Public Speaking can BITE ME! & Why do kiwis have SO MANY seeds?

This weekend was great! It was very productive and I felt very relaxed and I got most of my homework done! Friday night i stayed in and hung around with the girls. It was really nice. We watched two movies and just chatted. I played a game (or 5) of UNO and then went to bed.

Saturday I had to go to the Boost Africa gallery and work. I was so excited! I love it there! It is such a great environment! Mary, the director is from Canada, so it’s nice to talk to her about American stuff and she understand me! Plus the gallery is right on the beach and the view, wow…you can’t get much better! I got there at 10am and stayed until 4pm. I thought that I was going to be there alone all day and able to get some homework done, but Mary was there as well and we worked the whole day on getting an application ready to send to the UN. We are asking a Women’s Guild for money. So that had to be competed and sent in by the end of the day, so it took up most of our time.

At 4pm, Emily came and picked me up and I was able to have a WONDERFUL evening with her and Greg. We went to the movies and saw The Book of Eli. Have you seen it? It’s AWESOME! I really loved it. Greg didn’t believe me when I said that Eli was blind…he didn’t get that part. Whatever! I was right, and I know it! =)

Then we had some GREAT pizza at a little restaurant. It was half outdoors and it was a beautiful night. I love this city!

I got back to the campus right as they were starting UNO. So I quickly put my stuff away and joined in on the fun. We started playing about 9pm. And at 12:15 we were told to hush up, so we moved to another part of the campus. Where we played till 1:30. So FUN! You would think we would get tired of it, right? But no, we just want more! The only reason we stop playing at night is because usually most of us are avoiding our homework and then someone becomes responsible and decides to leave, which triggers all of us to leave. This was a Saturday night…so we just kept on playing! The guys walked us girls back to our dorms, like gentlemen, and then we called it a night.

I got up the next morning, Sunday, and grabbed my homework and went into the lounge. I popped in a movie and started working.

I got about ½ a page in one notebook read the WHOLE DAY! But I did watch 6 movies. So that might have hindered the homework thing. I watched some of the stupidest movies, but we have a selection of about 10 movies total. Lame. The movies that I watched today were as follows, in order of appearance, The Last Holiday, College Road Trip, Brown Sugar, Cheetah Girls, The Beauty Shop and Bratz. Like said, not the best selection. At midnight, the last movie ended and I decided to go to my room to do my homework, cause, well…obviously, the lounge was not a productive place for me!

It’s now 1:45am. I have complete one of 4 subject’s homework. I will get it done in a bit.

While I was here on the computer, checking an email, I head this little noise behind me. I could not identify it. So I quickly turned around and looked at my bed and there was a HUGE beetle on my blanket, where my pillow is. (who had come in from my open window above my bed) This thing really was huge! Like nearly the length of my pinky finger. I thought for a moment that I would just leave it, but then re-thank that and realized that if I finished what I was doing on the computer, and then went to take care of him and then I couldn’t find the beetle, there was NO WAY I would have gotten into bed. I don’t do beetles! So I got up and walked toward my bed.

At this point, I am not knowledgeable enough in beetles to know if they fly, or do they jump or do they just crawl like as fast as blink, like some bugs? So, since the beetle stopped moving, I stopped moving, not knowing what it was going to do. I thought about grabbing a book and smashing it, but then I thought, “no Heidi, you LIKE your blanket, and don’t have the energy to go wash it tonight from the beetle juice” so then I grabbed a flip flop and was going to try and smash it on the side of the bed, you know, like hit it from the side and push it through the air to the side of the bed ? (yeah, I actually thought that might work for second) Then I just KNEW that wouldn’t work, so grabbed my trusty water bottle, thinking I would trap him! Like Leonard, who never returned, sadly) so I had the bottle in my hand and I kind of hovered over the bed, mostly scared, but also telling myself “Heidi, you are a billion times this bugs size! Get over it! Just get him already!” I am BAD at pep talks! But I did it! I shoved the bottle on him and put the cap on! I picked up the bottle and…no beetle. WHAT?!?!!?

The beetle was GONE! He was not in or on the bottle, he was not on my blanket anymore, and I didn’t see him fly off or jump off the bed. You know what the only option was? That he crawled UNDER the cover! Do you know how much this GORSSED me out? SERIOUSLY! Now, for sure if I didn’t find him, I was not even going to sleep in my ROOM , let alone my bed! I pulled the blanket off my bed slowly, just in case he decided to jump at me! I still had my bottle in my hand, so I was ready! (at this point, the bottle was upside down in my hand like a bat!) I pulled the blanket all the way off the bed and still, no bug! I checked under my pillow, no bug. I checked on the floor, no bug. So, it had to be holding on tight to the blanket on the underside is what I decided. I slowly sort of semi kicked / tapped the blanket with my toes. Nothing. So then I got real brave and was going to pick up the blanket and shake it. I know crazy huh! I grabbed my Public Speaking book, just in case, and quickly grabbed the blanket, shook it and threw it! There he came, the beetle I hated! He started to run towards my dresser so I just dropped the book on him! SO SATISFING! A.)I killed a bug! B.) I got to throw my Public Speaking book! C.) I was able to STOMP on my Public Speaking book, which then CRUSHED the stupid bug!
I left it like that. I went back and finished my email and then wrapped things up with my computer and then did some homework and then decided to go back to it. I picked up the book and looked and the bug. They are SO UGLY! I don’t understand the point of them! God could have at least put a little colour in them! Ugh! I grabbed a tissue and picked him up. Then I took pictures, cause, I knew you would want to see! Am I right?



See..he’s ugly huh!

He is now in the trash. All wrapped up tight in his little tissue. I bet he didn’t know when he woke up today that I would be taking his obituary photo! Don’t mess with me bugs! I WILL KILL YOU! Get the word out!

Here is my dilemma. It is HOT in my room. So I need the window open. And I have the fan in my window, which blows the cold air in, but that means that I have to have my curtain open as well, and I have my dorm light on. So it attracts the bugs. My windows open outward, so if I figured out how to put a screen up, it would have to be a removable one that attaches from the inside…hhmm…I will have to think about it some more.

In other news, I was asked to make a ladies wedding invitations today. She wants 200. He wedding is in June. I have NO EXPERIENCE at all. She just saw a card that I made and thought I could do it. HA HA HA! We shall talk tomorrow about it and I will update you with details.

Ok, I need to finish my homework and go to bed. I have classes in 6 hours! Pray that I can sleep and NOT dream about scary oversized beetles!


Oh, and why DO kiwis have so many seeds?

Scared Spitless

I am NOT in love with speaking in public settings. Are you? I mean, really. It's not my calling. There are some that feel that it IS their calling, yet, somewhere along the line, a person a two may have LIED to them. They need to just sit down and stop making fools of themselves. Then there are those that really, truley have a calling to be a speaker and are able to do it with such ease and such confidence. This is not me.

Today, during public speaking class, i had to get up in front and give a speech on the "social impact of AIDS/HIV in South Africa". Not only did we have to get up in front of the class, but they thought it would be better for us to go into the chapel and do our speeches, not just in the little class where it's safe from the public! Now, i have to give a speech BEHIND A PULPIT! so much more intimidating! It made me wonder if all my facts were true and i prayed that i was not lying about anything and that the books that i read did their research cause i could NOT lie from a pulpit!

This said speech was to be 3-7 minutes long. You say, "no problem!", i say, "that is about how long it will take me to puke in order to get over my stage freight"! Monday we started with these speeches. The teacher would pick two people a day. So, really, i've been nervous since Monday. I have had nerves that are OUT OF WHACK!

I was given the advice to practice doing the speech in front of a mirror saying it to myself. Do you know what happened when i tried that? I LAUGHED at myself. I said, "Heidi, you are ridiculous!" (out loud!) Then i scolded myself for talking badly about myself and then i laughed again cause i was scolding myself about laughing at myself for someting so silly that i just couldn't deal with it. I don't think the mirror is for me. Sorry!

Today, the teacher called my name last. Do you understand how much hope i had in my heart that i would not be picked till Monday? Do you know how hard i prayed? I even looked up! As if that would help when praying! Maybe God reads lips too! He needed to SEE me say the words! "DON'T PICK ME!" I said about a kajillion times! (hands folded pressing up against my chin while looking up)

She said my name and i pretended to ignore it. Like, really...maybe she said...Simon...it kinda sounds similar..right..if you say it REALLY fast?

apparently not.

I went up, did my speech, the whole time either holding on for dear life to the pulpit, or i was playing with my hair. You know the nervous "tuck it behind your ears even though it's ALREADY behind your ears" move?!?!? I lasted 5 minutes. It felt like it took 50 minutes. I ended the speech and walked to my seat. I was sweating. I do NOT love public speaking.

Funny thought just came to me. If i am in front of a group of 20 adults, i would just about pee my pants from nervousness. But if i was in front of a group of 20 kids, i would be so totally excited and outgoing and maybe just about be able to get YOU to pee your pants with excitment! hhmm...what does THAT tell you?!?!

Moving on.

I went grocery shopping today. Do you know how hard it is to eat healthy without the use of a fridge or a kitchen? I am eating a lot of fruit. Really fast so it doesn't go bad in this HEAT!

While in the grocery store i saw something that touched my heart. Right by the door, there was a table set up with a little memorial to a lady that had died this past wednesday. I don't know if she was an employee or what, but it had flowers and a picture and cards and candles lit and it was too touching. (yes, i did note that it was a fire hazard to have the candles there...) It made me think about how no matter where you go, no matter what job you have, you become a family. Loving or dysfunctional, still always a family. I decided to believe that it was an employee. Cause if it wasn't, then...well...that would just be strange. I bet they really miss her. Hhhmm...i like finding things that make me think like that. Makes me evaluate how i am treating my current "family". What if they were gone tomorrow? Would they know that i appreciated them and all their hardwork and friendship?

I don't know.

It's the weekend so many of the students went to their homes. It's so quiet here on campus! It's nice actually.

I was not able to make it to church tonight, as i didn't have a ride, but that is ok. I will go on Sunday. Tonight will be a girls night and a time for me to do homework.

Hey, you all want to help me? I have a question that i have to answer. Here it is. It is for Old Testament

"Through the Abrahamic Covenant, God made over twenty different promises of blessing to Abraham. List ten of the promises. Even though God repeated some promises to Abraham as many as three times, each promise you list must be unique and different"

uummm...what were the promises? I know of 7..but not TWENTY! Any help?

Please.and.Thank YOU!

Tomorrow i am headed to the Boost Africa gallery. I volunteered towork there the whole day. 10am to 4pm so not too bad. And, it's on the beach, and..it has wireless internet, and...it's OFF CAMPUS! WHOO HOO! Then i am not sure of my plans for that evening. Movie? Sleep? Homework?
Sunday i shall finish off whatever homework i have left in the morning and then go to church that night. Super exciting!

So...what are YOUR weekend plans?!?!?!

It's so HOT here!!!!!

I love the heat. However, when i am not able to get out in it to enjoy it, and i'm stuck in a classroom all day with lots of other people who don't like the wind so they don't want the windows open and it makes it sweltering hot and muggy to where i'm surprised my notebook paper is still dry, i start to dislike it. It has been in the 90's the last few days and yes, its wonderful, but no, i'm not any tanner. Shame! I should be BLACK by now people! We had english class outside today, it was great! I think that outside classes should be a new policy!

I had a good Monday. Classes are short cause we have spiritual emphasis week. We have a really good speaker. He is Indian, and lives in London. So yet ANOTHER strange accent. He had to just talk for a while about nothing just to get everyone used to the way he speaks. He will be here tomorrow and wednesday as well. Today and tomorrow we hear him talk from 1:00 - 3:00 and then on Wednesday, he is speaking from 9am tll 1:30. OY! Exciting! I am going to love it! (no classes!!!)

So i got some new make-up and was putting it on and because the light in my room is so bad, i decided to take some pictures to make sure it was all blended in right. (its a girl thing (that i might note many more girls should pay attention to!)) The pictures turned out funny...so i thought i would share!

sorry about that...

I had a momentary break down. It lasted 24 hours, and now i'm over it. Fear not, i shall continue on my journey here. I know i have a lot of people that believe in me and that are rooting for me. (i sometimes wonder if my blog would be so popular if i was going to Green River?!?!?! ha ha ha)

Things have been really hard for me here and i don't even know how to explain it in a way that you all would understand. Just being in a different culture is really hard. Visiting a different culture is interesting and fun to learn about, but living in it is really hard. I have had to make way more adjustments than i thought and than i was ready for. I'm being stretched in all areas of my life, and so i guess i'm just going through growing pains. That might be a good way to put it.

Thank you for all your prayers! And all your cards! I am way behind on sending out return mail! But my card wall and my color picture wall is filling up! It's awesome!!!! I look at them everyday! I got 14 Valentine's Day cards! PERFECT!

I am excited to start a new week. I can just feel that it's going to be an awesome one!

Love you all!!!

Heidi

I'm done

Today is a hard day. I am ready to come home.

FRIDAY

Friday was a good day! Classes went well, i took my Public Speaking UPE. (Unit Progress Evaluation) and i think i did ok. Not awesome, but i think i passed. It's hard cause Public Speaking is not something that i have common sense in, so if i don't know an answer it's hard for me to figure it out using logic. I was the first one finished with the test again. Still, i'm not sure if it's because i just am fast, or if i just got most of it wrong....that is the part that makes me the most nervous.

After lunch Leneeve and i, my friend/classmate just hung out and waited till our friend Posh was out of class. We all wanted to go to the mall because Leneeve and Posh wanted to go to the movies, and Chantel and Monica and i wanted to just walk around. Monica needed some things at Clicks anyways. (Clicks is like...Rite Aid) I was all excited to go and so i asked, who's driving? And that is when they told me that we were taking a taxi!!!! People....i'm not talking yellow cab's here. These are the vans that they stuff like 25 people into and drive around picking more and more people up along the way. I nearly backed out of the whole trip! They just laughed at me. I said, ok, since there will be 5 of us, i might be ok. I got up my courage and we startd to walk off campus to the bus station which is across the street.

We were almost to the gate of campus when Jolene, (my beach friend) pulled up and told us all to hop in! She drives a Golf. hhhmmmm...we did it! Monica was in front, Chantel and i and Posh were in the back and Leneeve was on Posh's lap! It was hilarious! We all got in and started to go and then Jolene said, oh yeah, and don't roll down the windows! HUH?!?!?! IT WAS HOT! Good thing the mall was only 5 minutes away! In my head, i was praising Jesus that we didn't have to take the taxi!






We wandered around the mall for a while. I got some flash cards for English class, Monica got her stuff. Posh and Leneeve ended up not going to the movies cause it was playing too late. So we got some ice cream and went home! However, we took a taxi home! It was an experience! I was nervous, and laughing, and scared and excited and ...uumm...did i say nervous?!?!?! I think there were only about 18 or so of us in there, so technically there was room left, but it felt so crammped! I made it back to the college safely! YAY!

I don't feel that i would choose to do that again, but if i was in a jamb and needed to go somewhere and i had minimum 5 friends with me...i could do it...maybe...

We had Chantel's Birthday planned and the farewell for Bronwyn, one of the staff members, for that evening. We had bought chips and sweets and biscutes (cookies) and Grace, one of the other stdents had gotten all the stuff for taco's! It was so nice having something American feeling! Taco's! YAY!

We all went around and told Chantel and Bronwyn what they meant to us, and then we had a little prayer and then ate and then turned the music on and started dancing! It was hilarious! Afer we were all tuckerd out, we put in the movie The Proposal and watched that. After it was over we lost a few girls to bed, but we still had one more movie, so we quickly cleaned up all the dishes and reorganized and then sat down for the next one. It was I Hate Valentines Day. I had never heard of it, but it has the same couple that did My BIG Fat Greek Wedding. I love that movie. This one was cute. Very predictable, but really cute.



Then we went to bed! I woke up at 9:30 to girls singing in the hallway...my typical alarm on Saturdays! The sun was shinning right in my face and i noticed that there was NO WIND! It was SO HOT! That got me excited, so i got my work-out clothes on and went outside! I had my iPod and walked out to the school gate and then proceeded run around the school twice! (with a lot of walking in there too) It was great! I think that i got a little sun burnt, but that is ok, i am still just working on my base tan! I think my face is what got the most. Right now i have lots of tan lines on my shoulders so i need to try and get those to dissapear!

The rest of the afternoon i am not sure what is going to happen. I have to get some homework done. I have a test to hand in on Monday, so that needs to be done, and i have a lot of Bible reading to do. I am just glad it's a nice and sunny day!

I hope you all have a great weekend!

Thursday! Thursday! HORRAY for Thursday!

Today was SO BORING! I woke up in a good mood, had plenty of time to get ready and go downstairs for the habitual toast and glass of water in the morning, (and by glass i mean neon colored platic cup) I went to class and was there in plenty of time, so i painted my nails! YAY! Class started and i was really into it and learning about lineage of Cain and Seth...super interesting ... at first. Then the day kind of went downhill from there.

I nearly fell asleep in class the first period, then second period came and all the homework i had done the night before was not needed. She said we were ahead of ourselves so decided to just have us review what we have already done. And then, it was time for LifeGroups. The meeting of the group of people every thursday in place of Chapel. We are reading a book and today was all about Chapter two. However...i have not started the book. Therefore, i had not much to say. Fine, what everyone else talked about was interesting, but now in order to cath up, i have to read three chapters! like i need more to do.

Then it was tea time so i sat and talked to my friend Michael for a bit. Then headed to class. As it is thursday, we have Intro to Computer for the last 3 periods of the day. Remember me talking about this class last week? and about how boring i tought it was going to be? Guess what....i was right!

The teacher started out by telling us that we are going to learn about presentaions and that by next week he wants us to have made a 4 slide presentation in the Open Office Impress, which is basically PowerPoint...just not microsoft. He told us that we were going to use the first two hours to go over what the program is and then how to make a presentation and then the last hour we would be in the computer lab working on the project. During the break between hour one and two of the class, he came to me and apologized once again for the fact that i HAVE to be in the class. I said it was no worries and i think that it was God teaching me patients, however, if he didn't mind that i wasn't paying attention, i would appreciate it. Then i could work on homework for other classes. So, i did just that. I read my Bible.

Did i tell you about the Bible reading thing? That we have to read 10 chapters a day? 7 days a week? Yeah...i'm 96 chapters behind.

I read for hour two of the class and then for hour three i did my presentation and actually took the longest to get it done. We were supposed to make a title page, a page with bullets on it, a page with columns on it and a picture in it or any sort of graphic. (easy piesy) I did mine on 'Humour in the Bible' so it was funny, and it was really good. I had jokes and cartons and bulletin bloopers and a Bible verse to wrap it all up. However, the reason it took me so long, was because i was sitting across from a guy who understands just about NO english, AND has a hearing problem AND forgot his hearing aid today. So i was contstently being asked to come over and help. And seeing as the teacher pimped me out as a tutor, i had to help. No worries, i did fine. I was able to get mine done and his done and still have time left over. And at the end i erased his and made him do it again seeing as i had done most of it just showing him how, and he did just fine. So even though we could not really talk to each other much, he seemed to understnd. Although "right-clicking" was just too hard for him to grasp. God forbid the agony when we get to key-board shortcuts...oh help us!

Then after that i came back to my room and answered a bajillion emails. Some days i get none, and some days i get LOTS! I like the lots days! =)

Then i started to read my Bible again. Did you know some of that stuff in there is really funny? Like the story of Leah and Rachael? HA! Them trying to out-do each other by having more babies? And offereing their servents to have kids for them? It was like a Bible times Soap Opera! So funny! I bet when all that happened, God was up in Heaven shaking his head saying "Drama Drama Drama!"

Then i took a nap, cause that would be rude to myself to forego that part of my day. And i'm not a rude person, so i slept!

I took a one hour nap. It was great! My alarm went off at 6:00 which is when dinner is served. I layed in bed thinking, i could just sleep through dinner, cause i bet they are not even serving anything that good...and i would rather sleep now and eat some crakers later. Then i thought that i should go because i didn't want to be rude and hide away in my room all day. Then i thought, heck, who really cares! So i layed back down. Thinking that i would get another hour in before i got up in time for my new favorite South African soap opera! (side note: i have never EVER been into soap operas, but this one i find interesting cause it's half in afrikaans and half in english...like they change mind sentance, so you are reading the english subtites and then they stop and then you realize they are talking in english and then as soon as you cath up with what they are saying, they are back to subtites...it's facinating!) But, remember that lolipop sucker lady that just would not give up the other day? She came back...knocked on my door and said, "Heidi...it's time for dinner!" I wanted to say "I'M A BIG GIRL...I KNOW HOW TO TELL TIME!...I KNOW WHEN DINNER IS!...STOP BEING MY MOM!...LET ME SLEEP GOSH DARN IT!!!" But instead i opened up my door and said, "Thanks friend!" **big fake smile on my face**

I took it as a sign that i was supposed to go to dinner. So i got my sweats on and went downstairs. Got some dinner and an apple, cause they thankfully had fruit tonight, and sat down. I took a small bite of my dinner and nearly spit it out. It was horrible! I think the meat was at LEAST 5 days old and had been cooked a few times before. It was awful! I pushed it away, as it had sort of a smell to it, and ate my apple and then waitined till the cook left the room (cause i don't want to hurt her feelings) and then threw it all away. Sadly, a lot of other students did the same, this is a regular habit for most of us.

I went back upstairs, wondering why i had even bothered to get out of bed. I contemplated going BACK to bed, but i knew that i had homework and that i could not ignore it and it would be nice to start it before 10pm. So i sat down just to check my email and guess what?!?! Mom was up and had responded to like 10 of my eamils and so i felt that it's only polite to respond right away! Right? Homework can wait.

Then by 7:00 one of the girls came in and reminded me that we had a dorm room girls prayer meeting. So i stopped and went in to the lounge. Everyone was not there and we ended up sitting there till 7:25 waiting till they came and that only left us with 5 minutes for our prayer meeting. Oh well...we got it all in and was only a little over time. Then we sat there and talked about girlie things and then guess what...it was 8:00!!!! Generations! My new favorite soap was on! So i watched it with great intensity, trying to follow along, and at the end of te half hour, i could not even tell you one thing that happened...i was so lost trying to keep up...but it was great! I loved it! And i braided a friends hair..she is black..and black hair is awesome! I want black hair! You put it in a spot and guess what...IT STAYS THERE!!!! So cool!

Then i thought, "wait! I have homework! and a test tomorrow that i have to study for! and a test on monday that i have to study for!" so i left and went into my room. But i was thirsy so went downstairs to make myself a cup of coffee! And guess what.....they were playing UNO! Apparently they had called me and i was WAY TOO into my Generations to hear my phone ring. OH well. So i played 3 games. Won two of the three! Master, yes, you can call me UNO Master! Now, it's 10:30 and i am just getting back to my homework. Oh jeez.

Tomorrow, being Friday should be a good day! We have a girls going away party and a brithday to celebrate tomorrow night, so that should be fun. Sad that i have to miss church though! I kind of want to make a HAPPY BIRTHDAY/FAREWELL sign...but that would only prolong my homework for another hour or two...so i think i won't.

I hope that you all are having a great week! Happy Thursday!

Tuesday/Wednesday

I have thought about my homework several times today. Thought about how much time it would take me, thought about where I should do it. My room? A classroom? The dining hall? Outside in the courtyard? There are many many options here. It’s just going on 4pm, and I still have not decided when and where I will get it done. Actually…to be honest, I have not even looked at how much I have to do. I know that it is somewhere between 3-5 hours…but that is a big difference.

Yesterday, Tuesday, was a good day. We had a farewell for our former principal who is going home to the USA on furlough. I was not able to experience what he was like as a principal, but I do think that he is a great guy. I am pretty sure he was loved and will be missed.

We finished classes after the goodbye party and then I came to my room and finished watching a marriage counseling seminar dvd (my other option was to watch The Lion King…no thank you! ) Then I returned it to the library and got disk 2 of the seminar. Great seminar, and I’m pretty sure I should watch it again when I’m married, and I would understand it a lot better. But it’s good knowledge to just have. I put in the second disk and promptly fell asleep. It was THAT exciting!

I woke up a bit later and turned off the dvd and then crawled back into bed. I set my alarm though for 6:00pm so that I would not miss dinner. (not that I was planning on eating anything, just so that I would get up and socialize) But…6:00 came and my alarm went off and I decided that dinner was overrated and I should probably just sleep through it. So I fell back asleep. A friend came by to see if I was there a while later and woke me up. She said it was now 10:30pm and she didn’t even think I was on campus, she thought that I had left. She was just coming upstairs after playing UNO! UNO….I MISSED UNO! Oh gosh…after that devastating news, I got up, got my pj’s on and went back to bed…cause really, what is the point of doing homework if I can’t look forward to taking a break and playing UNO?!?!?!?!

I slept till 7:30am. It was delightful! I didn’t wake up once in the middle of the night! It was great! (that kind of makes me sound like a baby…I CAN sleep through the night, I just normally have issues with it. )

I got up and went to classes. I was SO TIRED all day long. It was all I could do to pay attention! I wanted to just go crawl back into my bed! But it was PEP today so at least I didn’t have to do my regular classes! That was nice. Don’t you hate when you sleep too much and then no matter what you do you can’t feel refreshed?

Now it’s 4:00 and I have to really do my homework! I have two hours before dinner. I will do it till then and then do it for 2 hours after dinner and then play UNO and then do it for another hour or till I’m finished after that.

Or maybe I’ll go to bed….

As I said before, Dad got me flowers for V-Day. It was super sweet of him. Here are some pictures from last week when they came and from today. They have made my whole room smell SO GREAT! I LOVE YOU DAD!

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