Peruvian festival day

The peach tree

We made peach cobbler.

A little bit of Rexburg

I couldn't decide on any one certain picture to describe my last week. School got out and I visited Utah. I guess I could've posted some pictures of that but there were too many. could've should've ...eh, you get what you get. I went to a Peruvian festival with my good friend Wendy. Got to experience a little more peru for a day. We had fun watching dancers and eating some yummy food (and some not so yummy food). Then we stayed at Holly and Ben's house in SLC that night. (hopefully next time we visit Holly and Ben will actually be there too) But, thanks guys! It was nice to have a place to stay for me and Wendy to catch up on life. We picked a ward at random to go to on Sunday at the institute building in SLC. We met some characters for sure. Then on Monday morning I headed up to Clearfield to spend some time with my Aunt Sue and Uncle Michael. Perfect timing. Sue had just gotten home from Ohio. We watched quite a few bollywood movies. A favorite thing of mine to do while I'm there with them. Then we pulled out the stuff for my quilt that my aunt is making. Its almost done :) I'm pretty excited. I will have a nice comfy warm homemade quilt once winter roles around. We also went out back and picked a ton of peaches from their peach trees. Rewind....I was also pretty excited to get to pick black berries from Holly's back yard. Fast foward...We haven't even gotten to the cool part about how I picked this raspberries in my back yard here in Rexburg. I also picked some peppers that went in the quiche pictures below too. I stayed at Sue and Michaels house until wed night. I also got to take a short trip up to my other Aunts house in Eagle Mountain. Thursday morning I woke up bright and early to get to Education week. I went to a few classes above and beyond what I had signed up to volunteer for. A few different classes on lots of different topics. Just mostly reminders of things to do and how to stay happy and good stories that were uplifting. I volunteered thurs. fri. and sat. Friday night was pretty awesome. I decided that I wanted to go to the Janice Kapp Perry family musical night at the Kirkham building on campus. It was 5 bucks and I'm sort of ...okay really broke, but I needed to go. So we had a fun filled night of their songs. They had a portion of the show where they had a few people volunteer to come play name that tune with the primary songs. I raised my hand faster than I knew what was going on. It was pretty awesome. I actually knew the song....and won. Not that the prize was any different for the winners as opposed to the loser, but I was pretty excited nevertheless. I went home with a free CD. It was cute. I just can't seem to care about getting their autographs though. It was cool being there and feeling like we were in some sort of family night together. I do love their music, but what on earth would I do with an autograph. I don't feel like I have done anything with the ones I have....I'll walk away with a fun experience and a story of winning a CD and I'm set. It was a fun night. Saturday was when I picked the berries...after I got home from education week festivities. Then on sunday morning my roommate Kerry and I had this quiche. (pictured below) I used the last of our eggs from the chickens out back and a few other things in the fridge to whip us up something delicious. Then we went to the singles ward. I don't know what to think of 5th Sunday lessons. I was doing so good at avoiding the dating lesson topics. It wasn't totally on that, but it was mentioned. And it wasn't really totally on any one thing in my opinion. I walked away wondering what I just heard, or what was I really supposed to have taken away from that. Ohh and out of order again in my story telling, but the night I got home from Utah I got to google hangout with my friends Jenny and Ben. I miss them. We had fun and laughed for a good couple of hours. That sums up a portion of my break so far. I am currently reading Malcolm X's autobiography, the Book of Mormon, Jane Eyre...and when those are done I want to read more from a book I have on parables, Anatomy Trains, and possibly Les Miserable if I can check it out at the library. Sort of a mixture of things going on in my world. Hopefully I get a job soon. I have ventured out and asked about things and I've searched online awhile and I've asked around too. Nothing has turned up yet, but I'm not completely worried. Maybe I should be.

Education.

   I have no idea what I'm doing with this layout. Sending things from my phone isn't as easy these days. It's not a smart phone. Sorry if this looks horrible. Friday July 20th I graduated with my Associates in General Studies. Most people have asked, whats next? Well, I am going to keep going. I realize it took me forever to get to this point so I wanted to make sure I took the chance to walk and do the whole graduation ceremony because I didn't want to miss that opportunity, plus its a good motivator to keep going with my education. My awesome friend Cami came to support me and my new friend Melanie let me sit by her and her sister. It apparently doesn't matter where you sit for the commencement portion. We got front and center. It only took us 15 minutes to pile everyone in. 1679 degrees...the biggest graduating class thus far. I assume it will only continue to grow since that's all it has done since summer of 2000 when I first started. We heard lots of good advice from lots of speakers throughout the night. I was reminded that I need to keep a journal to record my thoughts, keep my covenants, realize times get hard but I can make it, keep reading, be a leader. Those insights weren't necessarily word for work from the speakers, but they were the things that I want to remember. It was a long semester with lots of adjusting. I loved my teachers even if I didn't always love the subject matter. I could've done better, but I'm not killing myself over my grades...I'd rather have my sanity. I think I still have a B average overall. I made a couple friends and hope to keep up that habit of friend making. I have a 7 week break before classes start again. I hope to find a job to keep when classes start up again. I will be taking the first medical assisting class and lab and the second portion of Anatomy and Physiology. 9 credits again until I can apply and get accepted for a track as a tradition student. This past semester I changed my major to Health Science with a public health emphasis and minor in medical assisting. I guess we will see how it goes. For now, that's the plan. Now to go find all my shot records that are probably hiding in a storage unit that might as well be burnt down because no one wants to find my information once its been put away in a box with hundreds of other old patients things too.

Writers Block

You know when you have so much assigned writing that its hard to get anything down on paper. I think the forced deadline freaks me out every single time. When I want to blog, I just sit down and start writing. I take a mental dump of everything on my mind and then its easier to get to other tasks at hand. Actually I had a hard time really getting anything of this paper down all last week. Instead, I cleaned my house, did the dishes, made a meal in the crock pot. I started to do more too. I actually got a lot of other homework done instead. I got so motivated to do everything else. I am the queen of putting things off this week. I have been sitting at the library for 4 hours or more working on this paper. AND currently, I'm blogging and then I'll be on my way to watch some juggling or something.
peace
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