A Week of Stress, Essays, and Blessings

This week has been crazy busy. But then, again, every week is. Sunday, I made a goal to stay happy and optimistic all week no matter how stressful it got. I did really well until Thursday night. I had to write a 2200 word paper which was due the next day (today) and I had not even started. And it wasn't that I had really procrastinated it. I mean, of course I had, but it wasn't like I was putting it off to hang out with people or anything fun like that; I was just doing OTHER homework, like the American Heritage paper that was due Thursday. So yeah, I was stressed out and I took my laptop to the library to work on it there for the rest of the night. I even skipped my voice class to give me more time to work on the essay. Then, while I was texting my mom about my plans to get down to Vegas for Thanksgiving, my phone died. So I had to go all the way BACK to my dorm to charge my phone so I could finish the conversation. That stressed me out so bad, I think I was ready to hit someone. Then one of my FHE brothers, who is also in American Heritage, tapped me on the shoulder on the way back to my dorm and asked me how I was doing. After telling him how stressed I was because I hadn't even started my essay yet, he offered to send me an email with some examples of things to use in the paper. It was such a blessing! I was able to get most of it done (with the help of ice cream) last night and this morning I finished it and turned it in. That is such a relief to get that off my hands.

Oh and did I mention that yesterday I also took a Spanish test? Yeah, it was a pretty stressful day.

Today has been a pretty great day so far though. My Anthropology lab got cancelled and our quiz in Spanish got cancelled and my Spanish class got out early. Lexi and I cleaned up our room and it spells a lot like pledge, Windex, and 409 right now -a wonderful smell.

Oh yeah, last Saturday I participated in Dance Sport. That was so much fun! Dance Sport is a competition for ballroom dance. My partner and I danced the cha-cha. It was kind of stressful in the beginning because my partner slept in and so we missed round one of Dance Sport. With each round, the judges select who they like to continue on to the next level. We missed it. But the man in charge said he would sneak us into round 2. I was so nervous! But when I found out we got to go to round 3, I started to relax and just have fun with it. And I did! I really love the cha-cha. We made it through the first seven rounds all the way to the quarterfinals which was later that night (the first 7 rounds were in the morning). Didn't get past the quarterfinals, but it was still a WHOLE LOT farther than I expected us to get.

Then Sunday morning before church, our FHE group took family pictures. We are missing one girl so we will have to retake them some time, but it was a lot of fun taking those pictures. The guys were being pretty silly, and we were all laughing pretty hard.

Monday night was FHE, and that was a dinner at the Bishop's house. It was nice to have a real meal that I didn't have to cook. We squeezed most of our FHE group at a little table in their living room and we joked around and laughed a lot. It was so much fun! Our FHE boys are absolutely amazing. They are so sweet and funny. Three, possibly four, of them are leaving at the end of the semester, however, and that is making all of us girls very sad. Two are going on a mission. Two are just leaving us. I am going to miss them so much.

Well tonight there is a stake dance and next week I am only going to classes on Monday, and then Tuesday morning I am taking the shuttle to St. George where my sister will pick me up and take me home to Vegas for Thanksgiving! I am so excited!! I miss my family so much.

Well that is my week so far. Tomorrow we have cleaning checks and then I will probably be taking it easy after such a hard week. Can't wait until next week!