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!