Freshman Year Part 1

Let's see what I can remember.

The first major event of my freshman year happened on the drive down: My niece was born!

She has been such a blessing in my life, and I had lots of opportunities over the year to spend time with her. To learn more about her growing up adventures, be sure to check out

Then I met my fantastic roommates.

Cassie's the sweet blonde, Melissa the fiesty Puerto Rican. I love both of them tons. Cassie and I shared a room, Melissa and I shared a not-quite-as-sweet as Cassie relationship. We both corrupted her. These two were VERY supportive when I was injured in a car accident (details to follow), and I loved having their notes and doodles on the white board (all of which are documented on Melissa's facebook, I'll see if I can get them on here. These two definitely became my sisters over the course of two semesters, and I can't wait to see what they get up to in the future!

My first semester schedule consisted of American Heritage (tons of fun, because I shared it with Cody and Nick - two guys from my Y group that became probably my best friends), Chem 105 (... I basically sat in the back and fooled around with Cody the whole time, as was shown by the C I got in the class), Book of Mormon (Dr. Marsh was a fantastic teacher! And another class with Cody and Nick), Biology (Where I made a great new friend in Muzna), and Intro to Family Processes. I learned a lot in that last class, and used J.J., Erin, and Cody in a mock family ritual, where I made a pumpkin casserole for a Halloween dinner and watched a scary movie - a tradition I hope to continue.

Here we have the gorgeous Cody modeling the pumpkin casserole.

BEFORE this was my big exciting bike/car wreck. When I was cruising down the hill next to the LaVell Edwards stadium, a car cut across the bike lane without looking. My bike flew over the back of their car with me on it, and I caught myself with my hands. I walked away with some annoying road rash, and two sprained wrists.I was blessed to have fantastic roommates and friends to help me out. It was a big trial for me to be the servee instead of the server, but it was a good lesson for me to learn. I called my dad upset about it, and he taught me that sometimes allowing yourself to be served is a way to serve others. Still not totally sure if I buy it, but it helped me get through the frustrating times when I couldn't even make my own food.

After the braces were off, I had tons of fun with Halloween. First things first, I filled my walk-in closet with pumpkins. Then I got people to help me carve them. My dad came down, my friend Hans, but mostly my roommates and FHE family took care of all of them.















Let's see. I don't think anything very eventful happened between Halloween and Christmas. My roommates and I enjoyed decorating up our apartment for the holidays. The first round of finals was a bit of a baptism by fire, but we survived! Now, on to the second semester.

..... whoops

Well that was definitely a vain attempt.... sorry! ( an apology directed to all.... none of my followers. Which is definitely my bad. I am a shame to my older siblings, who would be following this, if I had blogs as interesting as theirs)

I really hope to get better at this. I really like the idea of the blog started by my wonderful sisters-in-law (erm, SOON-to-be in one case). Their blog (which they later added Kandis and myself to) is full of recipes that they're trying out. I might try something like that here. I found that when I think about what did I ate today, and why, and often it's a funny story that I can share with the world. When I try to focus on EVERYTHING, and how I should blog about it, I just don't, because it'd be too hard. But if I recorded my life in recipes, or maybe photos, or maybe statuses.... I dunno. I'll think about it. I'll hopefully come up with better ideas in Coos Bay.

Oh yeah! Coos Bay! I have tons to catch up on, so I'll just put a quick blurb about it. I'm going to be going with about 15 other students to study at OIMB (The Ducks - Blech) for Spring Semester, under the genius tutelage of Dr. B. I. Am so. Excited. One of my classes is a mentored research project, one is embryology, one is ecology. For ecology, I get to take 100 pictures of animals doing things, and labeling what they're doing. DREAM. COME. TRUE. Much of this blog will be dedicated to that, I'm hoping to be updating often once I'm in Coos Bay.

So let's see.... you missed basically the whole of my Freshman Year. I'll try and sum it up. .... but not in this post. It's my bedtime. Goodnight internet!