This has been a good week. I'll just say it flat out. I don't know why, it just has! I think it has something to do with the fact that I'm starting to figure things out. Before I get into that, I have to say, CHANTELLE!!!!!! I'm so excited for you! It just hit me how you really are going on a mission! That's so exciting! Do you know when your call is supposed to come?I want to be skyping - even if it's in the middle of the night!! :)
Okay, so something really exciting happened on Wednesday! I had emailed BYU's dance department to ask if I could send in an audition video, and on Wednesday I got an email back saying that would be fine. It really isn't all that exciting now that I'm writing it, but at the moment it was because now it all seems real to me! I'm actually auditioning for a college company! I've been dreaming about this day since the day I started dance, and now the day is here! Weird. I doubt I will get in since I'm only a Freshman, but I thought, "Hey, it's not gonna hurt to give it a try!" So, I'm gonna do it! My dance teacher here is going to help me with choreographing a 2 min. solo as well as 2 more shorter combinations. At first I was a hesitant to ask him since sometimes his modern dance is SO balletic, but it's the only thing I've got. No one showed up for contemporary class on Thursday, so we started working on stuff then. We did one combination and half of my solo. Whew! That was by far the best class I've had since I was here! We worked so hard and it was so fun! The choreography is turning out to be really good and also pretty challenging. I think it'll take a lot of work to master, but I think it will look really good for the audition. It's due by April 4th, so I really don't have a lot of time considering mailing.
I also received some other good news about college that some of you already know about. I got accepted to UVU!!! I know it's not super wowy because pretty much everyone who applies gets in, but still, I thought it was exciting! I've gone back and forth for a little while between UVU and BYU, but now I am set on BYU. I feel like it's the place for me to at least try to get into and hopefully go. I will probably hear about BYU towards the end of February. I've also gone back and forth between doing dance or culinary arts, but I've decided to do dance. As much as I think culinary would be awesome, I'm worried that I would get sick of cooking because it would become a stressful thing. And I REALLY don't want to get sick of cooking/baking because it's what I want/will be doing the rest of my life, and it's what I do to relax. I feel like now is the time for me to dance. So, there you go!
Other happenings include: going to lunch with my friends at the Sushi Bar on Thursday and barely making it back for class-it was a close one! We had a departing missionaries dinner on Friday. Mom and Dad were gone on Saturday and Sunday for a district conference in Kampong Cham. It was my first time sleeping overnight all by myself and I wasn't even scared!! (I'm so grateful for guards!). Since yesterday I have absolutely fallen in love with seaweed (Nori)!! Nori chips (homemade) are excellent and extremely good for you (I can't believe I'm saying this, but it competes with popcorn)! Mom and Dad have had a busy and exhausting week with conferences, coming and going missionaries, etc. so I decided to make them a really nice fancy(isn) dinner tonight and I'm hoping they will relax when we eat in a little bit!
I'm sorry this is already so long, but one more experience. I'll make it quick. So in my history class my teacher made a sarcastic statement like, "I'm feeling charitable cause I read the Bible last night" (he's extremely atheist). Someone asked him if he actually read the Bible and he said, "no of course not". So then I said, "How do you know it's not true if you haven't read it?" He then said he had read the Doctrines OF Christ (Matt, Mark, Luke, and John), BUT, I thought he said the Doctrines OVER Christ. I thought he was referring to another random book that talked about the Bible, so I just kept making these remarks like, "That's not the actual Bible though". Later when I realized what he had really said I wanted to beat myself up! Now everyone is going to think that Mormon's don't think the Bible is the Bible. I was so mad at myself. That's exactly why I am don't like opening my mouth-I always say the wrong thing! Oh well.
That's about my week in a nutshell!
Kenzie
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