It's official

It's official. I'm freaking out. I hate the end of the semester, it kills me. I have 7 tests, a paper, two presentations and two days of clinical to complete in the next 11 days!!!! On top of everything I am the family home evening mom in my group, and we have this ward Oscar night and we have to make movie. So far it's been like pulling teeth to get people to cooperate and come. Tonight we got kicked out of the library while filming...oops :) It was fun though, and we caught the security guard in action which is even better so we'll put it in the movie!

I changed the layout to London because it will remind me that there is light at the end of the tunnel and I am so close!!!

But really, this is how I am feeling right now:

The Festival of Colors

In Spanish Fork (about 15 minutes away from Provo) there is a Hindu temple, the Hare Krishna. Every Spring, there is a Festival of Colors to encourage the Hindu deity, Krishna to welcome in the season. It consists of a huge party of about 10,000+ people, colored chalk dust throwing, Indian music, dancing, food, and a whole lot of fun! This was the first year that I have gone and I won't miss it again! It was so busy though (we parked about 2.5 miles down the street and had to walk) that we missed the actual chalk throwing but ran into the middle of the crowd as soon as we got there so we could still get colors all over us. It was awesome!
Everyone dancing to the band. I had my camera inside a ziplock for some of these so the blur may make the pictures look a little off.
My good friend Jolysa and I in the mix of it all. Someone through a fist full in her face of hot pink powder.
Crowds and crowds of people there. That's the shot of the temple.
More dancing!
People kept throwing their shoes up on the roof of the pavilion. I don't think they got them back...
A shot from the base of the temple looking down on the crowd.
Jolysa's bright pink face :)
Chillaxin afterwards. We went out for Indian food after. I think half of Utah Valley had the same idea. But the food was worth the wait! I have a new found love of Indian food :)
A happy camper at the end of the day!

Procrastinating

I'm mostly doing this because I'm procrastinating cleaning my room. :-/ But let's see if you learn something new!

8 FAVORITE TV SHOWS
1. Heroes
2. Lost
3. The Office
4. House
5. NCIS
6. ER
7. I can't think of 2 more...
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8 THINGS I DID YESTERDAY
1. Went to culture class for England
2. Went groceries
3. Cleaned out the fridge
4. Chanted to a Hindu diety (more on this later (-: )
5. Got covered from head to toe in colored chalk
6. Got stuck in a mosh pit
7. Went to an Indian restaurant, still covered in chalk
8. Washed the chalk off
I bet you're thinking, "huh? what is she talking about?" just you wait!

8 THINGS I LOOK FORWARD TO
1. Graduating
2. The end of this semester
3. Going to England
4. Traveling Europe
5. Seeing my mom in two weeks
6. Having a clean room
7. Cutting my hair
8. Having a real job

8 FAVORITE RESTAURANTS
1. Puerta Vallarta
2. Olive Garden
3. Chili's
4. Carl's Jr.
5. Costa Vida
6. CPK
7. I don't eat out enough...
8.

8 THINGS ON MY WISHLIST
1. To pass the NCLEX (like the Bar exam for nurses)
2. To have a family
3. To win the lottery without gambling :)
4. An ipod
5. Better habits at keeping my room clean
6. For this semester to be over
7. Getting a job in an area I want after graduation
8. Having a summer romance

8 PEOPLE I TAG
1. I hate this part. Do it if you want :)
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HERE I COME!!!!

Updates, updates!!! Finally I know what I'm doing this summer, remember way back when I told you I was going to England for study abroad, well I FINALLY got details on Saturday at our first meeting about what is happening, and I am sooooo-soooooooo-sooooo excited. This is going to be a summer that I will have in the books for the rest of my life!

The group of six students, plus our instructor, will be going to the University of Huddersfield, it is located about 3 hours north of London, and about a 45 minute drive from Manchester.
I made a little red dot, about where the town is. We will be working in the hospital four days a week, for four weeks. In the dorms we stay at, each of us get our own room and bathroom! This will be the first time ever that I will have my own bathroom, so cool!! The hospitals in England are very infection-control-oriented, meaning everyone that works in the hospital has to wear special hospital issued scrubs so that they don't bring in bugs on their clothes. Everyone is swabbed for MRSA frequently, no name tags, watches, rings, or nails. As a result, their MRSA levels are way lower than the US, so I guess it's working.

On our three day weekends, we have to decide what we want to do as a group. We can go the Lake District (I guess this is a beautiful part of England that lots of rich people have summer homes in), go to the place where they filmed Pride and Prejudice, Leeds, Manchester (I want to see if there might be an off season game that we can go to). My instructor's sister lives in Scotland on a large farm and has offered for us to come stay at their place for a weekend too. After our four weeks of clinical are up, we will spend a week frolicking about London. We will hopefully see a few shows; Jude Law is currently starring in Hamlet, there is also an outdoor performance of Peter Pan in one of the large gardens.

After our week is over in England and "school" has ended, a few of us are going to stay. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity that is never going to present itself again! I won't ever have a whole summer like this that I have the freedom from obligations or responsibility or the time. We are going to stay 4-5 more weeks and see Europe. Personally, I want to spend the most time in Italy and Greece. These are places that I have always wanted to visit and see. It has been a dream of mine since I started learning about it in seventh grade, but it was always been just that. A fantasy and a dream. Well, now it's going to be a reality. I'M GOING TO SEE EUROPE!!!! Every time I say it, I get more and more excited! We hopefully will travel around and see every thing that we want to and then head back to London in time to catch Wimbledon, and then finish what we didn't get to see in England like the Jane Austen house, Stratford on Avon, anything else. I have a lot of family history in southern England that I hope to be able to explore while I'm there too!

I've started asking around to people I know have been there on study abroads, or missions, or vacations what they think the best places to see are, or the best hostels to stay at, best way to travel, little things that tourists don't know about. If you have suggestions for us, they are most certainly welcomed!

So, watch out world, HERE I COME!!!!

**I Will Survive Nursing School**

I'm dedicating this song to Brianne who thinks she can't survive nursing school. And all my other nursing buddies who have mid-semester blues.


At first I was afraid,
I was petrified.
Kept thinkin I could never be a nurse, then I cried.
I spent so many nights doing pathology trees,
And I grew strong, I learned how to get along...

with my instructors!
Their tests are hard,
And early clinicals,
They kick me in the butt.
I should have changed to MFHD,
I should have married early,
If I'd of known for just one second how hard nursing would be!

GO ON NOW GO!!!
Walk out the door
At 5am now,
Cause you're in nursing school!
Wait for just one second B-Y-U-C-O-N
Did you think I'd crumble?
Did you think I'd lay down and die?

OH NO NOT I!!!!!
I WILL SURVIVE!
Oh, as long as I know how to change
A dressing I'll be fine.
I've got all my life to be,
The nurse I want to be,
I will survive,
I will survive,
NURSING SCHOOL!!!!!

I cried

I did something for the first time yesterday, and I cried. I helped deliver a baby. I don't think that this is an area of nursing that I want to end up in, for lots of different reasons, but there was a part of it that was incredible. It was emotional, and spiritual, and beautiful when that baby girl came into the world and took her first breaths.

The Bachelor =P

Who watched The Bachelor last night? I didn't. But I've heard all sorts of hype and Jason's-a-jerk this and I-can't-believe-it that. As soon as I'm done writing this awful 10 page paper, that's what I'm going to do. But three hours, I don't know...should I watch it? What did everyone think that saw it?

I haven't watched it all this season, so I really don't know any of the history, I just know what happened last night.