au revoir, utah!

I haven't blogged in a week and a half... huh.

So my freshman year of college is officially over. I'm taking online classes over the summer, starting next week. I'm trying to buy the books I need now but for some reason my card keeps getting declined because the billing address I'm putting isn't right...? I guess I'll go in and talk to my bank tomorrow. 

I'm back in Trenton. Rose flew in on Thursday night, we explored Salt Lake on Friday, then left on Saturday for Denver. We stayed in a hotel downtown and any time we walked outside was suuuuper sketch. Today, we drove from Denver to Trenton. Both days equalled about 20 hours of driving. I am so tired and sore from sitting in one position for such a long time. 

I'll blog tomorrow (or whenever I feel like) with some before and after pictures of our dorm room, a video of Rose and I jumping on our hotel bed, and a bulleted list of things I enjoyed from my freshman year.

I'm going to bed.

starbucks, all-nighters, and ignorant missourians..

I'm drinking a soy chai latte from Starbucks and it is soooo goooodddd.
I haven't had Starbucks in such a long time. 

#funfact: I have a gold card at Starbucks. When I first moved to the SLC, I'd go there literally every day before work and buy a drink, and sometimes again after work. If I wanted Starbucks in Missouri I'd have to travel an hour and twelve minutes to St. Joseph.. There's one that's less than a five minute walk from here and one on 400 S that I pass daily. I couldn't help myself.

ANYWAY. Now it's Friday. Guess what I did last night!

I PULLED AN ALL-NIGHTER!

Yay for college and not studying until the absolute last second!

I completely aced the final though. I'm so proud of myself. Third final I've aced this week. :')

Now I want to blog about something that's really been bothering me. Earlier in the week, I was browsing Facebook and I saw a status that started with "I don't like muslim people and I think their religion is stupid and flat out wrong."

So I'm like, hm.. I literally just took an exam over Islam and aced it, I don't recall it being stupid or flat out wrong. So I had to insert my opinion.. That's when shit hit the fan.

....They multiply then destroy and conquer? Are you freakin' kidding me? And to say that the religion is nothing like Christianity? Bullshit. BULLSHIT. I'd like to know where he got his information from because everything he's saying is wrong.

God. It makes me so mad sometimes to look at people from Trenton on Facebook. Everyone is so ignorant. I want to go back for the summer to be with my family, but I don't want to be surrounded like idiots like this guy.

Oh, and to top it off, Derek posted this picture on Facebook today:

And you'll never guess who left the first comment...

It just makes me so mad. I highly doubt either of them know anything about the Islam religion and yet they are both okay with bashing it. It's just not right. I don't go around hating on Christians and their beliefs because I don't share them. It's not appropriate. That's not something that human beings do. What the hell.

eh

I'm sick of blogging.

I'm sick of Salt Lake.

I'm sick of packing away all of my clothes except the outfits I'm going to wear for the next 11 days.

so I'm not packing anymore.

But I have successfully cleaned out all of my drawers and my side of the closet. Now all that's left is the bra lamp, everything in and on my desk, and a bunch of other stuff. I honestly don't know if all of my stuff, Rose, and I can fit in my car next Saturday..

Um, so what I have done since my last post?

Corinne's sister Abby came up for the weekend. We went to the Grand Kerfuffle on Friday. It was kind of dumb because we missed Chiddy Bang and then Mike Posner only felt like playing slow, boring songs on the piano. Oh and Stu and I called things off again so I was mad/sad about that too.

So then on Saturday, we traveled down to South Jordan to the Sri Ganesha Hindu Temple. It felt kind of like we were intruding on the temple though. We were the only people in there besides some priests. So we were walking around the statues of different deities, trying to whisper as quietly as possible, but I failed at being quiet because one of the priests came up and started talking to us. It was a really good talk. He explained that Hindus believe in only one God and that they worship that one God through all of the different deities. No matter who they're praying to - Krishna, Ganesh, Shiva, etc. - the prayers are going to go to God. The priest explained it in the way that you don't talk to your cell phone, you talk through your cell phone to another person. It's the same way. The Hindu people don't worship the statues of Ganesh, they worship through Ganesh to God.

Shiva surrounded by two Ganesh statues

Ganesh; the priest offered us the three apples on the right after talking to us.

Later that night I hung out with a bunch of people from Best Buy. It was fun, different from the hang-outs I'm used to here at the dorms. On Sunday, Paul and I went to the library to study.. I think he worked on his math project while I finished up the current season of Parks and Recreation on Hulu. I honestly don't remember what else I did on Sunday. I may have watched Ratatouille..

Yesterday, Amanda and I shared a presentation on Jacques Prévert in French. Today I aced an exam over Islam. Tomorrow I will hopefully ace the final we have in mythology. 

Ummmm, yeah. 

shopping and studying... my favorites

On Monday, Corinne and I drove to Murray to go shopping. She really wanted some BareMinerals by BareEssentials makeup cause the foundation we've been using tends to make us look orange. It's annoying. The first store we went into was Nordstroms...

Corinne was in love with this pair of Jimmy Choo's:

And I'll admit, they are a pretty sexy pair of shoes. But guess how much they cost...

Holy shit, right?

We also found a couple pairs of BC shoes that were super cute.

What was interesting about them was their name. Most shoes have women's names, like Katharine or Clara. I've always wondered why. "Can I get Clara in a 9?" It sounds weird. But I guess its easier to accept than...

"Can I get Grilled Cheese in a 9?"

I guess that's why they use women's names.. it sounds better than "grilled cheese." 

So then we went to the BareEssentials store and I watched Corinne get her makeup done. It was pretty boring and the lady doing her face looked so angry with her life. I guess its understandable though, because people probably come in every day and get their makeup done then don't buy anything. 

Then we went to Zupas. I got a grilled cheese (delicious) and tomato soup with basil (disgusting). Corinne got a turkey cranberry sandwich. Yummmm. Then we went over to 8th & 8th to this consignment store called EmilieJayne. It was so ridiculously cute. The store was jam packed full of shit but managed to look classy. And everything was sorted by color, which was cool.

Then we went back to the dorms where I finished Glee season 1 and the PBRs in my fridge and Corinne went to Scott's. I also played Never Have I Ever on Skype with Scott Mayfield and totally dominated. I am such a badass.

Tuesday was boring. Corinne and I watched Chloe after lunch (which I highly recommend, its such a strange movie and you see Amanda Seyfried's and Julianne Moore's boobs) and then took naps. I didn't wake up until right before 6:30 and I thought Paul's wind ensemble concert started at 7 so I powerwalked like a boss all the way down to the bottom of campus. I got there in 20 minutes, all sweaty and unattractive, only to find out the show didn't start until 7:30. Yeah. If only I knew how to read concert tickets...

After the show, Paul, Corinne and I went to Noodles. We were going to go to the Pie but Paul had it the night before and it was suuuuper packed so we didn't think we'd be able to get a table. Paul and I were all for getting Pizza Hut instead but Corinne thinks its really greasy and disgusting so she wouldn't let us. Yeah, its basically more grease than pizza, but thats what makes it delicious! And the pan crust. You can never go wrong with pan crust. My mouth is watering now just thinking about it. Anyway, we had Noodles. Then we went back to my room and watched Daybreakers. It's a really terrible vampire movie. I mean, seriously terrible. Any time the vampires see sun or get stabbed anywhere, they explode. The idea for the movie is a good one, in my opinion, but how they went about it was dumb.

Wednesday was even less exciting than Tuesday. Corinne and I slept through all of our classes (for the third time in the past week) and then spent 1pm-6:30pm at the library studying. We only left because she had to go to her last sorority thing of the semester, so I made dinner and watched Glee season 2 for about an hour, then went back to studying from about 8pm-1am. And the annoying thing is that I feel like I barely accomplished anything. I'm studying for my history final next Friday. My professor put up 3 potential exam questions, but each question has seven questions inside of it. It's freaking ridiculous. So yesterday I read 52 pages and took 14 pages of notes... and I didn't answer a single question. I have 3 chapters left to read and take notes on, which will probably take me the next 3 days. I have other finals to study for and a project for French due on Monday I need to work on. This stupid history class is taking up all of my time. Gr.

This blog post is too long. I guess I'll go back to studying. But I'd like to leave you with a picture of the super cool Fanta I got yesterday in the library café.

I had to search all over the bottom level of the library for someone who could hook me up with a bottle opener because the stupid bottle wouldn't twist open... but the drink was delectable.

UPDATE
Corinne, Paul and I are in the library again. The table beside us has been here as long as we have and they are.. interesting to listen to. The girl only wants to do sports for the rest of her life, so college is a bore for her, but at the same time she loves learning. One guy really likes learning too but he also likes his classes. And the guy who just showed up, the girl was making fun of him for spelling "cheek" as "chick." Then she asked him "Why was 6 afraid of 7?" and he said "Because of 8." Hahaha, apparently he's not the brightest. I love it.

les docteurs sait mieux

Last week in French we read part of a play called Le Malade imaginaire. It's about a man who goes to a doctor and insists he's sick in multiple places and the doctor tells him its his lungs bothering him after every statement. Today we had to create a dialogue between doctors and a patient. I played a crocodile. I definitely stole the show. Our teacher thought my lines were hilarious.

NATALIE: Je suis triste. I am sad.

AMANDA: On sait de comment tu dois avoir. We know what you must have.

KATIE: Il est urgent que tu achetes un crocodile. It is urgent that you buy a crocodile.

SAM: Achetez-moi! Buy me!

NATALIE: Mais j'ai un portefeuille mal... But I have a poor wallet...

YOUNG: Mais il est utile que tu donnes les pomme de terres et beaucoup du vin à ton crocodile. But it is  useful to give potatoes and a lot of wine to your crocodile.

SAM: Donnez-moi des aliment! Feed me!

NATALIE: Mais je n'aime pas des pomme de terres... But I don't like potatoes...

AMANDA: Il vaudrait mieux que t'aimes ton crocodile. It would be best for you to love your crocodile.

SAM: Aimez-moi! Love me!

NATALIE: Mais j'ai un cœur brisé. But I have a broken heart.

KATIE: Il ne faut pas que tu manges ton crocodile. You should not eat your crocodile.

SAM: Ne mangez-moi pas! Don't eat me!

NATALIE: Mais j'ai très faim... But I am very hungry...

YOUNG: Il est important que tu joues aux cartes avec ton crocodile. It's important to play cards with your crocodile.

SAM: Jouez avec moi! Play with me!

NATALIE: Mais je n'ai pas des cartes... But I don't have cards...

AMANDA: On est les docteurs! We are doctors!

KATIE: On sait mieux! We know best!