A New Semester

Hello!

Well, I'm into my third week of my second semester here. It was kind of weird at first when we met the new freshmen and realized we weren't the newest of the new anymore. We have about 13 new ward members who all just started this semester or moved into our ward from other housing.

My new classes are all a lot more interesting than my classes last semester, which is definitely a good thing. I was going to take 17 credits this semester, but I ended up dropping my biology class since it was all about birds, and I also dropped my philosophy class since I'd had to correct my professor on his grammar exercises about five times in the first day. :) So I dropped that and added just the regular English 150 course for freshman, and now I have a pretty cool professor. He's really young, so he speaks informally and is a lot more personable than the rest of my professors.

My most boring class is anthropology 101. My professor speaks like all those typical anthropology professors you see in TV shows. Sort of that lilting, droning voice, complete with unnecessary hand gestures. Somers, McKenzie, and I are usually asleep during those lectures. :)

Right after anthropology in the same auditorium is American Heritage, which both Somers and I have with Alden. The professor for that class is pretty funny, and he likes to show clips from The Office and Lost to demonstrate his ideas. :)

My computers and the humanities class is really interesting, and I'm learning a lot in that class. I feel slightly sacrilegious in that class though, because we're using these beautiful, 21 inch, brand new iMacs, and I have to run a windows operating system on them... blech! :)

Well, this past weekend was quite fun. It was our first 3 day weekend of the year, I was supposed to go to Idaho with Julie, but I had to cancel because when I dropped my philosophy class and added english 150, I had to write a paper and read about 150 pages by tuesday, plus my homework for my other classes. So I stayed home and Friday and Saturday we all made sure that during the day we weren't noisy so that we could get all of our work done. However, on Friday morning I woke up feeling horrible because I'd caught the cold that Somers and Mallory had, so I was sick and feeling miserable and doing a bunch of homework, which... was not fun.

Saturday morning we had a big french toast breakfast, complete with scrambled eggs and orange peach mango juice. Then we did a bunch of studying, and McKenzie and Dustin came to pick us up in the afternoon to take us ice skating, which was a lot of fun. Krista had ice skated like, once before in her life, go figure--she's the one from Idaho where they have ponds to skate on and whatnot. So she was clinging to my arm the whole time, which kinda was throwing me off balance. I ended up falling twice cause she was attached to my arm. :)

On Sunday I was awake for a grand total of three hours during the day... The only reason I woke up later was because Somers woke me up to tell me that McKenzie was going to be home in about twenty minutes and she was going to take us to her place for the night. So I quickly packed and got ready, and we went to McKenzie's house in Payson. Her parents were on a cruise, so she had the house to herself for the weekend. Dustin came over and we played card games and watched Disney movies late into the night, having a much needed break. Monday morning we took our time getting ready, had a delicious french toast breakfast, and watched a few episodes of the Office before we piled into Mack's car and drove back to Provo to see Madagascar 2 in the dollar theater. Unfortunately, we forgot it was a holiday, and the show was sold out, so we ended up just going back to our apartment.

We ended up watching an entire season of the Office this weekend, because we'd study all day and then watch the Office all night. We got Krista absolutely hooked on the show. :)

It was nice having a three day weekend. Our next one is the weekend of Valentine's Day, and then we don't have any more breaks until the end of school. :( But we get out so much earlier than everyone else that it makes up for it :)

-Cate