Finals Week

The penguin and socks were my Christmas present from Amber Brown.

        Sunday was like Chrismas three times; For sacrament meeting the choir and the whole ward got their chance to sing as a group. Thehen Chantel told me that she's getting a ride home with her parents in their big truck so I could send all my things home with her. (However, now that I'm home I realizeI left a lot of things undone...a cupboard of dishes unretrieved.) Then we had a Secret Santa amongst our apartment. I gave Ami a One Direction poster and a Mickey Mouse wind-up walkie-toy.

This is Stephan, me, and Chris.

       Chris, Stephan and I became friends one day after Book of Mormon class when we all stood looking out the glass doors and not wanting to go into the cold. We spent like 45 minutes just talking. We wanted one last Hurrah together before we all left; Stephan is leaving at the end of February to the Sophia, Bulgaria mission, Chris was going home for Christmas then coming back for the Winter semester, and I was going home and not returning until April for the Spring semester. We got together and went to Chris's place and made and ate lunch.

       That was a good week! I got my finals done and passed all my classes so I don't have to take them again! I was really worried about Math because I had a low D in that class but I used the grade evaluator calculator and found that I only needed a 20% on my final to get a D (which is a passing grade for foundation classes) in the class. I ended up getting a 68% on the test and a high D in the class! I'm happy. And best of all, I'm home! and get to sleep in and be lazy and catch up on things like blogging, Journal writing, and reading books! That's the kind of life I like. :)

Ward Talent Show

Derrick in Chealsey's coat



Daniel and Stevie (I don't know who the middle girl is)
performing Silent Night in sign language

Daniel and Chris in their awesome sweaters

Derrick's perfectly balanced soda can

Some of our ward in line for food

Eugene doing some mind-trick numbery thing that ends up with him being everyone's hero

Kate singing a song

There were a lot of acts that I couldn't get a good picture of. There was one where Tyrel, the executive secretary, pretended to be a dummy and made wise-cracks about the ward. Like the best couple (Or the couple with the most PDAs [Public Display of Affection]) which he said was Pat and Charmaine (my roommate and FHE bro.) I sang I Dreamed a Dream from Les Mis and I could NOT breathe the whole time and I forgot some of the words. I don't think I did that well but everyone else said I did great. We got to eat pulled pork sandwiches and Ice cream sundaes. It was a good night!

Ginger Bread Houses!

Charmaine, Nico, and Pat with their Gingerbread out-house  and Derrick peaking in.

Their gingerbread out-house.



Stevie, and Derrick's house

Someone else's house that collapsed...

Daniel, Nicole, and I's house.

All our houses

 

Me, Daniel, Derrick, and Nicole. Derrick likes to Photo Bomb...

We built Gingerbread houses for our last FHE. Daniel, Nicole and I had the cutest house thus it won first prize! We went to Taco Bell afterward and gave them our Beautiful house. It looked very out-of-place in Taco Bell.

Jane Austen Yule Ball

This is my dress! What? You want to see more?

This is the back where it laced up. it took twenty minutes to get in AND out of that dress.

This is the front of the dress, bodice skirt and everything.

This is the bodice closer. It has a beautiful design with silver threads and jewels.

This is me posing in one of the moves in one of the dances.

This is Stephan and I. :)

I know this picture is blurry I just wanted you to see how some people dressed up.

This is essential the dance called Northanger Abbey (Click on this to see a video.)

And Jenny's Market. and Mr. Beveridge's Maggot. Those are the three dances we learned. Northanger Abbey was in four/four time so we could dance to any modern song in 4/4 time. So we did Northanger Abbey to Tonight, Tonight by Hot Chelle Rae. That was pretty cool. There were prizes for the 3 best costumed couples. They looked great. There was one guy dressed like a Mr. Wickham! He looked great! All in all, it was a very excellent night with Stephan and we had a lot of fun.

Not very exciting....

These are some random pictures I took in between exciting things....Yeah, these are not very exciting...

This looks likea contact case for 3 eyes.

But it's not. It's just one of the lids right nest to it!

Diana's birthday cake that Charmaine made on the 27th of November

This one's nasty. It's my very moldy bread. Yeah....

Pre-Thanksgiving!

Our Pre-Thanksgiving Feast

Ami and melissa having a whipped cream fight

Them laughing at each other

Posing for me

Miishael, Lena, Courtland, Melissa, and Ami hiding their faces as I take a picture

Some of the Symphony I went with Ashlynd to see after the feast.

This is from Devotional when Kikuchi had Pres. Clark and
other officials sing with him, totally improvised.

This is my head lamp that fell to the floor one day and  shattered,
I fixed it with duck tape.
Duck tape is a colege kid's best friend.

Fully clothed in the Rockland pool

 

My pictures are still out of order! I think I figured it out though. Anyway, the bottom three happened first. Elder Kikuchi spoke three Tuesdays ago at devotional after the the choir sang the closing hymn, "Love at Home," Elder Kikuchi got up and said "Pres. Clark and the other officials are going to sing that with me now." So that's a picture of them around the pulpit singing. We heard Elder Kikuchi's "lovely" singing the most.

I use my flashlight to get ready in the morning so I don't wake Ami up as I grab my stuff. It slipped out of my zombie-like fingers one morning and shattered on the floor. So I put all the parts back in the right places and wrapped it in duck-tape. Viola! A redneck fix-it job! And it is perfectly functional!

Then, about the pool....One night I was doing homework and a bunch of people burst in our door and started having a dance party. Some of us joined them and we went to each girl in our ward's apartment and danced around. Daniel had a Nacho Libre mask and we all we wearing fun stuff. After we danced in all the apartments we went to Shake Out and danced around and Daniel and Nick asked two girls on dates! Then we went to Subway and danced. Then we went to Rockland and while some of us were getting shoes, they were getting the cover off the pool. Elizabeth and I couldn't figure out how to get in there and everyone else jumped in. When we finally got in I was hesitant to jump in the pool. But I ended up to doing it! That was a lot of fun. We made a whirl-pool and that was crazy!

            Our “feast” consisted of homemade applesauce, made by Katie, green beans, made by Charmaine, fruit salad, made by me, and pumpkin pie, broccoli and cheese soup, and lasagna, made by Ami. Oh then Katie’s friend brought over an apple pie. =D When we were getting whipped cream for the pie some dispute happened between Ami and Melissa.  Thus the whipped cream fight.

After that I went to a symphony concert with Ashlynd. There was this one part where they went from this calm relaxing music to the immediate crescendo and the speed changed and made Ashlynd and I jump.

            Then today was the Boise Temple rededication and it was broadcasted in the I-Center. That was so cool! I felt the spirit stronger that I ever had before. I actually felt the warmth spreading in my chest that others talk about. It was amazing! And now I am caught up! :)

Carving Pumpkins!

Carving pumpkins!

Charmaine and Pat's Pumpkin

One of our FHE sister's pumpkin...I think Melissa's

Amber, Nicole, and I with our pumpkin

Our pumpkin! He was supposed to have a mustache
but he was a little green thus hard to carve.
Sowe only carved one side of his
mustache and made it a smirk.
:j

Derrick,Melissa, Ami, and Michael on our couch 

My first snow in Rexburg. It wasn't even Halloween yet.
I think it's Katie, Ami, Melissa, and I can't tell who the fourth girl is.

Posing for a picture while I'm inside and warm

Charmaine giving me a thrumbs up

Me in front of the Haunted Mill sign

Catching snow on their tongues

Sister eager covered in lables for a Child Development Presentation

Alex's awesome attire (see my alliteration?)  Sorry it's sideways!

Catching up! So the night we carved pumpkins for FHE Chris came in all late. Charmaine and Pat had started early because it was "a process that took a long time." Anyway they got done while the rest of us were playing the game. The game involved a large pile of candy in the middle of the circle and two bowls with a pair of dice going around the circle. If you rolled doubles or a 7 you got to grab some candy. After the pile was gone everyone who got double or a 7 couldv say anyone's name and ask for a candy that had been in the middle. If they had that candy they would give it up. I got a kingsize Twix and Almond joy out of it! Any way, this was after they had been boyfriend and girlfriend for about a week or two. So anyway they were holding hands and being love birdish while the rest of us were being crazy playing the candy game. Anyway, we started carving pumpkins and Chris comes home from Utah and we ask him to tell us about how he proposed. He is so cute and romantic. That girl is so lucky. Anyway, That was on Monday and Wednesday was Halloween which is when Alex wore his awesome suit. We were learning about bilingualism in Child Development so Sister eager has notecards in English and Spanish stuck on the body parts written. It snowed the tuesday right before Halloween but my pictures like to be all out of order. I'll figure it out eventually!