The Insanity Begins

All the words I was supposed to know

Stack of flashcards to help memorize terms.. Most cards have 2 words on them!

   Wow. This last week has been absolutely nuts! I knew 17 credits was a lot, but I think i definitely underestimated. This last week (and i get to do it again this week.. yay..) I have been teaching lessons Monday - Thursday in addition to my classes. I also lifeguarded on Saturday. My classes have definitely been keeping me busy, and things are beginning to pick up even more. Thankfully I cut back my work availability to just weekends.. so that will help! I had my first big Anatomy terms quiz this last week. Basically it's word prefixes, suffixes, and roots. Thankfully we were only quizzed over 100 of the terms, and not all of them. Needless to say, I was pretty much freaking out about it. I didn't get to study near as much as I wanted to, but I ended up getting a 47 out of 50, so I was really excited about that! I know that I had some serious divine help because I knew words that I didn't even remember studying! They would jump into my head really fast and I just decided to go with it. 

   This semester I am in the Mentor and Ambassador program and I absolutely love it! We basically get to look out for a group of new students and try to make sure they know what's going on and that we are there for them. It's basically like a leadership program and it is so fun. All together i think we have around 60 or so mentors maybe and we are all in our little groups. My group is absolutely fabulous and we have some great ideas and so much fun! Last week for the last part of our weekly meeting, we came to my house to spend some time calling people, then we played just dance on my Wii. Not to mention we all brought something to share and it was so much fun! We have now become known as the "Party Group", but it's just because we know how to have some fun! In our group we have a coordinator that reports to the head haunchos, then we have team leaders. So for our group it's basically like a President and his counselors. I got asked by our coordinator to be a leader and I have really enjoyed it. It is a little more responsibility, but it is fun.

This is most of my group! They are so fun to work with!

This last week I also got the chance to accompany a musical number for my friend. He and his friend Lexi were singing a duet for some program in Payson. They asked me on Sunday, and we performed on Friday. I was amazed that I was able to pull it off. Of course it wasn't perfect, but it was enough to get them through it. After doing this it made me realize how much I miss piano! I have lost so much ground and it takes me forever to learn things now it seems like.. Hopefully I can get back in to it soon because I really would like to get better. Here is as much of the performance as I got recorded. They are singing the Prayer by Josh Groban and they did fabulous! I wish all of it had gotten recorded, but I guess that's what happens when you give your camera to someone else right? ;] Ok well.. it won't upload. But it's on facebook!

  

Parker, Lexi, and I after they sang.

        Well.. as for my thought of the day.. Last week I took a Psychology quiz that I basically came away from with my tail between my legs. I was pretty much clueless on it. But that kind of happens on most first quiz/tests.. right? Well I got it back today and some how.. I miraculously got a hundred on it! I texted my brother Jeff and told him this to which he replied i was smart. I said no.. I just BSed most of it honestly.. and he said "A sign of intelligence is the ability to be convincing, especially if you know you're full of it." Haha. So so true! As we would say in Improv, just let go and play! Just go with things. Even though I stared at my quiz for minutes trying to figure out how it added up, my friend finally leaned over and told me not to ask questions and just accept it before something changed. haha.

    So overall.. Life is crazy. I was freakishly stressed out last week, but then i remembered I just need to take things one day at a time. I know I am surrounded by great people that love me and I am so thankful for the great friends and support that I have around me! This is going to be a crazy semester, but I'm sure i will learn things from it! My friend left a note on my car today and told me to just keep smiling.. so that's what I'm going to try to do.

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My Stack of books for the semester

     Well, it's a new year. New things (like a printer-yay!!), new semester, and a new blog! So here goes nothing!
Christmas break was wonderful of course. I loved spending the time with family and friends and it all went by entirely too fast. I ate lots of junk food, lots of real food, worked, learned how to play Texas Holdem, watched lots of Netflix, and things like that. After three weeks of being home of course it was hard to leave, but the drive back to Salt Lake went really well and much better than I expected.
     Today was the second day of the semester and I've decided that it is going to be brutal and may just kill me! Yet oddly enough, I'm still feeling very confident about it. I know my classes are going to take a lot of work and I'm ok with that. I have definitely done much better with homework and dedication in college than I did in high school. But I'm glad I'm learning it now and not halfway through college. I'm not sure where all this new motivation came from, but my guess is heaven, and a scholarship. It's amazing how much motivation money can give! After completing my first semester of school, I have gotten an idea of how expensive college really is. I am so grateful for the scholarship that I received that helps me pay for my education. I'm also so grateful for all the money that goes into my education on the church's behalf that makes it so my tuition can be reasonable. I am beginning to realize just how valuable scholarships are!
     Thankfully there are some things that make me laugh and relax a little bit. For instance... Yesterday in class my teacher said acronisms instead of acronymns. Fail. Yep it's obvious she's not an english teacher. In that same class a girl asked the teacher if she wanted our paper in MLA Notation or Scientific Notation. Epic Fail. Sometimes i wonder if I'm really in college. But thankfully everyone makes mistakes, it keeps us humble!
     Spiritual thought of the day: Today in devotional the president of our college talked about the "Covenant of the Fertile Field". He talked about Lehi's family in the wilderness and how they relied on the Leihona for guidance. Then he related it to how all of us must go through our own wildernesses whether we want to or not. Usually we need to for some reason or another, and in the end it helps us build character. We have our own Leihona's today and it's important that we remember to use them. Probably my favorite part of his talk was when he talked about the parable of the man pushing the rock. A man was given the job to push an extremely large rock. He did so, but got frustrated after a while when it was not moving. After a while, he stopped and asked God for help. God came down and asked him what the problem was. The man asked why the rock was not moving when he had been working and pushing so hard. God replied that the man's job was not to move the rock, just to push against it. We need to remember that we don't always have to move the rock, sometimes we just need to push.
     Thought of the day: At improv club today, someone said something about eating Jell-o with chopsticks. Someone else said that that was pretty much impossible and ridiculously hard. Then a guy from China said not for an Asian! Asians can do anything. So apparently Asians can eat Jell-o with chopsticks and anything else. I wonder if Chuck Norris can eat jell-o with chopsticks. That should be the next T-shirt they make for him. "Chuck Norris can eat jell-o with chopsticks"... Hmm. Too bad that sounds ridiculously lame. Anyways... Everybody should try eating Jell-o with chopsticks when they are needing a challenge.