Week number thirteen

Well, It's been fun kids.
Thanks for the adventures.
This is my last week with my one-a-week adventures blog. Well at least it's my last week to write in this blog for my class. I may or may not keep writing in this blog after I get home from school. I have about 2 months at home before I leave for my mission so maybe keeping this blog up will keep me busy. On top of all the studying I'm going to do of course. I need to brush up on my scriptures and Preach my Gospel knowledge. I feel so unprepared so Thank GOODNESS I have some time to really study and prepare before I head out for the MTC in February. I am so excited. My mission has consumed my life and I'm not even serving yet. Well I have enjoyed seeking out adventures this semester and I had a blast every week. Thank you MCOM 320!

My professor asked if we would blog on what we thought about the class. I have no problem with this because I loved the class! It is seriously one of the most useful classes I have taken at BYU. Even during the stressful projects and papers I was still grateful I was taking it. I learned so much and feel so much more prepared to enter the work field. I feel so much more confident with writing, being interviewed, grammar, networking, and so much more. Thank you MCOM 320 and Thank you Professor Thomas!
I created a little survey for the class and what others think about it. Here is the link and some stats.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dHJUYUZlc2gzX1FkNUhSc3o2cjJ6dXc6MQ

25 responses

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Have you heard of MCOM 320?
	Yes 11 44% No 14 56%

Would you ever take MCOM 320?
	Yes 14 56% No 11 44%

How interested are you in taking this class?
	not at all interested 11 44% kind of interested 6 24% interested 1 4% very interested 6 24% I am taking it in the future 1 4%

Would you take this class as a GE, only if you had to for your major, to gain experience or for fun?
	Only if my major required it 14 56% For fun 2 8% To fulfill my advanced writing GE 11 44% To gain experience 9 36% People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.

If you have taken this class would you recommend it?
	I recommend not taking it. 10 40% The class was alright. Take it if you want. 4 16% I recommend taking this class. 2 8% I highly recommend taking this class. It is very useful. 9 36%

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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEARS!

Week number twelve

Wow, only one more week after this. I can't believe how fast this semester went! I only have a couple more weeks and then I go home for good. And then it's off on my mission I go. I am so excited. I kind of wish it was already February but at the same time there are so many things I need to do and learn before I leave so I'm glad I have some time to prepare.

Now.... This week.... First off:

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

My family came up to Utah this year instead of all of us going home. It's kind of a bummer not to be able to go home to California buuuuut as long as I'm with my family life is good. W had an absolute BLAST!! We ate so much good food and played so many fun games. Seriously every night was a party. I love my family so much! They are the best.

My mom brought up some crafts and I really took a liking to watercolor painting. I'm not the best drawer or artist, but I have come to find (as of this week) that I simply adore painting! I really love it! I'm not good by any means but let me just say I lost a lot of sleep because of it. Everyone would go to bed but I just couldn't stop painting. I painted quite a few things and my mom had this good idea where we paint something and then you add lace/beads/writing/sparkles/etc. they look awesome and all of the ones I made have special meanings to me so it was fun to create them. Now yes I have painted before so that's not my new adventure for this week. But I will tell you what it was.....

Every year my family makes my grandma Gallacher's famous monkey rolls! Mackenna usually makes them but she lives in D.C. Nw and couldn't make it to thanksgiving this year so my mom put me in charge of e much loved rolls. This wouldn't seem like a big deal but you see, my family adores these rolls. Thanksgiving=monkey rolls. If these aren't good everyone would be sad and upset. You cannot mess them up. They are number one. So the pressure was on. My mom gave me the recipe which honestly didn't have directions but more like just a list of the ingredients and a couple of pointers. well the results were positive! Very positive! I nailed the rolls with the help of my brother in law Brandon who insisted on learning how to make them because he loves them so much! Haha as do we all! They aren't super hard but there are definitely tricks to making them good. For example you can't knead them or mix them too much or else they get too tough. They turned it perfect and we ate the with the homemade strawberry jam I made my family this summer. (my job every summer-- which I love because I love to make jam. It's strangely therapeutic for me)

Thanksgiving was so delicious and I couldn't have asked for a better time! I soaked it up since I won't be here next thanksgiving. Bu I'll be in Latvia so it's okay. :)

Week number 11

This week I had the honor of attending "Savior of the World" up in Salt Lake. My wonderful roommate Carley Well's mother bought us all tickets. So my best friends and roommates (Lauren Mcfadyen, Erica Hawkins, and Carley Wells) headed up to salt lake after stopping at little Caesars for dinner. Yes, we did buy 2 whole pizzas and crazy bread. And YES we finished it all. haha. Needless to say we love pizza. The play was shown in the Conference Center Theater. The costumes were so fun and colorful and the singers were so amazing. Funny, I didn't even know that theater existed! The play was just lovely, inspiring, and uplifting. It made me think about the Savior and His atonement and we all cried a bit. I especially loved the part when the spirits were resurrected and they were all so happy to see each other again. That part really hit me. It's going to be SO wonderful when we are all reunited with all of our loved ones. Friends an family on earth and in heaven. What a glorious reunion that is going to be.
After the play we stopped off at Hatch family chocolate. (http://hatchfamilychocolates.com/) We heard that it is famous for its hot chocolate so we had to stop by and give it a try. I of course got a banana-chocolate ice cream shake. My absolute FAVORITE! Maybe I should branch out sometime? haha. After running and playing around in the newly fallen snow we headed back to Provo feeling very uplifted and full of chocolate! :)

Week number ten

Wow, TEN weeks already?
That's insane.
I can't believe the semester is almost over! We only have a couple more weeks of school and then I go home for good! Well, until 2013. Weird. Provo has been my life for over 2 years now and it feels so weird knowing I won't be cominG back here with everyone else and going back to school for such a long time. But hey, I'm going on a MISSION to LATVIA! So it's ok. I think I'm luckier than all those school zoobies. hahah.

Ok this week I am kind of embarrassed about what I am going to write about. I'm not embarrassed it happened but I think it is kind of a funny thing to write about. It honestly is something not only worth writing about but it's also pretty funny.
So.... You are all aware that this week we had a very historical date? Yep!
... 11/11/11....
and what about adding the special time of day with it?
...11:11:11...
Put it together and what do you got?
11/11/11/11/11/11
How sweet is that!?
Here is the story. Don't judge me for blogging about this. I just honestly don't have a better story for this week. haha

I went to an 11/11/11 party and I was outside with a bunch of my friends when everyone started to count down to 11:11pm. That special time of day. The time and day in History that is ALL ONES! haha. Everyone counted down like news years and then when everyone started to scream my good friend hugged me. I looked up and HELLO he kissed me right on the lips. hahaha. I seriously just started laughing my head off. Whoops, I was not expecting that! We joked the rest of the night about the random kiss.
But hey, I got smooched on 11/11/11/11/11/11!!!! What a great day in History.
Now it's not that I've never been kissed. But that I've never been kissed on 11/11/11/11:11. haha. So silly I know, but hey, not everyone can say they got kissed at this amzing all ones date and time.

week number nine

Well this weeks adventure happened quite by accident. We had a big group date planned to go to comedysports. Lauren and Trent Mcfadyen and their dates planned it and invited Nick Newell and I so we were totally stoked to go! I went to comedysports about a year ago and it was HILARIOUS! Seriously so funny! I’ve wanted to go back ever since so I was seriously so excited to go. So we all drive together and we get there and Nick and I find out all of the other couples had bought their tickets online and Nick and I missed the ball I guess because we didn’t do that. Whoops! I was super bummed but I mean, hello it was a Friday night and we were on Center Street... there was bound to be something fun right? Well here comes the adventure.... I’ve been to Center Street obviously but I’ve never just walked down center street and explored it. So Nick and I started our adventure. First we came upon an open art gallery show! They had paintings by a bunch of different painters including James Christensen. We walked around and got free cookies and cider! Yum! Nick was determined to go to the guitar store so we walked a little farther down and saw many exciting stores on the way there. I LOVE CENTER STREET! It’s the cutest street in Provo. Not that there is a lot of competition here... haha. (Quote by Brendan Lee) The best part? When we went into the guitar store and there was a random concert going on in the back! We snuck in and heard a couple songs from this one guy who I have no idea who he was. He was probably in his 50s or so and he did a lot of covers and a couple of originals. It was way random and sweet. Next we walked around the other side of Center Street and found some treasures there as well. I want to go back in the daytime when al the cool stores are actually open and I can explore each of the antiques stores and what not. There was construction going on and a car almost hit us 2 or 3 times but we made it out alive. BARELY. Jk but I had the best time exploring and I just gotta go back and explore more! Thanks Nick for going on this adventure for me!

Week number eight

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

This past weekend I went to Panguitch, UT. My friend, Nick Newell's mom, Jorli Perine, has a cabin there and boy oh boy is it the coolest place ever! The town of Panguitch is tiny. Her cabin is about 10 minutes outside of the main town on 22 acres and is by a beautiful river. Seriously the coolest place ever.
The crew consisted of: Nick Newell, Camryn Gallacher, Erica Hawkins, Nicole Hawkins, Carley Wells, Kendall Blake, Mike Smith, Tyler Allan, Ammon Orgill, Erin Simmons, Scott Mathis,
Jeff Larson, Krissy Bentley, and Chris.
Our adventures went like this.
First we all got in our costumes and we frolicked around in the wilderness. Then we played some music and sang some songs while Nick, Mike, and Jorli's friend Gary (favorite human I've ever met) played their guitars. We then had the best dinner and yummy dessert. We had a costume contest which I can proudly say I won for most original. I won a beautiful blanket! I was a toilet. Yes, you heard right. I was a toilet! haha it was classic.
After dinner and dessert we bundled up and we went outside to enjoy the AMAZING stars!!!! It was literally the best star gazing of all time! Incredible x10. So beautiful. To get in the spirit of Halloween we told some scary stories in a circle holding the flashlight under our faces like little kids. Classic.
The next activity consisted of some people watching Sherlock holmes while others made herbal tea and we played funny games and danced. The best part about this night you ask? Just being with these amazing, wonderful, and hilarious people. I just adore each of them.
We all talked and played into the week hours of the night and then headed for bed ready for another day of adventure!
The next morning after breakfast we all piled in the cars and headed for town! We first went to Jorli's quilt and painting shop. She is an AMAZING painter. I was so blown away! Her shop was the most darling thing I've ever seen! Gary showed us around and told us all about the bed and breakfast they just built. It is so cute!
We walked down the main street and stopped in a thrift store. Of course. It's where we shop best. We found all sorts of hidden treasures. I for one found an old book with several stories in it. Once in particular called "walkabout". Uh, do I even need to say it? I MUST read that story! Walkabouts are the best idea. We spent more time than normal people would in a thrift shop and I must say, I think each of us found a treasure of some sorts.
When we got back to the cabin half the group had to leave to get back to Provo for various commitments. Nick, Nicole, Mike, Jeff, Chris, Krissy, and I stayed to continue our adventures.
Next up we played some baseball with some bats that nick brought. We used these little apples for our balls. We had the grandest time trying to hit a ball "out of the park" or over the second fence.
Final Destination: BRYCE CANYON!
I was sooo excited when I found out Bryce Canyon was only 20 minutes away from the main town. Of course we all watned to go explore it and boy, that's exactly what we did! We went to many different look out points and explored them all! We were very lucky and got to watch the sunset there as well. So beautiful! The canyon is amazing! As Gary puts it, "it's like DQ with color." None of us are very sure what he meant by that but it was funny! haha. He also said that it would strike you with amazement at how incredible God's creations are. He was 100% right about that. I thought of one of my favorite hymns, "For the beauty of the Earth." This earth is so beautiful! I loved every second of my experience at Bryce Canyon. except for when I almost had a heart attack becasue of my fear of heights. I used to never be afraid of heights. Now I'm the biggest baby and can hardly move when I'm high up. I don't know what happened to me. I get it from my dad though. He hates heights. I used to love them! I'm confused. If growing up means more fears then I don't want to keep doing it anymore.
We drove home, and stopped for some ice cream and a movie. We rented the classic 80's movie called Poltergeist.


Super funny movie but because I am a baby when it comes to scary movies I was still a little sacred in some parts. But mostly we just laughed at it. We ate our ice cream and all snuggled up together. We had deep talks until about 4:30am and then decided to get some shut eye for the 2 hours we had until we needed to get up to leave and drive home to make it in time for church.
It was sad to leave our dear town of Panguitch but we hope to go back again sometime soon! Thank you to everyone who made this Halloween getaway the best anyone could ask for!! I just adore my friends. I feel so lucky to have them!!
Here's the video on youtube of our adventures

click here: HALLOWEEN GETAWAY!

Week number seven

This week I cooked Shrimp! Yep, I even had to de-vein them! I thought it was going to be totally disgusting but I actually had no problem doing it. We made shrimp fettuccine Alfredo in my cooking class. We had to cook the shrimp lots of veggies and noodles and we also made the sauce from scratch! I love my cooing class! I love to cook and it's so fun to cook things like shrimp alfredo. I don't know if I'll ever make it again... I don't like shrimp. But now I know how to de-vein and cook a shrimp. maybe my future husband will love shrimp and I'll use this knowledge. haha. Sea food isn't my favorite but I found out tonight that I don't mind it as much as I thought I did. I like some fish! Some of the other groups cooked a bunch of different kinds of fish and I was brave and tried them all! I actually enjoyed them! It's so true that the older you get, the more food you like. Funny concept but I believe it.