random picture, but my blog needed more color. we went sledding a couple of weeks ago!

Hey! Life's moving kinda slow, but I have been having a lot of fun! Last weekend I went Latin dancing, and went over to Brittany's apartment. Latin dancing was so much fun! RaeAnn and I went together, and neither of us knew what we were doing, but the guys that asked us were really patient, and I think I was starting to get the hang of things. one of the guys I danced with was really good. RaeAnn was watching, because she wasn't dancing at the moment, and she said that we looked really good! Yay! so it's ok that I can't dance. I went home shaking my hips. haha. that was friday night. Saturday night I went over to Brittany's apartment with Ashley. Brittany's roommates are hilarious, and we have a lot of fun, but that night we were kind of bored. We started making a list of stupid/silly things we wanted to see someone do, or something we were in the mood for. The list consisted of things like a slice of cheese, performing your favorite dance move, flaring your nostrils while crossing your eyes, band-aids, and other really random things. We went over to Bunkhouse (the guys housing that's closest to Brittany's) and asked them if the could do things, telling them we were on a scavenger hunt. I guess it was a little dishonest, but it was really fun, and we got to cross off mostly everything on our list! I think the guys had fun too. I think some of them knew what was actually going on. The best part was that we got to meet so many people. That weekend was also the barbersop festival, which turned out to be very successful. My quartet performed on Saturday, and we had a lot of fun, and the audience loved it. Yay! The week was pretty uneventful. Lot's of homework, classes, and group meetings. These are my classes this semester:

History and Philosophy of Education (Wed&Fri) @ 7:45-8:45 am
Child Developement (Tues&Thur) @ 4:45-6:15 pm
Book of Mormon (Tues&Thur) @ 12:45-1:45 pm
Band (Mon,Wed,&Fri) @ 2:00-3:00 pm
Science (M, W,&F) @ 10:15- 11:15 am
Math (M,W,&F) @11:30-12:30
Choir (M, Tues, Thurs) 3:15-3:15

This Friday I hung out with Kayla and some of her friends. We made cookies, played "It came to Pass" and watched Singin' in the Rain and Oklahoma. I was reminded how ridiculously long Oklahoma is. Geez! I won't be watching that movie for a while. I spent the night since the movie ended at around 3. Saturday night I went bowling with RaeAnn, one of her roommates, and a guy she might possibly like, although, I'm voting for the other guy. :) Then we hung out in the Aspen Village lounge and played foozeball and ate icecream. We went back to my apartment (just the two of us) and watched Psych with Laura. (Laura and I watch it together every weekend) :) Anyway, now it's sunday, and have been spending a lot of time working on a letter for Ryan. I've had a pretty good week, we'll see how this next week goes...

So I am officially terrible at this whole blog thing. It has been more than a month since I even looked at it. Dang. Oh well, I'll try to update you. I am on my second semester at BYU-Idaho, I got my braces off over Christmas break, I now have bangs for the first time since kindergarten, and my boyfriend is now on his mission. It has only been about a week, but it's weird without him. Having no braces is amazing though. I'm so happy. I'm really exciting this semester because I get to take band and choir, and Kayla is here with me. Yay! I'm also taking science, math, child developement, and the history and philosophy of education. Yeah, I have to take it before I take any other class for my major. Um, I'm still working on my barbershop quartet, and we perform on the 23rd. I'm really excited for it! We're doing really well! I went sliding with a couple of friends saturday night. It was a lot of fun, except we didn't really have sleds. We mostly used boxes, but it was a lot of fun! Anyway, maybe I'll write more later...

Well, I have succeeded in completely neglecting my blog for a long time. At the moment, I am sitting here eating the last piece of fruit that I have: A can of peaches. They are delicious. Being at college has given me a greater appreciation for food. At home, I completely took advantage of those cans of peaches. I would have rather had strawberries, so I didn't really eat the peaches. Too bad. Peaches are delicious. Ok, sorry. I haven't written on my blog in weeks, and when I finally do, I rant about the glory of peaches-- they are delicious though. Anyway, Thanksgiving was fun. I learned to knit, and I finished my first project. Yay! I also got a cold that I am still suffering from though. not yay. Apparantly, I got it from Becky, who got it from Lana, who got it from this guy named Josh. I blame Josh. I'm starting to get better, but I still have an embarrassingly loud and obnoxious cough. ): I am having a hard time staying focused on school, when I know I'll get to come home soon. I'm so excited. Yesterday I had a great surprise though! Grandma Konnad sent me cookies! Yay! They are delicious. She sent me some sweaters too, but they weren't nearly as exciting. I have to admit, I was hoping for more edible type things. It was really nice during thanksgiving, when I was at the Froelich's house, to have actual meals, and have everybody sit around the table and eat together. I'm just ready for this semester to be over. I'm really sad though. I want to bring my guitar home. If my case was 4 inches shorter, it would only be $25 to bring it home. Because of those four inches, it would be $175 to bring it there, and that's just one way. Depressing. My guitar will be lonely over Christmas Break. I'm excited to go home. I just finished my last peach. No more fruit. Fruit is the product of God wanting to make candy healthy for us. So, now i'm on the subject of fruit and peaches again, so I should probably just stop.
Love, Emma

11/18

I finally got signed up for classes today! yay! I had to call my account adviser to figure out how to pay when I didn't have a mastercard or checks. Then I had to call my bank to figure out my route number and my account number. They gave me my route number, but they wouldn't give me my account number over the phone so I had to look online at my last statement. I finally paid from my checking account, and registered for classes. I have 17 credits. Does Kayla know where she's living yet? What classes is she taking? She should take Book of Mormon with me. Im taking BoM 122 from 12:45 to 1:45 form Brother Dorman. I guess if she's already registered for classes it wouldn't make sense to mix it up again but it would be fun to share a class! I also took care of my scholarship today. I called the counselor last friday, and he told me to contact this one lady, so i googled her and found her office number, and she told me what to mail, and what address to send it to. I put it in the mailbox this afternoon, so I should have my scholarship soon! My classes for next semester are math 108, History and Philosophy of Education, American Foundations, Book of Mormon (the second part), Natural Disaster Science (this one has a field trip), Womens choir, and Child Developement. I'm pretty excited for next semester. I'm really excited for Christmas though! Anyway, I was very responsible today, and made a lot of scary phonecalls to strangers. I got up at 7:45 today and walked to class, and on the door it said class was cancelled. I was relieved because I was 5 minutes late, but i was also annoyed because my next class wasn't until 12:45. I COULD HAVE SLEPT IN!! Anyway, it wasn't that big of a deal though because I went back to sleep when I got home anyway. I was interrupted and had to walk in the cold though. I had science today too. I studied differently last night, and so it went really well, and I took really good notes. I have a test after thanksgiving break that I'm really nervous for. I've taken two tests for the class and got a D on both of them. Hopefully I'll do better this time. I'm doing really well in all of my other classes. Hope everything is good with all of you, and thanks for adding money to my checking account!
Love, Emma

11/17

Well, I lost my frisbee game. Sad day. The other team didn't really deserve to go to championship. Our team had only lost one game before that, and that team had only won a couple of games the whole season. They just added a new player at the last miute. lame. I don't even know who won the championship. I hope it was the Vikings. They are the only team that beat us fairly. I guess I'm being a sore loser, but our team was really good. Anyway, we're getting ready for our Christmas concert in choir. I'm excited. My roommates and I listened to Christmas music yesterday while we made homeade pizza. We had Pat over for dinner too. It was fun. We also went stadium singing last night. Stadium singing is every sunday, a bunch of people just stand under the stadium and sing hymns. Last night was only primary songs so it was a lot of fun. Saturday Laura's friend Daniel came over. He lives in Idaho Falls (about 20 mins away). We all went bowling and went to the movie Eagle Eye. Daniel is really wierd. He is our age, but he acts like he's 15. It bothers me, but he's Laura's friend, and Laura's pretty much my best friend that's out here, so I put up with him. In English we had to write a persuasive essay. It has been a stressfull experience, but I got my first draft done this morning. whew! Also, I can't register for classes because I still owe $135 from this semster and I don't have checks or a master card. They won't let me pay with my Visa. Lame. I called the accounting office, but I thought it was open until 6, and it closed at 5. So, hopefully, I can find a solution to this problem. blech. I'm excited for thanksgiving! I'll be in Montana with the Froelichs. Becky is driving right through Rexburg, and I have all week off, but BYU still has school Mon and Tues, so Becky and some friends are picking me up Tuesday night. It should be fun. Actually, I'm more excited to see Mary than Becky. It wouldn't tell either of them that though. Oh, I don't have any "anytime" minutes on my phone left, so if you want to talk to me, you'll either have to call me after 8 (your time) or at my apartment phone. I'm sad I'll miss the stockade this year. I miss you all! Except for Lucy. I don't really miss her stench and fur... sorry Mia.
Love, Emma