Midnight Dinner
6people+4seats= tight squeeze
Christina, Britnee, and Me at the game
Monday, January 26, 2009
Saturday January 24, 2009
after camping we only spent 2 hours in our dorm until we headed to the bus stop for our next destinations, Waimea Bay Beach. Hayley Brady, a friend from back home who goes to BYUH, spent the day with us. after the beach we headed to Haleiwa aka North Shore and stopped at Cholos for some nachos (mom this is the same place we went). next stop the Dole Plantation. we arrived to a pineapple wonderland, even the walls were pineapple yellow. we tried the famous Dole Whip (pineapple soft-served ice cream).... Oh..My.. Yumminess!!!!! i wanted another cone before i was done with the one in my hand. we walked around the little courtyard and looked at the pineapple bushes, which look like little voodoo dolls or some tribal scare tactic with the head on a stick motif .
on our bus ride back home our friend Britnee called and asked if we wanted to go to the BYUH mens basketball game in Honolulu. when we finally got home we ran in changed and ran out- no shower, beach hair, burnt faces, and sand on our backs- perfume was a needed necessity. we crammed 6 people into a 4 seater car and hit the road. the game was hilarious it was like middle school kids and Space Jam combined. we won! when we got home we crashed on our sandy sheets from exhaustion, but not before eating PB&J graham crackers on the floor. what can i say, we're college students working for the weekend so we have to party it up... no time to flounder.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Friday Camping
this weekend was our relief society camping party on the beach. it was really fun! we had BBQ and
smores!!!!!! its funny how smores are like second nature to us but i witnessed many girls consume their first smore, i had to teach them step by step " graham, mallow, chocolate, graham". we played a water balloon tossing game and the losers had to perform. my partner Kristen and i happened to have butter fingers that night, and we forced to dance and sing. Christina and i ,having no camping equipment, slept in a the biggest tent provided by ourselves on a bed sheet. it was the equivalent of sleeping on cement but it was totally worth it because i witnessed the most beautiful sunrise and rainbow the next morning! we had a devotional on the beach and watched the sunrise then turned around and saw the rainbow, i actually saw the end of the rainbow and the pot of gold.
Women and their Cravings
when i was home i never really craved ice cream, candy, or cookies. being away from home makes me want things i never really did before... like cookies. one night i just wanted cookies and nothing else. we walked all the way to Foodland (local grocery store) and bought tinfoil and cookie dough! we made our cookies in the nasty community kitchen and had to use "the shirt off my back" literally as hot pads. we shared some with our neighbors including Gifty, who has never had a cookie before.
Friday, January 23, 2009
i got a job
So in less than 24 hours i went from jobless to a job. i am now the student assistant to the President of Brigham Young University Hawaii! can you belize it? i only work 10 hours a week and have to wear a skirt everyday (i might need to go shopping). i'm really excited about this, i just hope i can pronounce the majority of the names, and i probably should know the presidents name as well.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
Laie Fall's
just for your information i almost pee'd my pants when i watched this movie.
we met this girl, Britnee, in our ward who wanted to go hiking to Laie Falls. there was a big group of us that went on the hike, but we ended up breaking up into smaller groups. our group had a blast. we laughed the majority of the time. christina only fell twice and i managed to stay on my feet the whole time. part of the trail was extremely muddy which only added character to our journey. when we finally arrived at the falls christina, britnee, and i jumped in (see video above) and as you probably watched it was a bit of a shock. the water was probably at a glacial temperature. when we gained feeling in our bodies again this sweet girl from Fiji showed us strawberry guava fruit that we picked and ate right there, it was like a sour war head on a tree. on our walk back she showed us sugarcane, which is like eating sticks yet sucking out sugar. we were so exhausted, muddy, and bruised when we returned from out 10 mile excursion that we were to tired to shower. Life in the day of a native
Survival of the Fittest
This weekend has been a series of unfortunate events, yet i am so happy they happened because it makes this adventure an adventure. on friday we went to dinner at the cafeteria and they said i didn't have anymore meals on my card for that week. i had been eating out with my mom that week so i knew that wasn't true so we pressured the girl until she let me in.
on saturday we went to the mall in Kaneohe and during our movie the fire alarm went off and we almost had to vacate the theater. we spent the rest of that night trying to figure out the laundry mat, laughing our way through a few loads, and roaming around the halls trying to finds someone who had movies and popcorn- we were successful in all departments.
today (sunday) we went to the hawaiian redbox to rent the LDS film Return With Honor,the movie got stuck in the machine and wouldn't come out. we were smacking and threatening to tip the machine over but decided to call the 1800 number instead. it was a local guy who owned the redbox and he said that the Lord probably didnt want us watching that movie, "but its an LDS movie" we were all laughing but nothing could be done so we moved on to our next activity. after our stroll down the beach we went to dinner at 6:30 and realized that dinner went from 5:00- 6:30. we ran in and were left with cereal and burnt toast! we had cereal for lunch so why not dinner? we went back to our room and ate saltines with PB&J. after our "meal" we waited around till our Hale 5 mandatory meeting (you get fined if you dont attend). refreshments were served after the meeting and it was like the first sight of a watering hole after a long drought. girls were running and crowding around the table that contained mystery desserts(it was to dark to see). its a good thing i'm taller then the majority of the people here so i reached in and grabbed whatever i could and passed it off to my roommate who scarfed it down with out even knowing what she was devouring. we were laughing so hard with two other girls, Lizzy and Alysha, who felt our desperation. its a jungle out here and our poor Hale mom came out into the open with a tray of cookies and was almost mauled by the hostile occupants of Hale 5. we learned today that only the strongest, or tallest, survive.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Hukilau
This picture is in front of the Aloha Center. I don't mean to make anyone jealous but this campus is beautiful. Everyday i see a spectacular sight, even if its raining. School is starting to crack down on me- meaning a lot of reading! I'm having a lot of fun down here and i laugh a lot with my roommate, Christina, and the people we have met from all over the WORLD, though a lot are from Utah. Our neighbor, Gifty, is from Ghana and one night she came in while we were decorating our room, with homemade crafts, and said "Holy Moses" at our creation. That made the quote wall along with other silly comments. My mama left today for the icy tundra aka Utah. Thanks mom for coming!
p.s Kris- i tried a strawberry Melona Bar and it was delicious! next time i'll give honeydew a try
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Roommates at the Beach
the picture below was a on going joke from that day. i was asked what my favorite color was and i said the rainbow (i like many colors) and that whole day we saw rainbow everything including a store named Rainbow Crack Seed. we thought this was funny because we had just been talking about drugs.
First day at Temple Beach
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