Another Week Done

This week has been jammed pack with homework, sports, and fun.

Soccer practice started on Tuesday and Thursday from 5-6. Fun stuff. We were a little rough during practice, but that is expected seeing it was the first time playing together. Thursday night was exciting. I had practice with the Hurricanes, and at 8:15-9:15 played my first rec soccer game! We are the Hot Koolades. We did played amazingly well together, especially for never practicing. We won 1-0 off of a double header goal. Awesome!

Right after winning with the Hot Koolades, I played another game with our YSA ward, the Bangaragatangs. The team is half experienced payers, and half newbies. We lost 0-4, but in our defense the other team was mostly guys and ours mostly girls (not that that is an excuse). The guys on the other team were huge. They bulldozed our players. I knocked one of the guys flat on his back. That was funny. The other team couldn't believe their best player could be knocked down by a little girl. That was the best part of the game.

Anyways, Friday night we had a Hurricane dinner at our coaches' apartment. We ate, talked, and bonded. It was a ton of fun. We got our warm up jerseys too. There were only two small jerseys. Half of our team wanted the smalls. So they let the two smallest get the smalls: My roommate Jessica and I. Thank goodness! Even the small was too big, so just imagine a medium on us.

Saturday started our Hurricane season. We had a tournament, playing 5 games total. Our coach, Alisha, was in Utah, so Kelsey our assistant coach and fellow teammate took charge. We started playing at 2. Each game is 20 minutes long; 10 minute halves without a half time. We also did not have subs. We lost our first game 0-1. We found out our formation wasn't working, so we tweaked it for the rest of our games. The next four games were back to back, starting at 2:40 and going till 4. We won the first 3, a lot to nothing. We tied our final game 0-0. We might up winning the season, you never know. Winners get a special BYUI sports shirt. That would be awesome!

After the tournament I started walking home. I saw a bunch of people practicing on the other field, and realized it was the Hot Koolades. They called me over to practice. I was so tired from playing 5 straight games, but I joined them anyways. We ended up scrimaging another group. We decided we would stop at the first to 3. We ended up losing 2-3. Oh well. That took up another hour. I was definently pooped after that.

I finally got home at 5:15. That was a lot of soccer. After showering and eating food, Megan and I watched the Relief Society Broadcast on our laptop. We were too tired to get dressed up and go down to the BYUI Center (BYUIC). I was so tired I ended up falling asleep half way through. Oops.

Anyways, that was about it. Nothing much happened today, Sunday, except church. I guess that's it..... until next time!!!!!!

Still Loving it in Rexburg!

The weather is still pretty nice. The weather says we are going to have thunder storms and rain showers tomorrow, but we'll see. I still want snow! I want to make a snowman and throw snowballs.

This week has been packed! I went to a sports meeting on Tuesday to get signed up for soccer tryouts. BYUI does sports differently. They are all in school competitive, or recreational teams. There are 6 woman's soccer teams to tryout for. At first I didn't know if I wanted to play, I will have homework to do and tests to study for, but I decided if I could play soccer in high school and still get good grades, I can do it again in college. So I went to tryouts on Thursday from 5-7:30. It was pretty fun. One of my roommates, Jessica, tried out too. After we finished we were told to return to tryouts again tomorrow at 7:30-9:30, and again on Saturday morning at 10. We didn't have to return if we got a drafting call from a coach.

 Right after Thursday's tryouts Megan texted me saying I had to meet with Bishop Sweet ASAP. I forgot!!! I was supposed to meet with him at 6:30. I had to run to the Hinkley building. I was in my soccer clothes, all sweaty. As I walked into the building everyone looked at me funny. We aren't supposed to wear shorts on campus, it is part of the dress code. Oops. I ended up meeting with Brother Smith. He gave me a calling. I am now a greeter for church. YES!!! No teaching!!!! So after the meeting I went back home and showered.

I didn't get a call from a coach, so at 7:10 on Thursday I left for soccer tryouts. I was running late. It takes about 20 minutes to walk to the 4-plex (soccer and baseball  fields down the hill from the Temple). I still had to get there and put on my cleats. Then I remembered I left my tryout number at home, so I had to turn around and grab it. Now I was really late. I had to run to tryouts. Luckily I made it with time to put my gear on, and catch my breath.

Tryouts went great. We did some basic drills: short-short-longs, possession, 2 v 2 tournaments, and corner kicks, finishing off with a scrimmage and shooting drill. One of the coaches stopped to talk to me. She wanted to know my name and what position I play. I play left wing midfield. So maybe I will get drafted, maybe not. We will see.

Saturday morning I was getting ready to go to soccer tryouts (I never got a call) when I decided to check my school email. The first email in my inbox was from the coach I talked to. I was drafted!!!! I am now a member of the Lady Hurricanes soccer team. I was so excited!!!

So now I didn't have to go to tryouts. Instead I looked up housing for next semester. Megan and I decided to save some money by staying at Aspen Village. The kitchen is only a one butt kitchen, but the bedrooms are bigger than the dorms. We also liked Birch Wood 1, but it is almost $200 more. The rooms and kitchen are bigger than Aspen, but you share an apartment with a total of 6 girls. Plus Birch Wood is near a burn zone or something, because it was all smoky there. And they don't have grass. I want to be able to make a snowman on the grass in the winter.

Yep. That is it I guess. Tomorrow, Monday, we will sign a housing contract for Aspen Village. We also happen to have Family Home Evening over there at the guys dorm. It should be fun, we are playing get to know you games. Anyways, yeah I think that's it.

Here are some pictures from this week:

Peanut Butter Chocolate Banana Shake: 2 frozen bananas, 1 1/2 Tbsp cocoa powder (we used Nesquik), 1c milk, 1 Tbsp maple syrup, 1 heaping Tbsp peanut butter. Blend together. Enjoy!

We made pretzels yesterday!  They are yummy. We didn't actually make pretzels I guess, just mini pretzel rolls.

You can't really see, but Megan got hit by sprinklers on the way to class. It looked like she wet her pants.

This was actually last week. I made peanut butter cookies. The first pan burned. It was sad. Luckily they didn't taste burned.

The second pan was perfect!

Last Sunday we decided to make tortillas. We don't have a rolling pin, so we used a cup.

They turned out all lopsided, but tasted fantastic!

Clean Checks are every Wednesday at 1. This was taken Wednesday at 12:45. We ended up getting a 100% YES!!!

This is our friend the squirrel. We keep our window open all day, to let in a cool breeze. One day Megan walked into our room and saw this little guy climbing on our screen. It jumped off before she could take a picture. We still need to think of a name for him. 

That is all for now! Until next time!

First Week of College Completed!

Classes started on the 10th here at BYUI. It has been pretty exciting. I like all my classes, and pretty much all my teachers are great. I have Book of Mormon, Writing Foundations, American Foundations, Art 101, Art 117 Design and Color, and Art 110 Drawing. I love all my art classes. Art 117 and Art 110 are both online. I have never taken an online class before, but so far so good.

As of now the weather isn't bad. It is a bit chilly in the morning, but warms up in the afternoon. I am super excited for snow. People think I am crazy, but I really, really, really want the sky to dump snow everywhere.

I have met a bunch of people from all around the country. Our ward alone represents 40 something states and I think 3 countries. It is pretty weird going to a YSA ward. It is so quiet. No babies crying or screaming toddlers. It is pretty interesting.

The weekend before classes started we were put into I Teams. Our team is definitely the BEST. We still hang out throughout the week, going to devotionals, watching movies, and playing night games. Fun, fun, fun.

Megan and I are having fun cooking too. It is funny to see how even when following a recipe, the final meal looks completely different than the way Mom cooks it at home. We are still alive, despite our cooking mishaps none the less.

 Anyways, I think that is about it. Here are a few pics ( we are horrible at taking pictures).

Delicious "Aunt Ali's Meatballs" we made last night for dinner.

Me enjoying our first actual meal.

Megan chomping down on her food.

My first college drawing assignment!