Thanks Giving

Well classes have finally let up a little so I have a quick moment to write about my thanks giving.

It was great. I got to spend time with my family as seen in our Christmas picture, as well as my Grandma and Grandpa and my Aunt Cari's family. I also got to spend time with my good friend Shevon. Other then seeing my family I enjoyed eating at in n out and I enjoyed play guitar hero with my siblings.

Thanks Giving was great and Christmas will be great too!

News on my life. I have finished my first final, Human Anatomy is an insane class. I have memorized over 700 terms in this class. That is a lot of memorizing. I should rephrase that I was supposed to memorize over 700 terms this semester. I probably got about 500 of those.

I performed in a Nutcracker, made some money on that which paid my rent.

I had my final rehearsal with Kaye this last Saturday. It went great. I'll miss working with her. I was able to work some things out in filming my project so that I did it on a stage with full lighting and music. It was great. I'll try to post the video when it is complete.

I got a new job that will start next semester. I will be teaching gymnastics at a local gym! I'm super excited. I'm signed up to teach two beginning boys classes and two intermediate tumbling classes. This is good because I'll be gaining teaching experience.

Things are going well. I am so excited to be done with this semester. We'll see how much I like next semester!!!

Quick Post

Here I come California!!!
I am flying out in five hours and I'm super excited. This will be a nice break from classes. I'm excited to leave the cold weather and have a nice sunny thanksgiving holiday.

Five things I'm grateful for...
My Family
The Church
School
Getting to dance everyday
All of my Friends
and everything else the Lord has blessed me with!!!

I liked this picture

So I stole this picture from my Aunt's Blog. I really liked it. This is my mom's biological family. My grandpa, my aunt Cari (Thanks for the picture), my aunt Charla, my MOM, and my uncle Dru. My Mom's mom passed away several years ago. Before that my grandparents had divorced and my grandpa married my grandma whom I have grown up knowing as my Grandma. I've just never really seen a picture with just my moms biological family. I wish I had known my moms mom better. I feel like I never really knew her, I don't have the best memories of her. I'm not glad that my grandparents got a divorce but I am sure glad to have my grandma Dale. I wouldn't be dancing now if it weren't for my grandma Dale. But that's a long story for this picture. I just liked it so I stole it and added it to my blog.

Ahhh! Crazy Week!

This week as been odd to say the least. I failed my Anatomy midterm, that's always fun. I hurt my back and haven't danced this whole week. It sucks not to dance. It sucks to have a hurt back. One thing that happened that was really cool though, happened on Monday and I still haven't gotten over it. After my improvisation class my teacher asked to talk to me and she asked how I would feel about letting her choreograph a duet on me and another classmate. I said yes and I have been super excited ever since. She said she'll try to work things out and have us perform in Dance Ensemble next semester. I am super excited. I haven't seen anyone else perform in both Dancer's Company and Dance Ensemble in the same semester, and to have a teacher ask to choreograph something specifically on me. Ahhh! It makes me so excited...ahhh! I just hope everything works out and I get to do it. So pretty much this has been the worst week of the semester but I haven't been sad about it because I am so excited about being asked to be in Dance Ensemble.
Well thats pretty much been my week. I have gone into the training room and been realigned and massaged every day of the week. I didn't get to rehearse with Kaye on my solo. But I did get another ten out of ten on an anatomy lab quiz. That class is so crazy. I love dancing and hope everything works out for next semester!!!
Everyone take care and I will see you all in California on TUESDAY! Yay!!!

Another Day!

So today is just another crazy day in the life of me. Dancing is going well. Studying is going well. Nothing too new or exciting to report. I had a good time working with Kaye on our second rehearsal on Tuesday. I think she was pleasantly suprised at the amount of progress I had made the material from last week. That was good. Now I have to do the same or better for next week.
My body is super sore today, I think from the rehearsal with Kaye. Either that or crazy Gymnastics. That class is fun but physically taxing. I'm sad that I'll loose all the musle I have built up in that class come next semester when the class is over.
I am super excited to fly home in a week and five days. I can't wait to see everyone, eat turkey, be in California, you know the whole bit.
I hope everyone is doing well. Let me know!!! Take care!

Me and My friend Mary! (a vampire with blue hair)

Me and my friend Katy! (Grapes)

November 2nd?!!

Well today was productive but not as productive as I would have liked. I am not motivated to good in school. I'm guessing this is the result of getting into a major. I'm just not motivated to get the A's that will get me into a program. Oh well, I'm not failing anything. I spent three hours rehearsing on my own this morning that was fun. I reviewed the five phrases I learned with Kaye on Tuesday (That's a lot of new movement for one hour of rehearsal with her) and reviewed my creation from rehearsal yesterday. I guess I'm just motivated to become a better dancer now. Next week I have my last midterm, I have to lead an improvisation in my dance improvisation class and I have to turn in the first draft of a D&C paper I haven't begun writing. I purchased my plane ticket home for Thanks Giving this week. I am so excited for that!!! All-in-all I'm glad this week is over. I can't wait to go home and see everyone.
I sound awfully A.D.D. with my sporadic writing.

I saw Bobbie the pumpkin this week and he wasn't moldy but shriveled into something resembling a large bright colored raisin. Poor Guy!!!

Friday!

Yeah for Fridays! Today was good and busy. I went to the first half of the Utah Dance Education Organization Conference (UDEO) today. It was way cool. It makes me excited to get out into the professional world. After the UDEO conference I had rehearsal where the men in company had to come up with their own movement to a "theme" or "word", mine was determination. I think that my snip-it looked good. Then I went to an Audition which went very well. I spoke to the auditioner afterward and she said that I was a very good dancer. I was so excited. I was just filled with several different moments of validation today and it made me feel so happy.
Well it's late and I have a lot to do tomorrow!!!

Halloween

This is my Halloween Costume. Guess what I am. That's one of my friends Richie. Guess what he is. This was at our stake activity which was really fun. There were so many awesome costumes. I wish I had taken my camera. After the party I watched part of The Sixth Sense. (Creepy movie!) Well I hope Halloween was good for everyone else. By the way I am partly cloudy with a chance of showers. You can't see that I am holding an umbrella in one hand and a spray bottle in the other, hence the chance of showers. Richie is a shadow. He was freaky looking. My friend Mary was a vampire and Katy was a clump of grapes. When they send me their pictures I'll post those. Some other cool costumes were; Marge Simpson, Crayons, Elmer's Glue, a Deviled egg (egg with horns and a tail), Hippies, Han and Leia, a Pot Head (a pot on his head and makeup to make red eyes). All of the costumes looked great.

New York

These are some of my cool pictures from New York. I had so much fun. Literally one of the most fun things I have ever done in my life! I love New York. It was amazing! I took over 530 pictures, so slowly I'm going to add some pictures to my blog to show the fun time I had. So cool!!!

This the sun setting over Manhattan while floating under the Brooklyn Bridge. The Circle Line Cruise was one of the most fun things we did while in New York.






This is the sun setting over New York City! When I was there in May. It was sooooo awesome.

Monday!!!

Well here we go!
This week is going to be long. Not only am I going to some sweet Halloween festivities but I start working with Kaye (Oh, so excited), audition for a show I can't really do (just going for the audition experience), and I am going to the UDEO Conference on Fri. Not to mention all my regular classes which are wearing me out. Whew! I need to sleep more. Oh and don't forget Elder Perry speaking at the devotional on Tues.
Highlights from this weekend-
-Country Dancing
-Game Night #1
-Game Night #2
-Stake conference was good, I really enjoyed three of the speakers, I couldn't write fast enough.

Well that's all for now. Hope everyone who is reading this is doing well.

Still Breathing

Well I finished my Anatomy Lab midterm I got a 71%, not so good. At least I'm not failing. I am so not motivated for this stupid class. I also took my D&C midterm. Not so good there either. Oh well!

I think since I am boring and have nothing else to say I'll just let everyone know that my favorite color is blue! I bought a new board game called Ticket to Ride, Days of Wonder. It is the US version of the game, there are also Europe, Germany and Switzerland versions as well. I'm excited. I'm gonna start another blog but it is going to be a writing blog. I'm going to start writing a story. It's gonna be cool too. We'll see if I'm any good at writing. It's just a little experiment. I'm also going to put more pictures on this blog eventually.

More Pumpkin Pictures

Pumpkin Carvers!!!

Yummy Bobby!!!

Pumpkin Party

Bobby and I!!!

My First Entry

This is my first blog. Yeah!!! This was one of my recent goals to start a blog, after of course reading my sisters blog. Well basically my life is exciting. I'm totally random. I carved pumpkins on Wed. night. I really carved a piece of a pumpkin while everyone else carved a pumpkin. I had come late after studying for my anatomy lab midterm(boo!, I think I did alright though). I didn't have a pumpkin so I used a piece someone had discarded. I named my creation Bobby! He was so awesome (just like my new blog). I don't have any classes today which is Fri. Oct. 26, 2007 because they are having dance major auditions! Rock on!

Things I'm looking forward to...
-Not having anything really major due for two weeks!
-My first rehearsal with Kaye Richards a professor in dance at the University of Utah, she will be choreographing a five minute solo on me thanks to the grant I received from the college of Health and Human Performance. Mary Lou Fullton Rocks!!! She is the main contributor and name sake of the Fund.
-Berlin Auditions.
-Registering for next semesters classes on November first!

That's about all I have to say right now. I'm excited about my new blog!