And yes, I know it wasn't a good idea to be holding a stray kitten; however, I am still alive and disease less.
My wonderful roommates and I had a bonding photoshoot fairly early on in the semester. It was pretty sweet and most of the pictures currently plaster our walls.
Just after Ali had told us a horrible joke.
Me testing my photographic skills on the lovely Laura
One night we drove up into the canyon to have a fire. It was a lot of fun until the patrol people came a long and kicked everyone out of the park. It was apparently too dry for fires. Woops!
There are some really beautiful walks in my neighborhood. This is the sunset view from Rock Canyon.
My roommates surprised me on my birthday by putting my through all sorts of trials, like tasting 19 different flavors of ice cream, brushing my teeth for 19 minutes, telling 19 crushes (found out I hadn't had nearly that many), answering 19 deep "souls searching" questions, and having 19 cups of water dumped on me. My favorite was the first. They then threw a little party for me that evening and it was rather nice. This made my third birthday in Utah and my first birthday not celebrated with family. I was lucky to have such good friends to make up for the absence.
One Sunday we spontaneously went up to Angel Falls. It's really gorgeous. Not realizing there was a path, we tried walking strait up the falls. That wasn't the best idea, and the entire way up I was thinking, "What the heck am I doing? How are we going to get down? Why did I get myself into this?" My fear of falling was really kicking in about then, but we made it up ok and took the easier way down.
We're the tiny specks you can't see in the distance.
I was also really lucky to see Grandma and Grandpa this semester, as well as my papa and Missy, Michael, and Joseph. It was awesome to see all of them, especially Daddy.
Well, the summer is over ad I'm back to the grindstone. German 201, Writings of Isaiah, Creative Writing, Writing Literary Criticism, and Fundamentals of Analyzing Literature are the classes currently filling my schedule. They are being supplemented by working at Independent Study close to 20 hours a week and German House dinners. It's busy but good. I'm glad it's Labor Day because I already need the break.
Well folks, there's the long update on what's been happening! Have a fabulous Labor Day!
