Hello hello. This weekend is proving to be pretty fantastic because half of SouthEast is here for the basketball tournaments. There isn't school on Thursday and Friday, so I'm filling my precious days off with dance, homework, writing, and catching up with my out-of-town girlies. We're housing four Kay-town girls, two of which are LDS, and let me tell you, it's a blast! We gossiped and giggled until one a.m. this morning. On the rock, I feel like a bit of an anomaly...LDS girls are fairly few and far between. We have only three LDS girls in my class. Add Ketchikan, Juneau, Wrangell, and Petersburg, however, and there are quite a few of us. I mean, it's no Bountiful, Utah, but.... :)
Last night we got to talking about old Youth Conference friends and what's happening to them. There are friends on missions, brothers on missions, significant others on missions.... :O ! I was pretty happy to discover the future BYU students, too. Having not told you, I guess you might not know: I was recently accepted to BYU Hawaii and BYU Utah. I haven't technically decided yet, but Hawaii doesn't have a Spanish major, and Provo is just close enough to "home" for me to be happy. Not to mention that John's thinking BYU Hawaii, Jenny's going for BYUI, and Peter's looking at BYU Provo. I'm extremely excited for Youth Conference and everything we'll have to talk about! On the flip side, it will be soooooo strange to be the oldest kids at YC. The rest are all at college or on their missions. And then it will be us. Class of 2010. Woohoo!!
Going from here to the Bubble will be a big difference, but I know one incredible girl who's going to be facing even bigger changes next year: My little sister Brittany! She's been chosen as a Rotary Youth Exchange Student to spend a year in Thailand! Possibly the only person more excited for her than I am is her. She spends hours on the computer almost every day practicing Thai with a computer program. She greets the Thai exchange student here in Thai. She reads books about it, and talks to anyone who knows anything about it. All while bouncing on the balls of her feet and grinning like the Chesire Cat (reminds me...is Alice in Wonderland going to be any good?)
So we're all headed places. Look out world!
