Greatings from Phoenix

So I just wanted everyone to know that I am surviving the heat of Phoenix, I've made a few sales, and I miss you all. I'm hoping to find time to write a more extensive blog sometime soon, but for now here are a few pictures to hold you over:



-A few of us on the first day...looking sharp?


-My roommate and I at dinner


-Our nightly tradition of hot tubbing-

New Semester 2008

I've been back in Provo for about a week and a half now and I was pleasantly surprised to feel myself adjust much quicker this time around. I guess anything less than 2 months would have been a huge step up though...hm. New Years in Vegas was way fun and warm. My flights went smoothly compared to the weekend before where I experienced the flight from hell and I did a little bit of illegal gambling and lost $20. I can see how addicting it would be though, because at one point I had at least doubled what I started with, but kept playing until I lost everything and then had to talk myself out of trying again.

It was nice to have the apartment to myself for a couple of days and get ready for school, but I don't think I could ever live by myself. I always thought the ideal situation would be to live alone with your own kitchen and everything, but I would definitely get lonely. So shout out to Elizabeth Cohea- thanks for coming back! (I had a little thank you/welcome home present when she got home...let's just say we're sharing a super-bed for the next 3 months)

I paid my $270 non-refundable down payment to go to China last night so I am definitely going. It freaks me out a little bit, but I am so excited that I am actually going to do it. All I have to do is finish applying for my passport and pay for the rest of it and I'm in. I should know what city I'll be living in within a couple of weeks and then I'll be googling it like crazy.

This semester I'm taking: Spanish 206, Archaeology (long story), Geology 101, World History to 1500, Book of Mormon (second half), and next block I'll start taking a class on Islam. So far so good. The only class I'm a little concerned about right now is my history class because the only section I could get into meets Thursday nights from 6-8:30...so if the teacher is boring, lecture is going to suck, plus that means a lot of outside work. But other than that, it seems managable and if nothing else, as long as I pass everything, I'll only have 3 GE credits left. Which I guess means I'd have to select a major or something.

Let's hope for a successful and fast semester...before you know it, it will be summer break!

Finals week! Except for Jennifer and Elizabeth, you lucky girls. I only have two finals next week, an Arts of Africa test on Monday and an Introduction to Environmental Science test on Wednesday. My other finals were this past week, thank goodness. My design portfolio was one of the most stressful things I've had to do this semester and even though it sounds easy, I was up till six AM Sunday night, Monday night and Tuesday night trying to get it done.
Hopefully I'll be seeing Jennifer and Elizabeth when they come to Iowa City Tuesday to visit while Anne and I frantically try to study for science.....

See everyone in a week!

it's that time

It's technically a reading weekend...have I done much reading for finals? no. Will I do enough before Monday? Well, that would be the plan, but considering I have to get up to take Zeb to the airport tomorrow morning, I could see myself sleeping all day...which would be a bad idea, I think.

It feels crazy to me that finals are next week (for me). I guess I made it through my first semester at BYU. As long as I can get through my American Heritage final, I will be good to go. I'm going for a 65-75% on that.

Here's for exciting news: I finished applying for this international language program (ilp) and will more likely than not be moving to China in August for the fall semester to teach English. (I'll know for sure next week before I come home) Second news, I may or may not be moving to Florida this summer to work the glorious job of a door-to-door saleswoman for POINTE Pest Control. Awesome, I am going to know so much about bugs...and hopefully be rich by July.

Good luck with finals, everyone

I'm halfway done with finals!!!

Today I took my calculus and physics finals. Here's how they went!

Calculus was decent... the first 8 questions were from the earlier parts of the semester and were pretty easy, the other 12 were over series. I don't know a dang thing about series. There was a question which involves the Maclaurin series of arctan. To be honest, I don't think there is a single useful application of that series. If there is, please let me know. At any rate, that test was over completely trivial information.

Physics was easy, except for the fact that i was completely stupid on the last question and it ended up taking a good 30 minutes. It was an easy question, too, but I kept on making the same calculation error. Needless to say, I was frustrated, but hopefully I'll do well

Still to come! Chem Lab and Chem Lecture!!!! OH BOY!!!1

The Sims 2 is like drugs

I made the terrible mistake about a week and a half ago to get the sims 2 on my computer. Needless to say, I have gotten very little work done since receiving the game. I have, however, had my sims earn a small fortune in that time, which I'd say is pretty productive.

We are now in dead week here, which means there's absolutely nothing to do as most of the campus is in hermit mode studying. My plan is to watch a few seasons of Top Gear, which is a hilarious British show about cars. It should be a very good time.

My college experience

I was studying for my math test and came across this question:

A ward has 20 eligible people to be chosen as bishop, first counselor,
and second counselor. How many bishoprics could be formed? What is
the answer if the bishop has already been chosen?


The answer, by the way, is 6840 bishoprics and 342 if the bishop has already been chosen. Oh, the things I'm learning...