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Semester Memories

Ok, so I know I said I'd post after my final last Wednesday, but I decided to wait a little while so I could remember every thing I wanted to tell you about my semester. In the past week I've remembered lots of fun...and not so funny....memories from the semester. Some made me and my friends laugh, while others made us want to cry (or loose our lunch, but hey, its anatomy class...what do you you expect :-) )
So my hope is that this post will make you laugh and bring some joy to your day.......

• We were warned on the very first day in anatomy class that we would be dissecting a cat mid-semester. Yeah, not exactly the news you want on the first day of class. However, we all tried to joke about it and tried not to dread that day too much. So, a few weeks before 'cat day' me and my friend Ashely were in the lab room studying some slides before an exam that afternoon. While we were there a rather large box was delivered to the room with our instructors name on it. Convinced that the box contained our little cat friends, we tried to ignore it and continue studying our slides. However, curiosity got the best of us and we wandered over to get a closer look. Everything about the box said "MEOW" to us :-) We decided to take a peek inside.....A copier machine! Relief and disappointment hit us at the same time :-)

• Cat day came! Clad in aprons and a double layer of plastic gloves is how you found Me, Ashley, and Shayla. Its not that we didn't want to do it, we were actually getting kind of excited...we just didn't want it on us. However, somehow in the process of pulling off cat fat, Shayla slipped with her tweezers and sent a HUGE piece of fat flying toward Ashley. It landed right in the middle of her arm and sent fat juice onto her face. Needless to say it was a topic of our discussion the rest of the semester :-)

• Ashley and I were studying in the Library for an exam that afternoon when the fire alarm went off. Everyone was evacuated from the school and sent to the parking lot. However, as soon as we got outside they sent us back in.....We figured it was just a drill. I was talking to another friend later and found out a theater student was practicing his scene with the smoke machine and set off the alarm on accident. "Whoops" is about all he could say :-)

• Due to having some house guests, I missed a day of school. We had a quiz in math that day, so I had to go to the math lab to make it up. I sat down to take the quiz, and quickly began to freak out! I didn't know anything that was on the quiz! None of it looked familiar; even the way it was set up looked different than the way my instructor normally did her quiz'. Nobody was in the room, so I sneaked into the file cabinet with all the quiz' and found that the 'math lab person' had given me the wrong quiz! *breaths a sigh of relief.....*

• Word of advice: never listen to the conversation of your classmates who sit behind you in class.....you probably don't want to know what they're talking about.....'nuf said :-)

• In my sociology class I was often know as 'the pencil girl'. How college students can show up on exam day without a pencil is beyond me! I always carried extra in my bookbag and let me assure you that every week in Sociology, every one of those pencils was being used by my classmates.

• Due to two weeks of Sociology class being canceled, me and my 'team members' put together a 20 minute presentation at 7:00 one Tuesday evening.....class started 7:30 :-) Hey, what could we do...it snowed for two weeks! The pressure must of helped because our group received one of the highest grades on the presentation.

• There was a guy in my Sociology class from Ethiopia! How cool is that! He has only been in the US for a few months.....well, since the beginning of the semester. None of us could say his name, so we all just called him Hizzy.

Well, that's all for now. I'm sure there is more, but I have all of break to remember and post :-) I'm glad to have a break, but I'm looking forward to next semester. I really enjoyed meeting so many new people, and classes kept me occupied. In fact, I feel lost without my friends and classes.......

For Your Enjoyment

Well, blog readers, I don't have much time to post but I have several pictures that I've been wanting to share with you. Enjoy!









My family's Thanksgiving day table. Before we ate Cosette and Eli both said their 'thankful' Bible verse and then Cosette said the blessing on the food

Afterwards a stressful game of Cooties was won by my mom.....aka Grandma Karen. Grandma Rosina (background) was an amazing referee.

In the end, the winning and losing teams kissed and made up :-)

We celebrated my cousins birthday on Thanksgiving too. Grandma Rosina was quite creative and brought along a pumpkin shaped birthday cake.

Cosette and I after a long evening of playing. She spent the night with us a few nights ago and I realized even more how much she is growing up

My dad with his namesake, Noah Shaun.

On November 1st I took a bus trip to New York City with some friends. We had an amazing time! We were very amused, however, to discover that the only place you can find trees in NYC is on top of buildings! And even then they're more like little twigs stuck in the ground.

On September 27th, I took a bus trip with my friend Lacey to Washington DC. We spent the day visiting the Lincoln Memorial, World War 2 Memorial, Washington Memorial, the Arlington Cemetery, Vietnam Memorial, the Tomb of the Unknown soldier, and the Holocaust Museum....quite the busy day! We had a blast though...

You probably won't hear too much from me in the next week or so. This is where you will find me....comfy on the couch studying for finals next week. It seems like just yesterday I posted about the beginning of the semester....now its finals week already!

Well, I'll post next week when my stress level has dropped a little...probably Wednesday around 3pm, after my last final.... :-)

Have a blessed week!