Here it is July 5th and I just got internet in my apartment hence why I probably haven't written in a long while. May was an interesting month as I lived in 4 different places for that month. I was fortunate to move in May 31st.
Move in was interesting since my roommate and I got to rent a UHaul (I got to drive hehe). Why you may ask did us 2 girls rent a UHaul? Oh because we have a lot of stuff aparently including an assortment of furniture that I managed to collect with all my other friends moving. I was lucky to get a bunk bed set (it breaks into 2 separate twin beds yay!) and 2 dressers and my friend gave me his television to hold onto for the summer. My roommate, Melissa, (the other one is chilling in Buffalo, New York for the summer) had a couch (yay), a tv, a dining table, some chairs, a dresser, a desk, some end tables, a bookshelf and some other furniture. So we are fortunate to have a decently furnished apartment.
I flew back to Idaho for 3 weeks starting June 2nd and flew back to Rhode Island June 23rd. It was great to be in Idaho to see family and friends. I also was lucky to see my 2 friends graduate from high school. In week 2, my parents and I made a road trip down to Salt Lake city for a foodshow and then we drove up through eastern Idaho to Jackson Hole. We also decided to go to Yellowstone. It was great and it was a great time for me to hang with my parents. I enjoyed it a lot. In the last week of my time in Idaho, my brother flew home and I enjoyed seeing him again.
My time back in Rhode Island has been somewhat eventful. I've been busy searching for a job and have had an interview. I'm praying to have patience in seeking God's plan for what job He wants me to have. I've been making new friends as well and that has been fun. I have been going to church on Sundays as well as a Thursday night Bible study with a group of people from various churches in the area.
Here are some random interesting moments:
~Carrying a 6' by 9' rug home 1/4 a mile (while crossing a street people made sure to stop hehe)
~Getting stuck on a broken down bus for a 1/2 hour until the replacement came while being in the middle of 2 people in a fight (that was interesting!)
~Going to Newport and having fun playing in the waves
I am going to California this week (leaving Weds flying back Sunday night) to see my cousin get married. So I am really excited about that and also hope to see family while I'm down there.
Hope all is well for everyone! :D
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Sunday, May 25, 2008
WOW! Like TWO months later!!!!!
Wow! So much has happened! I am sorry for not writing sooner! Life has been crazy busy!!!!!! Guess what!? I'm coming to Idaho June 2nd!
Yes, I fully know I left off on April 2nd! Things have finally started slowing down and I've managed to get the world to stop spinning for a minute! Here are pieces of my life!
April 4th-6th:
Went to Freedom, New Hampshire for a spring retreat with about 14 other people in my group. There were various churches there and about 100 people or so in attendence. It was very relaxing and at the same time a great way to come and take rest in God.
April 13th:
My birthday-my birthday was great! My parents found a local bakery that delivered a cake to me. Then Melissa took me out to lunch. Later, after hanging out with Melissa, we and several other friends headed to an Italian restaurant. I brought my cake with me and when I got to the restaurant they took the cake from me and put it in the refrigerator. After we were done eating, the people at the restaurant brought out my cake and sung me happy birthday, however my parents put one of my nicknames on the cake, one nickname that my RI friends did not know, so when the whole restaurant broke out in song for me through that nickname, we all burst out laughing. It was great!
Later on the next week, I found a car, a 1999 Honda Accord and bought it. Now I'm trying to figure out the whole registration scene for it. I think I have it down and should be registering it in the next week or so hopefully.
I also got the whole apartment scene figured out! God works in mysterious ways! I had found this 2 bedroom apartment on the 2nd floor in a good area. I put down a deposit on it and things went through and I was supposed to move in May 1st. I was working through an agent and at the last minute, the apartment was pulled out from under me. My agent was upset with the landlord for this and the landlord offered us his way nicer 1st floor and my agent managed to get the rent knocked down a tad. So I have a nice 2 bedroom apartment with 2 other fun loving roommates so things should be good! I get to hopefully move in May 27th! So excited! That's 2 days away! I've been staying at a friend's apartment as I moved out of the dorms on May 16th. Which closes the dorm chapter of my life!
School was a very difficult trimester for me with this past one. My classes all were very challenging for me. I had one class that had 40% of the grade be a project that we all each spent about 20-60 hours on and another 20% of that class' grade was the final. The project was first researching a city from a random state that we drew out of a hat (the professor threw Idaho out, I couldn't believe it!). I got Colorado and chose Denver as my destination city. Then we again drew out of a hat and got a corporation, association or non profit group to plan and organize a 3 night/4 day convention for in the city that we research. I got Boeing, which was great for me because I love airplanes. Another class that was difficult for me was macroeconomics just because I had a hard time grasping and memorizing concepts. I also was challenged in my advanced English class with having a teacher who disliked God and presented me with a lot of challenges/conflicts upon my own personal views.
My friends here are amazing! I have most definitely a wonderful family out here of all sorts of random people that manage to find me! I do not know what I would do without my friends here, they mean a lot to me and we all teach each other things everyday. It's amazing to see everyone's different managing styles and lifestyles. Because truly, we all having an amazing and unique story to share, of how we were brought up and how that in turn makes each of us very different!
I was also presented with the challenge of having chronic back pain. I have had consistent back pain everyday since mid-April and off and on from at least March. I did go to the hospital one night that it was so bad and they took x-rays and said nothing was wrong. They gave me a prescription to pain killers. With my luck, I was allergic to that and my whole body broke out in a rash (2 of my friends put me on a no scratch rule lol and me and another made the scratch club.....haha). I hunted around and found a back specialist who was 2 weeks out. I made the appointment and waited anxiously for it. As nothing was helping my pain at this point, not even vicaden (my friends love me on that because it makes me really talkative and takes me for a ride down memory lane). I had the appointment and the doctor was like well I do not really see anything wrong with the x-rays so you can do physical therapy or whatever treatment method and here's a prescription.....I was kind of frusterated and this was almost my breaking point with the pain....luckily the prescription helped with the pain and it has gone down a tad but I'm fearful that my body is getting used to it now.
Let's see, random fun times:
~Playing hand and foot (an awesome, crazy card game) or various other games with Carrie who is an awesome friend to have around. She is very understanding especially with me and all my crazy moods!
~Going on random adventures with Alissa (one of my future roomies) to who knows where! Which is always a blast! Alissa cracks me up, you never know what comment or random thing she's going to say or do next!
~Hanging out with Melissa...which is always fun! Melissa helps me out so much with so many things and she is like a sister to me! I can't wait to tear up the upcoming months with having her for a roomie.
~Haha! Running around downtown Providence from midnight on and ending up at a 24 hour IHOP only to get home at 3:30am/4am!
~Walking down the WRONG street on the WRONG side of town and almost getting picked up because some guy thought I was a hooker(yeppers, I learned my lesson) because I missed the bus by accident. Yeah, I was doing a church thing at the rescue mission and I missed the bus and decided to walk to the mission, whoops, not a smart idea!
~I know there are so many more.........haha I guess you'll have to wait and hear them from me!
Another cool/important things before I end....I am going to be a Missions Leader for the college aged church group that I am involved with. My job will be to present a general awareness of missions and mission needs including prayer for places around the world as well as helping to coordinate spring break mission trips.
Well, that about sums it up! I'll be seeing a lot of you come June 2nd! We can really tear things up then!
Yes, I fully know I left off on April 2nd! Things have finally started slowing down and I've managed to get the world to stop spinning for a minute! Here are pieces of my life!
April 4th-6th:
Went to Freedom, New Hampshire for a spring retreat with about 14 other people in my group. There were various churches there and about 100 people or so in attendence. It was very relaxing and at the same time a great way to come and take rest in God.
April 13th:
My birthday-my birthday was great! My parents found a local bakery that delivered a cake to me. Then Melissa took me out to lunch. Later, after hanging out with Melissa, we and several other friends headed to an Italian restaurant. I brought my cake with me and when I got to the restaurant they took the cake from me and put it in the refrigerator. After we were done eating, the people at the restaurant brought out my cake and sung me happy birthday, however my parents put one of my nicknames on the cake, one nickname that my RI friends did not know, so when the whole restaurant broke out in song for me through that nickname, we all burst out laughing. It was great!
Later on the next week, I found a car, a 1999 Honda Accord and bought it. Now I'm trying to figure out the whole registration scene for it. I think I have it down and should be registering it in the next week or so hopefully.
I also got the whole apartment scene figured out! God works in mysterious ways! I had found this 2 bedroom apartment on the 2nd floor in a good area. I put down a deposit on it and things went through and I was supposed to move in May 1st. I was working through an agent and at the last minute, the apartment was pulled out from under me. My agent was upset with the landlord for this and the landlord offered us his way nicer 1st floor and my agent managed to get the rent knocked down a tad. So I have a nice 2 bedroom apartment with 2 other fun loving roommates so things should be good! I get to hopefully move in May 27th! So excited! That's 2 days away! I've been staying at a friend's apartment as I moved out of the dorms on May 16th. Which closes the dorm chapter of my life!
School was a very difficult trimester for me with this past one. My classes all were very challenging for me. I had one class that had 40% of the grade be a project that we all each spent about 20-60 hours on and another 20% of that class' grade was the final. The project was first researching a city from a random state that we drew out of a hat (the professor threw Idaho out, I couldn't believe it!). I got Colorado and chose Denver as my destination city. Then we again drew out of a hat and got a corporation, association or non profit group to plan and organize a 3 night/4 day convention for in the city that we research. I got Boeing, which was great for me because I love airplanes. Another class that was difficult for me was macroeconomics just because I had a hard time grasping and memorizing concepts. I also was challenged in my advanced English class with having a teacher who disliked God and presented me with a lot of challenges/conflicts upon my own personal views.
My friends here are amazing! I have most definitely a wonderful family out here of all sorts of random people that manage to find me! I do not know what I would do without my friends here, they mean a lot to me and we all teach each other things everyday. It's amazing to see everyone's different managing styles and lifestyles. Because truly, we all having an amazing and unique story to share, of how we were brought up and how that in turn makes each of us very different!
I was also presented with the challenge of having chronic back pain. I have had consistent back pain everyday since mid-April and off and on from at least March. I did go to the hospital one night that it was so bad and they took x-rays and said nothing was wrong. They gave me a prescription to pain killers. With my luck, I was allergic to that and my whole body broke out in a rash (2 of my friends put me on a no scratch rule lol and me and another made the scratch club.....haha). I hunted around and found a back specialist who was 2 weeks out. I made the appointment and waited anxiously for it. As nothing was helping my pain at this point, not even vicaden (my friends love me on that because it makes me really talkative and takes me for a ride down memory lane). I had the appointment and the doctor was like well I do not really see anything wrong with the x-rays so you can do physical therapy or whatever treatment method and here's a prescription.....I was kind of frusterated and this was almost my breaking point with the pain....luckily the prescription helped with the pain and it has gone down a tad but I'm fearful that my body is getting used to it now.
Let's see, random fun times:
~Playing hand and foot (an awesome, crazy card game) or various other games with Carrie who is an awesome friend to have around. She is very understanding especially with me and all my crazy moods!
~Going on random adventures with Alissa (one of my future roomies) to who knows where! Which is always a blast! Alissa cracks me up, you never know what comment or random thing she's going to say or do next!
~Hanging out with Melissa...which is always fun! Melissa helps me out so much with so many things and she is like a sister to me! I can't wait to tear up the upcoming months with having her for a roomie.
~Haha! Running around downtown Providence from midnight on and ending up at a 24 hour IHOP only to get home at 3:30am/4am!
~Walking down the WRONG street on the WRONG side of town and almost getting picked up because some guy thought I was a hooker(yeppers, I learned my lesson) because I missed the bus by accident. Yeah, I was doing a church thing at the rescue mission and I missed the bus and decided to walk to the mission, whoops, not a smart idea!
~I know there are so many more.........haha I guess you'll have to wait and hear them from me!
Another cool/important things before I end....I am going to be a Missions Leader for the college aged church group that I am involved with. My job will be to present a general awareness of missions and mission needs including prayer for places around the world as well as helping to coordinate spring break mission trips.
Well, that about sums it up! I'll be seeing a lot of you come June 2nd! We can really tear things up then!
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Life is crazy!
Well, yes I know it's been forever since I've posted my last blog! I've somehow been crazy busy!
Classes are going okay for me this trimester, and I cannot believe that I only have like 5 more weeks of school left until summer!!! Speaking of summer, I just went to the summer job fair with my school, I turned in a few apps, had 1 interview, and I just recently got a job offer. Not sure how thing are going to pan out but we'll see, sometimes things just take patience although its difficult.
I just recently started trying to find a part time job to fit into my schedule now to keep me busy until summer hits. Not sure yet where I'll be working.
I'm working on getting over a whole yucky mess of sickness including yet not limited to a double ear infection and bronchitis. Never had bronchitis before so that was an adventure.
As most people know at this point but I'm including it for clarification, Corey and I broke up about a month ago. It was a great first relationship and I learned a lot of things in general for any future relationships I may have with people.
Other than that, I've just been running around, busy with school, finding a job, getting an apartment, being sick, going to church, growing in God's word, and being sick. This weekend, I'm looking forward to heading up to Freedom, New Hampshire for a spring retreat with college students from all over the New England area! It should be lots of fun!
Classes are going okay for me this trimester, and I cannot believe that I only have like 5 more weeks of school left until summer!!! Speaking of summer, I just went to the summer job fair with my school, I turned in a few apps, had 1 interview, and I just recently got a job offer. Not sure how thing are going to pan out but we'll see, sometimes things just take patience although its difficult.
I just recently started trying to find a part time job to fit into my schedule now to keep me busy until summer hits. Not sure yet where I'll be working.
I'm working on getting over a whole yucky mess of sickness including yet not limited to a double ear infection and bronchitis. Never had bronchitis before so that was an adventure.
As most people know at this point but I'm including it for clarification, Corey and I broke up about a month ago. It was a great first relationship and I learned a lot of things in general for any future relationships I may have with people.
Other than that, I've just been running around, busy with school, finding a job, getting an apartment, being sick, going to church, growing in God's word, and being sick. This weekend, I'm looking forward to heading up to Freedom, New Hampshire for a spring retreat with college students from all over the New England area! It should be lots of fun!
Monday, March 17, 2008
Start of Week 3, 3rd Trimester!
So I had a pretty good weekend, it was long though at times. On Thursday night, I hung out with my good friend, Carrie, we went shopping and played some board games. It was enjoyable and relaxing, a great way to take a load off the week!
Friday was Relay for Life! Relay for Life started at 6pm and ended at 6am. It is a 12 hour fundraising event for cancer and it was so long and at night because cancer never sleeps! It was located in the rec center at my school with almost 400 people, we walked laps around the gym all night and did various other activities. It was a lot of fun and I was team captain and managed to get 8 people on my team from Christian Student Fellowship and from school in general. Also, leading up to the event and during the event, luminaria bags could be purchased in honor or memory of someone then during the event the luminaria bags had glow sticks placed in them and were placed around the gym. Melissa gave her story of why she relays to the whole crowd then we walked laps around the luminaria bags. It was definitely a touching moment because everyone has been affected by cancer in a loved one of some way. After the event was over, I helped Melissa who was on the committee for it, clean up but I was definitely tired! I went to bed at 7am and woke up at noon then caught lunch with Melissa and together we went shopping and hung out. Then on Sunday, I had church and hung with friends then cleaned up my room.
Classes have been going well. They are just challenging and somewhat boring at the moment and I'm trying my best with them!
These are the classes I have:
Career Planning
This is the second course in a series of three career management courses that students will participate in at the University. Students will further enhance their knowledge of career management topics such as career planning strategies, industry/segment exploration, experiential education options, job search techniques and skill development. Students will continue to use the Best Fit Career Management System as a resource and guide as they explore their options and work toward Best Fit Employment.
Macroeconomics
This course is designated as the first of two courses serving as an introduction to economics. It is a survey course covering the foundations of economics and focusing on macroeconomic concepts and issues such as the features and goals of capitalism, the market system, national income, business cycles, macroeconomic theories, and monetary and fiscal policy.
Advanced Composition and Communication
This course is a continuation of ENG1020 English Composition. Building on the research and audience skills from ENG1020, students develop more complex and rhetorically advanced papers. All work, written and oral, is aimed at persuading an audience, and instruction begins with the essential components of a logically constructed and articulated argument. Critical thinking skills are reinforced throughout the course, as students develop, peer critique, and present projects to the class. Research and MLA skills are expected of students, and all projects require research from a variety of sources. At the end of the course, in addition to a final exam, students present a representative portfolio of their writing.
Hospitality Information Technology
This is an introductory course in information systems in the hospitality industry. This course focuses on property management systems, Internet/Intranet systems and other forms of technology.
Hospitality Sales and Meeting Management
This course familiarizes students with the scope of sales and meeting management within the hospitality industry. The reciprocal relationship between selling and service is presented within the context of hospitality marketing practices.
So those are my classes and I have 18.5 credits in all. I hope everyone has a great week!
Friday was Relay for Life! Relay for Life started at 6pm and ended at 6am. It is a 12 hour fundraising event for cancer and it was so long and at night because cancer never sleeps! It was located in the rec center at my school with almost 400 people, we walked laps around the gym all night and did various other activities. It was a lot of fun and I was team captain and managed to get 8 people on my team from Christian Student Fellowship and from school in general. Also, leading up to the event and during the event, luminaria bags could be purchased in honor or memory of someone then during the event the luminaria bags had glow sticks placed in them and were placed around the gym. Melissa gave her story of why she relays to the whole crowd then we walked laps around the luminaria bags. It was definitely a touching moment because everyone has been affected by cancer in a loved one of some way. After the event was over, I helped Melissa who was on the committee for it, clean up but I was definitely tired! I went to bed at 7am and woke up at noon then caught lunch with Melissa and together we went shopping and hung out. Then on Sunday, I had church and hung with friends then cleaned up my room.
Classes have been going well. They are just challenging and somewhat boring at the moment and I'm trying my best with them!
These are the classes I have:
Career Planning
This is the second course in a series of three career management courses that students will participate in at the University. Students will further enhance their knowledge of career management topics such as career planning strategies, industry/segment exploration, experiential education options, job search techniques and skill development. Students will continue to use the Best Fit Career Management System as a resource and guide as they explore their options and work toward Best Fit Employment.
Macroeconomics
This course is designated as the first of two courses serving as an introduction to economics. It is a survey course covering the foundations of economics and focusing on macroeconomic concepts and issues such as the features and goals of capitalism, the market system, national income, business cycles, macroeconomic theories, and monetary and fiscal policy.
Advanced Composition and Communication
This course is a continuation of ENG1020 English Composition. Building on the research and audience skills from ENG1020, students develop more complex and rhetorically advanced papers. All work, written and oral, is aimed at persuading an audience, and instruction begins with the essential components of a logically constructed and articulated argument. Critical thinking skills are reinforced throughout the course, as students develop, peer critique, and present projects to the class. Research and MLA skills are expected of students, and all projects require research from a variety of sources. At the end of the course, in addition to a final exam, students present a representative portfolio of their writing.
Hospitality Information Technology
This is an introductory course in information systems in the hospitality industry. This course focuses on property management systems, Internet/Intranet systems and other forms of technology.
Hospitality Sales and Meeting Management
This course familiarizes students with the scope of sales and meeting management within the hospitality industry. The reciprocal relationship between selling and service is presented within the context of hospitality marketing practices.
So those are my classes and I have 18.5 credits in all. I hope everyone has a great week!
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
RUSSIA & 3rd Trimester!!!!
WHEW! It's been like forever since I've updated my blog! I'm sorry, I've been so busy with everything, life has been crazy busy!
So I'll start off with Russia, because I'm sure that's where everyone wants to me start ;)
Friday February 22nd (Day 1) of our trip, we wake up to a snow storm happening outside. This causes some issues due to the fact that we are departing from Boston and not Providence, so we rush to get everyone together and hop on a train from Providence to Boston instead of having people drive us to the airport. We get through security and everything fine and have a few hours to wait now at the airport. I believe we got there around 4pm and our flight left at 7pm. Lucky for me, I brought the game of Catch Phrase which we all played for a while (it sure does come in handy when traveling with groups of people, I must say!). Our flight was only delayed by like 45min so we all get on the plane. There are 8 of us, 6 girls, a guy and my pastor. On our first flight which was set up 2 by 4 by 2 seating in the rows, we got 2 sets of 4 for seating which was great but we ended up sitting on the tarmac for 2-3 hours waiting our turn to leave. Then our flight was 6 hours long or so and we got to Amsterdam and missed our connection. Thankfully, praise God! that another flight was headed towards Moscow in a half hour and we were lucky to catch it. Now, flying out of Amsterdam is crazy because you have to go through security again! We made it into Moscow, and headed through customs. You were not allowed to speak or smile when handing your passport to the Russian official, my roommate, Allison, and I were the only 2 out of 8 that had not been to Russia before. We get through customs and hurry off to go find our bags. Someone had already picked up one of ours that we had to go steal back and then of course, Pastor Andy's bag never left Amsterdam and he was assured that it would be put on the next flight to Nizhny Novogard which was our destination city. A tour guide and driver and van picked us up and took us to this nice restaurant for dinner. It was like family style and there was a wedding reception going on as well. By the way, at this point, it is officially Saturday evening because Moscow is 8 hours ahead of RI and for you Idahoans, thats 10 hours and for you Californians, thats 11 hours! After dinner, we headed to the train station and got on an overnight train. We had sleeping cars that slept 4 people each. We got in and everyone pretty much crashed.
Sunday morning around 7am, we arrive in Nizhny and get picked up by our host family with a van and car, much to everyone in the van's delight (teehee), the van had no seats in the back and instead had dining chairs that were not bolted to the ground. This provided much entertainment. The 8 of us were staying at a church dorm/hostel with the 6 girls in 1 room and the 2 guys in the other. Sunday mainly consisted of us going to 2 different church services and having fellowship with youth there. It was a great start to the week!
The rest of the week, we visited various schools and a dorm to give presentations on what life in America is like and what college life in America is like. At the end of the presentation, students were allowed to ask us various questions and that was quite entertaining. Then we invited the students to a church party that we were going to have that Friday. Our main focus for the week was to establish a relationship between the students and the few churches there. Our interpreter also taught an English class and we made 2 special visits to that class and did some exercises and interacting with the students like acting out popular Russian phrases and English phrases, picking apart the meanings of crazy sayings and other fun language activities.
On Thursday, we made a special trip to a nearby town about 1-2 hours away. This town, that starts with a Z and sounds like Zavuljah (def not spelled that way though), was the town that the past years mission team had stayed in and there was a special church family there that was in the process of building a church and it was amazing to see what progress they had done on it!
Another activity we did a lot was that we had about 50 4 x 6 cards with pictures on them of like various landscapes, people settings, and other various life applying things on them and we had students pick out cards in answer to our questions and had them explain. This activity is called Solarium and opens up people to deeper conversations and leads conversations to talking about God. So this activity was pretty fun.
One student/woman that was about 32 or so had invited us to her "flat" for lunch one afternoon. So part of our group went. She lived in a town about 1-2 hours away by bus. She had a lovely lunch laid out for us with various salads and amazing desserts. She also made her own wine and "juices" and had us try her gooseberry juice. I'll tell you one thing, it wasn't juice! We all laughed about that for a while and it was an amazing cultural experience to see how someone would live. This woman lived alone which is unusual and she had a garden and grew most of her vegetables and pickled/canned them for the winter months.
Some of the funny things about Russia....? Well, first toilets are quite entertaining over there! You never know what you are going to get to use! Plus, you often times have to pay about 50 cents to get about 1 square of toilet paper to go in a hole! That's right! A hole! Another thing, public transportation. We mainly used this method to get around (pictures to come) and we would get on a bus and it was jam packed!!! Wall to wall people, no use holding on, we were squeezed in tight enough there! Everyday we ate most of our meals in the church kitchen with a older Russian lady. Since it is winter, most of our meals consisted of soup and then something else such as barley and beef or pasta and chicken or a salad. However, with every meal we ate tons and tons of cabbage, by the end of the trip, we were all cabbaged out!
The weather was not too bad, actually it was the first time anyone in my group really saw the ground in Russia since the snow was melting. It made everything really icy and several of us made good habits of falling! Yes, that would include me with my amazing ability of having no balance! I enjoyed providing entertainment though to my fellow friends and Russians!
One little problem we encounted in the middle of our trip was that one of our team members encounted a kidney stone problem and got to experience a Russian hospital (oh fun!!).
Friday evening, we took the overnight train back to Moscow and spent Saturday touring around Moscow with 3 missionaries, 1 of whom was from El Paso, Texas and another was from Las Cruces, New Mexico, places that I had just visited last year! We spent Saturday night at Hotel Cosmos which was a hotel built in 1979 for the French for when the Olympics came. It was a nice hotel.
It was pretty smooth traveling heading home and we didn't really have any problems, thankfully. Overall, the trip was amazing and I had a blast and I definitely learned a lot about myself and got a deeper understanding of the European lifestyle. There really aren't enough words to describe all the feelings that I got out of Russia.
Jet lag was entertaining to experience and definitely took a few days to get used to. I'm already almost done with my second week of my 3rd trimester at school. Time is just flying by like crazy! In my next posting (which will be this weekend, promise), I'll tell what classes I'm in and other things that have been happening in my life!
Hope everyone is doing well!
So I'll start off with Russia, because I'm sure that's where everyone wants to me start ;)
Friday February 22nd (Day 1) of our trip, we wake up to a snow storm happening outside. This causes some issues due to the fact that we are departing from Boston and not Providence, so we rush to get everyone together and hop on a train from Providence to Boston instead of having people drive us to the airport. We get through security and everything fine and have a few hours to wait now at the airport. I believe we got there around 4pm and our flight left at 7pm. Lucky for me, I brought the game of Catch Phrase which we all played for a while (it sure does come in handy when traveling with groups of people, I must say!). Our flight was only delayed by like 45min so we all get on the plane. There are 8 of us, 6 girls, a guy and my pastor. On our first flight which was set up 2 by 4 by 2 seating in the rows, we got 2 sets of 4 for seating which was great but we ended up sitting on the tarmac for 2-3 hours waiting our turn to leave. Then our flight was 6 hours long or so and we got to Amsterdam and missed our connection. Thankfully, praise God! that another flight was headed towards Moscow in a half hour and we were lucky to catch it. Now, flying out of Amsterdam is crazy because you have to go through security again! We made it into Moscow, and headed through customs. You were not allowed to speak or smile when handing your passport to the Russian official, my roommate, Allison, and I were the only 2 out of 8 that had not been to Russia before. We get through customs and hurry off to go find our bags. Someone had already picked up one of ours that we had to go steal back and then of course, Pastor Andy's bag never left Amsterdam and he was assured that it would be put on the next flight to Nizhny Novogard which was our destination city. A tour guide and driver and van picked us up and took us to this nice restaurant for dinner. It was like family style and there was a wedding reception going on as well. By the way, at this point, it is officially Saturday evening because Moscow is 8 hours ahead of RI and for you Idahoans, thats 10 hours and for you Californians, thats 11 hours! After dinner, we headed to the train station and got on an overnight train. We had sleeping cars that slept 4 people each. We got in and everyone pretty much crashed.
Sunday morning around 7am, we arrive in Nizhny and get picked up by our host family with a van and car, much to everyone in the van's delight (teehee), the van had no seats in the back and instead had dining chairs that were not bolted to the ground. This provided much entertainment. The 8 of us were staying at a church dorm/hostel with the 6 girls in 1 room and the 2 guys in the other. Sunday mainly consisted of us going to 2 different church services and having fellowship with youth there. It was a great start to the week!
The rest of the week, we visited various schools and a dorm to give presentations on what life in America is like and what college life in America is like. At the end of the presentation, students were allowed to ask us various questions and that was quite entertaining. Then we invited the students to a church party that we were going to have that Friday. Our main focus for the week was to establish a relationship between the students and the few churches there. Our interpreter also taught an English class and we made 2 special visits to that class and did some exercises and interacting with the students like acting out popular Russian phrases and English phrases, picking apart the meanings of crazy sayings and other fun language activities.
On Thursday, we made a special trip to a nearby town about 1-2 hours away. This town, that starts with a Z and sounds like Zavuljah (def not spelled that way though), was the town that the past years mission team had stayed in and there was a special church family there that was in the process of building a church and it was amazing to see what progress they had done on it!
Another activity we did a lot was that we had about 50 4 x 6 cards with pictures on them of like various landscapes, people settings, and other various life applying things on them and we had students pick out cards in answer to our questions and had them explain. This activity is called Solarium and opens up people to deeper conversations and leads conversations to talking about God. So this activity was pretty fun.
One student/woman that was about 32 or so had invited us to her "flat" for lunch one afternoon. So part of our group went. She lived in a town about 1-2 hours away by bus. She had a lovely lunch laid out for us with various salads and amazing desserts. She also made her own wine and "juices" and had us try her gooseberry juice. I'll tell you one thing, it wasn't juice! We all laughed about that for a while and it was an amazing cultural experience to see how someone would live. This woman lived alone which is unusual and she had a garden and grew most of her vegetables and pickled/canned them for the winter months.
Some of the funny things about Russia....? Well, first toilets are quite entertaining over there! You never know what you are going to get to use! Plus, you often times have to pay about 50 cents to get about 1 square of toilet paper to go in a hole! That's right! A hole! Another thing, public transportation. We mainly used this method to get around (pictures to come) and we would get on a bus and it was jam packed!!! Wall to wall people, no use holding on, we were squeezed in tight enough there! Everyday we ate most of our meals in the church kitchen with a older Russian lady. Since it is winter, most of our meals consisted of soup and then something else such as barley and beef or pasta and chicken or a salad. However, with every meal we ate tons and tons of cabbage, by the end of the trip, we were all cabbaged out!
The weather was not too bad, actually it was the first time anyone in my group really saw the ground in Russia since the snow was melting. It made everything really icy and several of us made good habits of falling! Yes, that would include me with my amazing ability of having no balance! I enjoyed providing entertainment though to my fellow friends and Russians!
One little problem we encounted in the middle of our trip was that one of our team members encounted a kidney stone problem and got to experience a Russian hospital (oh fun!!).
Friday evening, we took the overnight train back to Moscow and spent Saturday touring around Moscow with 3 missionaries, 1 of whom was from El Paso, Texas and another was from Las Cruces, New Mexico, places that I had just visited last year! We spent Saturday night at Hotel Cosmos which was a hotel built in 1979 for the French for when the Olympics came. It was a nice hotel.
It was pretty smooth traveling heading home and we didn't really have any problems, thankfully. Overall, the trip was amazing and I had a blast and I definitely learned a lot about myself and got a deeper understanding of the European lifestyle. There really aren't enough words to describe all the feelings that I got out of Russia.
Jet lag was entertaining to experience and definitely took a few days to get used to. I'm already almost done with my second week of my 3rd trimester at school. Time is just flying by like crazy! In my next posting (which will be this weekend, promise), I'll tell what classes I'm in and other things that have been happening in my life!
Hope everyone is doing well!
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Life is crazy but good, right?
It has almost been 2 weeks since I have last updated, after talking to some people, most like a long version of the blog and a few like the short version, so here is a long version, if you want the short version, email me.
So I left off pretty much around superbowl weekend. I have been so busy with life and just working on trying to grow up to be the woman that God wants me to be!
First, there has been a huge addition and change in my life and that is my awesome friend, Jacqui, who means a lot to me even though we've only been friends for 2 weeks, I know she is going to be a lifelong friend, she means so much to me already! We get together every night and read the Bible together and discuss what we have just read and basically have our own little Bible study. We also talk about our days and making sure that the other is doing ok and not having any problems with anything. She lives in my dorm so its awesome to have her close by, haha not to mention we keep each other in line for all the crazy things we do and all that mischeif that we get into!
Life has been pretty busy for me. I am getting ready to head into a week of finals then on Friday I will be departing off to Russia. I will make sure and squeeze in another blog posting before I head off to Russia though.
Classes this trimester have been really difficult and I have started to become a little burned out feeling with my really full course load. I made sure to drop a class for next trimester so I can take things easy and possibly seek out a job!
A recap of my classes from 2nd trimester:
Hospitality Accounting-learned all the basic fundamentals of accounting with restaurants and hotels from doing daily cash reports, to creating various income statements and balance sheets, balancing a checkbook and knowing what to expect with errors on it, and various other fun things! This class has been difficult for me with all the stuff to memorize and all the right patterns and formulas.
Hospitality Law-there are so many things involved with running a hotel or restaurant, that it is crazy! There are so many technical terms and little details that it is really hard to remember all these things! This class was also a really difficult class for me!
Career Management-this class was a simple time consuming class where I created a version of my college resume and learned about job networking and other various career based things.
Marine Biology-this class was jam packed of lectures and lots of notes to be taken! Along with various nature films, some things were very fascinating to learn about and who knew that there was so much to be found in the ocean! This class was moderate for me and just challenged me when I had to learn all the special species names and phylum names for critters!
Front Office Operations-this class was all about how to operate a front desk of a hotel! I learned how to use one of the various check in/check out reservation computer programs, I learned how to do night audit (where a person closes all the accounts for the day and balances things out) and hotel forecasting (planning on how full your hotel will be and getting the best occupancy percentage possible) along with basic understanding of various areas in the hotel. This class contained a big project of creating your own full service hotel and creating a theme for it. I did mine based on a Jungle theme with exotic tree house rooms overlooking a jungle.
Guest Service Systems-this class was all about writing papers based off the teachers lectures. The teacher was a very colorful teacher and brought various teaching methods into his lectures which made things entertaining at times and you never knew what to expect from the teacher based upon all his various moods!
So other than taking those 6 classes, I also participated in a few clubs. I am in Club Manager's Association of America which deals with clubs such as country clubs, yacht clubs, art clubs etc. and I am co-secretary for this club.
I also am in Christian Student Fellowship and we have our weekly Tuesday Night Truth (TNT) meetings which are great since it is filled with worship, fellowship with fellow brothers and sisters in Christ and an awesome message presented by Pastor Andy!
Other highlights of my weeks are going to church on Sunday mornings followed by lunch at the mall foodcourt! Also, group lunches on Tuesdays and Thursdays with Pastor Andy, Melissa, Dan, Corey and anyone else we can find that happens to be downtown at the right time!
Since I am so busy, I can hardly remember all the key things that have been happening but here are some key events from the past couple of weeks!
I was happen to be blessed with the opportunity to go to a monthly event called Mug and Muffin which is where all the ladies of my church gather together to go over a book of the Bible. For the month of January, we went over the book of 1 Peter. 1 Peter is an amazing book of the Bible and really touched me! I would highly recommend reading it and so far it is one of my favorite books of the Bible!
Another fun thing is when Melissa, Corey and I all get together and head to the store to buy dinner fixings then we head to someone's house and make dinner together then watch a movie together! It is great fun and quite entertaining!
Valentine's Day was great as this was my first Valentine's with a special someone! We went to dinner and the movies. We saw the movie Definitely Maybe which is a good chick flick presented from a guy's point of view. Corey got me flowers and chocolate. He is so good to me and it amazes me as how he always manages to know how to make me smile, he sure does know how to turn my bad days into good ones!
My roommate situation has worked out really well, I am starting to become good friends with Allison and we already have a lot of special memories of crazy things that we have done together! My other roommate have a real basic relationship which is fine.
I'm sure there are plenty of other things, but that is all for now and I'll be sure to post another update right before I head off to Russia! I hope everyone is doing great and I hope everyone has had a great month so far! Please, I would love to hear from you and to hear what's new with you and how things are going! Take care everyone & God bless!
So I left off pretty much around superbowl weekend. I have been so busy with life and just working on trying to grow up to be the woman that God wants me to be!
First, there has been a huge addition and change in my life and that is my awesome friend, Jacqui, who means a lot to me even though we've only been friends for 2 weeks, I know she is going to be a lifelong friend, she means so much to me already! We get together every night and read the Bible together and discuss what we have just read and basically have our own little Bible study. We also talk about our days and making sure that the other is doing ok and not having any problems with anything. She lives in my dorm so its awesome to have her close by, haha not to mention we keep each other in line for all the crazy things we do and all that mischeif that we get into!
Life has been pretty busy for me. I am getting ready to head into a week of finals then on Friday I will be departing off to Russia. I will make sure and squeeze in another blog posting before I head off to Russia though.
Classes this trimester have been really difficult and I have started to become a little burned out feeling with my really full course load. I made sure to drop a class for next trimester so I can take things easy and possibly seek out a job!
A recap of my classes from 2nd trimester:
Hospitality Accounting-learned all the basic fundamentals of accounting with restaurants and hotels from doing daily cash reports, to creating various income statements and balance sheets, balancing a checkbook and knowing what to expect with errors on it, and various other fun things! This class has been difficult for me with all the stuff to memorize and all the right patterns and formulas.
Hospitality Law-there are so many things involved with running a hotel or restaurant, that it is crazy! There are so many technical terms and little details that it is really hard to remember all these things! This class was also a really difficult class for me!
Career Management-this class was a simple time consuming class where I created a version of my college resume and learned about job networking and other various career based things.
Marine Biology-this class was jam packed of lectures and lots of notes to be taken! Along with various nature films, some things were very fascinating to learn about and who knew that there was so much to be found in the ocean! This class was moderate for me and just challenged me when I had to learn all the special species names and phylum names for critters!
Front Office Operations-this class was all about how to operate a front desk of a hotel! I learned how to use one of the various check in/check out reservation computer programs, I learned how to do night audit (where a person closes all the accounts for the day and balances things out) and hotel forecasting (planning on how full your hotel will be and getting the best occupancy percentage possible) along with basic understanding of various areas in the hotel. This class contained a big project of creating your own full service hotel and creating a theme for it. I did mine based on a Jungle theme with exotic tree house rooms overlooking a jungle.
Guest Service Systems-this class was all about writing papers based off the teachers lectures. The teacher was a very colorful teacher and brought various teaching methods into his lectures which made things entertaining at times and you never knew what to expect from the teacher based upon all his various moods!
So other than taking those 6 classes, I also participated in a few clubs. I am in Club Manager's Association of America which deals with clubs such as country clubs, yacht clubs, art clubs etc. and I am co-secretary for this club.
I also am in Christian Student Fellowship and we have our weekly Tuesday Night Truth (TNT) meetings which are great since it is filled with worship, fellowship with fellow brothers and sisters in Christ and an awesome message presented by Pastor Andy!
Other highlights of my weeks are going to church on Sunday mornings followed by lunch at the mall foodcourt! Also, group lunches on Tuesdays and Thursdays with Pastor Andy, Melissa, Dan, Corey and anyone else we can find that happens to be downtown at the right time!
Since I am so busy, I can hardly remember all the key things that have been happening but here are some key events from the past couple of weeks!
I was happen to be blessed with the opportunity to go to a monthly event called Mug and Muffin which is where all the ladies of my church gather together to go over a book of the Bible. For the month of January, we went over the book of 1 Peter. 1 Peter is an amazing book of the Bible and really touched me! I would highly recommend reading it and so far it is one of my favorite books of the Bible!
Another fun thing is when Melissa, Corey and I all get together and head to the store to buy dinner fixings then we head to someone's house and make dinner together then watch a movie together! It is great fun and quite entertaining!
Valentine's Day was great as this was my first Valentine's with a special someone! We went to dinner and the movies. We saw the movie Definitely Maybe which is a good chick flick presented from a guy's point of view. Corey got me flowers and chocolate. He is so good to me and it amazes me as how he always manages to know how to make me smile, he sure does know how to turn my bad days into good ones!
My roommate situation has worked out really well, I am starting to become good friends with Allison and we already have a lot of special memories of crazy things that we have done together! My other roommate have a real basic relationship which is fine.
I'm sure there are plenty of other things, but that is all for now and I'll be sure to post another update right before I head off to Russia! I hope everyone is doing great and I hope everyone has had a great month so far! Please, I would love to hear from you and to hear what's new with you and how things are going! Take care everyone & God bless!
Monday, February 4, 2008
Superbowl Weekend Update!
Yep! The Pats just lost to the Giants. I just got home from a great superbowl party full of college age friends and other amazing people at my pastor's house. My pastor and his family are such wonderful people and I'm truly blessed to know them!
I have been so busy lately, I've barely had time to eat and sleep! There is only 2 weeks of classes left before finals, teachers are giving out big, fat projects that require a lot of work and research and often times a lot of work with groups.
I just got over being sick, at least everyone had it at once, apparently here in Providence for the public school system, they give the elementary school students a week off in February for the students to be separated and to let the schools air out because everyone gets so sick.
Some highlights from my week?
Spending time with my guy...hanging with great friends and taking crazy bus trips (what would I do without public transportation!?)...running around Wal-Mart trying to kill an hour because of bus schedules by chasing fellow friends with stuffed animals (haha who let 3 crazy girls loose)...getting lost in a tiny town of Middletown, Rhode Island....and so many more!
I hope everyone had a great week and I'll try to keep you guys updated!
I have been so busy lately, I've barely had time to eat and sleep! There is only 2 weeks of classes left before finals, teachers are giving out big, fat projects that require a lot of work and research and often times a lot of work with groups.
I just got over being sick, at least everyone had it at once, apparently here in Providence for the public school system, they give the elementary school students a week off in February for the students to be separated and to let the schools air out because everyone gets so sick.
Some highlights from my week?
Spending time with my guy...hanging with great friends and taking crazy bus trips (what would I do without public transportation!?)...running around Wal-Mart trying to kill an hour because of bus schedules by chasing fellow friends with stuffed animals (haha who let 3 crazy girls loose)...getting lost in a tiny town of Middletown, Rhode Island....and so many more!
I hope everyone had a great week and I'll try to keep you guys updated!
Sunday, January 27, 2008
The Last 10 Days or So
Ok, I have been conflicting stories from people about the length of my blog. So I will start writing shorter blogs and if you want more details or more in depth info or a long version, just email me and I'll get back to ya!
So I left off waaayy back! I had a great 4 day weekend (thanks to Martin Luther King Day along with my usual Friday off). Saturday was fun with a game night at my friend's house, there were about 10 of us and we played Catch Phrase and Cranium, it was a great time for all of us to be together and just relax. Sunday was interesting because I had the opportunity to talk to Corey's parents and he got the same opportunity to talk to mine and we set up a time to meet his parents for the following week. His parents seemed like nice people and I was eager to meet them! Monday (no school), I hung out with Corey and then along with Dan too during the evening after he got off work. We had a great time playing Scrabble, I do not think I have really played that game before but it was fun!
Tuesday was a crazy day because my classes were following Monday's schedule so that took a moment to get used to, my Monday schedule is way more relaxed then my Tuesday's schedule so it was almost nice to have Mon-Wed-Thurs week of classes. It was definitely a tough week at school with several midterms and term papers along with a various mix of other lovely homework.
Friday was my friend's birthday (Melissa). A bunch of us threw together a surprise party for her and it was my job to bring her. I had struggles in getting Melissa to go to dinner with me which was understandable because she wanted to hang with more people but it worked and she was surprised! After dinner, 4 of us headed off to the movies to see 27 Dresses which was a great chick flick!
Saturday was kind of a big day for me as I was meeting Corey's parents. We met them at this nice little pizzeria on Federal Hill. They are really nice and funny people that are easy to get along with. It was a pleasant and humorous afternoon and I definitely enjoyed meeting them! After that, I headed to Carrie's house to hang out since both our guys were out at this wrestling event. I love hanging out with Carrie! I can be my complete crazy self around her!
Life has been crazy and jam packed and full of adventure and I'm trying to take it all one day at a time! So farewell until the next post!
So I left off waaayy back! I had a great 4 day weekend (thanks to Martin Luther King Day along with my usual Friday off). Saturday was fun with a game night at my friend's house, there were about 10 of us and we played Catch Phrase and Cranium, it was a great time for all of us to be together and just relax. Sunday was interesting because I had the opportunity to talk to Corey's parents and he got the same opportunity to talk to mine and we set up a time to meet his parents for the following week. His parents seemed like nice people and I was eager to meet them! Monday (no school), I hung out with Corey and then along with Dan too during the evening after he got off work. We had a great time playing Scrabble, I do not think I have really played that game before but it was fun!
Tuesday was a crazy day because my classes were following Monday's schedule so that took a moment to get used to, my Monday schedule is way more relaxed then my Tuesday's schedule so it was almost nice to have Mon-Wed-Thurs week of classes. It was definitely a tough week at school with several midterms and term papers along with a various mix of other lovely homework.
Friday was my friend's birthday (Melissa). A bunch of us threw together a surprise party for her and it was my job to bring her. I had struggles in getting Melissa to go to dinner with me which was understandable because she wanted to hang with more people but it worked and she was surprised! After dinner, 4 of us headed off to the movies to see 27 Dresses which was a great chick flick!
Saturday was kind of a big day for me as I was meeting Corey's parents. We met them at this nice little pizzeria on Federal Hill. They are really nice and funny people that are easy to get along with. It was a pleasant and humorous afternoon and I definitely enjoyed meeting them! After that, I headed to Carrie's house to hang out since both our guys were out at this wrestling event. I love hanging out with Carrie! I can be my complete crazy self around her!
Life has been crazy and jam packed and full of adventure and I'm trying to take it all one day at a time! So farewell until the next post!
Friday, January 18, 2008
My Not So Crazy Week!
After having a 4 day weekend, I do have to admit that I was reluctant at starting my week! However, I do have to say that I'm sorry but this week may sound kind of dull so I'll make sure to make it short!
Tuesday's classes were normal and typical, I had a great lunch with friends, that always makes my day better. I had my college aged church as well on Tuesday night and one of my dear friends, Kendra, is moving away from Providence to go start a new job! Since Kendra was leaving, a group of us found reason to go out for a late night dinner and we did that. Which was was a lot fun!
I love Wednesdays because its the day I get to have lunch with Corey after my three classes and we always make lunch last a long time then we walk around downtown and run into friends.
Thursday was pretty much the same as every other Thursday, I had lunch with Dan and it was great talking to him and getting to know him better especially since Dan and Corey are attached at the hip usually. Then I hung out with Kendra and we looked at pictures and talked, it was great fun. She is a great friend of mine and she will be missed!
As for the weekend? Who knows what it is going to hold especially since we get Monday off since its a holiday! Hope everyone has a great weekend!
Tuesday's classes were normal and typical, I had a great lunch with friends, that always makes my day better. I had my college aged church as well on Tuesday night and one of my dear friends, Kendra, is moving away from Providence to go start a new job! Since Kendra was leaving, a group of us found reason to go out for a late night dinner and we did that. Which was was a lot fun!
I love Wednesdays because its the day I get to have lunch with Corey after my three classes and we always make lunch last a long time then we walk around downtown and run into friends.
Thursday was pretty much the same as every other Thursday, I had lunch with Dan and it was great talking to him and getting to know him better especially since Dan and Corey are attached at the hip usually. Then I hung out with Kendra and we looked at pictures and talked, it was great fun. She is a great friend of mine and she will be missed!
As for the weekend? Who knows what it is going to hold especially since we get Monday off since its a holiday! Hope everyone has a great weekend!
Monday, January 14, 2008
My Weekend
This weekend was a nice, relaxing weekend to say the least!
I hung out with friends mostly through out the weekend. On Friday, me and one of my groups of friends made a little road trip up to Massachusetts to do some shopping. It was great fun.
Saturday, I took it easy and just relaxed. On Sunday, I watched some football and hung out with Corey. Then on Monday, we got a little bit of snow, just enough to make a snow day!! Which was a great added bonus to our weekend!
Yep, thats my weekend in a nutshell! It was just a nice and relaxing weekend! Hope everyone had a great weekend as well!
I hung out with friends mostly through out the weekend. On Friday, me and one of my groups of friends made a little road trip up to Massachusetts to do some shopping. It was great fun.
Saturday, I took it easy and just relaxed. On Sunday, I watched some football and hung out with Corey. Then on Monday, we got a little bit of snow, just enough to make a snow day!! Which was a great added bonus to our weekend!
Yep, thats my weekend in a nutshell! It was just a nice and relaxing weekend! Hope everyone had a great weekend as well!
Thursday, January 10, 2008
My Week!!!
I figured that I better give you all an update before I hit the weekend, otherwise this blog will get to be too long to read!
So I've been so busy I cannot even remember what day I left you guys all at! Ok, so I left off on Sunday night! Oh boy, 4 days to catch everyone up on!!!!
SO! Monday, nothing too exciting happened during the day part of it that I can really remember. I do remember that I started off with a jam packed lesson in Marine Biology and then I had 2 classes right after that! When I was all done with school, I went home and had my group project partner and friend, Betsy, come over to work on it. Then I went downtown and ate dinner with Betsy and some other friends. Then I headed over to Melissa's house and together we headed off to the supermarket to pick up some soda to take to another friend's house where we had a party for the National Championship game of college football between OSU & LSU! One friend brought 18 pounds of chicken wings!!!! There were about a dozen of us all hanging out and having a great time.
Tuesday...I had accouting where we were learning all about debits and credits! Then I met up with my friends, Nicolette and Madeline for a late breakfast. Well, we sat there so long talking, that I was able to add lunch in with some other friends: Melissa, Dan, Corey and Pastor Andy without having to leave the dining hall! Then I took this extremely hard hospitality law test (I still wondering what I got on it) and then I had my other class. After that class, I grabbed dinner with Nicolette which was so much fun! Then I headed off to college age church. We had a special guest speaker, Randy Sprinkle, who was really great! Then after church, about 6 of us all headed off to a restaurant for a late night snack and a chance to hang out! I really packed that day in!!!!
On Wednesday, after classes, I grabbed a nice lunch with Corey then we walked to go meet Nicolette who was supposed to be on the 4th floor of this building. Corey and I are in this glass elevator and we see Nicolette and Madeline in the other one right as we reach the 4th floor! I didn't hop into their elevator in enough time and watched them shoot down to the bottom. I got back into my elevator with Corey and shot down to the bottom only to watch Nicolette and Madeline shoot back up. I finally got off the elevator and by the time Nicolette and Madeline joined us, all four of us were laughing so hard. I do not think that I have ever played elevator tag before! Then, after running around downtown for a while and bumping into random friends, I headed home. By the time I got home, I had to change and go to this "Snowed in by the Fireside" vegetarian banquet for my good friend, Carrie, who had to invite 3 people to it! She did not tell me who else was going so I reluctantly went, completly not knowing what to expect at all! Lucky for me, I found my friend, Seth, heading there and together we found our other friend, Megan! It has been a long while since I ate that many vegetables at once! Seth stated that he felt his stomach sprout from all the vegetables he ate! After that, I went back to my room and worked on some things then I took a nice 2 hour nap! Then I talked to the family and went right back to bed since I was so exhausted and caught up on some much needed sleep!
Finally! We are on Thursday! I generally eat breakfast before going to classes but since I knew I was getting out of my first class early, I thought I would wait. So with my spare time, I went off to see if I could find Nicolette. Also, Nicolette and I share an accounting book so even though we do not have any classes together we have to make a huge point to connect with each other 1-3 times a day, 4 days a week! That is a great way to save money and keep in touch with friends! I find Nicolette and she tell me she does not have any more classes for the day! So after my first class, I go and grab breakfast with her. Then I headed home in hopes of taking a nap (I know I had so much sleep the night before but I still wanted my nap!). That doesn't work but I head back downtown to catch lunch with Melissa and Dan which went great! Then I had my two classes after that. Then I caught dinner with my friend, Betsy, and originally it was supposed to be just the two of us but it turned out to be pretty much the whole group of friends from McNulty along with my old roommate who showed up halfway through dinner. There was only one seat left, next to me and she sat down and things still have not really changed to say the least but that is fine especially we have both gone our own separate ways at this point. So now, here I am sitting in my dorm room, I think I am going to go hang out with Nicolette and Madeline, but who knows what the weekend is going to hold!
So I've been so busy I cannot even remember what day I left you guys all at! Ok, so I left off on Sunday night! Oh boy, 4 days to catch everyone up on!!!!
SO! Monday, nothing too exciting happened during the day part of it that I can really remember. I do remember that I started off with a jam packed lesson in Marine Biology and then I had 2 classes right after that! When I was all done with school, I went home and had my group project partner and friend, Betsy, come over to work on it. Then I went downtown and ate dinner with Betsy and some other friends. Then I headed over to Melissa's house and together we headed off to the supermarket to pick up some soda to take to another friend's house where we had a party for the National Championship game of college football between OSU & LSU! One friend brought 18 pounds of chicken wings!!!! There were about a dozen of us all hanging out and having a great time.
Tuesday...I had accouting where we were learning all about debits and credits! Then I met up with my friends, Nicolette and Madeline for a late breakfast. Well, we sat there so long talking, that I was able to add lunch in with some other friends: Melissa, Dan, Corey and Pastor Andy without having to leave the dining hall! Then I took this extremely hard hospitality law test (I still wondering what I got on it) and then I had my other class. After that class, I grabbed dinner with Nicolette which was so much fun! Then I headed off to college age church. We had a special guest speaker, Randy Sprinkle, who was really great! Then after church, about 6 of us all headed off to a restaurant for a late night snack and a chance to hang out! I really packed that day in!!!!
On Wednesday, after classes, I grabbed a nice lunch with Corey then we walked to go meet Nicolette who was supposed to be on the 4th floor of this building. Corey and I are in this glass elevator and we see Nicolette and Madeline in the other one right as we reach the 4th floor! I didn't hop into their elevator in enough time and watched them shoot down to the bottom. I got back into my elevator with Corey and shot down to the bottom only to watch Nicolette and Madeline shoot back up. I finally got off the elevator and by the time Nicolette and Madeline joined us, all four of us were laughing so hard. I do not think that I have ever played elevator tag before! Then, after running around downtown for a while and bumping into random friends, I headed home. By the time I got home, I had to change and go to this "Snowed in by the Fireside" vegetarian banquet for my good friend, Carrie, who had to invite 3 people to it! She did not tell me who else was going so I reluctantly went, completly not knowing what to expect at all! Lucky for me, I found my friend, Seth, heading there and together we found our other friend, Megan! It has been a long while since I ate that many vegetables at once! Seth stated that he felt his stomach sprout from all the vegetables he ate! After that, I went back to my room and worked on some things then I took a nice 2 hour nap! Then I talked to the family and went right back to bed since I was so exhausted and caught up on some much needed sleep!
Finally! We are on Thursday! I generally eat breakfast before going to classes but since I knew I was getting out of my first class early, I thought I would wait. So with my spare time, I went off to see if I could find Nicolette. Also, Nicolette and I share an accounting book so even though we do not have any classes together we have to make a huge point to connect with each other 1-3 times a day, 4 days a week! That is a great way to save money and keep in touch with friends! I find Nicolette and she tell me she does not have any more classes for the day! So after my first class, I go and grab breakfast with her. Then I headed home in hopes of taking a nap (I know I had so much sleep the night before but I still wanted my nap!). That doesn't work but I head back downtown to catch lunch with Melissa and Dan which went great! Then I had my two classes after that. Then I caught dinner with my friend, Betsy, and originally it was supposed to be just the two of us but it turned out to be pretty much the whole group of friends from McNulty along with my old roommate who showed up halfway through dinner. There was only one seat left, next to me and she sat down and things still have not really changed to say the least but that is fine especially we have both gone our own separate ways at this point. So now, here I am sitting in my dorm room, I think I am going to go hang out with Nicolette and Madeline, but who knows what the weekend is going to hold!
Sunday, January 6, 2008
1st Weekend Back In RI!
I had a great and smooth day of flying, just long and tiring however. I was so happy to see a familiar face at the Providence Airport waiting to pick me up. Melissa, my amazing friend and sister in Christ, picked me up and took me to her apartment where we hung out and had a great night together!
Corey, my guy, picked me up on Friday to take me back to my dorm. Its been a tad bit hard getting back into the swing of things but I'm managing good and my pain from the sledding accident is getting better everyday. Friday night, I hung out with Melissa, had a great dinner together then we ran around downtown Providence exploring things. It was so much fun learning new things. Then I capped off my night by seeing the movie Alvin & The Chipmunks which was a really cute movie!
On Saturday, I worked on catching up on my sleep. Then I went with a group of friends from my hall, West Hall to go get my roommate, Allison, from the airport. The airline left her luggage behind at JFK airport so we reluctantly went home without it. Allison and I ordered pizza and grabbed another friend to play a board game together. It was great catching up with friends again!
On Sunday, I went to church and grabbed lunch with friends. Melissa dropped Allison and I off at our dorm where I worked on organizing and unpacking some more along with doing some homework. Then I went with Melissa to go pick up our other friend Carrie from the airport. While we were at the airport, instead of doing short term parking, we were sitting in the terminal where you are required to actively load passengers. Melissa left me with the car to go find Carrie. The cop monitoring things came over and was like move the car! I said I cannot it is my friends. Melissa was not answering her phone. The cop said you have 2 minutes to move it then he went to the front of the car and got the license plate and make/model of the car. As soon as he did that, I hopped into Melissa's car and took off. I finally got ahold of her and was like um, I have your car and I'm making a loop, be back shortly. It was quite funny to say the least. Afterwards, the three of us grabbed dinner together and had a great time catching up!
I'm going to call it a night for now! School is starting again tomorrow and I have to get back into the grind! I hope everyone had a Happy New Year!!
Corey, my guy, picked me up on Friday to take me back to my dorm. Its been a tad bit hard getting back into the swing of things but I'm managing good and my pain from the sledding accident is getting better everyday. Friday night, I hung out with Melissa, had a great dinner together then we ran around downtown Providence exploring things. It was so much fun learning new things. Then I capped off my night by seeing the movie Alvin & The Chipmunks which was a really cute movie!
On Saturday, I worked on catching up on my sleep. Then I went with a group of friends from my hall, West Hall to go get my roommate, Allison, from the airport. The airline left her luggage behind at JFK airport so we reluctantly went home without it. Allison and I ordered pizza and grabbed another friend to play a board game together. It was great catching up with friends again!
On Sunday, I went to church and grabbed lunch with friends. Melissa dropped Allison and I off at our dorm where I worked on organizing and unpacking some more along with doing some homework. Then I went with Melissa to go pick up our other friend Carrie from the airport. While we were at the airport, instead of doing short term parking, we were sitting in the terminal where you are required to actively load passengers. Melissa left me with the car to go find Carrie. The cop monitoring things came over and was like move the car! I said I cannot it is my friends. Melissa was not answering her phone. The cop said you have 2 minutes to move it then he went to the front of the car and got the license plate and make/model of the car. As soon as he did that, I hopped into Melissa's car and took off. I finally got ahold of her and was like um, I have your car and I'm making a loop, be back shortly. It was quite funny to say the least. Afterwards, the three of us grabbed dinner together and had a great time catching up!
I'm going to call it a night for now! School is starting again tomorrow and I have to get back into the grind! I hope everyone had a Happy New Year!!
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
The Special Guy in My Life & Garden Valley, Idaho!
Yes! I have a boyfriend and he's great! He's from Connecticut and we met at church, what a great place to meet someone special :) I know he reads my blog so I don't want him to go too crazy with all my compliments of him, so feel free to email me if you want!
This year for New Year's, my parents, brother, and I all headed up to the mountains where we had no cell or internet communication, so peaceful to be cut off from the world. It helped even more that Idaho Power had issues on January 1st and we pretty much had no power during that whole day and night, which made it so very nice to have no technology or anything, just a family of 4 sitting and chatting, passing the time!
We rented this beautiful cabin that came with its own private pool! The pool was outside and was heated geothermally with Idaho's great natural hot springs water!! The cabin was so accommodating for our family and can accommodate up to like 12 people, so we had tons of room!!!
Of course it got really chilly in Garden Valley but we had so much fun with all the snow and the pool! We rang in the new year drinking champagne and that night, temps fell below zero degrees!! BRRR!!!!
We did so many fun things!! Like taking fun walks around surrounding cabins and making our own sledding runs! I would have to say that if you plan on making your own sledding run or using a road for one, don't use one that has a bridge or one that has a lot of road signs along it! Yeah, we had a little accident, my dad and I were going down the road on a sled together, we picked up extreme speed (15-20mph) and slide off the bridge. We both thought that we were done for at that point but God was watching out for us and let us hit a speed limit sign instead. The sled hit the sign first and split down the middle and hit me next. Just some really bad bruises and issues with walking for the next couple of weeks, but life goes on!!
Now, I'm in Boise, packing up my stuff and getting ready for flying out tomorrow, bright and early!
This year for New Year's, my parents, brother, and I all headed up to the mountains where we had no cell or internet communication, so peaceful to be cut off from the world. It helped even more that Idaho Power had issues on January 1st and we pretty much had no power during that whole day and night, which made it so very nice to have no technology or anything, just a family of 4 sitting and chatting, passing the time!
We rented this beautiful cabin that came with its own private pool! The pool was outside and was heated geothermally with Idaho's great natural hot springs water!! The cabin was so accommodating for our family and can accommodate up to like 12 people, so we had tons of room!!!
Of course it got really chilly in Garden Valley but we had so much fun with all the snow and the pool! We rang in the new year drinking champagne and that night, temps fell below zero degrees!! BRRR!!!!
We did so many fun things!! Like taking fun walks around surrounding cabins and making our own sledding runs! I would have to say that if you plan on making your own sledding run or using a road for one, don't use one that has a bridge or one that has a lot of road signs along it! Yeah, we had a little accident, my dad and I were going down the road on a sled together, we picked up extreme speed (15-20mph) and slide off the bridge. We both thought that we were done for at that point but God was watching out for us and let us hit a speed limit sign instead. The sled hit the sign first and split down the middle and hit me next. Just some really bad bruises and issues with walking for the next couple of weeks, but life goes on!!
Now, I'm in Boise, packing up my stuff and getting ready for flying out tomorrow, bright and early!
Saturday, December 29, 2007
My Time at Home
I arrived back in Boise, Idaho very late on Thursday, Dec 20th!! I was so happy to see my parents!
On Friday, I went to lunch with my two of my good friends, Camden and Scott. Thanks Camden, by the way for buying Scott and me lunch! Then later on, my cousin and his girlfriend, Tammy, flew in from Los Angeles. I haven't seen them since July, so it was great seeing them again!!!
On Saturday, I relaxed at home with my family and went to church. We came out from church and found a winter wonderland!! It had snowed like 2 inches. My friend, Jeff, came and picked me up from church and we went to his house and hung out. He is a great driver in the snow!
On Sunday, my brother flew in and my family was a complete unit again! We had a great night with a little get together at my aunts house. It was great being with family and friends and just hanging out together.
On Monday, I went to the deli to help out and later my cousin Leena flew in (yes, thats a lot of visits to the airport). Then a whole bunch of us, 12 of us to be exact, went to church and then to my aunt's house for dinner. It was my great aunt and uncle, my cousins, my aunt, my grandparents, and my family.
On Tuesday, I had a great morning with my parents and brother. I got a nice array of gifts, thanks everybody! Then the whole rest of the family arrived for dinner. We had a great time together and everything went really smooth! Then later on, my friend, Jeff, called me asking me where he could a place that would deliver food on Christmas and I ended up bringing him some leftovers since he was stuck at work. He is a security guard for CITI.
On Wednesday, I said goodbye to my cousins, Dimi and Tammy. My parents, bro and I went shopping and then I went and grabbed coffee with my friend Gail. Then i went home, grabbed dinner and my parents, bro and I all went to the Idaho Botanical Gardens where they are having the gardens all lit up with Christmas lights. It was so nice!
On Thursday, I had lunch with my friend, Scott and then I headed downtown with my aunt, Rose, and cousin, Leena, to go see this child prodigy art exhibit! It was so amazing to see how talented a 13 year old girl could be! Then I went and saw P.S. I Love You with my mom and friends. After that, I hung out with Leena trying to figure out some pictures from our cruise that we took together in July.
On Friday, it was a jam packed day! I had breakfast with my friend, Gail and my brother. Then I had a dentist appointment which went fine. Then I met up with my godmother, Sandy and had a nice time talking with her. Then I had lunch later on with my friend, Kim. Then later on, I went to the movies and dinner with my two friends, Camden and Scott. It was a great day catching up with everyone!
Today, I had breakfast with the family along with Rose and my grandparents and then we all just sat back and relaxed. I plan on heading up to Garden Valley tomorrow to go to a cabin and have some nice relaxing time with my parents and brother. I'll be back home on Wednesday and then I leave Boise, bright and early on Thursday morning!
On Friday, I went to lunch with my two of my good friends, Camden and Scott. Thanks Camden, by the way for buying Scott and me lunch! Then later on, my cousin and his girlfriend, Tammy, flew in from Los Angeles. I haven't seen them since July, so it was great seeing them again!!!
On Saturday, I relaxed at home with my family and went to church. We came out from church and found a winter wonderland!! It had snowed like 2 inches. My friend, Jeff, came and picked me up from church and we went to his house and hung out. He is a great driver in the snow!
On Sunday, my brother flew in and my family was a complete unit again! We had a great night with a little get together at my aunts house. It was great being with family and friends and just hanging out together.
On Monday, I went to the deli to help out and later my cousin Leena flew in (yes, thats a lot of visits to the airport). Then a whole bunch of us, 12 of us to be exact, went to church and then to my aunt's house for dinner. It was my great aunt and uncle, my cousins, my aunt, my grandparents, and my family.
On Tuesday, I had a great morning with my parents and brother. I got a nice array of gifts, thanks everybody! Then the whole rest of the family arrived for dinner. We had a great time together and everything went really smooth! Then later on, my friend, Jeff, called me asking me where he could a place that would deliver food on Christmas and I ended up bringing him some leftovers since he was stuck at work. He is a security guard for CITI.
On Wednesday, I said goodbye to my cousins, Dimi and Tammy. My parents, bro and I went shopping and then I went and grabbed coffee with my friend Gail. Then i went home, grabbed dinner and my parents, bro and I all went to the Idaho Botanical Gardens where they are having the gardens all lit up with Christmas lights. It was so nice!
On Thursday, I had lunch with my friend, Scott and then I headed downtown with my aunt, Rose, and cousin, Leena, to go see this child prodigy art exhibit! It was so amazing to see how talented a 13 year old girl could be! Then I went and saw P.S. I Love You with my mom and friends. After that, I hung out with Leena trying to figure out some pictures from our cruise that we took together in July.
On Friday, it was a jam packed day! I had breakfast with my friend, Gail and my brother. Then I had a dentist appointment which went fine. Then I met up with my godmother, Sandy and had a nice time talking with her. Then I had lunch later on with my friend, Kim. Then later on, I went to the movies and dinner with my two friends, Camden and Scott. It was a great day catching up with everyone!
Today, I had breakfast with the family along with Rose and my grandparents and then we all just sat back and relaxed. I plan on heading up to Garden Valley tomorrow to go to a cabin and have some nice relaxing time with my parents and brother. I'll be back home on Wednesday and then I leave Boise, bright and early on Thursday morning!
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Update & I'm COMING HOME!!!!!
WOW, it has been an interesting week to say the least!!!!
I'm going to start wayyyy back to last Thursday! So being silly me, I woke up late and rushed off to class, leaving my nice warm n toasty winter coat behind figuring I would come and get it later. I get to class and halfway through, my classmates and I discover that school has been cancelled starting after that class due to an impending snow storm! I went and grabbed some lunch and was thinking, I just can't wait for this so called snow storm!!! Since I'm from Idaho, we always think we are going to have a great, big snow storm that never comes! I go to lunch with Dan and Corey and we come out and the world is winter wonderland and its snowing quickly without ceasing! So, an hour rolls by and I realize, maybe I should head home before it gets any worse! I go to wait for the bus and the bus takes an hour to come!! I was freezing and illy prepared for my first big RI snow storm! The bus finally comes and it takes us 1 hour to go 3 or so miles!!! After that, I hibernated like a bear in my room! Just to give you some examples, an average 20 minute commute for some took 9 hours! School buses that left elementary schools at 1pm still were not home by 11pm and had to have law enforcement come and remove the children off the bus! Come to find out, Providence got TEN INCHES of snow!!
Friday, nothing too terribly exciting happened, however a group of friends from my dorm, West Hall, went out around 2am in the morning (so this would make it Saturday) to go play in the snow. I should have known what I was getting myself into! Simple play in the snow?! Heck no! We were tackling each other and white washing each other like crazy!! White washing, for those that do not know, is the act of rubbing someone's face into the snow or bringing snow to someone's face and rubbing it into their face. It was so much fun though!
Saturday, I had huge plans of being like a bear hibernating in its cave all day since the snow still had not really melted and the weather was definitely frightful! My good friend Melissa invited me to our Church Ladies' Cookie Exchange. I did not have any cookies to share and was hesistant about going but things turned out fine and I had a great time hanging with all the awesome ladies from church! Melissa and I always manage to find adventure whenever we are together whether that means getting lost or just encountering funny things thus we make quite the pair!
Sunday, I awoke to a few disappointing text messages stating that church and our church Christmas party was cancelled. I was really disappointed especially since the weather outside did not look all that intimadating, however, none of us knew if we were supposed to get any more snow later in the day or not. I decided to take some chances and go do some much needed Christmas shopping. I convinced Melissa to come and join me (we originally were being bears in a cave for the day). We met up and felt like ducks playing in the snow and rain. Providence was being a little slow with clearing things up. After a couple of hours of shopping, we met up with 2 other friends (my roommate, Allison and a great girl, Kim) and went out to dinner. Melissa had to do a paper dealing with casual themed restaurants so we killed two birds with one stone. Overall, Sunday was great!
Monday was the typical, dull and boring kind of day. Tuesday was fun because I got to have lunch with a group of friends from church and then I had dinner with 2 of my good friends. I bet it gets all really confusing keeping track of all my friends that I have, one of these days, I'll post a blog telling all about them!
I can't wait to come home on Thursday!!!! I hope to get to see a lot of my fellow Boise people over my break!
I'm going to start wayyyy back to last Thursday! So being silly me, I woke up late and rushed off to class, leaving my nice warm n toasty winter coat behind figuring I would come and get it later. I get to class and halfway through, my classmates and I discover that school has been cancelled starting after that class due to an impending snow storm! I went and grabbed some lunch and was thinking, I just can't wait for this so called snow storm!!! Since I'm from Idaho, we always think we are going to have a great, big snow storm that never comes! I go to lunch with Dan and Corey and we come out and the world is winter wonderland and its snowing quickly without ceasing! So, an hour rolls by and I realize, maybe I should head home before it gets any worse! I go to wait for the bus and the bus takes an hour to come!! I was freezing and illy prepared for my first big RI snow storm! The bus finally comes and it takes us 1 hour to go 3 or so miles!!! After that, I hibernated like a bear in my room! Just to give you some examples, an average 20 minute commute for some took 9 hours! School buses that left elementary schools at 1pm still were not home by 11pm and had to have law enforcement come and remove the children off the bus! Come to find out, Providence got TEN INCHES of snow!!
Friday, nothing too terribly exciting happened, however a group of friends from my dorm, West Hall, went out around 2am in the morning (so this would make it Saturday) to go play in the snow. I should have known what I was getting myself into! Simple play in the snow?! Heck no! We were tackling each other and white washing each other like crazy!! White washing, for those that do not know, is the act of rubbing someone's face into the snow or bringing snow to someone's face and rubbing it into their face. It was so much fun though!
Saturday, I had huge plans of being like a bear hibernating in its cave all day since the snow still had not really melted and the weather was definitely frightful! My good friend Melissa invited me to our Church Ladies' Cookie Exchange. I did not have any cookies to share and was hesistant about going but things turned out fine and I had a great time hanging with all the awesome ladies from church! Melissa and I always manage to find adventure whenever we are together whether that means getting lost or just encountering funny things thus we make quite the pair!
Sunday, I awoke to a few disappointing text messages stating that church and our church Christmas party was cancelled. I was really disappointed especially since the weather outside did not look all that intimadating, however, none of us knew if we were supposed to get any more snow later in the day or not. I decided to take some chances and go do some much needed Christmas shopping. I convinced Melissa to come and join me (we originally were being bears in a cave for the day). We met up and felt like ducks playing in the snow and rain. Providence was being a little slow with clearing things up. After a couple of hours of shopping, we met up with 2 other friends (my roommate, Allison and a great girl, Kim) and went out to dinner. Melissa had to do a paper dealing with casual themed restaurants so we killed two birds with one stone. Overall, Sunday was great!
Monday was the typical, dull and boring kind of day. Tuesday was fun because I got to have lunch with a group of friends from church and then I had dinner with 2 of my good friends. I bet it gets all really confusing keeping track of all my friends that I have, one of these days, I'll post a blog telling all about them!
I can't wait to come home on Thursday!!!! I hope to get to see a lot of my fellow Boise people over my break!
Sunday, December 9, 2007
My Weekend!
I had a great weekend this weekend and I hope everyone else did too! I'm coming back to Idaho on December 20th!!!!
On Friday night, I went out to dinner and then to a hockey game with my 2 guy friends, Dan and Corey. They are really funny guys that are part of my church group. The hockey game was great, it was Providence Bruins vs. Chicago Wolves and a few fights broke out on the ice!
On Saturday, I went out to lunch with some girls from church and then we went over to one of their houses and hung out for a while. It was so nice just to be with friends and relax!
On Sunday, I went to church and then out to lunch with some friends from church. Then one of my other friends treated me to a special jungle acrobat show at the Providence Performing Arts Center.
Overall, it was a great relaxing weekend! However, this week is going to be a long and busy one!
On Friday night, I went out to dinner and then to a hockey game with my 2 guy friends, Dan and Corey. They are really funny guys that are part of my church group. The hockey game was great, it was Providence Bruins vs. Chicago Wolves and a few fights broke out on the ice!
On Saturday, I went out to lunch with some girls from church and then we went over to one of their houses and hung out for a while. It was so nice just to be with friends and relax!
On Sunday, I went to church and then out to lunch with some friends from church. Then one of my other friends treated me to a special jungle acrobat show at the Providence Performing Arts Center.
Overall, it was a great relaxing weekend! However, this week is going to be a long and busy one!
Friday, December 7, 2007
The Second Tri
Yesterday was the conclusion of the first two weeks of the second trimester. I would have to say socially wise, this trimester has been great however my classes are going to be very difficult and most likely give me a run for my money.
I am starting to make some new friends at my new dorm hall, West. And I'm getting along with both of my roommates which is great for me and things are really starting to look good in that aspect. Then a few friends from church have a similar school schedule as mine so we usually end up grabbing lunch together which always makes any bad day turn into a good one! It seems like I have a fun filled weekend ahead of me so I will be sure to put an update in at the end of it!
As far as classes go...I'm liking most of my professers. I have a very colorful professer that likes to talk about his glory days of working in restuarants and bars and his wild character always helps the class go by just a tad faster. I have a very formal professer that has been an attorney for 20 years or so and I think he also worked in the hospitality industry prior to that and he always puts in entertaining stories from his previous work. I have 4 other professers that I will fill you in about later on!
With my new school schedule and all my clubs it seems like my life is jam packed. Monday, I have three 2 hour classes in a row then I had a club meeting for Club Manager's Association of America. Tuesday, I had three 2 hour classes as well however I had a 2 hour break between them that I fill in with a great lunch with friends then afterwards I had college aged church called Tuesday Night Truth (TNT) with my great church! Wednesday I had three 2 hour classes in a row again and then I grabbed lunch afterwards. I thought I would be sneaky and grab a nice long nap but then one of my friends wasn't feeling too good and wanted someone to go with her to the hospital. The Rhode Island hospital isn't that great as it took 6 hours for the whole process and they couldn't find anything wrong.
I'll be sure to give you guys a weekend update! I'm going to a hockey game tonight so that should be exciting! Take care everyone and have a great weekend!
I am starting to make some new friends at my new dorm hall, West. And I'm getting along with both of my roommates which is great for me and things are really starting to look good in that aspect. Then a few friends from church have a similar school schedule as mine so we usually end up grabbing lunch together which always makes any bad day turn into a good one! It seems like I have a fun filled weekend ahead of me so I will be sure to put an update in at the end of it!
As far as classes go...I'm liking most of my professers. I have a very colorful professer that likes to talk about his glory days of working in restuarants and bars and his wild character always helps the class go by just a tad faster. I have a very formal professer that has been an attorney for 20 years or so and I think he also worked in the hospitality industry prior to that and he always puts in entertaining stories from his previous work. I have 4 other professers that I will fill you in about later on!
With my new school schedule and all my clubs it seems like my life is jam packed. Monday, I have three 2 hour classes in a row then I had a club meeting for Club Manager's Association of America. Tuesday, I had three 2 hour classes as well however I had a 2 hour break between them that I fill in with a great lunch with friends then afterwards I had college aged church called Tuesday Night Truth (TNT) with my great church! Wednesday I had three 2 hour classes in a row again and then I grabbed lunch afterwards. I thought I would be sneaky and grab a nice long nap but then one of my friends wasn't feeling too good and wanted someone to go with her to the hospital. The Rhode Island hospital isn't that great as it took 6 hours for the whole process and they couldn't find anything wrong.
I'll be sure to give you guys a weekend update! I'm going to a hockey game tonight so that should be exciting! Take care everyone and have a great weekend!
Saturday, December 1, 2007
My New Home!
I have included 3 pics of my new home. Each pic shows a side of the room, just so it gives you an idea about where I live now! I am starting to get everything under control with all my stuff and getting classes all figured out with my crazy schedule!
Classes are going to be even tougher this trimester. I am going to be back in Idaho on December 20th!!! Hope everyone is doing well and wouldn't you believe it! The year is almost over! Amazing how time flies!
Classes are going to be even tougher this trimester. I am going to be back in Idaho on December 20th!!! Hope everyone is doing well and wouldn't you believe it! The year is almost over! Amazing how time flies!
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Back in RI & Start of Winter Trimester
I had a decent trip home with all the usual expected delays and what nots. I arrived home around midnight on Friday night. My roommate, Allison, was still up so we hung out for a while sharing about our Thanksgiving breaks. She had came back the day before which was Thanksgiving day itself. I had bought some board games in Idaho so when I pulled them out, she was excited and we stayed up til the wee hours playing them.
We slept in til about noon the next day (Saturday) and headed off to Target to snag any leftover sale deals. We grabbed a couple of movies, a tiny tree and a string of lights to decorate our room with. Allison who enjoys Christmas and its festivities oh so much has been playing Christmas music like crazy but I am used to it now.
Sunday, we headed off to church together then to the mall with some other friends from church. Then we topped off our day with dinner at our friend's Carrie house which was yummy lasagna and then we played lots of fun games.
Tuesday was the first today of Winter Trimester and I am taking a full 25 credits this trimester which is about 6 classes. I managed to finish last trimester with a 3.5 gpa which I was excited about.
Here are the classes that I am taking and their descriptions, I have 3 classes a day now.
LAW2010 HOSPITALITY LAW
This is an introductory course with emphasis placed on
hotel and restaurant issues. Topics include: sources of
law, court systems, jurisdiction, contracts, negligence,
the innkeeper-guest relationship, and liability arising
from the service of food and alcoholic beverages.
Quarter Credit Hours 4.5
FSM2040 GUEST SERVICE SYSTEMS
This introductory course is a study of guest services
within the hospitality industry. Emphasis is placed on
development of service standards, staffing requirements,
merchandising and fiscal accountability. Students will
take the Training for Intervention Procedures (T.I.P.S.)
certification examination as part of this course.
Prerequisites: FSM1001 or HOSP1001 or SEE1001 or
TRVL1001.
Quarter Credit Hours 4.5
SCI2040 MARINE BIOLOGY
This course is an introduction to the biological and
physical aspects of the marine environment, including
a survey of the organisms that inhabit the world’s
oceans, their ecology, species evolution and distribution,
and the human impact of commercial marinerelated
industries. Of particular interest are seafood,
shellfish, and marine plants as marine food sources,
as well as the shipping and maritime industries. (HO)
Quarter Credit Hours 4.5
ACCT1011 HOSPITALITY ACCOUNTING I AND LAB
This course is designed to combine the concepts of
accounting theory and practice with the specialized
requirements of the hospitality industry. The course
introduces the nature and purpose of accounting, the
double-entry system, hospitality accounting documents
and special journals, inventories, adjusting entries,
financial statements and the closing process. The student
will learn the accounting cycle for proprietorship
and corporate forms of business.
Quarter Credit Hours 5.5
CAR1003 INTRODUCTION TO CAREER MANAGEMENT
This is the first in a series of three career management
courses that students will participate in at the
University. Students will be introduced to various career
management topics to help form a solid foundation for
their success at the University and beyond. Emphasis
is placed on self assessment, establishing individual
career goals, identifying/researching career paths,
developing self-marketing documents and building
credentials in 10 major success categories. Students
learn how to effectively maximize their use of the Best
Fit Career Management System in finding Best Fit
Employment. (PT)
Quarter Credit Hours 1.5
FSM2040 GUEST SERVICE SYSTEMS
This introductory course is a study of guest services
within the hospitality industry. Emphasis is placed on
development of service standards, staffing requirements,
merchandising and fiscal accountability. Students will
take the Training for Intervention Procedures (T.I.P.S.)
certification examination as part of this course.
Prerequisites: FSM1001 or HOSP1001 or SEE1001 or
TRVL1001.
Quarter Credit Hours 4.5
As I take these classes and do other things, I'll be sure to keep everyone updated!
We slept in til about noon the next day (Saturday) and headed off to Target to snag any leftover sale deals. We grabbed a couple of movies, a tiny tree and a string of lights to decorate our room with. Allison who enjoys Christmas and its festivities oh so much has been playing Christmas music like crazy but I am used to it now.
Sunday, we headed off to church together then to the mall with some other friends from church. Then we topped off our day with dinner at our friend's Carrie house which was yummy lasagna and then we played lots of fun games.
Tuesday was the first today of Winter Trimester and I am taking a full 25 credits this trimester which is about 6 classes. I managed to finish last trimester with a 3.5 gpa which I was excited about.
Here are the classes that I am taking and their descriptions, I have 3 classes a day now.
LAW2010 HOSPITALITY LAW
This is an introductory course with emphasis placed on
hotel and restaurant issues. Topics include: sources of
law, court systems, jurisdiction, contracts, negligence,
the innkeeper-guest relationship, and liability arising
from the service of food and alcoholic beverages.
Quarter Credit Hours 4.5
FSM2040 GUEST SERVICE SYSTEMS
This introductory course is a study of guest services
within the hospitality industry. Emphasis is placed on
development of service standards, staffing requirements,
merchandising and fiscal accountability. Students will
take the Training for Intervention Procedures (T.I.P.S.)
certification examination as part of this course.
Prerequisites: FSM1001 or HOSP1001 or SEE1001 or
TRVL1001.
Quarter Credit Hours 4.5
SCI2040 MARINE BIOLOGY
This course is an introduction to the biological and
physical aspects of the marine environment, including
a survey of the organisms that inhabit the world’s
oceans, their ecology, species evolution and distribution,
and the human impact of commercial marinerelated
industries. Of particular interest are seafood,
shellfish, and marine plants as marine food sources,
as well as the shipping and maritime industries. (HO)
Quarter Credit Hours 4.5
ACCT1011 HOSPITALITY ACCOUNTING I AND LAB
This course is designed to combine the concepts of
accounting theory and practice with the specialized
requirements of the hospitality industry. The course
introduces the nature and purpose of accounting, the
double-entry system, hospitality accounting documents
and special journals, inventories, adjusting entries,
financial statements and the closing process. The student
will learn the accounting cycle for proprietorship
and corporate forms of business.
Quarter Credit Hours 5.5
CAR1003 INTRODUCTION TO CAREER MANAGEMENT
This is the first in a series of three career management
courses that students will participate in at the
University. Students will be introduced to various career
management topics to help form a solid foundation for
their success at the University and beyond. Emphasis
is placed on self assessment, establishing individual
career goals, identifying/researching career paths,
developing self-marketing documents and building
credentials in 10 major success categories. Students
learn how to effectively maximize their use of the Best
Fit Career Management System in finding Best Fit
Employment. (PT)
Quarter Credit Hours 1.5
FSM2040 GUEST SERVICE SYSTEMS
This introductory course is a study of guest services
within the hospitality industry. Emphasis is placed on
development of service standards, staffing requirements,
merchandising and fiscal accountability. Students will
take the Training for Intervention Procedures (T.I.P.S.)
certification examination as part of this course.
Prerequisites: FSM1001 or HOSP1001 or SEE1001 or
TRVL1001.
Quarter Credit Hours 4.5
As I take these classes and do other things, I'll be sure to keep everyone updated!
Monday, November 19, 2007
SUPRISE! I AM HOME!!!!!
Guess who came knocking on their parents' doorstep at 10:30 at night?? ME!!!! I came home for break since I had the time off from school. My parents did not know I was coming and my 2 partner in crimes helped me out with my suprise.
My mom was screaming and jumping up and down with shock before she pulled me in for a big hug! Dad, however, did not seem so suprised which is ok, I got one parent out of the deal right?
Of course, I enjoy suprising people so I made sure to suprise my aunt Rose and grandparents and it worked well because I got 2 of the 3 to scream as well.
Yes, this was overwhelming a tad bit with me moving on Thursday night and then flying home Saturday but I managed just fine. I'll be in town until Friday morning, so if you want to hang out or anything just give me a call or shoot me an email!
My mom was screaming and jumping up and down with shock before she pulled me in for a big hug! Dad, however, did not seem so suprised which is ok, I got one parent out of the deal right?
Of course, I enjoy suprising people so I made sure to suprise my aunt Rose and grandparents and it worked well because I got 2 of the 3 to scream as well.
Yes, this was overwhelming a tad bit with me moving on Thursday night and then flying home Saturday but I managed just fine. I'll be in town until Friday morning, so if you want to hang out or anything just give me a call or shoot me an email!
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