his name is.... raphael

we have a new addition to our family!


his name is raphael (you have to roll the r and say it with an accent. its the rule)


he's a beta from walmart.
he's good looking.
and fiesty.
just dont mess with him





























he's our excuse if we dont have dates or plans. we can just say we're going to go hang out with raphael.


and this is us at the relief society luncheon, before the broadcast.


















(me, melissa, erin, chelsea, emily)

FORT CLUB!!

so some of us girls got the crazy idea that i'd be really fun to make a fort out of blankets.. and take over the upper lounge!

so last night was our designated night. everybody brought sheets and we made it from ceiling to the floor. we used all of those weird personal couches (that's what they are) and tucked the sheets into the ceiling. it was pretty much the most amazing fortress i have ever seen.















so we barricaded ourselves in and some girls walked in and were like "OMG this is SO amazing!!"















we ate popcorn and drank kool-aid (its probably been a good 10 years since i last had kool-aid)(and its surprisingly good if you mix flavors)

then we played the skittle game.














if you dont know what the skittle game is, well number one you're lame, number two i'll explain it. you get a huge bag of skittles and pick two at a time without looking. if they are the same color you get to chew them, if they aren't you just put them into your mouth. but no swallowing allowed. so if you're chewing and someone else gets a match then you have to stop and they start chewing.

so the end result is a mass of skittles and drool, half chewed half decaying in your mouth. we had napkins to wipe away the drool. things to know: don't laugh, that only makes the drool come out faster, and talking doesnt work so well.

we all gagged it out at the end and our mouths had this awful taste. we all brushed our teeth right after and it looked like i was spitting out blood. gross but fun. and one girl said that its really fun if you have sour skittle. oh em gee. (we'll def have to try it at home)

okay so then to top off the night we settled into our fortress and watched thumbalina. loove it.

we went to bed around 3-ish.


then. woke up. its freezing. we left the windows open because it was really hot up there. but little did we know we'd be waking up to snow flurries everywhere.


we woke up at 10 and its been snowing since. not sticking, but if it keeps going idk.
but we made waffles and french vanilla hot chocolate so it made the cold go away. :)

but we decided to do this every month.
we are...











































THE FORT CLUB.

(for picture reference) (emily my room mate, white shirt) (chelsea 405 girl is in a gold shirt)(erin 405 is in gray shirt) (melissa my dormmate in a dark blue shirt and dark hair) (chantelle dial, you know her)(kristy 403 is in purple plaid pants)

prince charming

this is week has gone by perty normally.
nothing too eventful.

except i did get to meet prince charming.
pretty much the most good looking boy i have ever set eyes on.
athletic build. blonde hair. blue eyes. one of the nicest guys ever.
RM and a freshmen. yes....
but of course all the girls flock him at church (yes, he's in my ward).

and turns out he's one of our friend (robert) 's room mate.

so we went over to robert's to use his facebook (chelsea, erin, me and emily (not my emily they have a room mate named emily)
and we knock on the door and prince charming answers!
ah?!
i wanted to like look around and be all "wait.. are we at the right place?"
turns out robert wasn't home yet.
awkward.
so prince and his friend blake were watching a movie and here we go and interupt their night.
i just plain felt awkward cause we were only there to use facebook but since robert wasn't there yet..
so we made small talk. but i'm just looking at this kid cause he is the definition of eye candy.
but chelsea and erin's room mate emily. oh my gosh.
can you say obnoxious? obb-nock-shush
she talked the entire time and was just loud. this boys she's dating (?) is their room mate too but he wasn't there.
but i felt bad for prince and blake because you could tell that she was annoying them too. like she asked blake his last name to friend request him and kept saying "you're going to accept me right?" "i'll forgive you if you dont, NOT" hahahahhahaha ....ha ha.
ha.
not.
and she she asked blake if he'd go on a blind date with her sister! what the flip.
if i was around this girl i would not want to go anywhere with her, nor her relatives. (but apparently her sister's cute, o well)
so finally robert comes back and then we left cause we had to get back.


so later that night chelsea and erin came over and thankfully they agreed with me how obnoxious emily was. and they were like "we were thinking of coming up with a reason to go hang out with robert, with prince and blake there so that they know that we're normal and fun, not like emily."
because really the whole night just made us look immature and lame.
i didnt talk much, well for one emily was talking the whole time, and i just wanted to be mellow.

soo...
tonite we're going over to joey's (robert's neighbor) to study for american heritage cause we're all in that class together.
and then we're going to drift over to robert's to redeem ourselves. hee hee.

sundays are best i spec

so we decided that we like sundays best here.
ironically it was the busiest day of the week. (so much for a day of rest)

so we start church at 9. we have relief society (our president is awesome, returned missionary and you know what returned sister missionaries are like) then sunday school, but there's like 5 of them so we have to find the one we like best. then sacrament meeting, all in classrooms that just feel off but it works.

so we had Elder Robert Chambers our area seventy come speak to us at sacrament meeting.. and well lets just say that we asked around what his talk was about and nobody could tell us (i might have dozed off at one point)
then choir practice, and i was really stoked except i ended up with these two girls (one's really awkward kind of gawky girl and her room mate that's just kind of obnoxious) and lets just say they weren't exactly good at singing. and they did this thing where i think they were both trying to sing louder than eachother. the two words that best describe their singing = harsh and sour.
and it kind of ruined some of the songs for me. and then one of them (the worse of the two) turns and shares my hymn book and i'm just wincing the whole time. like it was kind of that bad. like she could get the high notes but it was more of screaming them.
its like they didn't know what they were singing they just wanted to be heard. and i'm like.. no.. its supposed to be pretty and reverent. so we'll see if next time i get a better experience.

but later that night we had a stake fireside where he was going to speak. most of us were like.. .um... we heard him sacrament meeting...
but it was fun because 403 girls (our newest addition to our group) had this luncheon thing before and then we all walked down together.

and it was actually one of the best firesides. A bunch of people spoke but Elder Chambers was amazing. He mostly addressed the young men but it was such a good talk. and there was a special musical number that was a cello and piano duet of Jesus Once of Humble Birth that made me cry it was so beautiful. (i'm a sucker for the string intruments)

then we went back for dorm prayer, then headed straight to stadium singing, which gets better and better everytime. and we were actually in the center this time not on the outskirts.
and then we went back to 403 for hot chocolate and ice-cream. best combination mint chocolate ice-cream IN the ice-cream. soooo good. i lerve it. its def my new fav.

so i started at 9 and didn't come back and chill until 11:30
but definately a good busy.
♥ sundays at byu-i are best i think

so... um.. funny story

i'm sitting at my desk today (saturday) and emily has a date at 7 and i'm just working on some homework.
well.
she gets a call from this boy and talks to him and comes back in the room and says "hey jessica.. so i found you a date for tonite!!"
o emily.
so i'm just like, okay i'll go along with it.
i mean it could be really extremely awkward or way fun. i'll just go in with low expectations and then i wont get let down. best mindset right?

so they come to pick us up. its this kid ben (RM) (emily's), this kid tyeson (mine) (just got back from mission two months ago, i know right?) and their friend george (not his real name but that's what they called him), apparently he had a date but then didn't.

so where did we go?

WINGERS OF COURSE.

i pretty much loved the whole night, except you know, the food isn't that great. but it was such the byu idaho dating experience i've always hoped for, and exactly how i pictured it.
except i spilled my coke ALL over the table. and felt like an idiot. and my sarcasm made them think i was mean. but we just joked around with it the whole night.
but these guys were way cool. they were all from idaho falls so they were small town folk. which pretty much means they are just genuinely nice guys. mine didn't talk much but we had a lot in common. i got along with george the best. but i wouldn't want to date any of them but i definately still want to be good friends with them.
so after wingers we headed back to their apartment and just hung out. two of their friends came by and hung out too (one was their other room mate)
we played taboo and then ended up playing ultimate frisbee. SO FUN.

but i just plain love people here. (or at least the ones i've met)
ps. we went college grocery shopping for the first time today too. cept i found a friend (405 girl) who has a car so we didn't have to walk so we went to albertsons. woot woot. but its so depressing spending so much money on just the necessities not even food i really enjoy (you know the junk kind)

but yea. jessica has a social life (this weekend at least) (we'll see about the others when they come) ;)

now church in the morning. mmm :)

the falls of idaho

my first trip to idaho falls:
so in our american heritage class we had 3 options for a class assignment and one of the easiest was a book club and there were like 4 books you could choose from grapes of wrath, huck finn, somethin else and autobio of malcolm x. and i was going to do the grapes of wrath but girls in 405 (that's what i call them) 2 are in my class, and they're way fun and so we decided to do the book club together. they wanted to do malcolm x so i just went along and then this kid joey who's also in this class hung out with us that first nite at the 405 gathering. so we all decided to be in a book club together, which was such a relief because it saved me from the awkwardness of being in group with wierd kids.
so to get the book we had to go to barnes and noble in idaho falls. so it was us four and this kid robert that lives next door to joey.
it was such a blast. joey is such sarcastic as can be and he's one of those people that just says funny things all the time, but he can come off a bit arrogant or jerkish sometimes. and this kid robert is just the nicest kid so we give him a hard time.
so we went to barnes and noble then pizza hut (their idea, not mine)
then we had to get robert back because he had a date with this one girl who lives on the other side of lamprecht. she's one of those pam nichols. just the awkward as can be, but she asked him out and they went on a double with her room mate and her boy.
so i ended up going over and hanging out with 405 and we watched the movie If Only which is really sad and we all ended up crying. Then my room mates got home and came over and hung out and joey came over and we played this game curses.
its really fun but you act and feel like an idiot the whole time. that was fun for a while until robert showed up with these three sort of obnoxious girls. we love robert but his date was awkward and this girl they came with was really loud and obnoxious. and then there was another that wouldn't play but sat and her own conversation with my room mate right next to us.
i left at about 12:30 because i was out and tired, and couldn't stand this girl who in the game one of her curses was everytime the bell was rung she had to cry like a baby but she did this creepy real baby sound like through her nose and it was just plain obnoxious.
but yea, overall successful.

oh ya and there was this girl that came and turns out she cuts hair and does everything so a bunch of us are going to let her do our hair, today i think. so we'll see but i'm excited cause it saves me a trip to the haircut place.
and we've got a little sunday after-church luncheon group, which is nice because last sunday we just all came home and slept.



and.. at barnes and noble i got the soundtrack to Across the Universe!!
i thougth there were more songs than whats on there but they are goodins.
i lerve it.

just going to the gym just to work on my fitness

so melissa and me have been working out every night for the past few days. and we've made a committment to work out every night, unless we have plans already.
but i can't tell you how good it feels to run again.
but everytime i see the field and people practicing and the bulletins for soccer tryouts it makes my heart ache.
it really hurts that i cant be part of a team.
i need that. i've had it for so long.

now i'm just another regular kid. another face in the crowd. and it kills me.

but the endorphins feel good. and i'm getting back into shape. so i guess next year :)
i'm doing it all, soccer, ultimate frisbee, bowling, dodgeball. the whole deal.



classes are swell. but work. alot of work. but its work that i love.

i'm in love with byui.
i feel like i've learned more this past week than i did the past 18 years. seriously.
the family class is AMAZING. i can't even begin to express how blessed i feel to be in that class.

pres. clark gave his first devotional. and it was SO good.
and i forgot to tell you but i went to stadium singing too.


i just don't want to leave.
its all just too good to be true.
i want to be here everyday.

o how wrong we all were...

so you know i pretty much expected all of my room mates to be not normal to some extent. but actually i've been really blessed with two awesome room mates.
what is that?
i only said two?
what happened to the third?

ha ha ha..
funny you ask.

so upon coming to the dorm and just within the first 10 minutes we knew how "unique" she was.
so i'm thinking okay so she's a senior and yea that's a little wierd that she hasn't left the dorms, or found a friend to move into a house with or something. and i'm thinking you know what? maybe she's just one of those antisocial girls, that's still nice, but you know anti-social. the pam nichols if you will.
so it got to where you know emily, melissa and me just accepted that you know, tawnie(that's her name), is just wierd.
we left her be.
she'd sit in her room all day.. watching youtube videos
we got to parties and dances and i quote "i dont go to dances" (ha. i could've guessed that)

so we just kind of thought that was the extent of it.

we he helll.
how wrong we were

okay so sunday. i guess it hit the point where tawni finally got comfortable with us because she started acting different

and not in the good way.


okay so melissa and me finally talked about it, cause she's the one that shares the room with her. and we finally got it out in the open. and we figured out that we never see her eat. we only see her put food away. now she's started this habit of whistling. all the time. whistling. just whistling forever and ever and ever and ever!!! even when you're trying to have a conversation.

did i conversation? as in she is physically and mentally incapable of having a conversation.
seriously.
we were with a group of girls and we'd all put in our little bits, you know, how regular conversation goes. it just has flow. one person talks, then theres a break and another person talks.

well i seriously think that something is wrong with tawni. because she will just start talking and even if you're talking she doesn't even acknowledge it, she just keeps on talking. so to not be rude you have to stop talking and listen to her.
i really think that she was not properly socialized as a child/teen/or adult. and i'm not just saying that i really think so.
i think she's only been around her parents her whole life. and when she isn't she doesn't know socially acceptable ways to act.
then she will just randomly sing. doesn't matter if you're trying to have a conversation or are listening to music. she sings.
and she says she's going on a mission. but melissa told me she hasn't even put in her papers. so we're sitting here wondering why she isn't working on them, or preparing herself to go on a mission. it just confuses us.

then melissa, me and tawni went to stadium singing. ahk word. tawni brought this alligator hair clip and kept clipping it on melissa and me and we kind of laugh it off and be like "ha ha.. tawni, don't" but she'd just laugh and keep doing it.
then at stadium singing she was standing on a rock above me and she kept pushing down on my shoulders and i kind of played it off. but told her to stop.


i really just dont understand this girl. she keeps getting crazier and crazier.
she'll come out on the couch when melissa and me are watching tv and be on her computar and just say things she's looking at, or whatever pops up on the screen like she's just talking to herself.
i dont get it!

and melissa told me, since she shares a room with her and all, but she didn't want to tell emily and me for the sake of not freaking us out.
but apparently tawni doesn't when she's changing clothes whether melissa sees anything or not.

like seriously its bad.
i told melissa she can come in our room anytime she wants.

but i'm just really freaked out by this girl.
i dont understand when the crazy will stop or how worse she will get.

ah.




ah.ah.

but it makes for good stories i spose.

fights, parties and crazy hair

so i didn't mention this before, but yesterday i was in the kitchen i got into a fight..... with the cheese grater... i'm so embarassed.

i was makin myself a good kay-sa-dilla and grating the cheese and i don't know what i said or did but he thought he'd attack me.

so i have two good sized chunks of skin missing from my right pointer finger. (dont worry none of the blood/skin ended up in the cheese or final product)

it just really hurts. :(

okay so today melissa, me, chantelle and her room mate, lindsay all went to rexburg unplugged. its pretty much a hey students, meet the community. its on main street and its just a bunch of booths from local stores. in the words of michael scott "SWWWWAAAAAAG."

Stuff

We

All

Get.

o ya. freebies as far as the eye can see. and we got every single one. best one's of course were bagel samples and jamba juice. but i also did a ring toss and won a liter of mt. dew (cody, be jealous) and there was this paul mitchell hair academy there that had really funky hair styles and they did everybody's for free. i was walking around and seeing all these crazy mohawks with criss cross braids and all these awesomely crazy hair styles. and we i saw the booth it just made sense. i wish i would've brought my camera to take more pictures but i forgot mine so you only get to see mine. which wasn't too crazy but i liked it.

so yea i kept it like that the whole day. cause it was actually liked it alot. i wish i knew how to do crazy stuff like that. hair can be so fun. you can't really see melissa's but it was cool.

so yea. then girls from dorm 405 (chelsea, erin) invited us to a party at their dorm.

they are really neat girls and i'm glad we got to know them cause them seem pretty cool. so they invited some people and we went over for pizza. (and i kept my hair like that. i used my "i'm an art major" excuse, so it was exceptable)

so they probably thought i was wierd. or just attention seeking but i dont cer.

so we walk in and its like 3 other girls and two guys. one's normal but quiet and the other is one of those loud awkward kids. where he thinks he's funny/witty and you just kind of laugh at him just to be curtious. and i'm like, umm more people better show up cause this is awkward. and luckily about 3 other guys showed up and 4 other girls.

but it was really fun. these people were really really funny. and one of them (i dont know any names) is really funny, but kind of jerk with some of the comments he makes, but entertaining nonetheless, well turns out he's in my american heritage class along with chelsea and erin so i'm pretty happy about that. that there's actually people i like in that class. and they're all in our ward too. so i just see all the potential for a good tight hang out group. which is all i wanted and i know it would just take some time.

so tonite was a very very good nite.

and now tomorrow church at 9 with us practically touring the campus because all our meetings are in different buildings. we go to relief society, then sunday school, then sacrament meeting. they're even giving us 20 to get from sunday school to sac. meeting. ca-razy.

but i'm excited to be in a byui ward. its like singles ward on steriods. yess.

alls well in the good land.

and curse to tootsie pops everywhere.

*cough* megan. *cough*

musical clouds

so to start off. today was an amazing cloud today. just those awesome huge clouds. that are just like the ones in paintings. it would've been a perfect day to go cloud watching.

i went to college algebra for the first time today (long story). and its going to be a very VERY easy class. the assignments and quizzes i do online. like i work out the problems on paper than just input the answers. and if its wrong i get 3 chances to correct it. and it tells you how to solve it and what you did wrong. its like the perfect easy course. but there's like a 40 year old lady taking the class and she is clueless. like would just ask dumb questions and instead of saying x squared she would say x to the second power. which i dont know why, but it bugged me.
but way nice teacher. so i'm lucky. believe me i'm not complaining.

classes were good today. any day i get to go to my family class is automatically a good day.

and i've come to a realization today. i feel so bad for the people that come here just for the dating drama, or those that get sucked into it. because there is so much more to be achieved here.
there's so much more this campus, the environment and the classes offer that i think a lot of people take for granted.
i've had my wakening up. and its truly seriously time to work on me.
the family class has really helped me in so many ways already. we talked about elder oaks talk on the challenge to become more. it says that its not just enough to learn things, but to go out and do them and make that your life.
i'm just grateful in so many ways its ridiculous.
so jessica's attention has now been re-focused on making myself who i really want and need to be.

o so funny story.
so i'm in american heritage and there's like over 100 kids there, so i pretty much dont know anybody, except i found out that two girls a couple doors down are in there. so with them and our girls we've got the makings of a tight core group. so i'm sitting there waiting for class to start and i hear this voice and i'm like, that voice sounds familiar... o hey turns out Asb is in my american heritage class.
that makes a total of three classes he's in, psych, family, and american heritage. what are the chances. ha ha i love it.

so ya its the weekend but i have nothing planned except homework/reading/just taking a break and seeing if my sickness will EVER GO AWAY!
i'm so sick of having a runny nose its not even funny.

o ps. i saw valerie today. and since i don't have facebook and she doesn't have a cell phone i've been trying to just look for her. but i saw her on the way to class and we looked at eachother, and i first i sort of recognized her i think its just her never ending changing hair but she saw me. we said our "hey!"s. and talked a little. but it was kinda awkward and i dont know why.




quote of the blog:
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

kind of disturbing but i love it.

classier classes

so today was pretty great for only the second day of school. tuesdays and thursdays are my easy days, i only have 2 classes, compared to the 4 i have m w and then 3 on friday.

so yea, i will thoroughly enjoy tuesdays and thursdays.



psychology 111:

seems like its going to be a good class. not a real awesome teacher but not half bad. i'll enjoy him and i think he'll try to make it exciting. but again there were about 100 kids in the class. what's the deal? i thought a good majority of my classes were going to be smaller but now its only a couple. but i dont mind i guess its more people i get to meet, but not on such an intimate level than if i had smaller classes. but i'm really excited to take this class just because i've always wanted to know about this kind of stuff. plus.. cute boy from my family class is in there and he sat in my row today and we talked again. he's totally one of those outgoing people. like he'd make a really good asb kid if you know what i mean. so figured out he will be my token crush kid. his name shall be asb (pronounced ahz-buh). because nicknaming people is way more fun than learning their real names.

i figured out i can't get too attached to boys or like them too much because a. they will never notice me b. they will have a gf or c. they get married

so i will just have fun crushes. :)

more like a hobby than an honest pursuit.



BOOK OF MORMON

is going to be an AMAZING class. i have brother wightman. today all we talked about is what we are going to take away from this class. and if you're not into it you should probably switch classes. its going to be an intense class and i am so pumped for it. i've always wanted a class like this. seminary is retarded. you can't learn because nobody wants to be there. but this class will be good i just know it. and he's such an energetic guy and his voice is so easy to listen to and he puts so much emotion in what he says.

ugh. the only bad part was i sat next to a cow today. you think i'm being mean but no it was awful. so the class is getting pretty full and both seats are open next to me, which is how i like it because i get semi-claustrophobic. and this fat girl walks in and i say to myself "just watch, she's going to sit right next to me" and lo and behold she sits next to me. and it wasn't even bad until she put her feet up on the chair in front of her so she was taking up some of my leg room. and that peeved me a little. but it wasn't until she started chomping on her gum, no joke, just like a cow. ugh.

but other than overcoming that distraction i really liked today.





and its so early but it feels so late. so now i'm trying to avoid homework.

which geeze so i had to switch into another math and instead of a textbook i bought this online thing where i do all of my assignments and quizzes.

like i work it out on paper but submit the answers online.

wierd huh?

and now i'm procrastinating reading the magna carta and some other gay reading for american heritage.. lame.



and so we went to the welcome back dance. which was really fun. it was emily (my room mate), me and the normal room mate from the other room. who turns out is really cool. we asked if tawni wanted to come and she just said "she doesn't go to dances". and i just wanted to say "ya i could've probably guessed that". can you say an tye so shull. but we went and it was blast except there were some really violent dancers that kept ending up next to us. and it was sad there was a punkish girl, real emo and she wore these low low rise jeans and kind of a belly shirt and she was with a bunch of emo guys in REALLY tight pants, who kind of seemed gay, but whatever. so yea i looked at her at the end of the night and she had a bunch of ones tucked in her pants. and i just wanted to be like why. why here. whatever. but yea so slow songs only cute roomie emily got asked to dance and now she's about to go out on a date with one of them. and i'm just like o emily you are so cute it makes me sick.

oh and in my american heritage class i sat next to this oober nerdy guy. like really kind of gross nerdy and i saw him at the dance and i think he saw me and tried to stay in the same vacinity as me so the whole night i had to pretend i didn't see him and avoid him.

ha ha. i shall name him greasy. cause he is. ha ha. o awkwardness..

here's the before pictures (melissa, jessica, emily)

























welp that's about it for me.



o so i found a good quote that's my washington/home motto quote



eh hem...



"anyone who thinks sunshine is happiness, has never danced in the rain."



pretty good huh?

classy classes

first set of classes
summary of each

intro to visual arts with sister jimison.
way cute lady. she came in wearing a knee length black dress with puffy sleeves. way artsy which automatically made me love taking an art class because i'm with all the art majors who express themselves with crazy hair and cool unique style in clothes. there's about 50 kids in the class. and its pretty much just discussing art. which i expected. but i'm actually really excited for it. just to get perpective. she said what she really wishes she could do is take us to europe and go see the art. but yea we just looked at different art pieces and talked about why we liked this one and not that one. it just makes me feel really cultured. seems like a pretty easy class. more of a "you'll get out of it by what you put into it" kind of deal.

american heritage with brother johansen
kind of already seems like its going to be my lamest class out of all of them. apparently its really hard. and there were seriously more than 100 kids in the class. it was busting full of people. and its history. which come on blah. there's a reason i didn't pass AP Us History in high school. i mean i find it interesting its just not something i know alot about already and some of it just seems lame. but its good to know that kind of stuff. and i met a really nerdy kid but it was fun because i found out last year nerds make really fun and entertaining friends. but luckily a girl sat in between us. so yea it just seems like its going to be a lot of work. a lot of assignments and homework and tests. o well.

lastly
the family with brother webster
way way way way way way cool. i'm so pumped for this class. its busting full of interesting people who are all taking it for different reasons and from different walks of life. brother webster seems like a really cool guy who is one of those teachers that knows the best way we'll learn is from eachother and by just discussing things. and he wants to learn from us. just an all around cool guy. so we started out and he just said okay what are you're questions. and a bunch of us just sat there and looked at eachother. so there were a couple questions but that's how it went for a good 20 minutes and he just looked at us and if we weren't asking questions he'd ask "why aren't you asking the questions you have?" so more questions came. but we finally decided on going around the room and introducing ourselves and about our family and relationship status (of course). but it was fun because you would never know this stuff otherwise. it was funny because at first there was only 1 boy to about 30 girls but then about 4 more boys joined the class. there were about 6 married girls. a married couple taking the class together. a married girl who is pregnant. a 27 yr old haitian who is married and has a 2 yr old. so yea it was way cool. and its one of those discussion classes where really we teach eachother and just talk about stuff which makes it, i think way better and way more fun.

so yea. overall classes = good.
tomorrow i have psych 111 and book of mormon. eek! i'm excited.


and there's good looking boys everywhere... in every class, on every sidewalk, everywhere.
but i'm patient. they'll find me sooner or later. ;)

I-Night Extravaganza

that's my room mate emily, chantelle's room mate lindsay and not a cute picture of me.

last night.

I-Night extravaganza.

was ah-mazing. it was me, my room mate emily, chantelle dial, and her room mate.

so it was pretty much like grad nite extended. they had everything, and it was everywhere. we didn't participate in alot of it we just watched people. the best was watching people getting chucked off the mechanical bull. then we went inside, got free pizza, woohoo (we went the whole day with provided meals.. yessss.)

the most entertaining BY far was singled out. it was pretty much a dating game show but it was hillarious. so they first picked one bachelor and three bachelorettes. the audience got to ask 3 questions for the girls to answer and then the guy picked which girl he wanted and they got gift certificates to go eat out at either wingers or bajios (a really good mexican restaurant) and the girls that didn't get picked got either a jamba juice or cold stone certificate. and then it was flipped where there were 3 boys and one girl. you got chosen raffle style so numbers got called out. unfortunately i didn't get picked but it was funny to watch. the questions were the best. and i thought of such good answers too like one was "if you could a biblical woman to be, which one would you choose?" and most just said ruth, or sariah. but i wanted to say "potiphor's wife, because when i see something i want i go after it." it probably would've gotten me in trouble but i'm sure some people would've thought it was funny. but its such a different environment here. the people are happy and excited and are fun. it felt like one continuous stake dance.

so we watched a couple of rounds of singled out then went over to the Hart (the rec center) and there was a bunch of stuff over there like carnival games, giant twister, dodgeball, and a mini dance which i got to dance to cotten eyed joe which pretty much made my night because i haven't been able to do it in so long.

then the last thing we did was go watch Decaf Comedy Jam. Which was like 4 people that just did a bunch of improve skits. kind of like whose line is it anyways? it was hillarious.

the best part of it all was it was just good clean fun.

and it was just that, fun.

Lamprecht Hall, Rexburg, ID. my new home.

this is the view from my dorm. my hallways with a fugly curtain my wierdo roommate put up.

this is mine and emily's room.









this is me outside lamprecht.





this is my desk underneath my bed.
this is my dad and me in my kitchen.

this is me outside the door. this is our living room.
this is our kitchen.

o college...

why hello.
well my sister forced me to get this because she won't let me know the secret to get into myspace and facebook at school because they block it. lame.
so pretty much college is ahhhh-some. i haven't been to classes yet, that's tomorrow. so today i woke up at 7:00 because they had this morning breakfast and being a poor college kid i jumped at the opportunity for free food.
then we had a morning devotional which was ah-mazing. there's nowhere in this world like this place. its ridiculous. so my I-Team leaders (kind of like stripes mentors) were so cool. the girl bonnie was way cute and does dance and all this other stuff that you wouldn't think she'd be into and then the guy david was WAy good looking and he was just plain fun. but as we're going through the day i notice she has a wedding ring and he has a wedding ring and that's when i had a duh moment. and that's the time that made me start looking for wedding rings and assume that any pretty decent looking boy with a personality will be taken. but that doesn't stop me from looking ;) good looking boys are always nice to have around.
okay so after devotional we had a showcase, which was pretty much like hey look what you can get into at school, and it was alright. after that we trecked down to a field and put together a bunch of humanitarian kits. which service just always makes you feel good. and they provided lunch, so you know, bonus.
then tonite is I-night, which is practically grad nite times 10,000. its pretty much taking over the campus tonite. it has everything, bull-riding, laser tag, characatures, rides, dunk tank, and so much more. geeze. talk about some good clean fun.
and my room mate. is. awesome. she's adorable. and we just get along. the two other girls are a senior and sophomore so we stick together. she's just funny. she'll laugh this high girly laugh but it cracks me up. yea. so i'm pretty blessed that everything worked out because that's the one thing i worried about. i can already tell we're going to be really good friends. we're going to walk around and see where my classes are for tomorrow later today.
but i still miss home. and everybody. and i think i forgot a box somewhere cause i swear i'm missing some stuff that i remember packing. ugh. that's frustrating.
but the sun is shining and the sunsets are more amazing than anything.
byui.
my new home.
and i just know i'm supposed to be here.