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.

more poop

another animal.. or the same one.. decided to poop on my white pillow. AGAIN. thank you little critter. love you so much. next time could you warn me beforehand? thanks. bye.

"If God brought you to it, He brought you to it for a reason, so dry your eyes and learn something."

love this quote. found it on an a good family friends blog a while back. just keep smiling :)

just eating more rice

careful what you wish for...

I love all the friends I have made here at BYUH. I truely do. BUt let me introduce you to one in particular.



Everybody, meet Paige. Paige Toly.

Paige lives 2 doors over from us, which helps make sure that we see her every single day. Somedays we like it, somedays we want to freak out. I can't quite remember right where to begin so let's start with this story...

A group of us were sitting in the caf, eating dinner. Paige had a cup of milk and as she is drinking this milk says, "I wish this milk was warm" um... hm.... (everybody looks at everyone else) then she continues her story "want to know what I do at home? I take a nice bubble bath and then rub baby lotion all over my body so that I smell just like a baby. Then, I put my footie onesie pajamas on and drink a big cup of warm milk!!" If you aren't feeling awkward for me reading this, than you have issues. This story truely sums up everything about this chick.

I am convinced that she has a girl crush on me. On Sunday morning when I was getting ready for church I heard something slip under my door, I look at there is a note (as I am reading this note I can hear Paige on the other side of the door blowing this note further and further into my room) "sarah- I love your bum!! So cute! keep boys away! :) from: Bum Lover" like.... girlfriend..... what the heck....
this whole slipping things under our door has become a regular occurance. if our door is closed, when you open it, it is no longer a suprise if this is what you find..



this particular instance she was shoving starbursts under our door.

She is a silly silly girl. Other things she does: when we think something scary is in our room she will come search it from head to toe for us (that is- we aren't allowed to call her name when we need help. we have to "cock-a-doodle-do" for her), anytime she seems me in my underwear- she is sure to compliment it. she tells us all about her crush, his name is b.j., yes... b.j......., but just watch out because after eating a meal with her- chances are she will ask you to feel her "food baby".

more to come from the hawaiian island of oahu :)