because I can only lift twenty pounds. People walk by and just stare. I like to imagine what they are thinking. "Wow that girl is a whimp!" Oh well. I'm improving and that's all that matters. Our ward is going to the ropes course this saturday so we will see how much of that I can do. It will be freezing tho!!!

We Love Our Idaho Potatoes!

My roommate, TauraLee, convinced me to go to Idaho Falls on Saturday to the annual Spud Day. It has been so hot here in Rexburg so we were surprised to see rain pouring from the heavens when we woke up! We got there, ate a ton of food, saw all of the booths 3 times (we took Taura's aunt and little cousins to see everything when they met up with us), and got completely soaked. I was so excited for the Spud Tug! Who wouldn't want to watch people play tug-of-war over a pit of mashed potatoes?! We got to see them fill up the pit with mashed potatoes that were mixed in a cement truck and very liquidy and then, once again, the heavens opened up and sheets of rain came pouring down on us! Everyone ran for cover and we headed home. I didn't get to see anyone fall in the pit of liquid mashed Idaho potatoes...oh well... I talked to one of my roommates yesterday about it and she said that people were diving in, even the missionaries got in on it. She also said that usually the potatoes are fluffy and not nasty liquid. I'm so excited to try it again next year!

This was the cement truck that they poured the potatoes in.

Getting ready to fill the pit!

And here it comes!!!

We were absolutely drenched and frozen the rest of the day!

Photo Shoot

Here are the pics that Kristi (my english partner) and I took. They are awesome! The one we ended up using was the close up of the bus. We think ours was the best!

College!

Monday was my first day of school! I stayed up late Sunday night finishing an english assignment and had to get up early for my first class, Book of Mormon. At 7:45 AM! Crazy, I know! My teacher was really nice and loves to tell stories. So I then had 15 minutes to hobble over to the Smith building from the Hinkley building. I got so lost! When I finally found it it was 9:10. I was going to be 10 minutes late. Not that bad. Then I realized that my class room was on the 4th floor. So it took 5 minutes to climb those stairs (cause I forgot about the elevator). When I finally got to my classroom, I opened the door and there was no one there! I walked around the floor two times and found a lady at the foreign language department. She sent me walking around the floor again. I came back and told her that my class started 30 minutes ago and that I had no idea what to do. She called some people and got ahold of my professor. I then had to walk 10 minutes to his office where there was another girl who had the same problem I did. Apparently there was a room mix-up so my professor let everyone out after he gave the assignment. I got my assignment and started working on it with Kristi, my partner from texas (the girl who I mentioned above). We spent hours taking pictures and trying to come up with a motto. Our best pic is a grasshopper. Who would have thunk? I then had American Foundations. My teacher is hilarious and the class is huge! We had our first FHE activity tonight too! I'm in the 41st ward and everyone is really nice. We ate, met the bishop and his counselors, and played ultimate frisbee. So much fun!

Knee Surgery

I guess the first thing I should start with is a major event that happened in my life on friday. I had knee surgery. I dislocated my knee three years ago trying to learn how to salsa dance at a stake dance. We finally went in to the doctor and he suggested surgery. It went really well and I am up and walking around. I almost fainted yesterday (sunday) because I saw the staples for the first time. No one told me there would be staples in my knee! What kind of a sick joke is this! Thank goodness for mom being there! (I'm such a whimp!) What a great 18th birthday present...

I have a Blog!

I finally decided to start a blog! Now my mom can see what I do with my spare time at college!