The First Few Days

Alright I just want to talk about the first few days of my sophomore year cause there's a lot that's happened.

 First day of the singles ward...fall 2012. Since my friends have moved back here, we decided it would be fun if they tagged along with me to my college ward. They live where they did when it was my senior year and that's right across the street behind the post office. Their family owns the house that was once upon a time their gma's, but they now live there. Our first meeting was at ten am. At first I wasn't quite sure how they would take the singles ward, considering how different it is from family wards. Everyone there is your age or very close to and probably the most eerie part is how silent it is when sacrament is passed. I sat in the middle of us and looked around. To my surprise I knew quite a few people and had no idea they were in the ward. The meeting itself was good, as always with some lively speakers. I took them home after sacrament.

Sunday devotional: most awkward situation of my life. Sunday night was the first devotional of the school year. I however, had never attended one since beginning college. After my mom and I got home from shopping, I changed my black skirt for a pair of jeans, my heels for Sperry's and my shirt was kept the same. I show up at their house a half hour early, and I was surprised to see them dressed in sunday attire. We then had a debate about the dress code and decided it was probably sunday dress considering it was still sunday. I however didn't want to drive across town and come back just to change. So I went to the sunday devotional in jeans and tennis shoes. My heart sank when I saw that it was a combined stake devotional and not one person was dressed as I was. My own fault, though.

I woke up Monday morning at 2:30 thinking it was time to get up. I got up again at 7:00 so I had time to get myself ready and pick up my friends for our first day of... The Gospel and The Productive Life!  9 am sharp. There was a grand total of nine people including myself, but yesterday we had like twenty more people join. More men! Hooray! Just from the first two class periods, I already know that this class is what I needed to take. The book we have is one of those that you wouldn't throw away. Ever.

After our class, I stayed over at their place til it was time for my first day of 2010 English. And wouldn't ya know? Erik's in my class! :) The topic is 'Issues in Higher Education'.  My first impression of our professor was correct. She's very nice and easy going, but she talks. A LOT. Jessica Tvordi is her name. I also like her teaching style, mostly because she uses a lot of things online and goes over everything clearly. And she doesn't have a weird accent, so that's also helpful. Aside from Erik, I don't really know many peers in our group. I did meet Garth, who sat behind me the first couple of days. Truth be told, I don't remember where's he from or what his last name is. I all know is that we share the common interest of owning Macbook Pros so we mostly talk about that and just the class in general.

I couldn't stop smiling while I sat in Chem. I owe it all to the professor. He's the kind of teacher that's very engaged in everything he does. "I'm not someone you can ignore...I'm going to be right in your face."-Dr. Eves. Those were his words the first day of class. He reminded me of Mr. Steffensen from Cedar High. Another word to describe him would be giddy. The girl that sits on the right side of me is from Norway and man does she have a cool accent! What I appreciate is that she understands my southern way of talking and I feel like I can talk to her easily. The girl that sits on my left side is someone I can relate with and she really liked my sunglasses... :D We're officially friends. :)

Extra Curricular! :D 

Man, this is a lot to remember and write about in one day. Let's see, monday night was the institute dinner and in my opinion, wasn't really worth going to. A, it was really hot outside. We had to stand there in a mile long line for probably at least a half hour with the sun mercilessly beating on our heads. We were starving. As we got closer to the front of the line, my visiting teaching partner Heather walked over and talked to us. She landed a job teaching high school and I'm super excited for her. :) A little ways toward the front of the line was the creep that grinded on my friend and about every other girl at the red&white dance. When I first found out what happened, I was slightly upset. When I saw him, I was enraged. I guess I could say I felt protective of my friends like I am with my little brother. "Mess with them and you mess with me" kind of thing. B, the food was alright, but it wasn't that good. We had pull apart pork sandwiches, chips, some salad and brownies for dessert. I'm pretty picky about food though. C, the socializing wasn't great, either. When we sat with the ward, the girls in front of us got grass in me and Harm's salads. AND they made us do introductions. AGAIN. Seriously, I was so done with that.

Walmart Dance Dares: After institute dinner, us three stayed the night at my place since I didn't have class until 2:30 the next day. As the title suggests, we went to Walmart and danced behind unsuspecting bystanders. :) It was 12:30 or so on our first trip there. If you've ever watched Ellen, you know how these things work. I will say this now, it is much harder than it seems and you have to have guts to be able to do it well. What was really funny was seeing Taylor Rowley, my coworker. She was shopping in the shampoo aisle when I made ourselves known. I informed her that we were doing dance dares and got her to play with us. She didn't turn around once while me and Melvin let 'er loose behind her. Thanks for bein' a good sport, Tay. To summarize the experience, that's something I'm going to do whenever I go to walmart. I also do it at work too for shiz and giggles. We even made a video! :D Facebook page! Go check it out. Now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-IxUW061R4&feature=g-upl

Did you watch it?

Jess's Barbecue: We woke up the next morning, me being the first. I spent my night on our reclining seats in the basement while I let my friends have my bed. I made us pancakes for breakfast. Om nom nom. We took another trip to institute to pick up our manuals for class. We were heading out when brother Staples and Jess stopped and talked to us. At the time we didn't know who they were, but they were very friendly, so we stuck around. Jess's barbecue was the next night and we decided to go. Jess made us dinner which was barbecued chicken and this amazing rice with lots of herbs and things in it. He's a chef. For dessert was cinnamon  streusel cake and ice cream. Of which, me, mel and Jess ran some over to brother Staples. Harmony at this time was hanging out with Ethan and wasn't with us. I will make a note about the book we found in the Staple's kitchen. The book is "Kiss My Math."

I stole this off Google images. Don't Hate. I really did take a pic with my phone, but if you know me, I'm still stuck with the AT&T blue samsung phone that started the revolution of throwing phones at the wall. (K not really). Anyway I started reading this and couldn't help but literally laugh out loud. It's very girly. I could read this just for fun. I really do think it would help me out with math. I'm not implying I'm terrible at it though.

Continuing with Jess's barbecue: Melvin and I hung out there with Jess, his roommate, Randall and this other guy we didn't get to know. I have Randall italicized for a reason. Long story short, I met Garth in English and he gave me his number but I didn't give him mine. So when I got a text from an unfamiliar number, I assumed it was him. Was I sorely disappointed. Turns out, I supposably gave this guy my number one night while I was with my co-workers at Denny's for a farewell party. My first impression of him was also right. He's a creep, also literally. Jess told me he's been in jail twice for stalking. Funny because I'd seen him around before at Walmart and at DQ when he and his brother came by. I know he means well, but he's got issues. I was on the couch playing Mario Kart when he came and sat by me. Mel and Jess were on their way out when Mel came and got me. I later found out that under any circumstances, DO NOT EVER be alone with Randall. I get shivers just thinking about it.

Last thing: The Hunger Games movie night.  Movie night was Thursday at nine pm on the practice football field. I got out of dinner with the family for my brother at Chilli's. I take back what I said about the place because that trip was particularly yummy. I got chicken crispers with ranch. It came with nicely spiced corn on the cob and french fries. After dinner, I took a couple of our larger blankets and got my friends. My second time seeing the movie and it was just as good as the first time. I still freak out when the bees' nest falls and stings them to death. It was a night well spent. :)

Finally! I'm all done. Thanks for reading. :) I owe all the fun to my friends, Mel and Harm.