Hey everyone! So I realized that its been a week since I last filled you in on the college life here at BYU-I. This week has been amazing. I love all of my classes. They are so different from high school classes. All of the textbook readings and note taking is saved for homework, which is fine with me because at least then I know that the thousands of dollars I am paying is actually going towards quality classroom time. Each of my classes is discussion-based, which is really neat because since everyone is LDS we can incorporate teachings of the gospel into our lessons. Every class begins with an opening prayer and some of them even start with a hymn as well. It is incredible here, the Spirit is so strong and you can see it looking in the eyes of the students. I LOVE IT :)
My schedule is as follows:
Monday, Wednesday, Friday: English & Child Development
Tuesday & Thursday: Psychology, Book of Mormon, History & Philosophy of Ed.
On Monday, my roomies and I decorated our living room for FHE as our ward FHE groups haven't been made yet. We wrote a bunch of our inside jokes all over and we joke that by the end of the semester it will be so filled that we will be searching for a blank spot to write on.
Nothing really exciting happened Tuesday, but on Wednesday I found out that I made it into the Social Activities Committee, meaning that I help plan or organize dances. I am actually a manager of the Fall Formal here on October 24 :) I am working to create a Christmas Ball, too, that I will run by council on Wednesday. I want the theme to be "Winter Wonderland". There would be an etiquette dinner, dance, sleigh rides, and ice skating. I think it could be really cute so hopefully it passes and I can get to work on that along with my plans for Fall Formal.
Again, Thursday wasn't very exciting, but Friday was Andrea's birthday. We heart-attacked her while she was at her classes. Then we through her a little party and invited all the girls living in our dorms. It turned out to be really fun and actually a lot of girls came. Some neighbors we hadn't met yet came and visited us that night after the party to sing to Andrea and show off some dance moves. It was pretty funny =]
Saturday, I just stayed in and worked on homeowork. We tried to go do baptisms for the dead that morning, but the temple had an hour and a half wait so we decided we'd go back on a weekday. That was a shame because I was so excited, but hopefully we can go back in the next couple of days. I finished all of my homework Saturday which was nice - I had all of Sunday to just relax and not worry about studying.
Yesterday we went to church. This made me a little bit homesick for my ward back in Orem. I really miss my single's ward there. Everyone was so welcoming and friendly and made you feel wanted. I loved it there. Also, everyone was just a bit older so they were more respectful of Sacrament meeting and the Spirit was so strongly felt. At church here these past couple weeks, it is hard to feel it. We have our Sacrament meeting in a classroom, so it makes it just a little harder to focus. Then, we have almost all freshmen in our ward who just cannot seem to close their mouths. It is really hard to get in the spiritual mood with everyone chatting away about their dates, housing issues, and homework. Anyway, I felt homesick a lot yesterday because I missed my old ward and my friends back in Utah.
Yesterday after church, I came home to find an email from the Service Committee and found out that I have also been accepted into that committee and I am on the Council. I am really excited about it :)
Which brings us to last night: We were invited over to a friend's apartment to play games and eat these pancake-waffles they had made. It was really fun and nice to be invited somewhere for a change. When we got home last night though, I went back into my bedroom to check my email really quick when Andrea came in and told me to go to the living room and it was important. I went to the living room and everyone was sitting around Gustave's fishbowl. Talia looked up at me and said, "We had a death in the family." I looked into the bowl, and yes, there lied my baby Gustave at the bottom of his tank. It was so sad! We only had the little guy for 8 days and we killed him!! He was a part of the family. As I flushed him down the toilet, it brought back memories of Max, my sweet puppy who was put to sleep a couple of months ago. Now I know that it seems weird that Gustave made me think of Max because there was such a drastic difference between them, but I felt like after Max, I needed another pet. Not to replace him; Max could never be replaced. I just felt that longing to have a pet who relied on me and loved me. I know, I know. I am talking about a fish, but here in the dorms thats about as far as we can get to having a pet. It was so sad.
So here I am. It is Monday morning. I think I am going to get a headstart on homework for this week before my english class at 12:45. I love how I have mornings all to myself. All of my roomies go to their classes and the apartment is so quiet. Its easy to concentrate on homework too because Facebook is blocked until 5 on weekdays :P
Well, that is about all that's happened this week. Nothing too super exciting, but I really do like it here. Please keep in touch. I love getting all of your random text messages throughout the day. They make me so happy. I hope all of you are doing well. For my friends living in Orem and AF, I will see you Halloween weekend and Thanksgiving weekend!! And those friends living in Boise, I am coming back for Christmas break for about a week so I will see you then! I miss you all and love you. Take care!
-Me <3
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