September 7-9 2012

Ok, so I guess when I said I'll update my blog "Tomorrow", it really meant "11 days". Wow. Sorry, I'll try and make sure I update each week, if not everyday.

Friday Sep. 7:

First official day of being on our own without "Parental Supervision"
Got woken up by mom calling at 7:10. We talked for a while about what we were doing today. Morgan and I were about to get some breakfast, but Kayle (one of our I-Team leaders) knocked at the door and said we were meeting in 5 min to go to a meeting. So for breakfast we had an apple. (Not the healthiest first day breakfast).

We had 2 meetings:

1. Learning Method

College is going to be WAY different than high school. In high school you go to class, learn a lesson, and get homework that covers the lesson you learned in class. Well in college, we are expected to do the "home work" first. Which is called "Prepare". We are to Prepare for class BEFORE we get to class. Then we are to "Teach One Another", then "Ponder and Prove" what we have learned.

2. Learned about our Majors

Went to a seminar type of thing where the counsel of the Art Department talked to us about how to be successful in class. How many credits we need, and the different types of degrees we can get.

After the lessons we had a FREE New Student BBQ. We got a nasty looking (but good) hamburger, bag of chips, water bottle and a Grass Hopper Brownie (Mint Brownie).

Then we had a "Get Involved" Fair, where we learned about the upcoming activities, like when sports start up.

Free time from 3:30 to 8pm.

Got our I Card.

At 5:30 we had a pick-nick out side our room on the tables. It was fun, we had a couple of girls from our I-Team there and some of the guys who decided they wanted to some food (But it was all right, they brought a watermelon).

At 8 we headed to the Talent show, which was boring. We were in the back, and couldn't see anything. It was mainly just girls and boys singing while playing the guitar.

Saturday Sep. 8:

Basically did nothing today until 6. At 10:30 we toured the campus with our I-Team, then Morgan and I went and picked up our books. Kinda picked up our room for a little bit, then I watched Revolution on Hulu, but Morgan was talking to me, so I really didn't watch it.

At 6 we headed to I-Night with I-Team. It cost $5 to get in, and we go a $1 card for food. The best part was the rock wall. Morgan and I failed our first attempt, but made it up our second. Then we took a break and went to get Ice Cream with our food card, then Morgan went on the rock wall again.

Sunday Sep. 9:

Church was a little weird...We had RS first, then Sunday School, and lastly was Sacrament. There are about 90 wards with around 150 or so students.

At 5 we had a CES Fireside, Elder Holland spoke (it was broadcasted from St. George UT, so he wasn't actually at BYUI), it was really good.

Then later that night, I re-watched Revolution.

Tomorrow (Sep. 10) marks the 1st day of COLLEGE!

Meridian and Idaho Falls

I know I haven't been writing lately, but it's been pretty busy these past days.

Let's see, Mom, Dad, Morgan and I left California on Saturday September 1st, and went to Nana and Papa's house to visit and say good bye before leaving for Rexburg.

Fun at Nana's:

Saturday:

Morgan on the little motorcycle

Me on the motorcycle. I look stupid with my legs all out and my eyes closed.

Saturday night, Morgan and I tried out "light painting". It took a bit of trial and error (like most things), but we got a few good pictures.

We used Morgan's flashlight to draw the pictures, and set the shutter speed on my camera between 15-30 seconds to allow it to capture each drawing.

My turn!! I drew a heart.

 

And scribbles. These pictures would be cooler if we used a glow stick or a light stick, and not a flashlight. The flashlight created too much light around the grass. But that's ok, we still got some pretty good pics anyway.

Sunday:

After church, I went out and took some pics of Nana's flowers. Morgan really likes this one, so I decided to post it for her.

When shooting, I had it on burst setting, where you hold down the shoot button and it takes a lot of pictures. I didn't even realize that a bee was flying off the flower, until I went back to look at the pictures I took. So that was pretty cool.

While I was out taking pictures, Morgan was in the Library "Drawing", but when I came back inside she was a sleep. I couldn't resist taking her picture!

Morgan wasn't the only one who took a nap after church. I think we all did. I took at least a 2 or 3 hour nap if not longer. We were all tired.

Monday:

Mom, Dad, Morgan and I went miniature golfing, and then went shopping around Boise. When we went back to Nana and Papa's, Mom and I worked on a puzzle, and then I watched "Pride and Prejudice" with Nana (Morgan was there too, but she doesn't care for it, so she crocheted a fish).

Tuesday:

On our way to Rexburg. We took a pit stop at Twin Falls and went to Costco and stopped at a gorge and took pictures.

Here is the bridge we crossed over to get to the gorge. It was really fun photographing different angles of it.

This statue is titled "Twins", probably because it is in Twin Falls. I don't really know. There was a plaque, but it was hard to read the description.

This is the beauty that you see as you follow the path under the bridge. If you look closely to the middle right side, you can see a water fall.

When we were heading back to the car, we saw a landmark statue, and decided to take a look at it. It ended up belonging to...

...Evil Knivel

Here is a closer look at his statue. At least just his name, I didn't get a bigger description of what it said below his name.

See that dirt mound, that is where he did one of his jumps over the snake river.

Pretty Cool :)

Wednesday:

At the Idaho Falls Museum, they had a King Tut exhibit. And because I'm really interested in Egypt, we went to see the exhibit. I took over 300 pictures, a picture or two of each artifact, and then one of its description. Don't worry, I won't post all the pictures, just a couple of my favorites. Most of the "Artifacts" were replicated, but one of the Museum people said that some of the jewelry they had were the real things.

King Tuts head piece...

...His sarcophagus...

...and his mummified body (obviously it is a replicated, because it wouldn't survive being out in the open air like this is).

It was fun looking at all the Egyptian stuff. I was excited the entire time, this was a once in a life time experience, to see stuff from King Tut's Time in Ancient Egypt.

Thursday:

Move in day at BYU-Idaho. We got moved in and went to the grochery store and Walmart to pick up a few last minuet things, and then had a new student/parent meeting. After the meeting, we went to dinner and had Chinese. It was alright, except when I dipped some ham into HOT mustard that I thought was honey mustard. I got a surprise when I put it my mouth, it felt like it was on fire and burning.

We said good bye to Mom and Dad around 8ish, and then we met our I team and played games up at the top fields, and stayed up there until 11pm.

Well that was what the couple days before school started was like. It is 10:45pm right now, and I need to get some sleep. Tomorrow I'll make sure I right about what happened on Friday-Tomorrow. See You then! :)