An Update on My Life

As usual on the college front, this week has held many ups and downs for me. I've noticed lately that the days seem unbelievably long, but then I look back at the weeks and time, always pliant, seems to make it short. I can't say I'm complaining, I like feeling like life is going by fast because that means I am progressing quickly, and if something doesn't go my way, the memory is quickly lost in my sea of life.


I guess a highlight of the week was Thursday night, when the Institute provided the campus with hotdogs, and somehow through the magic of college we ended up with two new (MALE!) friends to spend the evening with. We went to get snow-cremes. Getting snow-cremes is another one of those obscure, we-are-bored-as-heck Snow College culture things. Basically you pile a bunch of college students in a car in the middle of the night to drive into this tiny town called Springville, where there is a tiny cottage-like house. In the tiny cottage house, you order a little white foam cup full of a strange mixture of shaved flavored ice and soft serve icecream. If I lived in any other place or in any other time of life, I would be extremely cautious of such an outing, but considering there are few things to do here and as college students, we have nothing to lose, I went! It was fun!

Then we came back to the apartment and pretended to watch Wreck-It-Ralph, when in actuality we were enjoying awkward small talk, and worrying about what everybody else thought of us. I'm getting better and better at this whole college thing! So that was an adventure. The guys are supposed to come back Sunday night for pancakes, and I am sure that will be entertaining for me, at least.

The other highlight of the week being I got my first actual letter from Ben! It was postmarked "Agosto 6", and it ended up in my P.O. Box Sept. 5th. Jeez.  It was much needed, and I was so happy to read it. Despite the rather belated news it brought, Ben made it worth my while by adding in pet names and "I love you"s. I miss him now more than ever but I'm grateful for the patch of sunshine it brought me. God is mindful of us, I know.