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| Jenny at the beginning of the semester |
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| Jenny at the end of the semester |
It has been brought to my attention that I have not blogged in a while. This semester has been busy, I for some odd reason thought it would be a wise to take 21 credits. Now as I am nearing the end of this semester, I would like to inform everyone, that 21 credits is not a good idea, don't do it, it makes your life no fun.
But there were some happy moments in the semester I got to celebrate Ann's birthday with her family, I don't have a good picture of the experience but it was a happy, fun moment in my semester so I am writing about it. Here is a bad picture of her party.
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| we ate yummy cupcakes, it is a good picture of the cupcakes |
Moving on to February... Hailey had her birthday, and I went to that party too. I don't have a picture of that birthday, but I have pictures of the birthday present I gave her.
First a little back story.... Kelley and I use to go to the Ballet every once and a while, it was a lot of fun, but Ann never got to go, because she was out west and we were in NC. So while I am out here, I wanted to have some cultural experiences with Ann. So I was so excited when I saw BYU was going to do Cinderella, so Hailey for her birthday got a day at the ballet, with her mom, aunt, and great aunt! We had a lot of fun dressing up, and meeting the ballerinas before the show. Unfortunately Hailey got sick, so we had to leave half way thorugh the performance, but it was still a lot of fun.
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| Hailey and Ann with the fairies |
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| Everyone before the show |
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| Hailey, Ann and Cinderella |
By mid-February, we had a mini spring break, (5 days off including weekend) so I decided to go home to pitch my internship idea to my parents. It was so wonderful to have a few days at home, and the weather was beautiful. I will talk about my internship in future post, but I will tell you all it is exciting.
Back to school. Towards the end of February I got a little introspective. It was around this time last year, that I had a complete break down, because I was certain I would be stuck in my old job forever, and I would never get into grad school, and I would be stuck in Sanford my whole life.... I sat on my mom's couch and cried for a good hour..... I look back at that now, and even though this semester is crazy and not a lot of fun, I am so grateful I am here. It is the right place for me right now. I am so grateful for a loving Heavenly Father, who does bless us in the best possible way, sometimes we just need to be patient and wait for the best moment for the blessing to happen.
That being said, March started and with it started the favorite thing I am doing this semester, it is not even for a class. It is for a student program I volunteer with called grantwell. Our team was given the job to teach grassroots philanthropy to the student body, so in March we started the Be a Philanthropist Campaign. We are giving away close to $10,000 in mini-grants to organizations, and students with great ideas. It has been a lot of fun, because we did everything, from the logo and web design, to the marketing, to the implementation of the program. It has made this semester fun, and has kept me going during the dull classes of Accounting, Budgeting, and International Management (thought that class would be fun, but it is not fun at all.)Also in March I had a birthday, I spent my birthday weekend with Ann's family and had lots of fun with everyone. I went back down to school on my actual birthday, and my friends in the MPA program threw me a surprise Pi day party (my birthday is on Pi Day) They had me go into the MPA lounge right at 3:14pm (We were in class at 1:59, the traditional time for a Pi Day party) and totally surprised me with a party, it was a lot of fun and totally unexpected. I don't have any pictures of it though.
The semester is wrapping up, and I am ready for it to end, because as soon as it is over, I am going to Africa for 3 weeks, and then to England, I am so excited for both trips. To celebrate the end of this dreary winter, and the start of a exciting Spring I went to the local Holi Festival at the Hindu temple in Spanish Fork. It was so much fun. We basically all listened to music, and threw chalk at each other, but it was a great stress reliever and a fun break in this crazy semester here are some pictures.
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| This is the best shot I have of the size of the crowd at the temple. |
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| This is our group before we participated in the big color throw, I know we are covered in chalk now, but we had not entered the crowd yet, It gets worse! |
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| I didn't take pictures of the big one, because I was busy throwing chalk. |
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| This is a smaller color throw |
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| Here we are after the big throw, it was fun, I am ready for Spring now! |
