I'm home!!! Got back yesterday afternoon, unloaded some stuff and then it was off to a meeting at church. I feel so special because I have a cute little desk at church that's all mine - I decorated it with pictures, cards and special verses. Already I have a lot going on with church as far as events and things to do. I am so excited about it all!
On Saturday I'm going back to boone for Keith's graduation and then I'm going to a Lake in Georgia with Lauren for the rest of the week. That should be very relaxing and fun.
Well I need to do some laundry and more unpacking . Bye all!

The end of my first year is quickly approaching. Just 3 more days and I'm done! I can hardly believe it. This year has been great and I don't want it to be over. :(
Summer Schedule:
- May 3: come home
- May 6: back to boone for brother's graduation
- May 8-12: Lake in Georgia with the wonderful roomie!
-May 12-13: back to raleigh with the roommate
-May 14-20: Teaching Fellows Discovery Trip
Finally home for good!
Summer: Middle School Intern at Providence Baptist Church, lots of babysitting
June 26-July 1: IMPACT (youth camp that I am a counselor for with church)
July 15-22: Holden Beach with the fam
Lots of other crazy stuff that I can't remember.

Well I realize it has been a while. I tried to put some pictures up the other day and hit submit but I guess it didn't like me cause they didn't show up. Oh well. Things are pretty much winding down from me. Tomorrow is my last day of classes. I have an English final tomorrow, my math exam on monday, and my child dev presentation next wednesday and then I will be home for good. This Thursday I am coming home in preparation for Joy Prom which I can't wait for. Joy Prom is my most absolute favorite day of the year. It's even better than Christmas or my birthday. I love it that much!!! I'm going to be at church most of Friday and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Then on Saturday I am helping LB and her family move to their new place closer to church! Yay yay! My other family is going to be closer to me! Now I can go over all the time and see them! Except for the stupid dogs - taco bell dogs are lame.
I really can't wait for the summer! I have some babysitting lined up and I'm excited to get to know the kids. And then I'm going to be at church doing middle school stuff! Yay! Yay! Yay! I love middle schoolers and I am pretty much in love with Student Ministries so I am incredbily excited about the summer.
Just tonight I was thinking about Impact and how much I love it. It's like my favorite week ever.
Oh so today was an extremely klutzy crazy day for me. I killed my ankle at the gym because I had this blister on the back and was wearing short socks with my tennis shoes. Well the blister got worse and then it bled all over my sock and the back of my shoe. Gross I know. Then later I was leaving to go to dinner with Lauren and we had been teasing eachother about leaving someone behind. She was locking the door so I walked down the hall and said "I'm leaving you" and stuck my hands out so that they were touching the walls and blocking the hallway. She came up and was being all kung fu at me and was just going to kick my butt but then I turned around and she accidentally kicked my hand. It hurt but I made it.
After dinner we were leaving and walked up the 3 little stairs and of course I tripped on them. It was pretty hilarious as I almost fell to the floor but did a run and catch myself. It was great. Kind of like last week when I was late to Sociology and I was running up the stairs in a skirt and my flip flops. Completely tripped and skinned my knee on the no slip grip stuff on the stairs. I had to go into the little office and Taylor asked the grad student for a band-aid. He went "aww does someone have a boo-boo"and I had to say that it was me. Good times good times.
Currently my lovely roommate is asleep. She was upset about something so I gave her Mr. Bear because he is the perfect comfort in just about any circumstance. He's soft, cuddly, huggable and doesn't talk back.

Pictures

Ashley and I at the TF Masquerade Ball
Gorgeous view after hiking

Beautiful!

Painting Pottery in Canton

Great Overlook

Rock

Roommate sleeping when she was supposed to be studying :)

I'm stil alive I promise

Hey everyone! Sorry that I haven't updated in a while. I have been pretty busy.
The year is almost over. I'm just trying to finish up classes as best as I can. The weather is also beginning to warm up which is so nice. Yesterday it was in the 70s so my friend Ashley (and future roommate) and I went up to the Parkway to hike. It was so gorgeous! We hiked up this trail that is pretty much rocks the whole way up and it was fun. :) Once we got to the top you could see sooooo far out. The mountains are so beautiful! We sat up there for a while just talking and enjoying the beautiful weather. I definetely want to do that again sometime soon.
This morning I arose very early to go help at Open House with Teaching Fellows. I stood by the teaching fellows booth and answered questions that prospective students and their parents had. I felt all special being a wise little teaching fellow, talking about all that we do. It was actually kind of fun. Except for the early morning thing. :(
Then a couple of girls who are going to be teaching fellows next year came back to the dorm with us to get a little tour. Since my room is clean I showed it to them and we walked them around the dorm. It was funny to be on the other side of all of this. I remember being the nervous little about to be freshman. Glad those days are over with. :)
Well it's cloudy and I'm going back to my nap. :)

Life As I See It

Well........here I am on a Monday night trying to figure out what to write about.
Let's see.
Went home this past weekend and went on the Snowfest tubing trip with the middle schoolers from Providence. It was a lot of fun even though it made me pretty darn exhausted. I was thinking, I don't remember what it was like to be a 6th grade girl. Maybe I am blocking it out. Haha they are just so cute and talk about the wildest things.
I got a new phone on Friday. It's very nice. I can actually use it without fear of it suddenly turning off.
Ahhh this summer I am going to be home, as a middle school intern at Providence. Woop woop. I'm pretty excited. Actually I can't wait for it to be summer.
The cold weather is officially boring me. And the snow. I mean if it's gonna snow it should all out snow so that we can go nowhere, including class. I don't like this snow and then you still have to trudge out in it to go to class. I mean I want to go play in it. Not walk by it. Unfortunately University faculty or whoever makes the class decision does not agree with me.
Well I"m off to clean up some around the room. It's not horrible but my top desk drawer is really getting to me cause I can never find anything. hehehe.

Room Stuff

Last night was the Housing Lottery for the LLC - my dorm. It was pretty hectic because you have to go and pull a number and fight for a spot. Most people got in but a couple people did not get spots. My future roommate Ashley and I were a bit worried about getting back in. But we knew that if God wanted us to live here it would work out. Well I picked the VERY FIRST number for Teaching Fellows meaning that we got to pick our room first. So we got the EXACT room that we wanted......It's very exciting! Now we are starting to talk about how we want to design our room and decorate it. :)
p.s. - Does anybody have a small couch that they want to donate?

Skiing!!!!!!!!!

So I went skiing last night! It was the first time that I had been in two years! Luckily I got back in the swing of things pretty quickly. Taylor and Katie have a class so Lauren and I went to ski with them once their class was done. It was Lauren's first time and I was supposed to teach her but I wasn't so great at that. She had a rough time and almost gave up but towards the end she worked on the basics and will do great next time.
Taylor and I did the blues together. She is doing awesomely well for only her 2nd time skiing. We had a lot of fun being "ski bunnies" together. It was raining off and on so that was kind of miserable but I was having such a great time it didn't bother me too much.
And yes I did fall once. I was trying to be a hot shot and do sharper turns but i wiped out. It was funny. Didn't hurt, got right back up. I also realized that I am a better skiier without poles. When I saw Tay and Katie without them I was reminded of when I was little and learned how to ski and how we couldn't have poles. So last night after a bit I decided to abandon the poles and go solo. It really helped my balance a lot!
If I only had more money to go more often! Oh well that's all for now!

Updatez

Tonight I had dinner with the Chancellor. Okay so it wasn't just me and Dr. Peacock but I did have dinner at his house and met and talked with him. Each year the teaching fellows get to go up there and have a nice dinner with him. I went with some friends and within 5 minutes of stepping into the gorgeous house we were greeted by Dr. Peacock himself. He's a really nice guy, easy to carry conversation with. We had a fun time checking out the downstairs of the house and eating some good food.

Happy

Just received an e-mail with happy news from the State Board of Education. If you received at least an 1100 on your SAT you do not have to take the Praxis I. For those of you who dont' know the Praxis is a test that is usually required to be admitted to any state school's college of ed and is pretty expensive. This means that I do not have to study for this stupid test cause I don't have to take it! Yay!

New Semester

The girls at Bible Study: Me, Ashlee, Megan & Lauren (notice her new darkly colored hair)

Me & Chelsey enjoying a beautiful day in between classes

taking a picture of rivers street as I walked across it on my way to math

My new bulletin board on my wall. Isn't it so cute? It matches our room perfectly!

The first week of classes has come and gone very quickly. My classes are pretty good. Here's the schedule:

MW 11:00-11:50 Aerobics (super fun cause my roommate and I are taking this together)
MW 1:00-1:50 - Child Dev of the 3-5 year old
MW 4:00-5:15 English Literature (ewww i don't like Brit Lit)
TR 11:00-12:15 - Marriage & Family Dev
TR 12:30-1:45 World Civ II
TR 2:00-3:15 Math

Yes that is right I do not have Friday classes! And I am loving it! It works out very nicely since Crusade meets on Thursday nights. That way I feel like I can actually enjoy CRU without worrying about homework.

Back in Boone

Today I arrived back in Boone after a nice Christmas break. I rode back with Ashlee and we had a fun time jamming to some music. Got my books and everything today. Went to dinner with Ashlee and Megan and Rebecca (not from Mt. Vernon). Then we went to Lowes and got the floor insulations stuff to make my new bulletin board which looks fabulously cute. I love it! Anyways I thought that I would put up some pictures from last semester. Sort of a
1st Semester in Review.Me, Taylor, Lauren and Katie after our Makeover Night

Beauuutiful Campus

Me & Rebecca at CRU Fall Retreat

Where houses used to be in Gulfport, Mississippi

Gosh my school is gorgeous!

The whole New Orleans Group

Lindsay and I at CRU

Katie & Taylor at our Suiteys Christmas Dinner

Lauren & I at Dinner
Taylor, Me, and Lauren at the CRU Black & White Formal

A New Way To Update!

So as I have said I will now be using this site as a way to update everyone back home about my fun filled life at ASU. Making a newsletter was just too hard to format and put together all of the time. I'm not sure what all I will put up here. I guess occasional updates about stuff and probably pictures as well. Well that's all for now!