Thanksgiving, thank goodness!

Just when I thought I would wallow in the pit of despair, we had a couple days off school and I caught up on some much needed sleep. I had all sorts of good intentions to do a lot of homework and get ahead for this crazy three weeks that I'll have, but...I didn't. So, what did I do instead???? Well, at noon on Thanksgiving, I had a great Thanksgiving dinner at my grandparents Jex's house, my parents drove in from Colorado. Then, at 6:00 that night I had another Thanksgiving dinner at a professor's house because I wanted to meet his daughter's fiance and only intended to eat pie, however, since they hadn't yet started dinner.....well, what was I supposed to do?? It was really great food.....


Other things of note: I went Christmas tree hunting for the first time in my life and that was fun. I was reminded of the Berenstain Bear's Christmas Tree where Papa Bear is sure that he can find the best and then they end up going to a tree lot all the same. Anyway, it was a successful tree hunt, and I didn't even have to get very cold as I got to hang out with Sarah in the truck...lucky me!!

Well, back to school for me! I'll surface again in about a month. Oh, I'm also excited about this weekend. Our stake is having this great service project on Saturday serving all sorts of widowed, elderly and otherwise deserving people. I'm excited!

busy me, trying to stay out of trouble....

so, i noticed that i hadn't written in a while, sorry about that. life sure is crazy sometimes. i have a couple of projects on the burners right now. the coolest is the service project that i am part of that we'll be doing on the 1st of december. we're going to be serving a lot of individual households, helping them with projects or cleaning or whatever. with a lot of prayers it will all come together. other than that, i'm just working on homework all of the time. oh, the other thing that i managed to do yesterday is to visit 13 different portuguese classes to talk about the brasil study abroad. i felt very good about that although i was absolutely exhausted by the end.

also yesterday i sang in a talent show. it's kind of crazy how i get nervous talking in front of people, but to sing in front of a bunch of people in portuguese isn't too bad at all...maybe because i know they don't understand exactly what i'm saying and so if i mess up, they have no idea. also i just feel a little bit more confident in portuguese i think, at least most of the time.

yep, it's been a busy but good week so far....

oh, just a note, i think i'm going to get braids over christmas break because i liked them so much and they did wonders for my dry scalp and hair...so...i'm excited.