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i ate octopus soup for dinner tonight. yes, octopus.

my friend bilgee from mongolia called me up and said he had caught one earlier today and made soup, and invited me over for dinner. i've never had octopus before...in fact the closest i've ever gotten is olive garden's calamari. i was really fascinated with the idea of eating octopus. it was still tentacle-y with suction cups and everything. it was really good...i liked it a lot. i wish i had a picture, but i didn't even think to bring my camera.

another cool discovery today was this cool program that byu has. the bookstore has a service where you can log in and it accesses your class list and then compiles a list of the required texts for all of the classes. a lot of mine for fall are already listed. byuh needs something like that too--it would make the whole book thing so much easier.

i got my efy hiring paperwork signed in honolulu (again). hopefully this time it will work and i can sign a contract soon. the paperwork goes in the mail tomorrow!

and i found out today that the iosepa voyaging canoe leaves tomorrow! hooray! they've been waiting a while for an escort boat, but they got one! they'll be gone until the 29th, which is a week voyage.

last weekend my roommate meghan, her boyfriend adam, and I all went over to hanauma bay to go snorkeling! it was way fun, especially since i love snorkeling. here's the pics!

we got an underwater group shot and everything! the water got murky, but you can make out the masks.

and yes mom, this is in fact what must be the largest edition of skippy john jones in publication. the thing was huge.

spring adventures

I've reached the halfway point of the spring term, and everything is going great. I like my house, even though there have been some...quirks. When we first moved in, the shower didn't drain, and we spent a week or so trying to get it to stop before just getting some superstrong drain-0. We've had some cockroach sightings, as well as various other members of the insect family. While I'm not a huge fan of the bugs being around, I'm one of two of the girls in the house that can actually get close enough to kill the bugs. Usually one of us is home, so we've been able to take care of the problem fairly well.

Two weeks ago I spent several hours on the beach and ending up getting fairly fried. I never burned at home, or basically anywhere but here. But I definitely can burn here. It won't usually be too bad, but I got fried,but basically just on the front of my legs. I stayed away from the beach sincethen, luckily the weather and my homework gave me excellent reasons to do so. But this past Saturday, I went back to the beach and managed to fry the back of my legs. Whoops.

One really good thing about Saturday was that it was the first day to take out my new camera. LAst semester my old one got swept away, then spit back up by the ocean. Needless to say, the camera was toast. This past week, my lovely parents sent me a new, waterproof camera. While I wasn't giving myself skin cancer, I played with the camera in the water.

So basically, I think this camera is the coolest thing ever. It takes good pictures in AND out of water. Props to Rhonda for being a much better underwater model than me. What else could one ask for really? Well, the camera has about a million other features that I haven't quite figured out yet. One I like is the smile shot feature, that takes three really quick pictures to make sure everyone smiles. Whooooah.

Saturday was also foodfest, which is pretty much one of my favorite things ever at BYUH. The clubs all sell food, and since most of our clubs are culture clubs, we get to choose from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Fijian, Kiwi, etc. food. It's much bigger in the Fall/Winter semesters, but I enjoyed this semester's quite a bit. I ran into some of my favorite people!
This is Kat and BJ, my incredible co-workers. Cat is from WV too! BJ is from Singapore, and she's leaving for military training for the summer, so I'm glad I got to see her before she left. We might be able to get together in DC over the summer, which would be great.
This is Rhonda, Tiffany, Treana, and me when it started pouring at Foodfest. Having a camera that works in the rain is so convienient! Treana Ram is the daughter of Rhonda's bishop; we love their family. Tiffany is Tree's friend, we met her at the Ram's.

And last, but not least, Happy Mother's Day, Mom! Hope these pictures last you until you're real present comes!