suprises

it's been a bad day, so let me ramble.

first off, I woke up with my nose more clogged than the showers at school filled with asian hair.

second, I hate tmobile and have to wait a while to get rid of this piece of crap/always having problems phone.

next, i took out the back of my ankle with a door and it bled for hours. killed.

lastly, due to some circumstances I have to decide if I will be returning to attend BYU-Hawaii this upcoming semester. I could list pros and cons. I could make all sorts of lists. I could talk to as many people as I want. But I can't come up with a solution.  This decision having to be made has come very unexpectedly.  I don't know what to do.

I know my Heavenly Father has a plan for me.  I know that I need to put my trust in Him and in Mark and Sue to help lead and guide me and just have a light shine in some sort of direction because at this point, I couldn't tell ya where I will be in 2 weeks. 

I love Courtney with all my heart.  I love Hawaii with all my heart. I hate making choices. I hate money. and I hate being a grown up.

Sorry for such a depressing post especially since I haven't posted since being home. I have had the most amazing break ever.  Full of family, friends, smiles, and laughter. I am the luckiest girl in the world to have the people in my life that I have. I will write all about it next time. Much love to all of you.

it's time to be in the 801

I love it here buttt...

It's time to be done with finals.

It;s time to get on an airplane.

It's time to be in the warm embrace of my mother.

It's time for home cooked food.

It's time for good hair.

It's time to have to cuddle up in blankets.

It's time to be with my best friends.

It's time to reunite with my space heater.

ccaaannn'tttt wwaaiitttt!!!!! getting on a plane tomorrow night. I will be seein' the frost of the 801 Saturday morning. I may or may not be excited.

This video cracked me up for some reason.  I have no idea why, but I randomly just started laughing when I turned it on and have seriously watched it four times in a row with an ear to ear smile on my face.

today was not very productive.  tomorrow probably won't be either considering I have no tests or anything.  I will probably watch this video some more and find more that are similar.  Maybe I will do me and Court a favor and go through our room and get some cleaning and sorting done before we leave... maybe.

sorry for the swear word at the end. I want no comments about how I am at BYU and that word is against honor code.

december. surfing? totally go together.

here in hawaii, we choose to have december be our surfing season.  The waves are great... about 15 feet tall. and people come from all over the world to see. This is how I celebrated my half birthday. It's not til Wednesday, but we had an early celebration.

It was soo much fun!!

Paige came with us. I will be soooo sad to see this girl go home this weekend to not return.  Me and Court already plan to take a road trip up to Canada to visit.

Friday night my friends and I went to Kahuku Grill and everyone got the date plates so it was cheaper for all. It was a good time.  We sadly forgot to get a picture.

This event happened friday and saturday.  After hitch hiking. Pouring rain. And muddy/ sandy trucks, we were pooped.

Saturday day night we were in a sort of "flash mob" at the basketball game. It was fun.

Beyonce is hot.  This is the song we did. If I could be Beyonce, I truly would.

Then Sunday night, the crew (me, tessa, court, peri, james, jacob, and kaleb) went up to Tessa's house and made dinner together and then headed over to "the goat house" for a dessert party.  It was so fun! Santa came and the view off of their deck is absolutely amazing. Such a good time.  I will miss Peri, who is headed home for good, and Kaleb, who is going on his mission to Africa in January.

Finals week sucks.  Everyone just wants to be home.  That's all everyone talks about around here.  I am getting on a plan in 4 days and am sooooo excited to see family and friends and just be home for 3 weeks. Words can't even describe.  Love you all and SEE you soon :) :)

say cheeessseeeee....to my friends

I am appalled with myself! I have made it through my first semester of college with a camera. A camera that is dead.  I have not taken a single picture.  I have no charger and forgot to go buy one before I left so I have just left it up to my friends to take my pictures and put them on facebook and hope that one day I will save them onto my computer so I can have them forever.

I need to be a better photographer. Help me.

See you all in 10 days!!!!

THIS is why

I found this video on my cousin's facebook page and it made me soo happy.

THIS is the kind of happiness I love to see. 

THIS is why I want to build a career watching people get physically fit.

THIS is the reason I run.

Running brings out this confidence and happiness in people that nothing else can.  Many people don't love running while they are doing it, which is fine, but to see the joy it brings someone to finish a long run is so great.  That sense of accomplishment is what I want to be able to instill upon people in my future.

Courtney has committed to training for a half marathon with me.  Hopefully after that, a full marathon.  It is something I have been wanting to do, but can't seem to find someone that is willing to do it with me.  How fun will that be?!

Just wanted to share this.  Anyone can do anything, so long as they put their mind to it.

It's a great sunny sunny sunny day here in Oahu and I couldn't be happier... that is until I go give a 20 minutes presentation..

Happy December 2nd everyone :)

just a regular wednesday night

last night, we got a little bit bored in 104D.  Court was skyping.  Me and Tessa pulled up the camera and things went wild.  We started by dancing to "All I Want for Christmas is You".  Then.. we got crafty. This is what we came up with.

"Sunshine Girl". We made it for Tessa's best friend in Utah, Mikelle.  It has been so fun getting to know Tessa because it's like she and Mikelle are a package deal.  I have never met this girl face to face ever, but I feel like I already know everything about her.  It'll be fun to meet her over Christmas.  For my Utah friends.... be expecting one of these videos on your facebook walls sometime soon.

We have made it to 2 weeks until we go home, friends.  I do not, by any means, want to wish away my time here... but the fact that I get to see my mom in 14 days makes me SOOOO excited!!!!

Keep smilin'

miss you all, clearly

sue sue sue

I am one day late... but happy birthday to my mom!!!!

what an amazing lady.

I always knew I loved and appreciated my mom, but I don't think I really truly loved and appreciated my mom until I got here.

I look forward to talking to her on the phone every single day.  Even if it's just for a few seconds.  It gives me a boost to finish off my day and give me hope that no matter how stressed or frazzled I am, everything is going to be alright.

She makes me laugh.  On Sundays when me and Court skype our families, Courtney always makes sure to come and say hi to Sue because she always knows she will get a song, or an eyebrow dance, or a funny story.  It's great.

She has recently taken in a good friend of mine and given him a home to stay in and a meal whenever he needs it.  Doesn't get much selfless than that.  She will never really know how grateful me and him are to her for that.  But that is just the type of person she is. Giving giving giving.

I was sick for about two weeks while being here and it really made me realize how much easier it is to be sick when you have a mom always shoving medicine down your throat and going and buying you treats while you layed on the couch and going to the doctors office with you.  These are all things I wouldn't have learned if I never came here to school.  Court did a good job, but nothin' like the comfort of your own mom.  Courtney woke up sick this morning and I can only hope that I can take good care of her and think to myself "what would sue barton do?" 

Sue and I went through a bit of a rough patch through my high school days, but eventually worked things out and from the summer before my senior year, up til now, I look forward to every little second I get to spend with her. We could seriously lay on her bed for hours and hours and just laugh and make fun of each other.

She was able to come over to Oahu with me and Court to get us settled in and it was soo much fun!! She sure made us laugh.  

Not being able to figure out the one way roads.

Thinking one of the buildings at the school was the temple and had been painted.

Not being able to find the lever to open the gas pump.

Telling us that being in our room made her feel like a fuzzy bunny.

I could go on and on. But I won't.

So happy late birthday to ya, Sue!! Thank you for everything that you do for me!! I love you sooo soo sooooo much and can't wait to see you in 17 days!!!!!!!!!!!

waikiki

this past weekend, the girls and I decided to get a hotel room in Waikiki to get away from campus and not allow ourselves any time to wallow about not being home with our families.  we had SOOO much fun!!! I am sad to be back and having to do school again.

after having the most fabulous thanksgiving day with the Peterson family, we woke up early friday morning and headed over to waikiki.  We spent the day shopping.  Let me tell you- FOUR LEVEL MALL!!! it was insane.  SO many people for black friday.  took hours to walk the entire mall. it was crazy but SOO fun!! I saw the sephora and the MAC stores and thought of Jazzy the whole time. You would have loved it, girl! Spent way too much money, but loved it. That night, we were exhausted.  Just played some cards and ordered at pizza at 12:30 and giggled and giggled.

Saturday we got up and walked a mile to mail away Tessa's laptop and then headed to the beach.

where we got rained on....
Then we headed back to the hotel to get ready and lay down for a bit.  This was the point in the day when Tessa's new creep asked her on a date.  Through the course of the rest of the night, he called her to ask if she had a boy friend and if she could go on a date, then to ask if he could add her on facebook and ask why she was in a civil union with a girl on facebook because he was deeply concerned about it, and then called multiple other times just to chat. We went and got dinner where I made sure to take 34 pictures of myself of Tessa's phone, and made her awkwardly get a picture with our waiter. I love being so weird sometimes. Then we went back to the hotel and watched the TV show "lock up"... which I am semi addicted to now. Then off to mickey d's for a yummy orange shake that tasted like a creamsickle and I loved it.  Went back and redid our glitter toes.  I now have pink nail polish and glitter.

We sadly had to come back home today to face the last 2 1/2 weeks of school :( 

what a wonderful weekend! getting excited to see sue and the clan. love you all. happy school. yuck.

p.s...... I get cold when it is 70 degrees here.  I have no idea what I'll do in Utah.

happpyyyy thanksgiving!!!!

this is a new experience for me.

I've never been the one away from home missing out.

It's hard.

It sucks.

I wish I could be joining the festivities, memories, and laughter.

BUT I have never been so grateful for good family and friends ever before.

Without this experience I wouldn't have ever gained that.

It makes me that much more excited for next year when I get to sit around a table with my entire family (even Michael) and just be able to say to myself that I am apart of this and think back to being here at school and wishing I was with them.

The Lord has blessed me this year with an endless amount of blessings......

I was able to pull myself through an entire senior year and got that diploma.

I was blessed this past summer with jobs that I absolutely loved and children I adored.

I have parents that love me and support me in everything I do, even if they didn't like the idea of having the pacific between us.

I have siblings that are my best friends.  They are so fun and I miss them more than anything.

I have friends back home that still try so hard to keep in touch with me even though we are so far away and they have so many other things going on in their lives.

I was able to come to school in HAWAII. How lucky is that?

I was able to come with a girl that I knew nothing about and have her become one of my best friends in this world.

I was able to meet a group of girls that I can't ever imagine losing contact with.

I get to walk for 8 minutes and be on the beach whenever I want.

I have a close friend, Brooklin, that is here for the holidays that has offered to give me and Court a fun, family thanksgiving dinner.

I have a boyfriend that I am so deeply in love with that I will be married to in just 6 months...... okay that's a big joke.......

I have been able to gain a great love for running and have a healthy body that is capable of running long distances without any complications.

I have friends that will wake up early on a holiday to go run the bike trail 4+ miles with me just because.

I'm happy. I'm healthy. I have good friends. Good family.  A roof over my head.  And 3 meals a day to eat. I don't need anything else.

Hau'oli La Ho'omakikia'i to everyone.  Have the greatest day ever! I will be seeing you all in 23 days!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't even contain myself.

11/11/11 11:11

"this only happens once ever 100 years!!!" -James Jordan Clay

I heard this phrase multiple times on Friday night by my good friend James.

We all decided we wanted to spend this momentus occasion in a classy and memorable location.  SO we went and bought some fine sparkling cider and some "challuses" and went up to the point. I wish I could describe this location to you.  it is breathtaking!! It over looks the ocean and when you go out there at night you can see all these lights lit up across the way and you can watch the waves hit up against the rock and burst.  It's amazing, truely.  We made a toast at 11:11 and each made our wishes then we sat and enjoyed each others company while eating chocolate chip cookies.

Such fun innocent fun we have here at BYUH!!

Despite how bad it sucks to be away from family and my best friends in the entire world, I am having a BLAST!!

I am so happy.

I have met the most amazing people here.

I have learned lessons that I would have never learned anywhere else.

I am in the right place.

 the crew minus Christian

 the best of friends!

the crew minus Tessa.. I wish you could see the ocean and the waves!

Hoping this school week goes by quickly so that I can have another weekend and then an easy week before THANKSGIVING!! :)

*today I am grateful for technology...even though it usually gets the best of me, I am SO lucky to be able to talk to my best friend of a mom every single day and be able to see my family every single Sunday over Skype and friends randomly through the week.  A true blessing!

HB CLVW

today I am grateful for my best friend Christina.

It's her 19th birthday and I am sad I am missing it. 

Steena is my partner in crime.  We could spend any amount of time together and never get sick of each other.  19 favorite memories with Steen dog:

1. SENIOR TRIP. Carribbean cruise.

2. California trip. August '10.

3. Spring Break in Cali. April '11.

4.  Lake Powell.  July '11.

5. Having most of our classes together for a tri senior year and never being separated.

6. Monday night bachelor nights.

7. our lithp.

8. adventure up to the Montgomery cabin.

9. Taking the van to WA and spending the night at Little America.

10. Visits to electric beach
11. Car problems (the do not pull lever in my car, and the random stop workings of hers on the freeway).
12.  Lunch at the Barton's senior year.
13. Me being the 3rd wheel in all her relationships.
14. How Taylor Swift ruled our lives for 6 months.
15.  Jack Johnson concert.
16. dancing on the kinect
17. going to the pool 4 days a week summer before senior year
18.  laying on her kitchen floor when we were having a dull friday/saturday night
19. laying in her bed and talking for hours and hours and hours

I love you a lot, Steena.  It'll be so so so great to go home in 5 weeks and see her along with many other friends.  Being here has made me realize what great friends I have been blessed with the past 2 years... her definitely being one of them.  She knows just how to make me laugh all the time.  She's beautiful inside and out!! I couldn't be luckier.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NINA!!!!!

whale sighting

Today... I found a whale.  She was sitting next to me in the laundry room.

I was calmly studying my biology homework while sitting in the laundry room (there was this blonde, normal looking chick next to me) when all of a sudden I hear these noises that sounded much like that of a whale... like when Dori on Finding Nemo is speaking whale.

This chick is full on making these moanish/whale noises while studying her notes....

Next thing I know, I hear her whispering things like "we'll get you..." "aahhh yeaahhhh that's right! here we come..." and then just mumbles that I couldn't make much sense of

At this point, I am trying to look at her without making eye contact but I'm getting seriously worried that this girl needs some help. Before I know it she slams her notebook down on her lap, puts her head between her legs and lets out this huge "aaahhhhhhh"

Forget the biology that I thought I was going to be studying... I was stickin' around to watch this girl study.  I had to figure out what was going on.

I had gotten to the point that I was pretty much just staring when she goes off into these whale songs again "ooooooooo aahhhhhhhhh mmmooooooowwwww" weird. so so weird. I didn't even know how to handle myself. This last whale call I start chuckling to myself and she looks over at me and all she says is "sorry, I'm a pretty verbal studier."UMMMM!!! I'D SAY SO!!!!

bizarre.  she has got to come up with better study techniques than these.

lovin' life over here in La'ie.  biology test this week that I would rather have to get eaten by a whale than take... wish me luck. happy studying.

november.

It's November.  The feeling of thanks is in the air and I certainly have much to be grateful for!!

Today I am extra grateful for Courtney Jane Ingalls.  My life would be 6432432584295203 harder than it is if I didn't have her here with me.  She knows just what to say and when to say it.  When I come home crying after a biology test, she gives the perfect amount of comfort.  When I am screaming songs off of the top of my lungs, she knows just how to tell me to shut up cause I'm being obnoxious. When I crack a joke, she is able to understand how funny I am and she laughs at it. Not to mention the fact that she can work my computer when I can't (which happens often).


She is so great.  I have no idea how we weren't closer friends in high school.  We have SOO much in common- its crazy!

Court probably doesn't know it, but she is an example to me every single day.  She is strong. Smart. And funny... (just like me).  I could go on for days and days and days about what am awesome person she is.  I think the world of this chick and am soo lucky to have her in my life almost 24/7.  She will be the first person I think of when I look back on my experience at BYU-Hawaii. She has seriously turned into a sister. LOVE YOU COURT!!

its raaaiinnninnnggg its ppoouuurriinnngg

It's been a rainy rainy rainy week!! It downpours for about 10 minutes, then gets really hot and sunny for 15 minutes, cloudy for 8 minutes, downpours for 12 minutes... this happens all day long. It's quite strange. 

SO when I woke up this morning it was a downpour, of course... but by the time I left for class, it was sunny.  Well, class on Tues/Thurs mornings is usually cold so I decided to grab my gray jacket  anyway (Haven't worn it yet, really haven't needed any sort of jacket around here).  I get to class and put on this jacket..... EMBARRASSING!!  When I was packing up my stuff to come her, I had accidentally packed Mary's gray jacket.

It looked like an adult trying on a child's coat.  The arms were all tight. My wrists were on the virge of popping out, and it was exteremely short.  I couldn't take it off because I had just finished explaining to my neighbor how freezing cold I was and how excited I was to have brought my jacket.  I sat in class for an hour and a half stiff as a board in my little sisters jacket.  Oh and did I mention I had to go up infront of the whole class and to present something? Oh did I mention there is a super attractive young man in that class? 

silly silly things.

popcorn poppin on the apricot tree

"popcorn has got to be as addicting as crack" -Tessa Anorian Conder

I am on the floor. Tessa is lookin at boots online on my bed. Court is skyping her friends on her bed.   All of a sudden, I got this severe craving for popcorn so I grabbed a pack and walked on into the kitchen.  As I stood there listening to the cleaning lady change her ringtone, the kernels started to pop, I started thinking about what was going on inside that bag.  Think about it!! These tiny little kernels turn into fluffy balls of goodness.  HOW!?  It truely is a miracle.  Love the good man that thought up this one. Well- until next time, friends.

hallooweeeeenn

what a fun fun weekend!!
Friday night was the big halloween dance on campus.  Something I have learned- whatever you do, it's only what you make of it.  If you go into tellin' yourself it's dumb and not fun... it's not going to be.  But if you tell yourself you are going to make it fun, you are going to have a blast. This is what me and my friends made of the dance...

before the dance....

Courtney, Peri, Tessa, Jacob, Me, and Kaleb (missin' James who is in on the mainland for a cross country thing)

Court and I had an real nice slow dance together :)

 And for the grand finale!! Me and Tessa did a run, jump and spin move. It was really great.

Saturday we got up, after sleeping for only 4 hours, and ran the Breast Cancer 5k

Jacob got first place. What a stud.

Then guess what I got to do!?

Our friend lydia and her brother and sister-in-law took me and tessa SURFING!! I was real sad to leave court behind but she had to work . We went 12 hours without seeing each other.  It was awfully strange, sad, and not cool.  we went to turtle bay.  It was tough.  My ribs and hips feel bruised.  Not sure why.  The board was ginormous . We had a grand time. Tessa has become a really great friend.  Love her so much.  Seems like I have known her forever!  I'm sure everyone will get to meet her at Christmastime.

That night (while Court is still freakin working) me, tessa, peri, macall, and katie went over to the haunted lagoon at the PCC.  I was freaked out.  You walk through a mini haunted house and then get on a boat and go on this ride where creepy people come out of the water and sometimes get in the boat, sometimes grab your legs, always make you scream. It was crazy fun.  We got dumped on.  I mean we were completely soaked from this rain. Head to toe, it looked like we had all taken showers.  Pictures to come.  Hope everyone had a beautifully spooky weekend.  Love you all!!! ...... all 4 of you that read this...

MIA

my cute mom sent me the greatest package.  full of work out shorts and tank tops...my two favorite things, with a few other things thrown in the mix.  there were two brand new pairs of running shorts... within 7 hours of having this package, I cannot find a pair of the shorts.  court is probably so sick of hearing about this but I am just so distraught.  where could they have gone? I've emptied drawers, looked under beds, looked through my locker looking closet. so sad. hopefully one day they will show up.

happy halloween weekend all :)

turnin' things classical

today was great.  all except for farming. I haven't put much up about my farming experiences because I need to ask this lady suzanne to send me all of the pictures from it but for my history class, we have been put into groups and each group is expected to plant crops.  The first day of this we were taken out to timbuktoo.  She told us we needed to go cut out a 10 x 10 plot with our group... mind you, the shrubs we were cutting down were taller than me and pokey and I had NO idea what I was doing.  Needless to say, the Native Hawaiian boy in our group gets annoyed with me real easily.

Then, the second time we went out there, we had to plant our corn crops.  Each group had to choose if they were going to be Europeans or Native Americans.  Well we chose Native Americans- not knowing what the difference was.  We get out to the farm and the teacher goes ok Natives!!! The men never worked on the farms in these families, it was the women.  If only I could show you the face I made......

Something a lot like this.  Me and Suzanne had to just start digging away.  Luckily our Native, Eddie can't keep his hands off of the dumb thing and helped A LOT!

Then, we went out again on Tuesday and decided that we needed to go again when we would have more time. We decided to go today at noon.  So I went.  IT WAS HOT! Eddie brough this container with fish in it... yes he went and caught fish to put under our crops to give them nutrients.... (he loves to farm if you couldn't tell by now) SO I told him I was fine with that but I wasn't going to be able to help him with that.  In the meantime, me and Suzanne planted our sunflowers and pumpkin squash. When we had to water all of these things when we finished, I didn't do in the right technique.  Eddie got mad at me and took over.  I was muddy. I was sweaty.  I was hot.  I could care less at this point.

It is kinda fun in some ways.. but in other ways its really not fun at all.  I'd much rather be working on my tan or something.

other than that it was a regular day... oh besides the fact that I am sitting here listening to courtney listen to various music selections such as Hawaiian chants, classical music, and opera sounding things... things that are way beyond the level of the mo tab.  It's making me laugh a lot inside, but it is for a test tomorrow so I can't laugh until she is ready to laugh with me.  Until then, I will just blog about it and let her find this later.

another sleepover with tessa tonight.  she's fun. love our sleepovers. maybe this time we could get a little more sleep.

HAAAAAALELLLLUUUUJJJAAAHHHHH!!!! HAAALLLLEELLLUUJJAHHH!! HALELUJAH! HALELUJAH! HALEEEEEEEYELUJAH!!!!! thats the song we are listening to right now. bahahahahahahhahahhaha loving my life in hawaii. truely. this place is home.

ttueessdaayyy funnn

tuesdays have turned into a night of fun around here the past few weeks.
last week, we went and hot tubbed at Turtle Bay
This week, WE RENTED A CAR!!! a car! It was really great.  Me, Peri, Tessa, Macall, and of course my favorite little Courtney all decided we needed halloween costumes... so what better thing to do than rent a car and head over to good will?

So we did. Spent about an hour and a half there- picked out some real great outfits.  After that, we headed to walmart to finish off the costumes and get some necessities.  We had some mishaps extending the amount of time that we got our car but we did it and it was great fun!


I learned a few things....
1. I really know how to mismatch clothes
2. Screaming obscene things out car windows is just about as fun as any other thing someone could do.
3. I miss playing in cars with my friends.
4. I can put on a real great dance show for people in any parking lot.
5. When girls get hungry, they get cranky.  You've got to pull out the wittiest parts of your brain to make a car ride less awkward. I'm pretty good at it, so no worries.
6. And for the last thing I learned tonight is that no matter your situation, make the best of it.
Some people have a pretty face.
Some people know how to make others laugh.
Some people don't have the ideal situation they would like.
Some people can't talk to their families for months at a time.

No matter what it is... Hard or easy, it's going to make you grow stronger.  So why not put your best foot forward and just enjoy the ride?

squats and lunges

I wish I could work out all the time... except for when I take a break to drink some orange guava juice and eat some pineapple... other than that- I want to work out all the time.

I get awfully grumpy when I don't go running regularly (which has turned into every MWF morning).... due to a late night because Tessa desided to crash at our place last night, we didn't make it to the gym today.  I hate that feeling.  Truely I do.  But loved the sleepover.

Tonight court was so sweet and let me take her on a magic carpet ride out to our courtyard where many-a girls can see us.  We giggle and laugh as I make us do various moves such as jump up and down doing jumping squats to make our inner thighs burn and laying on your side moving your leg around like a bicycle to make your butt hurt so bad you think you can feel it getting tighter by the minute.  I love it.

These are the moments we won't forget.
These are the moments we we will cherish.
These are the moments that we are going to tone our core, butt, and legs so much that every single boy is going to want to kiss us.

who sucks at blogging....

I won't bore you with stories of my weekend.  I'll just post fun pictures and let you figure out on your own, in the meantime I will work on actually writing on this thing more than every monday night when i have 6847392 things to say...

making coookies with paige, jessica, and moriah.

pumpkin carving with (from left) court, james, peri, tessa, jacob, me, kaleb

we created a giant couch on tessa's patio. it is beautiful. outlook of the ocean... sadly disrupted by a giant rat

we rode in the car like this. for 3 hours. squished... macall, court, me, and tessa... with peri laying ontop of us... all wearing tessa's clothes because we didn't have time to go home and change... Mike and friend that I can't remember his name took us to a haunted plantation that was sold out so we resorted to going ice skating- first time  so far that I have really missed utah!




much love.  I am going to be more fun soon.  I really am.  I just get so distracted with everything else.  Don't give up on me, my 3 followers... one being a chick that is probably reading this 6 feet away from me :)

poor little asian...

I made a poor little oritental girl cry today. I hate telling people they are wrong, mainly because I hate getting told I am wrong.  But once water droplets start to form in the eyes, than we really know there is a problem.

We were in English and all had a rough draft of an essay due, it was a peer editing day.  Well, on these days, since there are so many people who have english as their second language, she likes us to exchange papers with one person that has english as their first language and then one with it as their second.... I usually exchange with Kayla, this chick from Hong Kong or something.  She is cute.  Always does a really good job with papers!!

Well, today as I read her paper, I realizes she completely misunderstood the assignment.  As I explained to her what she did wrong and pretty much broke it to the little lady that she had to redo her paper, her eyes started to get all red and filled up with tears.  Great, I was only trying to help and now I have put the chick in tears.

I can only imagine what happened once she was all alone or no one was looking.  That's about the excitement of my day.

Thanks to Jazzy, I figured out how to put this video up.  This is a round of Kissing Rugby.  It's quite hilarious.  I wasn't very good at this game because I was so short compared to all the guys that I wasn't too great at attacking.  I'm sure with practice someday I will be able to take on a giant college guy.  Until then, he can just slam me to a hard floor in a hot and sweaty room with no AC and viciously come at me to kiss me on the cheek.  I'm willing to risk a giant rug burn.

buses beaches and burns

hi everybody. haven't posted in a real long time. Life has been crazy!! We will begin all the way back at Thursday.

We were sick of school. Truely. Even though I'm pretty sure we had spent most of the day Wednesday at the beach.... we needed some serious get away time. We never know where we are going to end up, but we called Peri and Tessa and told them to get their butts over here- we were goin' on an adventure. Hopped on a bus headed towards North Shore and we ended up...

MATSUMOTO'S famous shave ice. Should have known. It was delicious. I ate my body weight in ice and sugar that evening, but let's be honest that's become a really great hobby these days. Eating things equal to my body weight. It was a real fun adventure.

We kept wanting to shop around but would run into silly little signs like this. Since the sun goes down at 6:30 and Tessa had to be back for dance at 8:30 oh and all the stores were closed, we needed to catch the next bus back to good ol' La'ie.....

Peri brought us granola bars

we had fun. then we got dumped on. but we still had fun.

FRIDAY
Just regular class. That night we went to midnight madness.. just the opening shindig for the basketball teams. It was nice. Our whole mens basketball team is married. They made sure to let us all know they were taken as they each went around and introduced themselves. It's ok. I'm not too bent out of shape about it. We forgot to document- sorry! After that we went to our local movie theatre to see Footloose.

It's kind of small. But does the job. It was a cute little show. I got to wear a sweatshirt for the first time. I was pretty happy about that. I feel like it's bad news when I get super cold when it's 73 degrees outside. Not really sure what Christmas has in store for me, but we will worry about that only when we have to. We went with Tessa, Peri, Macall, Ali and Katie. Love these girls.

We got to ride in a car. It was weird. Hadn't been in one of those in a LONG time. We sang our lungs out to Katy Perry's firework. Great innocent fun.

Saturday

We have been wanting to venture over to the swap meet for like weeks now. So we finally did. We got on the bus at 11 a.m. not completely sure where to be getting off but Court had a semi good idea of what was going on. We started to ride. The chick infront of us got super sick. She was throwing up. We were only 20 minutes into this ride. Then, when we thought we were suppose to get off and started to do so, the bus driver told us we still had to stay on, by that time our seats were jacked and we had to stand for so long. It sucks to stand on a bus when you can't reach the handles to hold onto and you are eye level with every armpit on that thing. We finally made it to Salk Lake Ave. where the Aloha stadium was! We shopped around and bought all different little things. (keep it mind that it was about 1:30 and we all needed food). Me and Court bought Ukeleles. They are cute. We are cute with them. We will get real good at it.

At this point, Peri is grumpy. Like really really grumpy. We walked from one side of the highway to the other trying to figure out what to do. Since I am about the only person these days without internet on their phone, I didn't have to be held responisble of where to go. We would start walking down this highway and decide that it really probably wasn't the wisest thing to be doing. We finally decided to ask another person where to get food. "Why would we be asking someone else AGAIN!?" This was a phrase spoken by peri at lest 22.4 times in these 3 minutes. As soon as the man told us we should get on the bus because it was too far of a walk, the child in Peri came out "I am NOT getting on bus guys!! No way!! This is so stupid. My idea is going to be the right one! I know it!" Was not funny at the moment. It was 3:30. She was mad. We were stranded. We ended up hysterically laughing later on about the whole ordeal. We got on the bus and decided to get off at our transfer stop and find food. Crowded bus. I had TWO ukeleles on my back because court was carrying our backpack, got a few weird stares about that one. Watched a girl fight. One girl literally ripping out another girls hair on the side of the road. There are many things that keep you entertained on a long bus ride. Long story short, we made it to The Shack. We each chugged our drinks and scarffed down our burgers. It was fabulous. We were much too grumpy and hungry to get any pictures of this day thus far. Real sorry about this... but here we are waiting for the final bus!

as you can see from our outfits, we were feeling quite rebellious. wanted to wear our slut outfits for the day. so hot. we made it back home safely. This place truely does feel like home. It's a very very safe place. Especially for Hawaii. If you leave town, and anyone asks where you are from, we say "La'ie" and their immediate response is... oh you are mormon then, huh? Super great place.

And now for the final!!! Kissing Rugby. The most hilarious game ever! We went over to the quite house (all the houses here have names, Tessa lives in the mofia house because all her roommates are Russian. This is called the quite house, not sure why but there are 30 girls living here) There were probably about a hundered people there. No air conditioning. It was hot. All the girls each got a number. All the boys got a letter. The guy would either call out 2 letters and a number or 2 numbers and a letter. Say he called out a number, so that girl would go kneel in the middle of the circle. Then he would call a letter, that means that boy would have to go also kneel there and his goal is to kiss the girl on the cheek.. well this is where the fun comes in! The guy calls out another number and that girl has to go kneel down and she is trying to kiss the boy before the boy kisses the other girl. Lots of wrestling. Lots of rug burns. Lots of pouncing. SO. MUCH. FUN!!!! Best night here so far.

I am currently in the process of figuring out how to get a video of this game on here. Hopefully it will be posted soon!!

I have more things to blog about but I should save it for a day when I have nothing else to blog about, and lots of homework. Even though that definition fits tonight. oh... by the way. our school mascot is a seasider. I have his pose down to an art.

plastic freakin' spoons

courtney's in class. i'm not. it's just me, a cup of noodles, and a SPOON! have you ever tried to eat cup of noodles with a spoon?

not an easy task. wish me luck.

should I be looking both ways?

Fun fact about Hawaii... so many streets here are one way. It makes for a pretty confusing lifestyle. When we first arrived in Waikiki with Sue, it took like an extra 20 minutes to get into the hotel. Not to find it, to get into the parking lot because we kept running into one way streets that would block us from getting in the dang place! SO this got me thinking as I was crossing the street today... I look completely silly looking both ways!!

DUUHH!!! this sign is staring at me every time I cross the street but even though I really only need to look the one way, I ALWAYS look the other way. My intentions to look the other way aren't even to see if a biker is coming or anything, in my head I am still making sure cars aren't coming from that direction. The second I get used to looking for cars here, I'm going to arrive home in SLC and get hit by a semi. Just wait.

77 bus stops

happy late hump day to all. Thursday Court and I celebrated the one year mark of my brother, Michael, and her good friend, Jacob, being on their misisons for exactly one year. What better way to celebrate than to take an hour and a half bus ride down the oceanside to the ghetto of hawaii to eat some mexican food? we didn't really know where we were going. but we knew we wanted mexican food, and this bus was the way to get it. soo.... about 77 bus stops into this journey, we decide to yank the little thing that tells the bus driver to drop us off. we get off the bus... no mexican food in sight. take a walk a block or 2 and here we have it. the tiniest shack of a place anyone has ever seen. walk in and see 6 small tables just waiting for guests. then not to mention the hour it took to prepare the mexican food. it was delicious.

on the way back, we may or may not have somehow ended up at a random bus stop by ourselves on the bus... we considered stealing the bus. but first we needed to document.

we had a group project we needed finished for the next day and had about half of it done, which gives us great reasoning to accept an invitation to the beach on the way home. we arrived at the beach at 9 pm. did a little night swimming. had a chat on the beach. before we knew it we were headed back to the good 'ol dorm room at 1:30 in the morning... sorry our powerpoint wasn't the highest quality anyone had seen- I fully blame the beach. another life lesson learned: don't play games with boys... or even girls that you don't know without playing the name game. It'll never turn out good. Not even worth the risk. THEN last night was so you think you can sing, on campus. I was pretty excited to go just because I didn't know what was in store for us. What better way to sing in a singing competetion than in your native tongue? Apparently there isn't. Because the first half of this shindig was in vietnamese, chinese, or japanese. this is the typical feedback they'd get from the judges "well... I couldn't understand you, but I could sure feel the emotion!" too funny. After the first round, it ended up being much better and tons of fun. Highlight of the night: At one point in the competiton, one of the contestants was playing the piano while singing. He asked a couple of girls to come out from the audience so he could sing to them. Charming, right? Well before we know it, this polynesian chick is bookin' it down the stairs to get sang to. She jumps onto his lap and holds on for her life. The second she made a subtle movement she completely plops onto the ground. I'm sayin' butt smackin the ground and her face almost smacking right after. I have never laughed so hard before. Really great. Not to mention the fact that the most beautiful boy was hosting the show. mmmm :) This girl lost in the final round, to George from the Phillipines but she was hilarious.

Afterwards, we managed to climb ontop of La'ie Elementary school and chill on the roof. The boys we hang out with are high maintenece. Always gotta be doing something.

oh... and this is Perpigillian. aka: peri. she is going to marry my brother. for the time being, we are in love.

more to come soon.