I am a terrible blogger. Its just that I have been so busy. By the time I actually have time to think about blogging, I just want to sleep or catch up on one of my many favorite shows.
So this school thing is exactly what I thought it would be. Lots and lots of homework. All last week I feel like that is all I did. And it doesn't help that I'm the worst, or should I say the best procrastinator. I always wait until the last possible second to do things. I could be a better student by not putting off my reading my text books but I'd rather not spend all my waking time reading about biology and ethics, you know my favorite subjects.
I have been enjoying reading for my children's lit class. Who wouldn't want to read books like The Hatchet, The Giver, Harry Potter, Holes. Yeah it takes a lot of my time but its fun and entertaining. I also started my voice lessons. I was a lengthy process to get it all worked out but It finally happened. So my first day my teacher loved me. Haha. Not that I have the best voice but she loved that I was experienced somewhat. I love to sight read so all of the music she had me sing through was way easy. All that is required for this class is to memorize 3 songs. Yep that's it. I'm doing a french piece that is not like anything I've ever sung before. I also am hopefully going to sing Gravity by Sara Bareilles. I am absolutely OBSESSED with this song. I have been listening to it since saturday non-stop. I even bought the sheet music on line. Its pretty hard to play and sing at the same time but with practice it'll come.
Thursday I met with my bishop to say hi I'm in your ward. He asked me a few questions about where I was from and if I'm working or going to school then he asked me if I was dating anyone. I said no and then he goes off on a tangent of how to flirt. HAHA. I was trying so hard not to laugh out loud when he was giving his monologue. He was telling me that a persons favorite subject is themselves and if things are going well to lightly touch their arm. My bishop is like the classic singles ward Bishop. All he ever talks about is dating and marriage. Haha. He looks like Steve Martin and talks like a radio announcer. Pretty funny but you've got to love the guy.
Last night was our ward talent show featuring my roommate Nellie and I on guitar singing White Horse by Taylor Swift. My ward, the 217th ward, is very talented. Almost like 2/3rd of the talents were guitar/singing. Every sunday when we sing hymns in sacrament meeting, it is sooo loud. I can't even hear myself. And we always have 2 musical numbers in each sacrament. Love it.
Once again I am a member of Gold's Gym. It's only 10 bucks a month with no contract. And its a way nice gym. There is a Cardio Cinema where its a big theater with the lights off and treadmills everywhere. Legit!
Well my battery on my laptop is about to die so that'll be it for this time.
Till next time :)
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011
5 Things
It's been a while since I have blogged. I'll explain why later in this blog so you'll just have to wait for it.
I have been thinking about things I'd like to blog about, things I have an opinion about. Since my memory is not the greatest I started making a list of things to blog about in my phone, the only thing I know I'll always have on me.
(Not in any particular order)
1. Sweats and flip flops. When I think of these two things I can't help but smile. But on the other hand when I think of not being able to wear them I get a little bit upset. I don't like being told what to do. Today after I got home from class I changed into my comfortable sweats and a t-shirt. I had a full day ahead of studying and wanted to be content. While I was working on assignments I received an e-mail from my teacher that said I had to drop my current voice class and register for a different one. Being the 2nd week of school this required that I get an add card signed by my professor. I found that I needed to go to campus to obtain an add card before that office closed. So I just hurried and found some flip-flops and ran out the door to make it in time. As I was walking to the building from the parking lot I thought how grateful I was that I was at a school where I wouldn't get in trouble for wearing my sweats and flip flops. Not to point any fingers at any of the fine institutions we have out there but I just don't like being told what to do, especially about things that I love; sweats and flip flops.
Also in my Children's literature class we were discussing books we read when we were in elementary school. I couldn't remember any of them. I do remember that in middle school we were required to read the Hobbit. I hated it. Not because of the content but because it was required. Later in high school I read it again an absolutely loved it! It was because it was my decision to read it and mine alone. I have somewhat adapted seeing that I know that usually required texts will spark a little interest.
2. Is she or is she not? My ethics professor is someone who I have been studying very carefully these past two weeks. First off she is an ethics teacher so she doesn't exactly come off as 'cool'. She is quite the quirky woman so she didn't give off the motherly vibe. When she introduced herself she said that she "escaped" from Utah when she was 19 and has traveled and is currently writing her thesis on Mormonism. You may now see why I have been studying her. I wanted to know if she was of the LDS faith or not. She didn't seem the typical mormon but you never know do you. I listened for her opions about religion since we are able to talk about it in class, I looked for signs like, drinking coffee or immodest clothing to give it away. Not to say that all Mormons are perfect but you usually can tell if someone is not in this culture. She is not unfortunately. It's not a proven fact but I am pretty sure she either isn't LDS or just isn't active. Now to find that out... Was she?
3. Working part time is fabulous. So I have come to the conclusion that working part time is like playing infield in softball/baseball. When the ball is hit in your direction if you don't get it, the outfielder will. When I don't get something fully finished at work because I'm waiting for a call back or a e-mail to confirm a go ahead, I just tell my co-workers about it and when I leave at lunch I give them a piece of paper of what I still have to accomplish for the day and then it is their responsibility. I love it. Ha.. Not really a good thing but its something I am appreciating at this moment in time for this next reason.
4. No Time. I am a full time student and working part time. I don't think some professors think that their students have other things to do. My children's literature class is a prime example of this kind of thinking from a professor. Lets start out with reading. Of course we will be reading in a children's literature class so I expect that. We have the assigned reading from the text book and oh lets say 8 novels that we have to read in the semester. I thoroughly enjoy reading novels but its such a time consuming task. Not only on top of the 8 novels we have to read we have to do a bajillon assignments to go along with each book. We have group assignments, papers, activities we have to plan, poetry to read, and on top of it we have tutoring hours we have to do as well. There are many things I have left out but if it has to do with children's literature, we will be doing it. And last week I said I liked school. How quickly it all can change.
5. The spirit. Oh I love the spirit. I have missed him dearly. Earlier tonight I was studying and my roommate invited me to come along to institute with her. Desperately needing a break I decided to go along. The institute class she is taking is Dating, Courtship and Eternal Marriage. I was terrified to go but I decided to be brave a just do it. We get to class and there are not many there. A few weird looking people and couples of course. I thought of course the usual institute group especially for this class. Well we were a few minutes early and when the hour came people just started rushing into the room. When it was about 5 min after the hour the classroom was so full people there weren't room enough for everyone. I was pleasantly surprised. As our teacher started the class I was a little weary as to what was going to be required of us to do in class or what she would even teach about. I also though she was trying a bit hard to be funny before class started. She stared off the class with a funny story about herself going to the eye doctor and how she couldn't even see the big E at the top of the reading chart. Well her story turned out to be very funny and I fell in love with her teaching right off the bat. Anyway she related the story to our perspective. There was nothing wrong with the chart but from her prospective all she could see was a blob. Heavenly Fathers prospective is so much larger than ours because he can see past present and future. If we can start to open our prospective we wont compare ourselves to others. So as in marriage we wont think EVERYONE else is getting married. Not everyone is. But our perspective is so focused on the present that that is all we see. So our teacher told us a story of how she had tumor that inabled her to have children. She is not married. Just like most of us it was one of her greatest desires to have children. She was 37 at the time that this happened and now she is 46. She said the only reason she made it through this time in her life is that she changed her perspective to be more like God's perspective. She knew that if God knew it was best for her to have children she wouldn't have had the complication in the surgery. He could have even made so that she never had the tumor. She knew that her Heavenly Father loved her more than she loved herself, that he wanted her to have children more than she wanted to have children, that he wanted her to have her greatest desires more than she wanted her greatest desires. All the things we go through are for a reason. Our Heavenly Father knows us and he knows what will make us into who we have the potential to be. We might want to plan when we want to be Married but the Lord knows whats best. We watched a video of Elder Oaks who talked about how his plans were not what ended up happening as good as his plans were. He and his wife planned to serve a mission together after he retired. Well Elder Oaks was called to the quorum of the 12. Sometime later his wife passed away and he remarried. He knew that this was the lord plan because he had done what was asked of him. Elder Oaks put it this way. If I put the Lord first in my life and keep his commandments everything will be ok. Faith and trust in the Lord gives us strength to accept and persevere through whatever comes our way. The woman he married had been single all of her life until she married Elder oaks in her 50's. She had filled her life with service and had done the best she could and the lord blessed her with a husband. An apostle :) Our teacher said theses are all extreme cases but we can learn from them. If we do what the Lord asks of us and trust in him, he has promised us an eternal marriage.
Just a side note. All of my friends including me, excluding the ones already married, all want to get married, to be loved and cared about and to have a family of our own. This has always been one of my biggest worries in life. That I won't ever get married. It seems to be a worry for a lot of us. I was so grateful for this lesson because I was feeling it again. I was worried it was never going to happen for me. When I first moved up to Provo I was excited. A new start, new friends, new boys... But none of that has happened yet. I know it has only been 2 weeks but I was expecting a little more. I am still my same shy self, who is not the best at making new friends. We'll heavenly father knows me so well that he inspired my roommate to invite me to this wonderful lesson to give me comfort about this whole marriage stuff. I felt the spirit testify to me through this whole hour and a half. I was crying, I was laughing and I was so grateful. Sister Oaks said, Come what may and keep going, fill your life with service, if your busy doing good things you don't have time to sin. My teacher said that every relationship has to fail until it its right. I hope my eventually is coming soon, even though I might have to fail a few more times it will be worth it.
Well that is my 5 things for this week. WOW that was long. Sorry.
I have been thinking about things I'd like to blog about, things I have an opinion about. Since my memory is not the greatest I started making a list of things to blog about in my phone, the only thing I know I'll always have on me.
(Not in any particular order)
1. Sweats and flip flops. When I think of these two things I can't help but smile. But on the other hand when I think of not being able to wear them I get a little bit upset. I don't like being told what to do. Today after I got home from class I changed into my comfortable sweats and a t-shirt. I had a full day ahead of studying and wanted to be content. While I was working on assignments I received an e-mail from my teacher that said I had to drop my current voice class and register for a different one. Being the 2nd week of school this required that I get an add card signed by my professor. I found that I needed to go to campus to obtain an add card before that office closed. So I just hurried and found some flip-flops and ran out the door to make it in time. As I was walking to the building from the parking lot I thought how grateful I was that I was at a school where I wouldn't get in trouble for wearing my sweats and flip flops. Not to point any fingers at any of the fine institutions we have out there but I just don't like being told what to do, especially about things that I love; sweats and flip flops.
Also in my Children's literature class we were discussing books we read when we were in elementary school. I couldn't remember any of them. I do remember that in middle school we were required to read the Hobbit. I hated it. Not because of the content but because it was required. Later in high school I read it again an absolutely loved it! It was because it was my decision to read it and mine alone. I have somewhat adapted seeing that I know that usually required texts will spark a little interest.
2. Is she or is she not? My ethics professor is someone who I have been studying very carefully these past two weeks. First off she is an ethics teacher so she doesn't exactly come off as 'cool'. She is quite the quirky woman so she didn't give off the motherly vibe. When she introduced herself she said that she "escaped" from Utah when she was 19 and has traveled and is currently writing her thesis on Mormonism. You may now see why I have been studying her. I wanted to know if she was of the LDS faith or not. She didn't seem the typical mormon but you never know do you. I listened for her opions about religion since we are able to talk about it in class, I looked for signs like, drinking coffee or immodest clothing to give it away. Not to say that all Mormons are perfect but you usually can tell if someone is not in this culture. She is not unfortunately. It's not a proven fact but I am pretty sure she either isn't LDS or just isn't active. Now to find that out... Was she?
3. Working part time is fabulous. So I have come to the conclusion that working part time is like playing infield in softball/baseball. When the ball is hit in your direction if you don't get it, the outfielder will. When I don't get something fully finished at work because I'm waiting for a call back or a e-mail to confirm a go ahead, I just tell my co-workers about it and when I leave at lunch I give them a piece of paper of what I still have to accomplish for the day and then it is their responsibility. I love it. Ha.. Not really a good thing but its something I am appreciating at this moment in time for this next reason.
4. No Time. I am a full time student and working part time. I don't think some professors think that their students have other things to do. My children's literature class is a prime example of this kind of thinking from a professor. Lets start out with reading. Of course we will be reading in a children's literature class so I expect that. We have the assigned reading from the text book and oh lets say 8 novels that we have to read in the semester. I thoroughly enjoy reading novels but its such a time consuming task. Not only on top of the 8 novels we have to read we have to do a bajillon assignments to go along with each book. We have group assignments, papers, activities we have to plan, poetry to read, and on top of it we have tutoring hours we have to do as well. There are many things I have left out but if it has to do with children's literature, we will be doing it. And last week I said I liked school. How quickly it all can change.
5. The spirit. Oh I love the spirit. I have missed him dearly. Earlier tonight I was studying and my roommate invited me to come along to institute with her. Desperately needing a break I decided to go along. The institute class she is taking is Dating, Courtship and Eternal Marriage. I was terrified to go but I decided to be brave a just do it. We get to class and there are not many there. A few weird looking people and couples of course. I thought of course the usual institute group especially for this class. Well we were a few minutes early and when the hour came people just started rushing into the room. When it was about 5 min after the hour the classroom was so full people there weren't room enough for everyone. I was pleasantly surprised. As our teacher started the class I was a little weary as to what was going to be required of us to do in class or what she would even teach about. I also though she was trying a bit hard to be funny before class started. She stared off the class with a funny story about herself going to the eye doctor and how she couldn't even see the big E at the top of the reading chart. Well her story turned out to be very funny and I fell in love with her teaching right off the bat. Anyway she related the story to our perspective. There was nothing wrong with the chart but from her prospective all she could see was a blob. Heavenly Fathers prospective is so much larger than ours because he can see past present and future. If we can start to open our prospective we wont compare ourselves to others. So as in marriage we wont think EVERYONE else is getting married. Not everyone is. But our perspective is so focused on the present that that is all we see. So our teacher told us a story of how she had tumor that inabled her to have children. She is not married. Just like most of us it was one of her greatest desires to have children. She was 37 at the time that this happened and now she is 46. She said the only reason she made it through this time in her life is that she changed her perspective to be more like God's perspective. She knew that if God knew it was best for her to have children she wouldn't have had the complication in the surgery. He could have even made so that she never had the tumor. She knew that her Heavenly Father loved her more than she loved herself, that he wanted her to have children more than she wanted to have children, that he wanted her to have her greatest desires more than she wanted her greatest desires. All the things we go through are for a reason. Our Heavenly Father knows us and he knows what will make us into who we have the potential to be. We might want to plan when we want to be Married but the Lord knows whats best. We watched a video of Elder Oaks who talked about how his plans were not what ended up happening as good as his plans were. He and his wife planned to serve a mission together after he retired. Well Elder Oaks was called to the quorum of the 12. Sometime later his wife passed away and he remarried. He knew that this was the lord plan because he had done what was asked of him. Elder Oaks put it this way. If I put the Lord first in my life and keep his commandments everything will be ok. Faith and trust in the Lord gives us strength to accept and persevere through whatever comes our way. The woman he married had been single all of her life until she married Elder oaks in her 50's. She had filled her life with service and had done the best she could and the lord blessed her with a husband. An apostle :) Our teacher said theses are all extreme cases but we can learn from them. If we do what the Lord asks of us and trust in him, he has promised us an eternal marriage.
Just a side note. All of my friends including me, excluding the ones already married, all want to get married, to be loved and cared about and to have a family of our own. This has always been one of my biggest worries in life. That I won't ever get married. It seems to be a worry for a lot of us. I was so grateful for this lesson because I was feeling it again. I was worried it was never going to happen for me. When I first moved up to Provo I was excited. A new start, new friends, new boys... But none of that has happened yet. I know it has only been 2 weeks but I was expecting a little more. I am still my same shy self, who is not the best at making new friends. We'll heavenly father knows me so well that he inspired my roommate to invite me to this wonderful lesson to give me comfort about this whole marriage stuff. I felt the spirit testify to me through this whole hour and a half. I was crying, I was laughing and I was so grateful. Sister Oaks said, Come what may and keep going, fill your life with service, if your busy doing good things you don't have time to sin. My teacher said that every relationship has to fail until it its right. I hope my eventually is coming soon, even though I might have to fail a few more times it will be worth it.
Well that is my 5 things for this week. WOW that was long. Sorry.
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