THANKSGIVING BREAK

WEEEEEEEEE!!!
Let me see, what did I do?

I went down to St. George with Shayla my roommate.
I helped her sister and brother-in-law pack and clean their apartment (they have officially moved to Lehi as of last Saturday).
I went to the St. George Temple (beautiful!).
I had Thanksgiving dinner with Shayla's brother-in-law's parents and grandmother.
I watched 2 Hallmark romantic movies while there as well.
I had In-And-Out Burger TWICE (so HA! to those who crazily queued up hours to get one here in Provo... it's like what one of my professors said, "It's good, but it's not that good").
Oh yes, and I GOT TO SLEEP IN.
Lovely...

And then on Saturday, with some divine intervention, I managed to get a ticket to go see the AWESOME (that's because I'm on the side of the victors of course) BYU vs U of U football game. Oh yeah! Oh yeah! It was SUCH a good game, that even though the Utes lost, there was honestly not too much shame in losing this one. Both teams played well, although we played just a teeny bit better. :)
It was sweet because it was my first time attending a football game, and it was cool that my 1st game was THE school rivalry game. BYU's victory was just the cherry on the icing.
Man, you should have been at the stadium when we went into extra-time. You could feel the tension of everyone there. Nail-biting, especially when BYU started playing their 4 downs and we kept getting pushed back.
But NO FEAR! Did we give up on them? NOOOOOOOOO!!!! That was an AWESOME run-in touchdown. It was pure ECSTACY!

I can only say though, that it stinks to be a football player and play on the opponent's homeground. I cheered whenever BYU played, and caused a rackus whenever the Utes played (because that's what the big screen told us to. I blame the big screen. Hee hee hee!) but even I felt bad for the Utes because it is demoralizing to hear nothing but chants of "oooooohhhh"s in your 3rd down, and cheers when you miss it.

But then again, that's exactly what they will do to us (and perhaps even worse), so I guess there's no love lost, and all's fair in love, war and college football.

I will post pictures next time because I need to get camera batteries.

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Fun with Room-mates!!!

My room-mates (the very same ones I had blogged about a few weeks ago about Ward Prayer Spotlight) are (as Shayla loves to say) "A KICK IN THE PANTS!!!" And I love them to bits. We all get along really well.
When we have apartment prayer, we take turns saying it in different languages.
Su- Malay
Julie- Korean (she served a mission in Korea)
Shayla- English
Me- Chinese

Then, we also make caramel apples. This time, SUCCESS! (remember the 1st time when we kinda forgot to read the instructions and in the end the caramel had to be chiseled off the apples? Ha ha ha ha ha! It makes a GREAT date story). We made it from scratch this time. The end result was still a bit hard but heat it in the microwave for a few seconds and it softens and tastes fantastic!

Yeah, they look wonderful don't they?!
Let's see... just this past Wednesday afternoon we went up to the Salt Lake Huntsman Cancer Research Institute. Shayla was diagnosed with some form of cancer a few years ago, and she is completely cured now (hooray!). She still has to go for annual check-ups, and so we all took a mini-road trip up there. That's us in front of the center after her check-up.

Then we went over to Five Guys Burgers for some, well, burgers and fries.

What else have we done? Talk, watch romantic movies (Shayla and Julie are the ones who have got me hooked on them), laugh, share boy stories, visit IKEA all the way in Draper, write messages to each other on the mirror, write nice notes to each other, apartment group dates... I have so much fun with them.

Cross my fingers this lasts!

Who would have thought...

A microwave could be so handy? And it sounds safe too- no potential radioactive health hazards. Hmm... maybe I should forward this to my mother!



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