Back to School...Again

The rest of Spring Break was fantastic! We went home Sunday, I was in Avondale for like 10 minutes and then Jenkin and his dad came and picked me up and took me to Yuma where we ate dinner and then Jenkin and I drove back to Tucson. So much driving. I don't want to go on another road trip for years. There was construction on the road back to Tucson so it took us like 6 hours. It was ridiculous. At one point we went 4 miles in an hour. Ahhh. But we got home safely.
Monday I was sick or something so I stayed home all day. Tuesday I got a haircut. So did Jenkin. Haha. It was precious. I told the lady that I was trying to grow my hair out... But then she cut it suuuuper short. But its whatevs. It'll grow back out.
The rest of the week was just normal, lots of homework, some hanging out and such. Friday I did laundry at my aunt and uncle's and Jenkin tagged along. My aunt and uncle also fed us dinner and it was quite tasty. Then I made a cake for Bethany and a cupcake for Victoria to celebrate their birthdays.
Saturday I had a study session for my Art History test, it was fun. I love that group of kids (Zac, Joseph, Ali). All of them will be on missions next year. Its going to be a strange transition. Then we had a little get together where we watched the UA basketball game (because UA is in the Elite Eight wooooohoooo) but they lost against UConn. It was a stressful and depressing five minutes. Then we (Bethany, Sean, Johnny, Jenkin, Sterling, Victoria, Justin, Amy, Lyndsay, Brittany, and I. Maybe some other people....) ate cake and played games and such.

Jenk, me, Amy attempting a three person piggy back

Joseph at the study session

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Bethany and her cake

Jenkin tried on one of my shirts because his got wet. It was amusing.

Bethany's cake and Victoria's cupcake (her cupcake was filled, and it was pretty challenging to do because I don't have any tips or icing bags or anything. So I used a ziploc bag and a pen cap. I think I'm going to purchase a basic cake decorating kit for myself for Easter or something).

Zac made us cinnamon rolls for the studying!

But Ali frosted them.

It was a good weekend. On Sunday Jenk had a concert so I drove him to it and watched- it was with a choir and they were super good. I was really impressed. Jenkin did a good job too.

This week has just been normal so far. For FHE we had a belated Pi-day celebration. It was fun. I love my ward. And Jarom (my FHE partner). He works so hard and does a fantastic job in his calling. He's great. After FHE I went to Ultimate Frisbee but I was terrible. Then I went to campus and watched some Art History films with Jenkin. I hate those films.

This morning I had a waffle (waffle Tuesdays at the institute= 25 cent waffles. YAY!) and then I played around the world ping pong with Kathleen, Sterling, and Lars. It was great. Then Anthony, Brittany, and I went and looked at an apartment. It was sketchy.

I'm pretty much a content person. I love how this semester has been going.

I am going to live with Amy and Kirstin next year. That will be great. I'm looking for someone to share my room with. I'm going to have Luna. That's exciting. She got a haircut too. Its so cute. I love her. I miss her.

Chanda C. :)

Oh. Jenkin and my haircuts:

Epic Spring Break

Ooooh man, life is still rockin.

My night hike with Kathleen was great. She made this delicious picnic and the view was spectacular!

Kathleen and I :)

The rest of the weekend just flew by, it was fun. Then last week was terrible. I had absolutely no motivation. I went to Ultimate Frisbee on Monday night, it was awesome! I actually did a pretty decent job at it too. Then on Tuesday I went to Applebee's with Justin, Brittany, and Jenkin. It was really fun. Wednesday during my Institute class I decided to go to Avondale to visit my family and my aunt Darla who was visiting from Minnesota. So I took off after class. It was super fun. I enjoyed getting to see Luna and my family. I had to come back on Thursday night to go to a play with Zac, that was also enjoyable. We went to Pei Wei before the play- soooo delicious. After the play we went to BTO (a frozen yogurt place) with Brennan, Michelle, Jenkin, Sterling, Amy, and Justin.

Jenk and Sterling at BTO

Michelle, Brennan, Zac, Justin at BTO

Darla and I at lunch (Rosita's or something)

Taryn and Dayna at lunch

Amy at BTO

It was fun. Friday Amy, Jenk, and I took off. We went to Yuma and stayed the night with Jenk's family. Yuma has a castle. It is so cool. Then on Saturday we (Jenk, Kira, Amy, and I) got up early and drove to Cali. We dropped our stuff off at Amy's grandparent's house and they made us blueberry pancakes (mmm) and then we went and picked up Bryce Addison and went to Six Flags. It was sooo fun! :) :) :) So lovely. We had tons of fun. We got stopped by border patrol like 3 times but they never asked me what my country of origin was. And we stopped in this little town in California that was pretty much Mexico. It was crazy. We were lucky that Kira understands Spanish.

Jenk and I. Wearing superhero shirts.

Jenk, me, and Bryce Addison making frowny faces.

Me, Amy, and Kira. :) :) :)

I love Bryce Addison.

Then on Monday we went shopping (because California weather warranted long pants and I had only brought shorts) and then Amy dropped me off with my family at the hotel in Cypress!!! On Tuesday we went to DISNEYLAND!!!!!!!! :) It is so lovely. I love my family.

On Wednesday we got in line for It's a Small World and my mom started talking about this one time where this family we knew (last name: Webb) was standing in front of us when all of a sudden I felt a punch on my arm and AMY WEBB was right in front of us with her family. We rode in the same boat, totally coincidentally. It is a small world after all. Heh-heh.

Tower of Terror model poses.

Awh, he's so good looking.

See no evil, Speak no evil, Hear no evil.

MIB poses. My siblings are dang good looking.

<3 my sisters

Space Mountain poses. Deuces.

Mel unfortunately got chicken pox or something so she has been stuck in the hotel room for the past two days :( I feel so bad for her. But we're getting year passes so we'll come back which is good.
I'm going to go watch World of Color.

Peace!
Chanda C.

The holder of annual passes for both Magic Mountain and Disneyland :D

Me like hockey!

Ahhhh, life is good.

I've been rocking school lately (except Nutrition.. ugh..). This past week I had a performance in acting (but it kept getting pushed back so I didn't end up doing it..), a written midterm in acting, an oral exam in Italian, a written midterm in Italian, and a Nutrition quiz. Uuuggh. Haha. I was so stressed. But its done! And I feel  like I did a good job!
I got a B on my last Nutrition test. And I GOT AN A in ART HISTORY!!!! :) :) :) I was so happy about it.

I also ordered a longboard. I succumbed to the temptation. But I definitely don't regret it. Its wonderful.
Justin made me stencils for the bottom :)
And my wheels are orange!!

The words say Life of a Cynic Longboards :)

AAAHHH! :) :) :)

The artist :)

I love it. <3

Also, I went to my first hockey game! It was soooo much fun! I loved it. A lot. UA lost in overtime to ASU. :( boo. But I had a lot of fun. TESTOSTERONE!!!!! Haha.

Bethany and I at the game :)

Me, Jenk, Amy, and Justin.

Zac and I. We lost our hockey game virginity together.

It's okay, our dads are converts.

I hung out a lot with my friends this week. I feel like I was compensating my stress level with slacking. Not a good idea, but it happened.

I went on a date with Jenk and Ben and Victoria (and Amy and Justin joined later). We went longboarding and geocaching and we got ice cream! It was a lot of fun! Then we went to Ben's house and watched Sherlock Holmes and some stupid YouTube videos :)

For FHE Jarom and I set up speed dating. I told a cheesy analogy about ice cream flavors and dating and then we speed dated and then had ice cream sundaes. I think most people didn't want to do it, but I think it was an overall success. :)

Speed dating!

Also this week was free FRYday at the Chick-Fil-A on campus. So we got free french fries! This was to celebrate the new ketchup packets. Which, by the way, are cool but a little silly.

Jenk

Anthony and David

Anthony

David and Zac

Zac

Bert

I decided since it was me hanging out with five guys I was pretty baller, but then Zac pointed out that I could just be lesbian... But I'm pretty attracted to guys so I don't think that's the case :)

It was fun.

After that I went to a doctor's appointment and got antibiotics for a sinus infection. It took like thirty minutes for the doctor to come into the room. Then I told him my symptoms and he reaffirmed my thought that it was a sinus infection. And then I got drugs! Woo!

I'm going to Six Flags Magic Mountain next weekend with Jenk, his sister Kira, Amy, and we're going to pick up Bryce Addison and I CANNOT WAIT!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHH! It's going to be so much fun! We're going to Yuma on  Friday and then driving Saturday morning to Cali. And I can't wait. Its gonna be so great. Then we'll go to Six Flags on Saturday and Sunday and then the beach on Monday. Then Jenk and Kira will go home and my family will come to California and we're going to DISNEYLAND!!!! :) :) :) :) seriously, this is going to be the best spring break of my life! :) I can't wait. :D

My family came and visited me last weekend before the hockey game!!! I love them so much. Awh, they're tender. My mom took some pictures but she hasn't shared them yet. So here is one I took :) Hahaha, kind of silly that is it me and my dog not even my family. But I really miss her a lot.

AAAwhhh. I love her <3

Cheers! Tonight I am going on a hike/picnic with Jenk and my mentor and her friend. I'm really excited about it.

This week is going to be tough to get through.

Chanda C. :)

Brittany's Birthday :)

Today my beautiful roommate turns 20. Woohoo!
In celebration we are going to go out to eat for dinner with a group of friends.

Speaking of groups of friends, I feel like I've made a lot of new friends this semester.
That is a fantastic feeling.

I've become a lot closer to Sean and David.
They're boys at the institute (Sean was the first student I talked to at the institute. David is his brother.)
They're super nice.
Also we (and by we I mean Brittany, Jenkin, and I) met this guy named Justin at the dance last weekend.
He's great, very funny.
I've also become friends with Ali, Zac, and Joseph. They're in my art history class.
Also, this boy named Anthony has been hanging out with us lately.
He's quite hilarious.

I seriously have the funniest people in my life.
I feel like I'm constantly laughing around them.
I love it.
So much.

Now, the happenings in my wonderful life..
I went shopping with Becky! She needed business clothes and didn't have any. So we had a fun time (because neither of us like shopping so it was easy and quick. Perfect.) :)
Last weekend there was a dance (it was technically a Valentine's Day dance, but whatev).
It was quite enjoyable!
They played Singled Out and I won a date with Jenkin.
Victoria won a date with Ben.
Anthony won a date with another girl.

That night we met Justin and went to IHOP after the dance.
We also longboarded (I love it. I want one.).
That was Lyndsay, Brittany, Justin, Jenkin, and I.

Me being all pro'd out on the board.

Lyndsay and Brittany

Jenkin and Justin

That was really fun. We were up super late.

The next night we went to see a movie together. Then we went back to our apartment and hung out. It was really fun. That group was Brittany, Jenkin, Justin, David, and Sean.

The week held many tests and homework assignments, some of which did not get done (I hate group work...)  it was good. Most of the tests went pretty well though.

I got a 99% on my Italian test.

And a 90% on my psych quiz.

Yay!

Still waiting to hear about my Nutrition and Art History tests though.

I talked to Tyler (friend from high school) for like an hour and a half on Thursday night, it was great catching up.

Zac and I finished a crossword puzzle. Okay, honestly I only helped with the last like 4 clues. But I helped FINISH it so I think that should count.

On Thursday Zac, Jenkin, and I all matched accidentally. It was pretty tender.

Our blue rectilinear patterns.

Isn't that just adorable? Also on Thursday I was invited to this scholarship awards thing, I thought it was just a dinner or something so I invited my mentor (Kathleen) to come with me. She did and it was absolutely fantastic seeing her. The dinner dealio was actually an awards ceremony and they called everyone up individually to get a certificate of academic excellence. That was pretty cool I guess.

After the awards thing and the crossword finishing Justin came to the institute with his longboard (I want.) and we did that for awhile and then went to Which Witch which is the most fantastic sandwich shop ever. Okay not really, but it definitely beat out Subway in my book. It was suuuuuuuper tasty. Then we longboarded some more and had a grand ole time.

Friday night was fun. I went to Target with Sarah! I never seem to hang out with her anymore.

There was another dance, it was actually this whole activity at Old Tucson for the YSA wards. I missed the gun show, which was sad. But the dance was great. I danced like a crazy person.

It was actually gross how much I was sweating. Bleh.

Zac and I rocked out to Bulletproof and So What. That was super fun. We were great together.

I also loved dancing with Bethany, Victoria, Anthony, and Lyndsay. We had a killer group going.

I didn't enjoy the speaker at the activity, but she talked about marriage so that isn't surprising.

After the dance we went to QT and got drinks and then went to Brittany and my apartment and talked until like 1:30. It was a really good night.

I worked out 2 times this week AND danced like a maniac last night. I hurt. Haha.

I'm on this kick where I feel like I'm not healthy so I've decided to start working out.
It'll probably go away next week, but its been nice while it lasted.

I'm starting to look for housing. I want to find a house or apartment with a yard. And roommates that will let me have my dog. I miss her greatly.

Great quotes:
Anthony: "I love fruits, like if I were Adam I would have already eaten the apple you know?"
Justin: "Do guys have a manstration period..?"
Jenkin: "His voice IS going to fade. The next day. BECAUSE of this song." (referring to a metal core singer)
Jenkin: "Cuz that could be showing too. It happens-- A LOT."
Bethany: "I bought new laundry detergent...?" (We asked if she had changed anything lately because she is on fire if you know what i mean.)
Kalee: "Her tiny clinging hairs are presents. They are tokens of her canine affection."
Brittany: "I just got flipped off by an eighty year old woman for no reason!"
Sarah and me: "Turn. Left. NO." (it was written on the road backwards so you read it as you drove but it was on a hill so you could see the whole thing..)
Bert: "Like brisk pine kissed by the dews of heaven" (it rained. MMmmmmmmmmmmm)
Bert: "Hey guys.... Hey Jenkin <3..." (you could hear the heart in his voice.)
Zac: "I love semantics. They're pretty much my fave."
Zac: "I love that I could hear you say "oh crap" during the art history test Chanda, because that's what I was thinking too."

I love my friends.
I do believe I am surrounded by the best people that this dear little life has to offer.

Chanda

The Cure to Sinus Infections

I think I have a sinus infection.
But I'm not certain.
I keep getting headaches.
And my sinuses (sini?) hurt.
But I can breathe out of my nose and it isn't runny or anything.
So that's strange.

I looked up home remedies to sinus infections.
Haha, there are some interesting things people suggest doing.
I took garlic and honey.
And vitamin C.
And echinacea.
And then I attempted an oil pull...
That was weird.

But today I feel the same plus with a little sore throat.
Dang.
I think I might need to go see a doctor :)
But I don't have a doctor here.
So I might just wait it out a bit longer.

In other news,
I'm going to a dance and a play (The Shape of Things) this weekend.
I'm pretty excited about both of those occurrences.

I also have a psych test tomorrow, and art history test on Tuesday,
and I had an Italian test yesterday.
uuugh.
But I took a nutrition quiz and got a 95% on it.
It was online and I had 4 hours to take it, so thats really not very impressive.
But I didn't look at my book and I did it in less than 5 minutes.
So I guess it was stupid.
But that's okay.

I got a Valentine's day card from my friend Kim :)
That made my afternoon.

I hate Valentine's day.
But I love that she sent me a card.

I played ping pong with my friend Sterling today.
That was great. I'm slowly getting better.

I also saw my dad last weekend.
I got to drive his Mini.
It was fantastic.
I very much enjoyed myself.
(Once I mostly got the hang of a stick shift again..)

I also fed the missionaries.

I've had a fairly productive week.

I'm going to go do more reading or homework or studying or something.

Chanda C.

Carrot Bread and Snogging

I had a Nutrition chapter test yesterday.
I thought it was for chapter one...
....
Yeah, it was for chapter 1 AND 2.
Oops.
I think I did alright though :)

And I got a 93% on my Italian! :)

Yesterday Bethany, Lyndsay, and I made carrot cake.

Or that is what it was supposed to be anyway.

We used the Institute's food processor to shred the carrots.

There was A LOT of juice so Bethany got worried that they were pureed.

So we used a recipe for pureed carrot cake.

But they were definitely shredded.

We also used half whole wheat flour.

It was THICK.

It tastes alright. Not quite sweet enough but very ... wholesome.

We still had carrots left over from the cake, so after some debate we went and I got in a bit of a carrot fight with Jenkin.

It was fun.

The carrots would leave my hand in a ball but splat EVERYWHERE when they hit Jenkin.

I very much enjoyed myself.

After that we went to Victoria's and watched Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging.

CHEESY movie.

But it was funny. I enjoyed it.

If they hadn't had British accents I don't think I would have enjoyed it.

Haha.

Funny quotes with pictures:

Bethany, me, and Lyndsay

Soooo many carrots!

Sooo many pans.

Victoria

After the carrot fight (which I totally dominated).

Bethany wrote me a fantastic song last night. But it isn't really appropriate to share on my blog....

Victoria (dropped something out of the freezer): EEK!!! ..... (looked at me, staring at her) that was too much?

Me: way too much.

Victoria (after our debate about who to throw carrots at): But ya know, throwing carrots at people isn't something you just do to anyone.

Bethany (while watching the movie and after already mentioned the amount of old people extras): What is with these people on their hover rounds!??! They're everywhere!!!

Bert (while I was shredding carrots and couldn't hear him): (making lots of crazy hand motions, and air fighting) (I turn off the food processor) ...and that was what happened in TRAD today.

HAHAHA.

I love my friends.

Today my dad may or may not be coming to visit me. If he doesn't then I'm going to hopefully get gelato with Bert and then I'm feeding the missionaries with maybe Bert and Jenkin and maybe Bethany and Lyndsay.

I also need to do laundry.

My life is so repetitive.

Chanda C.

Always Something New

Last Saturday was great.

I did laundry at my aunt's house.

Jenk came with me, it was fun.
He "pulled quarters" out of my cousin's ears. They were fascinated.

After laundry we went to The Green Hornet with Bert and Sarah.

It was a good movie! A lot of language, which is unfortunate. But still good.

Then I dropped Bert and Sarah off and started driving to drop off Jenkin, but then we realized it was only 10:00. You can't go to bed at 10:00 pm on a SATURDAY night. Especially since none of us had church until 1:00.

So we picked Bert back up and then kidnapped Amy.

Then we went to my apartment and watched Anchorman.

That movie is ridiculous.

It was a good night.

Sunday was a good day.

Linger longer after church was delicious as always.

Then I hung out with Jenkin again.

Yesterday someone that has been upset with me said hi to me.

It was weird.

But very appreciated.

I've been impressed with how many people have gotten past differences.

I was seriously concerned about social life at UA this semester.

But so far it seems to be moving along quite nicely.

This week has been busy. It just goes by so quickly.

I have 5 classes back to back on Mondays and Wednesdays.

It makes the day go by quickly, but I get so much information thrown at me.

Its ridiculous.

I am so thankful for the classes I'm taking.

They're fascinating. I love what I'm learning. Which makes it easier to learn.

I was listening to Italian radio last night and Circle of Life played (but it was in Italian).

Brittany made some seriously fantastic brownies last night too.

Mmmmm.

I'm so lucky to be rooming with her.

This semester is so much less stressful than last semester.

And considerably less stressful than I was expecting it to be.

I'm thankful for my classes, my roommate, forgiveness, and for people who care enough to hang out doing nothing.

Chanda C.