Sunday, September 16, 2007
Life is Good!
So today I was sitting in Sunday School (or was it Relief Society...?) and it just hit me; I love it here! Everything about it is so amazing. Sure, it hasn't been an easy change, but I feel so lucky just to be here! Just the fact the I can start my food science class with a prayer, or that I can have family scripture study and prayer with my roommates, or my health professor can give quotes from apostles about how important our bodies are! It is so cool! I am completly surrounded by the gospel. But then I got thinking again, it doesn't even really matter where I'm at! The church is true everywhere! I can go anywhere in the world and still have the same blessings of the gospel! I know that the gospel is true, so why should I be afraid or sad or upset? Everything will work out just fine! It won't be easy, but I will always have something to fall back on. It's awesome! I absolutely love it! I just can't help but be happy!
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Books, homework, late nights, and oh, DISNEYLAND!!!
Wow - I can't believe that I've been living here for two and a half weeks. It really feels like I've been here for so much longer! I have absolutely loved it here though - everything about it. My roommates are awesome and we just all seemed too fit together really well. It's crazy how we ended up together; we are all so different, but we all bring different things to the apartment and we have become really good friends.
I started classes two weeks ago. So far I have basically enjoyed them as much as could be expected. I'm thinking that I'm going to stick with Computer Science as my major, but that is to be determined... So Courtney and I felt like we were in second grade again the morning of our first day as our roommates saw us off to school (they didn't have classes until later in the day.) This is us on our first day! (Basically I hate this picture so don't look at it for too long!)
Wednesday night of that week I headed back home to catch a flight with my family to California. Yes, I missed two days on my first week of school - that kind of frightened me but it all worked out alright. This was me saying goodbye, I mean see you later, to two of my favorite people ever! (And yes, they are on their appropriate sides.)
In California we spent two days at Disneyland and then went to the UCLA game on Saturday. It was so much fun. And can I just say that I LOVE Disneyland! It is seriously one of my favorite places on earth! I walked through the gates onto Main Street and thought to myself, "Ok, I can do this whole growing up and going to college thing. I just have to come back to Disneyland and I'm five again!" It's so great! This is my sister and I in the happiest place on earth:
Pics of the Rose Bowl/football team. This game was a lot of fun - too bad BYU couldn't pull it off. Oh well, 12-1 isn't so bad either! :)
After the football game we were driving back to our hotel and apparently there was an unexpected guest who decided to come along with us. I was sleeping and suddenly felt something crawling near my eye. I went to brush it away or feel what was there and alas, it was a bee/wasp/hornet/something with a stinger. Naturally when I touched it it became scared and unleashed its only form of defense on me. This is what I looked like the next morning:
Needless to say, it was an intense night. The swelling is now completely gone however, for which I am very grateful. At least I can still see...well kind of. I'm going to see an eye doctor on Monday for the very first time to have him check my eyes. I figured it was a bad sign when I couldn't read the writing that was projected onto a screen at the CS lab orientation...or anything else that is projected for that matter. This has nothing to do with the bee sting, but I'm kind of scared....really I'm just a whimp and am worrying over nothing, but any advice would be greatly appreciated!
I started classes two weeks ago. So far I have basically enjoyed them as much as could be expected. I'm thinking that I'm going to stick with Computer Science as my major, but that is to be determined... So Courtney and I felt like we were in second grade again the morning of our first day as our roommates saw us off to school (they didn't have classes until later in the day.) This is us on our first day! (Basically I hate this picture so don't look at it for too long!)
Wednesday night of that week I headed back home to catch a flight with my family to California. Yes, I missed two days on my first week of school - that kind of frightened me but it all worked out alright. This was me saying goodbye, I mean see you later, to two of my favorite people ever! (And yes, they are on their appropriate sides.)
In California we spent two days at Disneyland and then went to the UCLA game on Saturday. It was so much fun. And can I just say that I LOVE Disneyland! It is seriously one of my favorite places on earth! I walked through the gates onto Main Street and thought to myself, "Ok, I can do this whole growing up and going to college thing. I just have to come back to Disneyland and I'm five again!" It's so great! This is my sister and I in the happiest place on earth:
Pics of the Rose Bowl/football team. This game was a lot of fun - too bad BYU couldn't pull it off. Oh well, 12-1 isn't so bad either! :)
After the football game we were driving back to our hotel and apparently there was an unexpected guest who decided to come along with us. I was sleeping and suddenly felt something crawling near my eye. I went to brush it away or feel what was there and alas, it was a bee/wasp/hornet/something with a stinger. Naturally when I touched it it became scared and unleashed its only form of defense on me. This is what I looked like the next morning:
Needless to say, it was an intense night. The swelling is now completely gone however, for which I am very grateful. At least I can still see...well kind of. I'm going to see an eye doctor on Monday for the very first time to have him check my eyes. I figured it was a bad sign when I couldn't read the writing that was projected onto a screen at the CS lab orientation...or anything else that is projected for that matter. This has nothing to do with the bee sting, but I'm kind of scared....really I'm just a whimp and am worrying over nothing, but any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Sunday, September 2, 2007
FIRST WEEKEND!
This really is incredible. I can't believe it. Well, our apartment is finally completely moved in. Everything now has a place. That in and of itself is and incredible feeling! We even cleaned our carpets yesterday. They were pretty nasty, but I now can sit/lay on them without fear of catching some crazy disease. :)
Here are pictures of our cute apartment. It actually looks slightly different now; it's much more "homie." They are pretty much self explanatory.
Our kitchen. It makes me happy that we have one!
Our cute family table, complete with placemats.
Our bathroom, with a Cars shower curtain, provided by me, of course!
This is our bedroom - my bunk is the top one. Courtney's stuff is the messy part. :) Except my bed is kind of messy too...
This is my nice clean desk, with the "Cougars Reloaded" Poster of course!
Naturally I attended the BYU-Arizona football game yesterday. It was awesome. I sometimes forget how much I love being in a sea of blue at Lavell Edwards stadium on Saturday afternoons with 65,000 other fans cheering the Cougars on to victory. A good time was had by all. We even had our first college student moment. It was a rather hot day and none of us had water. Since we were all poor college students with no money, we resorted to the gigantic line at the drinking fountain at half time. After about five minutes, someone spotted two water bottles in a cardboard box near a snack bar type stand. Well, Chris and Kathryn decided that they were entirely too thirsty to wait for the line, so they took the bottles into the bathroom, washed them out, and filled them up. It kind of grossed me out but needless to say, they did get water! It actually really surprised me that Kathryn really did it. Chris, not so much. :)
Courtney and I having a good time:
You may begin to see a trend that Courtney is clearly incapable of taking normal pictures. The second one makes me laugh. It's Courtney, her friends Richard and Chris, and our roommates Nichelle and Kathryn. Chris looks a little bit angry...
This is my favorite new Cougar singing along with the other fans to the Cougar Fight Song following a touchdown:
Today was our first day in our new BYU student ward. I basically love it so far. Our bishop seems really cool and I can't wait to get to know the other students in my ward. Testimony meeting today was much different than in a home ward. There were absolutely no pauses. At least three people got up as soon as the bishop sat down and a steady stream continued from there on out. It was a good meeting nonetheless.
Here are pictures of our cute apartment. It actually looks slightly different now; it's much more "homie." They are pretty much self explanatory.
Our kitchen. It makes me happy that we have one!
Our cute family table, complete with placemats.
Our bathroom, with a Cars shower curtain, provided by me, of course!
This is our bedroom - my bunk is the top one. Courtney's stuff is the messy part. :) Except my bed is kind of messy too...
This is my nice clean desk, with the "Cougars Reloaded" Poster of course!
Naturally I attended the BYU-Arizona football game yesterday. It was awesome. I sometimes forget how much I love being in a sea of blue at Lavell Edwards stadium on Saturday afternoons with 65,000 other fans cheering the Cougars on to victory. A good time was had by all. We even had our first college student moment. It was a rather hot day and none of us had water. Since we were all poor college students with no money, we resorted to the gigantic line at the drinking fountain at half time. After about five minutes, someone spotted two water bottles in a cardboard box near a snack bar type stand. Well, Chris and Kathryn decided that they were entirely too thirsty to wait for the line, so they took the bottles into the bathroom, washed them out, and filled them up. It kind of grossed me out but needless to say, they did get water! It actually really surprised me that Kathryn really did it. Chris, not so much. :)
Courtney and I having a good time:
You may begin to see a trend that Courtney is clearly incapable of taking normal pictures. The second one makes me laugh. It's Courtney, her friends Richard and Chris, and our roommates Nichelle and Kathryn. Chris looks a little bit angry...
This is my favorite new Cougar singing along with the other fans to the Cougar Fight Song following a touchdown:
Today was our first day in our new BYU student ward. I basically love it so far. Our bishop seems really cool and I can't wait to get to know the other students in my ward. Testimony meeting today was much different than in a home ward. There were absolutely no pauses. At least three people got up as soon as the bishop sat down and a steady stream continued from there on out. It was a good meeting nonetheless.
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