It's November!

Hello! How is everyone?

 I feel really out of the loop with this whole Sandy Hurricane thing. From what it sounds like it's another hurricane Katrina, if not worse, and yet I've barely heard anything about it! It's really strange! Shea, I hope your safe. It's good to hear your not right in the target zone! Ben and Kelcy, did it hit Boston at all? I would think it would since it got NY pretty bad. 

I'm also weirded out by the fact that it's November!!! I'm not even joking when I say it literally feels like I wrote my New Year's goals yesterday! I don't know about anyone else, but it almost makes me a little bit frustrated. I want to yell at Time and say, " Wait! Stop! I didn't have time to accomplish all of my New Year's goals!" Anyway, speaking of November...elections! I also feel completely out of the loop with this whole thing! Surprisingly I'm really quite nervous about the elections! 

School is also speeding up, which is good and bad. It's bad because deadlines for my big research papers are coming up fast, but it's good because that means I don't have to worry about them anymore! Needless to say, I'll be happy when Dec. 1 is over and my BYU application is done! I've been stressing about that because I don't really know how to do it since I've only been international for one year and my grades for this year are not based on the same system. I talked to mom and hopefully (I'm crossing my fingers!) mom and dad can sit down and go through it with me!

While I try to be optimistic about life, I'm going to be honest. This week was hard. Very hard. I just got an overwhelming feeling of frustration, sadness, loneliness, etc. and didn't want to be here anymore. Yes, I do have friends at school, but they never do anything on the weekends, and the kids who do do something just get drunk. Yes, the young women do speak a little bit of english, but they don't use it. And to be honest with myself, I don't understand Khmer. So, I don't feel like I really fit in anywhere at church. Especially when you hear the YW say "mackenzie" in a sentence and then laugh really hard and you have no idea what their saying. Not the best feeling. Add to that, mom and dad are gone to Battambong until Tuesday.  Anyway, I don't mean to be Johnny Raincloud, but I feel like it's a good thing for people to once in awhile hear the bad times as well as the good. 

I hope I haven't left you all with a depressing feeling. We did start practicing for the church Christmas concert here. Christmas music always mends the soul! Have a fantastic week!