Ten Days Later

School has been going great for me. I am taking Yoga, Pilates, Astronomy, and English. So far over the past 10 days ssince school has really kicked into gear it hasn't been too hard, in my non-fitness classes that is. My Yoga and Pilates classes have really been working me hard, but I am really enjoying it. I have an awesome teacher, he is really fun and exciting, and he explains everything well in my Yoga class. My Pilates teacher has been working us to death, and it is only the third week, so it is still pretty hard for me in both classes. I can tell I am already getting better at those classes.
Astronomy has been fun we have been learning all about orbit, eclipses, planets, stars, etc. I still need to go through the chapters and read 1 to 5 again because it hasn't quite sunk in. I"m not surprised that my brain has taken a little bit of time to wake up, I did just get up off of a 4 month break. In the classroom, in the center of the room there is this big planetarium dome. We just started doing stuff with that. He simulated the orbit of some planets, and solar and lunar eclipses. I think the dome is really awesome, even if it doesn't always behave. The first day something went wrong and the stars started moving rapidly in one direction and everyone felt like they were zipping through the universe, it was trippy. I really enjoy my teacher, he is fun to listen to and exciting and knows how to crack a good joke. He always saves a good seat for me because of my visual impairment, I think that is really nice.  He also lets me be late without docking me because my previous class (English) is so far away. I can't wait to tell you guys more about this class as it progresses.  There is a lot I don't understand right now, but I can get the hang of it.
I am in the bottom English class in the college. I am very rusty in English, surprisingly enough. I'm sure none of you expected that since I write so much.  I don't know how to do a lot of things, like write papers, my grammar isn't the best, and some other things. So far I am liking the class, we have just started out with simple things like recognizing similar words, learning about the different kinds of papers there are and how to write and order them, and some other stuff. The class his pretty easy to understand, but gives enough challenge that I learn, but am not overwhelmed. We have this journal we write different stuff from the textbook in like responses to questions, summarizing paragraphs, and some other stuff.  It's nothing too hard, but gives a healthy dose of challenge. My teacher is pretty easy to understand as well. There are a lot of people from different countries in my class as well, It get's pretty interesting sometimes, sometimes some of them talk a lot though and that can be annoying.
I got a locker for my stuff for when I am in my fitness classes, it is all the way on the other side of campus from where I usually am. I also have to go up a ton of stairs, so when I go to put my stuff in it it's kind of like a pre-workout. I have been loosing a steady 3 pounds a week since school started because of all my activity. I am feeling really good. It's kind of exhausting walking back and forth between two ends of the campus, but it is helping me get into good shape. Sometimes I am tempted to take the elevator up instead of all those stairs, but then I think of all the help they can be.
I have also been careful about what I have been eating. I make sure not to pack anything really sugary or unhealthy in my lunches.  I also make sure I take a lot of vitamins, and drink a lot of water. My mom is a health expert, so she helps me a lot.
It is still pretty hot over here, so most of my days at school my back is completely soaked with sweat. I know that is kind of gross to some people, but there isn't really anything I can do about it ha ha. I am just glad I am getting into better shape.
I made sure not to schedule any of my classes before 11am, so I get plenty of sleep. I sometimes have a problem with falling asleep a little late, so this is good this semester. I am still trying to get my sleep patterns back on. They aren't that hard to get back on a good time, I just don't feel like going to bed early sometimes haha.
For ward Family Home Evening we played games, and ate these really great home made scones, they were amazing. I ate like 3 of them. I had one with powdered sugar and strawberry jam, one with honey, and one with cinnamon sugar and a little bit of butter. they were so addicting. One of the games we played was this one where there was this disk handed around and it had a different thing on it and the person that was holing it had to give clues as to what it was that was written o the disk. The person, or team that guessed correctly got a point. Our team lost, but it was still pretty awesome.
We were supposed to have a pool party today, but then a thunderstorm came, so we decided to just play games and hang out and stuff.  The thunderstorm was amazing though, it produced some of the coolest lightning I have seen in a long time. There were so many long ones this time, and we finally got some much needed rain.

Anyway, I guess this is all for now. I have pictures and stuff I want to show, but I'll do that tomorrow. I'm pretty wiped out. I can't believe I typed this much without falling asleep haha.

First Day of School

So let me sum up my day for you. I went to my first class English, did one class and decided to take a different English class cuz I wasn't sure I could handle that one. The whole time I was in class I just had this nervous, uncomfortable feeling as we were goig over the syllabus. My teacher was pretty nice, but I could tell that that class wasn't going to be the one for me right now. I had to run around asking people if it would screw up anything to switch to the other class. (I was in English 990, but had to downgrade to 890). By the time I got everything figured out it was already 12:46 and my new English class is scheduled at noon. So, I missed the entire first day of my other English class. It took me a while to find the person that clearly explained everything to me, the others were like all so confusing. 

I was upset upset because I was planning on saving that hour for choir.  

I was feeling quite irritated. I then got lost on my way to Astronomy and got there late, had to sit on the floor because it was too dark to see if there was any seats left. My teacher just let me sit there. We took a short pre-test, and filled out a little sheet of info about ourselves. Right before lass I noticed that Darik had texted me, it kinda threw me for a loop, but i'll talk about that more later in my next "Twin Dilemma' part (Part 4)

I had an hour between classes after Astronomy and spent it talking to the teacher of the choir I WAS going to be in but couldn't because of my english conflict. I have Tuesday and thursday at noon open, but he said I couldn't take the class half of the time because it wasn't fair to those people who could take it every day. So I just ended up giving up on that idea of being in the show choir at the Institute of Religion.

After this I ate lunch, I had SubWay with a Mango Mandarin Sobe Lifewater. I then went to Pilates and nothing much happened besides the class was explained. I went to go buy my books from the bookstore after this and the line was SO FREAKING LONG, but I lived. I then called my dad and he picked me up. I just surfed the net on my iphone until he got there. 

Even though my day started out so crazy, I still think I am going to have a great time in school. 

After school I opened Destiny online and started the robot. The game has a training robot that makes it so you don't have to do all the grinding. 

I talked to my friend Ronnie for a while, but he had to go do some stuff with his computer and some other stuff. I actually fell asleep for like 2 hours while he was away. We have been talking for most of the evening. I met him on Destiny Online, he is a really awesome person. We just started talking to each other like last week a lot. We have known each other for a few years though. He is a really easy person to talk to, I really enjoy talking to him a lot. One of the days we talked we talked for 7 hours straight, like way past midnight, it was insane. 

Anyway, other than this nothing much has happened. I unwrapped my books and stuff and put them in my bag, ate dinner, and have just been watching movies, and listening to music and stuff. 

My friend Sarah mentioned this movie called "A Cinderella Story", I was interested and actually watched it. Not my favorite, but I guess it was decent. Sarah is another friend I met online, we are like super close. She is one of the very few people I actually talk to on the phone. I usually hate talking on the phone, but she is one of the very few exceptions. 

I know I haven't written for like 3 weeks, sorry about that. You don't have to worry about missing anything, I'll tell everything soon. I've pretty much organized everything inside my head so I can tell it properly. SO much stuff has happened since my last big post. 

Anyway, this is all for now. I have pictures and stuff I want to put up, but i'll add them tomorrow. :)

One more thing, I always watch this as a tradition  on the first day of school.

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