Easter....Hawaii Style

Easter

Okay family....I know that it has been forever, I'm sorry. Life has just been so crazy busy it seems. So Easter was pretty boring around here, nothing special or anything. So, on Tuesday we decided that we wanted to have a better Easter. Well, Wednesday was a Hawaiian Holiday so we had no school, so Lisa and I decided we wanted to go on the best easter egg hunt of all time. We colored the eggs, six of them, got in our swimming suits, got the snorkling gear and then through the eggs into the ocean and snorkled for them. We came out with one egg and eleven golf balls. Not quite sure how that works out, but it was fun non the less. I got a little burned yesterday though and so for the first time I have my first Hawaiian sun burn. Well, it's late and that is all I can think to write about. I will try to stay more on top of this. Loves!

Winter Ball

WAHOO! I got asked to winter ball! I don't know how that makes the rest of you feel but it makes me feel FABULOUS! The ball is on April 4th and it is on "The Star of Honolulu" a cruise ship!!!!! it's a formal dance...well, sorta. They want you to look nice. We load the ship, it pulls away from the harbor and then we eat and dance the night away for 4 hours and then go home. How awesome is that!!!! Well, to prevent having to spend money I am going to make my outfit, or, I have access to the costume shop so I might go find something cool to wear from there. I'm so excited to go though...maybe I could talk mom into buying me a new easter dress?....;) Dad said that being on a cruise shop might work out well because if Ben is a bad date then i can just push him overboard and the problem will be solved....:) ben is going to be a great date. he is a local and an RM. We are good friends and he is actually my roommates boyfriends cousin. It's going to be fabulous. I'm just so excited. I didn't think I was going to get to go and now and I do!!! WHOOPY

A letter to Dad

You know the most interesting part about the students at this univeristy is that most of them are first generation, and only memebers in their family. Such is the story with May. May was born and raised in Vietnam and when is was 13 years old she saw some mormon missionaries walking along the streets. She decided to go talk to these Americans. Well, as the story progresses we know that May was later baptized into the church. However, her family is not. Though they allowed for her baptism you wouldn't exactly call them supportive of her decision to enter the church. She has one older sister also. May's parents still live in Vietnam and it has been one year since she has seen them. Her sister moved to California to go to school and now is staying there because she likes it so much. She is not married, but does have a boyfriend. May chose to come to BYU-Hawaii for her education. She came because she wanted to know what it was like to be surrounded by LDS kids. Also, she wants to find a husband who can take her to the temple and live with her for time and all eternity. That is the story of Beautiful May. She has a great personality and has taught me a lot about Vietnam. The most interesting thing I've found is that we were talking about the language differences and I was telling her what all of the Asian languages sound like to Americans and then she said that when they first heard English is sounded like, "pspspospspsopspssssspspspsps" All they can here are p and s. It was so funny to hear that because I've never gotten the perspective before. May is also thinking about serving a mission, and if i come back here in the fall she would like to live with me.

Well, in other news. I have this huge crush on this boy at work and I'm not very good at the dating game. I'm trying to be, but it's not working out so well. School work and beach time are doing wonderfully. I counted the other day and I only have 45 more days here until I come home. INSANE huh? I was pretty sad about it. I can't believe how fast the time has gone. It's seems as though it was just the blink of and eye. Life just keeps going by faster and faster and I feel as though I can never catch up. Well, that's all the news I have for now. I love you all!

Hello Friends. I don't have a ton to say today, but I'm a little bored so I thought that I would just update my blog. I kind of got homesick today. I just really missed my family and having a full time job that I could make good money at and everything. But, I got over it okay, it just happened so quickly. I'm so tired tonight. It's only 9:30 and I feel exhausted. I'm thinking that ignoring my body will be a bad thing and I should definitly just sleep if it's tired and get up early and finish all the homework and stuff. I've made a great new friend. Her name is May Pham, she is from Vietnam. She is the cutest little person ever! She is 20 years old like me and I'm about 4 times her size, she is just so tiny. She really is becoming one of my greatest friends. I met her at work and I adore her very presence! Well, that's all the news for me. I'll try to get more pictures posted soon. Still haven't figured out how to post that slide show...any advice?

a slide show

I've uploaded a bunch of pictures into a slide show from slide.com for you all to look at but I can't figure out how to get them onto the website now...please help

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Sorry that it has been so long since I blogged last. But, as you know the boys came out to visit and I've been spending all of my free time with them. It was so much fun to have them here and I absolutely loved it! We did all of the regular tourist things such as Pearl Harbor the Polyonisien Culture Center, the Beach. We also island hopped to Maui where we spent time with old friends, saw the houses we used to live in and did lots of the tourist stuff there also. It was a much needed and much enjoyed vacation, however, I was very excited for it to be done and to get back to my normal life. It's hard sometimes for someone to come visit you esecially when you live in a place like Hawaii because it's their vacation but this is my life and sometimes it's hard to balance out the difference. I loved spending time in Maui, and infact if I ever stayed in Hawaii for a long period of time I would choose Maui...it's so beautiful and just so friendly. You cannot find people like you find in Hawaii anywhere else in the world. They truly are marvelous. The boys also had a good time while they were here, picking up on the babes and basking in the Sunlight in the beautiful month of February.
There was a surprise waiting for me when I got home. I recieved a letter in the mail from the BYU Jerusalem Center program...and surprisingly enough I got in! They only take 80 kids a sememster, half boys half girls...and I got in! You can ONLY go for a semester and you can ONLY go once...so this truly is a once in a lifetime opportunity. I'm excited to take it though, though it is a very pretty penny. But, I'm going to exhaust all options on how to pay for it, because in 30 years I will be so sad if I look back and know that I didn't got because of the money. I got accepted for Summer semester so I'll be gone June 24-August 14. The Miss Grantsville pageant wasn't till the 28th of June but I talked to the lady and they said they would move it to the 21st so that I could still take this opportunity and get my scholarship money. Everthing just seems to be falling into place and I'm living the dream...I'm doing exactly what I've always wanted to do.
There is one slight problem though. I don't know if this happened to all you before you got married or if it ever happens to you now, but do you ever just get the urge to snuggle. Well, if you don't good for you, but sometimes I get it bad. All I want to do is just sit really close to someone and lean on his shoulder and just sit there forever and talk. Well, the problem with this senario is that I don't have that someone, and it's hard to find that someone when I'm leaving for the summer and stuff. So, that part kind of stinks, and not everyday, but sometimes I really get upset about this problem. It's a terrible kind of lonely feeling. Please tell me I'm not the only one to experience this?
Okay, I just saw the hugest coacroach ever! The bugs here are giant. It's so crazy how large they can get. School is going well, i'm definitly ready for a break. I had to walk out on a tennis class today because I got so stressed out at the teacher that I had to just leave before I voiced my opinion. I didn't know what else to do. I feel like a terrible person now and I know I need to go and talk to her one on one now but that will be so hard for me. But, I guess it's the hard things that make us stronger. Have you ever had an experience like this before where you just couldn't hold your anger any longer and all you could think to do was leave...or am I the only one to ever loose control?
Well, this blog is getting long, I better leave and I'll just add more later. Loves hugs and more!