The Start of My Junior Year

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.  

                                                                                            ~Plato

Wow! I am about to start my junior year of college. It doesn't feel like I am a junior already. But here I am. I am also diving into my major classes, which is fantastic and scary. I also get to move into my new apartment this weekend! It is newly renovated and it is the first time that the apartment complex will be boys and girls. This will be my first time living in such a complex. 

I am excited to be go back, probably because I will have a purpose (meaning school and homework, and a social life). I would rather have all the fun than the work. But then who doesn't? Speaking of a social life, last night this guy asked me out for next week. So sometime next week I will have a date. I am starting off the semester with a date. Look at me go! This has seriously never happened before. 

Well, I have had a great summer and I know that it is time for me to go back to school and I am so excited! Wish me luck, cause I am going to need it. 

The Summer Break

"Create a life that feels good on the inside, not one that just looks good on the outside."

So it is the third week of my summer break and it is great. I have been veggin' on the couch watching TV, reading books, sleeping (okay not that much sleep), eating (a lot of eating of ice cream especially). Just chillin' and it is so nice. I don't want it to end. I don't want to go back to school and have all that stress back on my shoulders. But I can do hard things! (At least that is what I tell myself.)

Of course the people that I am staying with do give me chores, so don't worry I haven't gotten that lazy. I go sweep the drive way, weed the garden beds and driveway, sweep the floors, mop, clean my room, and whatever else I am assigned.

Anyway, I have also hung out with friends who are still around for the summer break, we have gone bridge jumping, night climbing, gone to a drive in theatre, and I am going to hang out with them again tomorrow. It is nice and weird at the same time to hang out with people my own age since the break started. I am use to being around a family and it is weird for me to go be around people my age and I feel awkward around them. Not that the situation is awkward, that is just how I feel. So it will be interesting to see how the Fall semester goes.

Also there is this guy that started texting me today. He hasn't texted me for awhile, so..... The only reason that I say that is because He is interested in me apparently and is supposedly going to ask me out on a date. (Not that I am suppose to know that, but that is what I was told.) So I am suppose to be surprised when He asks me out. But it has been awhile since the he said that to his parents who told the parents that I am staying with. So we will see what happens. Either guys ask me out or they don't. And if they do ask me out, its only once. There is one exception though, one guy did ask me out twice, but the first time is was cause I was right there and He needed a date and the second time was because the mutual friend that we meet through was out of town and He asked me out a second time.

Anyways, life is good. I am enjoying myself and thought that it was time to update my blog. Till next time....

The End Comes Again

                  "If you are on the right path, it will always be uphill."                                                            ~Henry B Eyring  

Once again it is the end of another great semester. This is my fourth semester and I have had great roommates. I am doing well in my classes, I have bonded with great women and I will miss them. Two of my roommates got engaged over this semester. One is getting married later this week and the other later this year. I am going to be rooming again with a few of my roommates again this upcoming fall semester. So there will be seven weeks until we see each other  again.

I have had a lot of fun this semester. I have gone to a play on campus, called Steel Magnolias. They did a great job. I have gone to Utah with some friends for the Fourth of July. I have gone swimming, walking, running, to the temple, cooked, met new people, and a bunch of other things. I have learned much about planning a wedding and a lot of things that gone into making it happen. I have learned a lot about relationships. (Even though I am still single). I have learned a lot about myself. Of course there was school and classes where I learned much as well.

Heavenly Father has blessed me so much. With protection, with love, patience, comfort, and peace. He has given me wonderful roommates, who I have come to love, great friends, a fun FHE group, times of laughter, many memories that I will cherish. I am so glad that He is the one who guides me through my life. If He didn't, my life would be a big old mess. Well...a lot worse than it is. The only reason my life is a mess is cause I am human and still make mistakes. I have the means to make good food. I am so thankful that He protects me.

I am thankful to the wonderful friends who are taking me in for the seven week break of school. They are wonderful people and deserve the best. I am so lucky to know them. I bet that I will have a great time with them.

Happy Father's Day!!

"The best way to make children good is to make them happy."

                            ~Oscar Wild 

I love my Father!! I am so blessed that He is my Father and that he loves me. He is a great man who does His best to live a life that full of love and laughter. He does His best to emulate Heavenly Father and His example of fatherhood. My Father by doing so has helped me to develop a deeper love of Heavenly Father. I will always be grateful for Him for doing so. I hope that my Father has a great day being surround my family and loved ones.

I also want to express my gratitude for Heavenly Father, whom is a wonderful father. He has truly blessed my life so much and I can only show him my gratitude by obeying His commandments and Prophets. I know that He knows that I love Him, but I want to continue to show him what He truly means to me. So today I am going to do my best to keep the Sabbath holy and to be willing to put away worldly things especially for Him.

I am thankful that there is a day where we can celebrate Father's and all that they do. Also for all the men who have touched our lives to help us on the path of life. So put aside your own needs today to express to those men around you what they mean to you and how they have touched your life. Thank you men who have taken on the role of Fatherhood and are doing their best to raise their children with love, kindness, laughter, and respect. Thank you again and again for all that you have done.

It's Been Awhile....

"We don't meet people by accident. They are meant to cross our path." 

So, we all know how I was nervous about meeting and moving back to my apartment. But let me but those worries to rest. I love my new roommates! I am so lucky to have them in my life. They are really great women and they are really chill. I know that I am suppose to be here with them at this time. Really, as soon as I met them I had peace and it just got better and better the more I got to know them. I feel so blessed that I have a whole semester to get to know them.

So far this semester is going great. I have been doing well in my classes and in getting my homework done. I am really happy with that. I have also been making more friends in my class. Which is nice since that means I am branching out more. I am also making a ton of new friends in and out of school. 

I know that this will sound silly to some, but to me it is great strides in my life. I am so proud of myself. I feel more confident within myself and that just makes me so happy. I feel like I am become the person that I want to be. I just feel so blessed to have this happening to me. Also, my roommates are telling that they really like me and that the are so glad that they are able to know me and to get to know me. They are so uplifting and I feel so lucky to be with them.

My FHE brothers are really nice was well. They are a good group of boys. They really like to do sports or some kind of active game. They are really funny as well and....cute (if I am being honest). Last Saturday, they invited us to watch the Jurassic Park and I mean one though three. I have never really seen them all the way through. So I went and it was a lot of fun. I didn't get to finish the third one though, because of curfew. But that is okay. It was fun. 

I have also been going to the Temple and that just makes everything better. Seriously, though everyone there is so happy and nice and willing to serve. It is so nice to go there and to get away from the world and all the worries that go with it. To feel peace and joy, it is what I want. Also doing service as well is great. 

I just feel so blessed and I know that it is from Heavenly Father. I know that He loves me and is guiding me through this life and helping me to become a better person. The person He knows that I can become and I want to become. I love Heavenly Father so much and I want Him to know it by words and actions. I know that He knows my heart, but I want to prove myself to Him. 

It's about to Begin!!!!

"Life Stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes."                                                                                                                                        ~ Carl Friedrich Gauss 

I am officially moved into my apartment. I have met four of my new roommates and they all seem very nice. I have had a good feeling about my roommates and so that makes me feel comfortable to be in a new situation. I am still nervous though, so don't think that I am not. But everyone is super nice and funny. My room is all set up for school to begin and my room is a lot bigger than my previous semesters. My closet is bigger as well, which means that I have more space for clothes. But I feel like that the kitchen is smaller, which I don't like. The bathroom has great lighting and a lot of mirrors so that you can work at one mirror and someone else can work at another one. When you walk out of the bathroom area there is a full length mirror and sometimes I get surprised to see someone moving towards me and when I look at it, it is myself. I am such a silly goose.

Yesterday, I got to see my friend/former-roommate Lily. It was so good to see her. I have missed her so much. Lily had rented a car and we went to the town that is bigger than where we are at. We went to the theater and watch Cinderella!! I love Cinderella. It is just so clean and when I am finished watching it I feel like a princess and want to dance out of the room. It just makes me happy. It was well done. When the movie was over we went out and ate at Red Robin. Then she dropped me off at home. I had a great time with her.

I finally have a SCOTT STERLING shirt!!! I love it. A roommate from last semester got it for me. I am so excited.

Today, was another good day. I actually finished unpacking today. I have all my pictures and things hanging up that are from my family and friends. Then I went and picked up my books with my new roommates. We walked around campus finding classes for one of my roommates, who has not gone here before. Then she, E, took us out to lunch for showing her around. Which was very nice of E. We went to Jimmy John's. After that we went back to our apartment. We just hung out until 6ish, where we went to Soda Vine and then to the movies where we saw Home. It was a really good movie. I would recommend it to others. Then we came home and did what we needed to. Then to pass the time we watched another movie. During the movie I met the last roommate. I haven't really gotten to talk to her as she left soon after she got here.

Well that is all for now and I hope that this semester is great with these new girls. I have had fun with E and S. I have only met M twice so far, but she seems nice. Ke seems nice as well, but seems to keep to herself, but I think that it will change with her room-roommate back in town now. Then Ka I only met for a couple of minutes before she left as well. So I don't know about the K's or M, because I haven't been around them as much as E and S. But they seem nice.

Wish me the best of luck.

Back to School

"Don't worry about how INEXPERIENCED you are or think you are, but think about what, with the Lords help, you can become."

                                                                ~ Henry B Eyring 

So it is another Semester of school. I traveled all the way from home again and am staying with my second Family, until I can start moving into my apartment. Every time I leave my family and dropped off at the airport, I am always in tears. You think that it would be easier every time, but for me its the same, but I don't think that I would have it any other way. I sat by very nice people. Those that I sat by where either traveling with friends or too see friends. Which I thought was awesome.

When I left home it was spring time and starting to get warm and everything was blooming and trees where getting their leaves. As I was flying to DFW airport. It was raining, but warm. Then I get on a plane to SLC airport. Guess what the pilot said. That a cold front had moved in and it would be cold when we landed in Utah. I was not ready for that. I am just glad that I brought my coat and didn't take it out when my luggage was over weight. Waiting for my bus to take me the rest of the way, was cold. I found gloves in my pockets and put them on. I was so pleased with myself and that I was prepared. I slept as much as one can on the bus. At one stop this teenager backed up into the bus. I saw him backing up and was wondering why he didn't drive forward as there was no one in the parking space in front of him. But he didn't and so we had to wait for that to be dealt with and then we were finally on our way. But I didn't sleep the rest of the way, just in case I didn't let my second Family know that I was almost there. I got to my destination an hour later than they said I would. But I made it safely since it was snowing or slushing the whole way. It was so hard to be warm on the bus. My feet were freezing and there was only so much room to curl up under my coat.

But this semester will be a brand new start. I will be living in the same complex, but a different building and room than the last three semester. I will also be rooming with five other girls that I know nothing about and have never met before. I will also me in a new ward with people that I have not had before. So my nervous are acting up. One of my Former Roommate will be in town, but lives in another complex across campus. I will miss coming home to her and being room-roommates. But she needed to do what was best for herself. We do have plans for hanging out between my school and her work schedule. I can't wait to see her again. I will also know a few people from semesters before who will be in town. Maybe we can hang out sometime.

Well, that is pretty much my life changing news for now. Wish me luck on my new semester as I face the unknown or really just the change that comes with growing up. I hope I am brave enough to face it with courage and grace.