This one's for Abby

So the reason I don't write too often is because nothing really changes that fast. I don't have any real new news. Yesterday was our first FHE with the new FHE family. It was fun being an FHE Dad. I got all of my homework done last night, that was good. I worked at a little booth Dancer's Company has to promote our concert. It was fun. I get to talk to random people as they walk by. I hope that everyone in my family is the friendly type of person that acknowledges people when they are talking to them, 'cause it is just rude to ignore people as you walk by. Even if you just say no thank you! School is going fine. Ballet is killing me!!! That is a very taxing dance form. It is really hard on your body and zaps all your energy. I hope everyone is enjoying California. I think about it every day. There's something not right about it being 19 degrees outside and the sun has been out for several hours. If global warming is happening let it, parts of the world could do with some warmer temperatures.

Well everyone take care.

Performance Time

So I am super busy right now. I have rehearsals every night of the week and then performance on Thurs. Fri. and Sat. Then we leave for our tour the following week early on Fri. I'm super excited. Tour is gonna be great.

I am busy writing a paper that I will be submitting to be published in the college journal. I hope it goes well. I'm also trying to keep up with my homework and my calling. That's about everything. I don't have a lot of time for dating right now but hopefully when I get back from tour. I hope you are all well. I miss Cali. so bad. It has been pretty darn cold up here.

A few quick Experiences

The first week of class went well. I have decided against take 17 credits. I will be missing a week with Dancer's Company Tour and we have a performance we are getting ready for so we are having a lot of rehearsals.
13 credits will do for this busy semester. Rehearsals are going well as are my new classes. I got all A's two B+'s and a C last semester. The C was in Human Anatomy one of the hardest classes at BYU. I'm just glad it was a C I was expecting a C-.
I started my new job teaching Gymnastics. My classes are all fun. They are all boy classes except my Tumbling class which is mixed boys and girls. My favorite experience from my classes was in the tumbling class. It's a class of young teenagers and all of the boys have pretty long hair
(longer than my), it’s what's in right now. One of the boys in the middle of class asked me "why do you keep flicking your hair, you have nothing to flick?" I told him to, "Be Quiet" and just went on but I thought it was so funny. I guess I kinda toss my hair without realizing it but it was really funny that this kid mentioned it and said I didn't have any reason for doing it!
So whoop dee do. That didn't sound as cool writing it out.
My second cool experience this week happened in my Modern Dance Teaching Methods class. I asked the class if everyone had purchased the packet because I was going to drop the class and didn't need mine anymore. So everyone knew I would be dropping at this point. After class a professor, from the dance department who is sitting in on the first half of the semester, came up to me and told me she was sad that I would be dropping the class. She said she felt that the intelligence level in the class would drop 50%. It was quite the compliment. We talked for a bit and she just told me that I was very intelligent among many other nice things. She asked me if I have felt miss understood my whole life. And one of the nicest things she said was that prophets are never understood in their time. I know she wasn't saying I would be a prophet but she was pointing out my deep thinking and the fact that I have a lot of potential.
So hopefully I will be able to tap into my potential and do something great in my life. It's funny since she pointed it out I've just been noticing different interactions one of which happened today. I asked a professor a question and she totally didn't answer my question but gave me an answer that had nothing to do with what I asked. She didn't understand what I asked but thought I asked a stupid question and answered me back with a subtly demeaning tone and I felt stupid and I just said, "OK." I wasn't going to fight with this professor in the middle of class. So I just forgot about the matter but the girl next to me leaned over and said she knew what I was asking!!! So either, we're both crazy or I am at least semi intelligent. But thinking about it, this experience happens pretty often. A lot of the time I just stop asking questions because people don't understand where I'm coming from. Even though this is BYU there still aren’t a huge number of deep thinkers maybe a high percentage but not 100% by any means, not even 50%.
Well I'm not all full of myself now, it just made me feel better not to be the dumb kid for once, cuz that is how I have grown up feeling.
I hope you all, my family and friends are doing well! It's semi good to be back at school and working toward my goal. I miss California but that is just more reason to hurry up and finish. Maybe I will find some hot genius girl to marry this semester!!!

New Semester

Well school starts in the morning. I am excited and worried at the same time. I am sick still and Mondays will be really busy for me this semester. I hope tomorrow goes well! My roommates seem cool enough. That's good. I miss everyone at home already. I can't wait for my next trip home!!! I hope everyone is enjoying their 2008 so far. I have already watched my Evan Almighty movie three times since I got it. It's a great one.
I don't think I have any more random thoughts so I'll just say Goodnight. Everyone take care!

Christmas and Back at school!!!

Christmas was great! It was awesome to go home and see my family. It has really made me motivated to get through school faster. I'm sick and I think it is because I really didn't want to come back up here. It sucks. I met my first new roommate and he seems cool. This semester should be better in that respect. Because I am motivated to get done now I have decided to take 17 credits. That is a lot but I WANT TO GET DONE!!!
I have to leave now to go back to rehearsal. I hope everyone is ready for a great year. I know I am. This year is going to be great!!!

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!!!