its the most wonderful time of the year

its's finally christmas time!!!!!!!!!
well i am officially done with the semester. it was honestly the worst semester i have had, it was really hard and i don't think i did good in my classes but whatever. i have plenty of other semesters to do well anyways. i am really glad to have a month break before school starts again! i really need it! to answer your question ivan, i haven't started preparing for english camp. i have started saving yes, but as far as starting to get thing i'm going to need, no. i went ice skating for the third time yesterday. i still stink at it but its alot of fun. me and the girls are sore from it but i still think we will be going back again soon. i talked to toni last night and he finally updated me on alex (my ex). that boy is just looking for trouble. he is going back to his old ways already. he needs to learn how to change and commit to God or he will never get anywhere in life. well its his decision not mine. all i can do is pray for him. i'm not sure what i'm going to be doing during christmas break other than trying to get as many hours as possible to save for russia. hopefully some good times will be included. well, i have to go clean the house since my mom's best friend is coming to california tomorrow. "merry christmas to all, and to all a good night!"

thanksgiving

well we had thanksgiving. there was lots of giving as in giving of lectures. yeah i got in trouble for not cleaning the bathroom. my mom made me cleaning that morning, which made me late for work. yep, i worked on thanksgiving, with a horrible cold. oh well, it got me out of babysitting my crazy cousins. i was able to see daniel too, since he was down in cali for thanksgiving. saturday, i had practice for the play all day. i was able to go and hang out with the girls from work that night though too. we went to dinner and then stampede. yep yep, dancing is exactly what i needed. yesterday i was able to spend some time with faith again. that was good. i haven't been able to spend much time with her lately. we ran lines for a while and then just hung out. we got to talk to sarah from florida for a while too. that was pretty sweet! i have a couple papers coming up because the semester's coming to an end. finals and everything are getting ready to happen and i'm a little stressed but excited that the break is almost here! well i have to get to the tech rehearsal but have an amazing week!

how does one save?

well onborder="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130137185678461586" /> once again i have slacked off on my blogging duties. in my defense i have been very busy and forgetful. well the family force 5 concerts were amazing! way better than i thought they'd be. we actually got to hang out with them and everything! those are pictures from the concert up above. school is going ok, i'm sick of it as always but that's ok. i'm almost done with school though. i have about 4 or 5 more weeks. i'm also working on my schedule for next semester. i'm trying to get fast track or online classes so i don't have to worry about school during english camp. i'm getting really excited to go back, it was so awesome when we went last year and i can't wait to do it again. i gotta start saving up hardcore. i gotta put my money in a safe place and hide the key so i don't use it haha. work's goin pretty good right now, we have several new people but they're all really cool. two of them are christians too so that's a plus. i think my main problem lately is that i've been super lazy. i intend to work on my online class or take care of whatever and instead i end up watching a movie, playing on the internet, or sleeping. i really need to work on that. so ivan, we're in this one together. :) have an amazing week guys!

back in action

well it has certainly been a while since i last posted. i have been very busy lately with school, work, and everything else. i am working a regular amount of hours once again and will try to start posting more often. not a whole lot has changed in the last month. i have mostly been doing the same thing as i do everyday. well i tried to drop my statistics class today but i missed the deadline by a day. i'm not sure what i will do about that. there is no way i can pass that class. i think i will talk to the office and see if there is some way to still drop that stupid class. i went to a kutless concert on friday so that was pretty cool. they're concerts are always fun. i am so excited though because i am going to see family force 5 on thursday and saturday. i love those guys! the concerts are all the way in la and anaheim. we have a little bit of a drive but it won't be too bad. stuff at starbucks is starting to change too. we have 4 people who are changing stores. it should be interesting to see who gets promoted now. i kinda want to be so i can get a raise and more hours for russia. we'll see how it goes. i'm still in search of a warm coat for next years trip. lindsey is going to need her jacket this year so i can't borrow it this time around. not sure where to look, everywhere i go, the coats are super expensive. any ideas guys? well i should get some homework done but any help would be appreciated. God bless!

magic mountain

well i believe my last post was almost a week ago. it's probably time to change that. well wednesday and thursday were normal days nothing super duper exciting. i don't think there was anything super exciting on friday either. i had to close at work that day though. that stunk especially since we had to be at the church at 7 the next day. saturday we went to six flags magic mountain. it was alot of fun and also very scary. those rides are so intense! there was only one that i didn't get on, i have been on it before and i didn't like it. they have a new ride called tatsu that's really cool. you basicly ride on your stomach, the whole ride you fly like superman. it's fun. we ended up staying until the park closed. i slept on the two hour drive home but we didn't get home until 2am. it was very late. we all had church in the morning too. we went to church and smacked each other when one of us fell asleep. afterwards i had play practice. today was the read through so we all just sat there for the first day. i also had to close at work last night and now i'm at school. as you can imagine, i'm a little tired. the excitement for the day yesterday was that my cousin had her baby. her name is iris aurora! i'm so happy for tamsin! yay! my first cousin to have a baby! also, after church alex came and talked to my dad. he wanted to get my dad's blessing to date me before we went official and everything. it went alot better than i thought. i thought it would be really awkward and everything but it wasn't. mostly it was just my dad being really really nervous. haha. well, until next time...

swing dancing

well its been yet another week. this weekend was pretty cool. me, alex, lauren, janae, carissa, and katrina went swing dancing on friday. it was alot of fun except for the fact that none of us remembered how to swing dance. it didn't end up lasting very long because of it. we ended up going out to denny's afterwards which was really yummy. we ended up getting home at like 2 or 3am. it was pretty late. i had to work on saturday too, i was pretty tired. sunday was good. i went over to andrew's house. we watched the chargers vs bears game. it was actually a good game, i was suprised that the chargers could beat somebody especially the bears. weird. it was fun though becuase we were all rooting for different teams and it was getting crazy as always. irma made some really good bbq too! i ate so much! i was really full and sick. then i drove home and my mom had dinner waiting for me so i had to eat again! it was crazy, i haven't been that full since thanksgiving! i had to go to work all full like that too. at least i wasn't hungry so i didn't eat any more of the pastries. school on monday was decent, nothing super exciting. i was really tired in biology though and i kept falling asleep. i felt kinda bad but if that teacher would stop being so monotone we wouldn't be falling asleep. i closed the store last night too, so now i'm at school really tired. i don't really like wednesdays anymore because they're so long. i have school all day and then i have church right after. i have to open in the morning too! so after church tonight i gotta go straight to bed since i have to be at the store at 4am! well i'm still very tired and i have about an hour and a half till i have my class but that's ok. anyways, have a great week everyone!

questions about russia

well i have been sick with a flu for about two or three days now. it's not cool. i hate when i can't eat! i called out of work on sunday so i didn't want to call out again last night. i felt too bad about bailing on everybody on sunday. i still feel like crap but its a little bit better than it was. so that's good. they went easy on me at work and let me take longer breaks since they knew i was still sick. alex knew i was still sick so he called me at work. i was way busy though so i wasn't paying attention. i felt bad. then i went to break and brandy called me out saying there was some guy waiting for me. so i went out there all weirded out wondering who would be there. dude, alex came and bought me a flower to make me feel better. how did i get a good christian guy, i will never know, but i'm glad i did. God has truely blessed me even in my stupidity. i don't deserve any of this. i screwed up and still he allows me to have this relationship. He is truely amazing and i owe Him big time! in other news, i had been very seriously wondering about if i should go or not. i didn't tell any of my friends about my concerns but just prayed about it. then i went and talked to three diff friends and said pray and have God say yes or no and give me a verse. they all said yes and the verse was go into all the world and preach the gospel. that sounds like i'm supposed to go back to russia, don't you think? i'm excited! i'm going back to my other home!