A fun weekend

so this week we had our first choir concert. I think it went really well. We had a lot of fun and it was great to be back up on the stage, especially with Women's Chorus.

On Friday night, a group of us went to Walmart and then we went to this park nearby that has these really cool swings. It is kind of a carousel kind of thing. It has three swings that hang from a central beam-y thing that you can spin around. It's really cool. Anyways, we did that, which was way fun and then drove back home, going around the roundabout many many times on the way. I felt slightly sick.

On Saturday, I had a reunion with the girls from home at Stephanie Andreasen's house (used-to-be-Hieb). That was really fun. It was good to see the girls again.

Then came Sunday. We got a new bishop, which was very sad, but I'm excited for our new one. He seems very nice and like a good teacher. Then Chris came over to make cookies. 

Love you all and talk at you next week (or maybe earlier if I'm really on top of things)


PS here is the link to my web album. I added more pictures.

PICTURES

I put up some pictures on my google picasa web albums. Facebook was having a heart attack so I abandoned it. Hopefully I can update these more often.

here's the link.

PS I helped out for the first time in a real school with real kids this morning. I'm going to be a student helper for the elementary school choir at Wasatch Elementary. I'm really excited about it, the only bad part is that it is at 7:30 in the morning on Mondays and Wednesdays. But it was good to get up and going early.

PPS I have a pseudo date set for Sunday. My friend, Chris, is going to come over and make cookies with me. I'm so excited! He's a very nice boy.

Wow, did I do all that this week?

This week has been good, we had a great football game yesterday, (we won 44-0) but I got sunburned on one side of my face from standing in the same place for so long. It looks kind of funny, but it was good. At the game, I had three boys profess their undying love for me and give me quite wonderful hugs after I let them have a drink of my water. It was really hot.

That night, (last night) my roommates and I went country swing dancing. It was us three, plus a girl-friend of theirs from freshman year and four guys from their freshman ward. It was a fun non-date, although two couples emerged out of it and us other 4 kind of just stood around and danced with each other. It was fun, but I always forget how stupid I feel standing around waiting for a guy to ask me to dance and how awkward it is to dance with someone you don't know at all. This was better than usual, though, because we could talk about the dancing because it wasn't just swaying back and forth. Overall, a good experience.

Earlier this week, on Thursday, I had my audition for that jazz band (they need a vocalist and…I'm a vocalist) there were only two people auditioning (it's not a very popular group) but the other girl is a jazz studies major (!!!!!) and so she was obviously really good. We both sang a song that we had prepared. I went first but that morning I had woken up with a really really bad sore throat so after I sang, I realized that I sounded kind of squeaky and was regretting everything. Especially when the other girl started singing - she brought her own microphone and everything. She sang her song and I was melting into the floor when the director surprised us and asked us to each take a turn singing a song with the band. Everyone was sight reading and it was way cool to sing with a whole band. She let me use her microphone too which was really good because the band was so loud, no one would have been able to hear me otherwise. I felt a lot better about this song because it was lower and I was able to do my Broadway big voice - you know the one. So I'm still waiting to hear back about that but really, whatever happens, happens and it will be fine.

On Friday, my roommate and I decided to make cookies and watch a wonderful movie called "Love Actually" (I think it's rated R, but don't worry, we had a clean flicks version so it was very…clean) It was a GREAT movie and I would recommend it to anyone. The cookies we made was a recipe from her friend that called for two devil's food cake mixes and one brownie mix, so it made a lot of cookies. We also put Andes mints on top when they came out of the oven and let them melt on the cookies. It was splendid. It made about 70 cookies so we made some friends out in the fishbowl that night. I think a few more boys expressed their love and gave me hugs. I should share more often...

Today I got my calling for the ward. I am on the ward music committee (fitting, huh?) and my assignments on the committee are special music coordinator (where I coordinate the special musical numbers for sacrament meetings) and choir president (which is different from choir director. I just help out Jordan [the guy who is choir director] and ask people to say opening and closing prayers for choir). So…yeah that's what I'm going to be doing in the ward. Woo Hoo!

So, I guess that's my life right now, that was long. I didn't know there was that much in my life. I think I'm going to put up more pictures on Facebook so you can browse through those if you want. Here's the link again if you want to see them. I tried to take more of myself (without being overly "look at me, look at me!") and I'll try to work on more captions.

Love you all!

Back to the grindstone...kind of

So this has been a great start of the semester. I started out by knowing a ton of the people in my classes, just because the school of music is so small that most of them have already been in classes with me. But some weren't and I've made some good new friends (that's later). Then I was able to test out of one of my classes, so that is another 2 hours per week of my life that I get back. Hallelujah! Then, the first Friday back to school I went out on a date:

His name was Brian, and we went on a double date with his roommate and another girl in the ward. We went to the duck pond area by our apartments and played Chinese Checkers (thanks for teaching me all those years ago, Grandma Eileen, it was a great advantage) and after a long and gruesome battle of strategy and leaping...I won. (That never happened when we played, Grandma, I guess it was my turn). So then they had bought a box of fortune cookies and we all ate them and read each other our fortunes. Everyone else's talked about what they would do in their lives and mine just said something about keeping your hopes young...um...okay, I'll do that.

Then we went to the dollar theatre (the greatest invention of this century) and saw Kung Fu Panda, which if you don't know, is a cartoon about a panda that tries to do kung fu (that makes sense) but he has some trouble because...well..pandas are large...-r than the other animals and they just aren't built for kung fu. Anyways, the movie was hillarious and I had a good time. Then the guys took us back to our respective doorsteps and that was it. It was a really fun date, very creative, and just a great way to start out the semester.

More recently, I finally went to Walmart to pick up my camera that I had gotten for my birthday and have been going slightly camera-happy since. I love being able to have that with me and not have to rely on others to take pictures. I kind of feel like my first two years of college were undocumented and somewhat lost, but not this year! I already have a ton of pictures. In fact, I think you all can look at the ones I've already posted. Hold on...okay, if you go to this link that should take you to them and you can view them to your hearts content.

Well, I should probably get back to my homework (oops) but there will be more to come later (hopefully). Love you all!