This last week has taken my whole world and turned it upside down. I'm a bit behind on keeping up with my blog, so I will do a brief overview. We had our first cheer competition and we did so freakin' good! Everything hit and it went better than we had expected it to. We did the Make A Wish fundraiser for school, and we raised 29,000 dollars!
Last Friday my dad called me while I was over at my friend's house and told me that my grandma was in the hospital with Strep Throat, and Pneumonia. We were all very worried and Saturday morning my parents went down to St. George, as did all of her other kids. Saturday morning she was in critical condition and moved to the ICU. Sunday morning I was very shaky and I asked for a blessing from my friend's bishop. Instead, I got the entire bishopric! It was an amazing blessing and I am so grateful that I asked for it. It helped a lot. Me, Shannon and Brandon went down Sunday morning and went to visit. It was a very scary experience to spend so much time in the hospital waiting for better conditions. After much fasting and prayers, she has improved. They are considering taking off her breathing tube tomorrow so that she will be able to be awake and talk. Unfortunately, only my dad is down there from my family. We all had to come back because of work and other things. I'm happy she's doing well and I hope she pulls through. We had a very brief Christmas, and then continued with our ritual of heading to the hospital again. I think this is the longest I've spent in a hospital waiting room..
Last Saturday I went on two dates. I saw I Am Legend with one of my friends from school. It was awesome and he was a lot of fun to hang out with. Then I went on another big group date with Shanda, Laura, and Heather, plus our dates. It was a lot of fun, but my date kinda ignored me. I tried to still smile and have fun.
Well, that is about it in a nutshell..
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Winter Really Isn't Kidding
Wow is all I have to say. Last weekend and this weekend we have had two huge snowstorms. Last week we got seven inches in the valley and it seemed that this week it was trying to impress us by dumping more. Well nothing too exciting is happening around here, my dance classes are getting ready for the dance concert happening next week and I've been getting prepared for that. I'm very excited for Rachel and Logan to come to Utah on Tuesday! They get to stay for a little over a week and I'm so excited to see them!
Last Thursday I had the opportunity to shadow a nurse for a few hours. It was so interesting! The first hour I sat at a desk and talked to some of the nurses working in the ICU. I learned how to read the heart monitors they attach to you and was able to ask them lots of questions on education, what they liked and didn't like and just generally got to see what it was like to work there.
Then, for the next three hours I had the chance to shadow a nurse named Valerie. She was taking care of three or four patients that she kept visiting to check on and make sure they were ok and every so often to check their vitals. I learned so much about the work and what is required and she even let me do some stuff on my own. I got to see all the new equipment and meet lots of fun people. I was free to ask any questions that I had and at first I was kinda quiet and didn't say much, I just watched. Then after a bit I got more comfortable and began to open up and talk to the patients and to Val. I was happy to see that the blood didn't bother me, because this was my main concern. I had not ever had to deal with much of it so I was not sure I had the stomach for it. Now I am almost certain that I would like to go into nursing and premed, but I am still going to pray about it and make sure it really is right.
My original plan for shadowing a nurse was to see if I liked it, but I also wanted to see how I could incorporate American Sign Language into my work field. The first nurse I was with, her name was Marissa too, said that the first person she was with on her first day was Deaf and it would have helped a lot to have known some Sign Language so that she could communicate. He had to write everything down and when you are scared about coming to the hospital it makes it that much more difficult to write everything down and think about what you are saying.
Friday night I got to hang out with one of the girls that I met on Silent Weekend. Her name is Laura and she is profoundly Deaf. She has a cochlear implant that she got last March and wears a hearing aid in her other ear. We had a lot of fun and she was a funny girl. We had to sign while we talked and it was actually a lot easier than I thought it would be. I love signing and have improved my skills a lot in the last two weeks. I prepared for Silent Weekend by thinking in my head of how to sign certain things so that I could when the time arose. Then this last week I have been talking to my friend Heather and signing non stop in class and when we hang out. I am so excited because I can understand full stories when they are said to me and I can also tell an entire experience in sign.
Saturday I had the amazing opportunity to attend the Salt Lake Temple for the second time and it was an amazing experience. After battling the horrific snow storm to get there safely and almost not going at all, I was happy that I got to go. I went with my normal group, but I was the only one that had ever been before. I had only been once and I wasn't sure what all the protocol was so it was interesting to do things so differently from the normal Jordan River Temple. It was fascinating and I loved that experience.
Last night Shanda and I went to see Enchanted and we wore big poofy formals. It was so much fun and we got so many funny looks. The movie was hilarious and we were laughing a lot. As we were walking out for some reason all the workers were lined up along both sides of the path leading out the door. Since we had seen a late movie, we were the only ones leaving and all of the workers that had been talking just stopped and stared. I couldn't help it but I started to giggle about halfway down because it was so quiet and so funny. I got to the door and said, 'it's like walking down the red carpet.' Then turned around and looked down and said, "except this one is blue." It was the funniest part of the night.
Today I went to a missionary farewell for a good friend of mine Jon Thomas who is going to the Paraguay mission. There were lots of Riverton friends and it was so much fun to visit and see them all.
Last Thursday I had the opportunity to shadow a nurse for a few hours. It was so interesting! The first hour I sat at a desk and talked to some of the nurses working in the ICU. I learned how to read the heart monitors they attach to you and was able to ask them lots of questions on education, what they liked and didn't like and just generally got to see what it was like to work there.
Then, for the next three hours I had the chance to shadow a nurse named Valerie. She was taking care of three or four patients that she kept visiting to check on and make sure they were ok and every so often to check their vitals. I learned so much about the work and what is required and she even let me do some stuff on my own. I got to see all the new equipment and meet lots of fun people. I was free to ask any questions that I had and at first I was kinda quiet and didn't say much, I just watched. Then after a bit I got more comfortable and began to open up and talk to the patients and to Val. I was happy to see that the blood didn't bother me, because this was my main concern. I had not ever had to deal with much of it so I was not sure I had the stomach for it. Now I am almost certain that I would like to go into nursing and premed, but I am still going to pray about it and make sure it really is right.
My original plan for shadowing a nurse was to see if I liked it, but I also wanted to see how I could incorporate American Sign Language into my work field. The first nurse I was with, her name was Marissa too, said that the first person she was with on her first day was Deaf and it would have helped a lot to have known some Sign Language so that she could communicate. He had to write everything down and when you are scared about coming to the hospital it makes it that much more difficult to write everything down and think about what you are saying.
Friday night I got to hang out with one of the girls that I met on Silent Weekend. Her name is Laura and she is profoundly Deaf. She has a cochlear implant that she got last March and wears a hearing aid in her other ear. We had a lot of fun and she was a funny girl. We had to sign while we talked and it was actually a lot easier than I thought it would be. I love signing and have improved my skills a lot in the last two weeks. I prepared for Silent Weekend by thinking in my head of how to sign certain things so that I could when the time arose. Then this last week I have been talking to my friend Heather and signing non stop in class and when we hang out. I am so excited because I can understand full stories when they are said to me and I can also tell an entire experience in sign.
Saturday I had the amazing opportunity to attend the Salt Lake Temple for the second time and it was an amazing experience. After battling the horrific snow storm to get there safely and almost not going at all, I was happy that I got to go. I went with my normal group, but I was the only one that had ever been before. I had only been once and I wasn't sure what all the protocol was so it was interesting to do things so differently from the normal Jordan River Temple. It was fascinating and I loved that experience.
Last night Shanda and I went to see Enchanted and we wore big poofy formals. It was so much fun and we got so many funny looks. The movie was hilarious and we were laughing a lot. As we were walking out for some reason all the workers were lined up along both sides of the path leading out the door. Since we had seen a late movie, we were the only ones leaving and all of the workers that had been talking just stopped and stared. I couldn't help it but I started to giggle about halfway down because it was so quiet and so funny. I got to the door and said, 'it's like walking down the red carpet.' Then turned around and looked down and said, "except this one is blue." It was the funniest part of the night.
Today I went to a missionary farewell for a good friend of mine Jon Thomas who is going to the Paraguay mission. There were lots of Riverton friends and it was so much fun to visit and see them all.
Sunday, December 2, 2007
The Holiday Season Has Finally Arrived!
Well this last week sure has been interesting. We had our first basketball game and for being the first one it didn't go too bad. Now, if it had been our last one it would have been considered a disaster.. We did lots of stunting and tumbling though, so at least that part went well.. Friday right after school I was supposed to leave on my way up to Aspen Grove for Silent Weekend.. we made it about five miles and a few thousand verticle feet below the site, but were stopped by a horrible snow storm. The director going up in his car slid back down and a bus would have made things messy. I am not one that likes buses and I got very ill on the way back down because it was a windy canyon and we were sliding so the way that I thought we were headed ended up changing slightly on me. I spent the whole way back down and all the way back down to Jordan with my head on my pillow in Crapo's lap staring out the front window. I was sad because I really wanted to meet other people and be social, but those ideas were quickly dashed :(. The director told us to go home and that no one was coming up or going down. It is a good thing we turned around because in that one snow storm (that didn't stop until about noon the next day) we got seven inches in the valley and up to twenty in the mountains! Had we gone up there we would have been stranded and not allowed to come back.
Because of how sick I was coming home from the bus ride I fell asleep and unfortunately slept right through the basketball game that I should have gone to because Silent Weekend fell through.
I went to the temple Saturday morning as usual and had a date with my friend Tyler last night. We went ice skating with the youth ages 18 - 30 in Shanda's stake. It was such a blast! Tyler is so much fun and we had a good time trying to stay up and not run over anyone. Shanda was there also with her friend Brennen so we had more company. I'm very sore today and I have a small bruise where I hit my shin with the blade of my skate as I fell (intentionally of course, with Tyler holding my hand and coming down with me..). After not falling the entire time we decided we had to fall just to say that we had to we basically jsut sat down and slid a few feet. Then proceeded to go forward about twenty feet wehre I was tripped by a friend and fell flat on my butt. Only to get up and about ten feet later fall again, this time with Shanda by my side.
Right on schedule on December 1 we got the first real snow fall. It's as if the world has decided to actually start winter and make sure that everyone knows. I dont' think anyone missed the memo.. Though it snowed so much it makes for some pretty pictures and for some amazing sunsets.
Last weekend I went to two parties with Shanda and at the first one I met a boy named Kai that looks so much like Rufio that it's scary haha. We've been talking the last week and he's a sweet kid. We're a lot alike and he's fun to talk to. Unfortunately, he is somewhat bitter right now because he thought that I was leading in for some major relationship, but I don't really want one right now and that kinda tore him down. Hopefully he'll get over it, but we'll see how things turn out. Saturday night was a blast and I watched Hairspray with a bunch of theatre friends from Riverton High School. We talked and laughed and had a fun time. I love spending time with them because I can truly be myself around them and enjoy their company.
Well that pretty much wraps up my last two weeks, now I'm off to make cookies for our neighbor that came over and helped us clear our driveway of the snow yesterday so that we did not have to shovel it..
Because of how sick I was coming home from the bus ride I fell asleep and unfortunately slept right through the basketball game that I should have gone to because Silent Weekend fell through.
I went to the temple Saturday morning as usual and had a date with my friend Tyler last night. We went ice skating with the youth ages 18 - 30 in Shanda's stake. It was such a blast! Tyler is so much fun and we had a good time trying to stay up and not run over anyone. Shanda was there also with her friend Brennen so we had more company. I'm very sore today and I have a small bruise where I hit my shin with the blade of my skate as I fell (intentionally of course, with Tyler holding my hand and coming down with me..). After not falling the entire time we decided we had to fall just to say that we had to we basically jsut sat down and slid a few feet. Then proceeded to go forward about twenty feet wehre I was tripped by a friend and fell flat on my butt. Only to get up and about ten feet later fall again, this time with Shanda by my side.
Right on schedule on December 1 we got the first real snow fall. It's as if the world has decided to actually start winter and make sure that everyone knows. I dont' think anyone missed the memo.. Though it snowed so much it makes for some pretty pictures and for some amazing sunsets.
Last weekend I went to two parties with Shanda and at the first one I met a boy named Kai that looks so much like Rufio that it's scary haha. We've been talking the last week and he's a sweet kid. We're a lot alike and he's fun to talk to. Unfortunately, he is somewhat bitter right now because he thought that I was leading in for some major relationship, but I don't really want one right now and that kinda tore him down. Hopefully he'll get over it, but we'll see how things turn out. Saturday night was a blast and I watched Hairspray with a bunch of theatre friends from Riverton High School. We talked and laughed and had a fun time. I love spending time with them because I can truly be myself around them and enjoy their company.
Well that pretty much wraps up my last two weeks, now I'm off to make cookies for our neighbor that came over and helped us clear our driveway of the snow yesterday so that we did not have to shovel it..
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