It's Midterm Week

As I was walking from the RB today I realized I had a practice test due for Physics, I needed to write a practice test for P of GP, take a real test tommorow for Humanities of Asia, take a real Physics test Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. On top of that I still have the normal weeks homework. It's a good thing the Aeration Crew is up in SLC and I can't make it to them in time to make it worth the time, now I can study.

And The Winner Is...

Allie! She came the closest with "WARD MUSIC PEOPLE with an emphasis on PEOPLE!"  I am the Ward Pianist. One could argue that she chose a catagory and not a specific calling but seeming as nobody else really came all that close I'm going to give it to her. Next weekend you can choose your Jamba.

Did I Give Something Away?

You may think that by me saying I went to  a Stake Meeting that I've given a clue as to my calling. Here's the list of people that were invited to this meeting

1. Bishoprics
2. EQ Presidencies
3. RS Presidencies
4. Clerks and Exec. Sec.
5. FHE Committees
6. Activities Committees
7. Ward Music People
8. Family History People
9. Ward Missionaries
   

I think there were others too but I can't remember them. So now you know I'm in one of these groups. 

Dinner

It's been a while since I've had one of the Family's traditional Sunday meals (or at least it feels like it). Last week I invited the apartment of the girls that Jun and I home teach over for dinner. About halfway through the week a few of the girls had to cancel, we had the rest over anyways and I told them we'll just have to have another dinner again soon.

I made the Roast, Mashed Potatoes, Gravy and Rolls. Jun took care of the corn and Casey made a nice Greek Salad. 

Not sure if people wanted Green Olives, Feta Cheese, Avocados and Onions Casey kept those things separate.

The girls brought over dessert (brownies and cookies) and we had a great time. Mike (the roommate to replace soon-to-be-married Jeff) and I had to take off to go to a Stake Meeting at 6, but over all it was great. I haven't eaten that much in a long time and I didn't eat very much. The college life just hasn't been allowing me to eat unnecisarily large amounts of food lately, go figure.

Training Update

Today our workout in swimming added up to 1500 yds. As I finished it and actually calculated how far I swam and saw what it was I decided I might as well tack on another 100 and make it an even mile. Granted it wasn't in all that impressive of a time (about 40 minutes) but I felt pretty dang good today.

A Calling

Bro. Neild just asked me if I would accept a new calling. I'm not allowed to say what it is (I've been sworn to secrecy) but if you want to venture a guess...

I'll let you know next Sunday what it is.

Jamba Juice

It may be a bit old but you can consider this our Jamba Juice Training video. I don't think I'm quite to the right level yet.

They've All Arrived

It's no longer "Will, the two Koreans and two kids named Jeff who haven't shown their faces" I don't have pictures of them all yet but the roommates are all here. 

Roommates and where they live are as follows. As you enter in the apartment you have the Kitchen and the dining/living room, nobody lives there... although Yeong has fallen asleep on the couch the past two nights. As you head down the hall the first room on your right is Jun and Casey's. Casey is from Spanish Fork and is a BYU student and he showed up on...Monday? I can't recall exactly. He enjoys soccer and playing computer games. He served a mission in South Carolina so we find ourselves reminiscing about the South.

Further down the hall is Yeong and Jeff's room. This Jeff is the last roommate to show his lovely face. He's from Idaho and is also a BYU student. He's very extroverted. He's slightly crazy but funny. I'm sure there's going to be some interesting stories involving him (before he left today to go someplace with his friends he took his spudgun and launched two potatoes at a brick wall).

Then there's my roommate Jeff. He actually appeared last Sunday night if I'm not mistaken. For the past week he's been showing up at about 12:30 each night. He's getting married Oct 18th. He's been spending the summer living with his sister in Orem or something like that. Once Jeff get's married his soon to be Brother-in-Law Mike will move in. Mike came to church with us today and he's a pretty fun guy, he wore a bowtie.

Update: Jeff just had me sign a Jenga Brick so that I can be remembered.

What Is This Feeling, So Sudden and New?

I opened up my Econ Text book and I found myself thourghly enjoying the contents within...

Swimming

Notice the bright pink shirt, yeah, I'm just that cool.

It's official, I'm out of shape. Monday was the first day for me to actually swim in my class. I'm taking Intermediate Swimming and it's going to be great! If you don't count the one time I went right after I got home from the Mission I haven't been swimming in almost 2 and a half years. We jumped in the pool and I did 150 yds for my warm up, we then timed a 650 yd trial and I cooled down with 200 yds. My first day swimming I jump in and do 1000 yds. Afterwards I was pretty beat. Just ask Amber and Brent, I went the their house in the afternoon to do laundry and do a little studying while I was waiting. I couldn't do it, I passed out on their living room floor, I was out. If I had a picture of me on the ground I'd post it but I don't.

Instead I get to post the things I got to improve my swimming. Fisrt, the googles. The actual name for these googles is Swedish Original Monterbara Googles with UV Eye Protection but I just call them "Sweeds" for short. Notice that what is keeping the lenses (if you call them that) together is a peice of string, I tied that string. In fact, I threaded it throungh the lenses. I placed the rubber nose protector on them. I assembled the whole thing. If you look closely at the back of the lenses you might be concerned that there are no pads on the back. I know, and it's amazing, they don't hurt. In fact they feel great. I highly recommend them. They're only $4.50.

Next come the jammers of last year's style. I'm just noticing now that the color on my googles and the jammers is the same, shows you how much I pay attention. I didn't even choose the color on the jammers. I ordered them online and since it's last years design I just tell them the size and they send me a color at random. I think that whoever packaged my order decided to match them.

So there you have it. I'm going to rule this pool. I'm going to be a speed demon. No one shall be able to keep up with me. This is great preparation for the Triatholon that Brent, Amber and I are going to be doing next year. Don't worry, it's not going to be a full one. It's nice and small but a triatholon none the less.

English Lessons

I came into the apartment the other day and I found Jun and Yeong sitting at the table and they asked me what was up. I replied with a simple "Word". At that point I had to try to explain what I meant by that. The problem is that it isn't something you can explain. Word is Word. Yeong then asked me if I knew any other slang terms that might be useful. (Not that "word" is really that useful). Jun then said that Californians like to describe things as being "Sick" when really they're cool. I like how he specifically called out the Californians on that one. I said that you can also say something is "tight" if you want to say it's cool. That's about all that I have in me for slang, I guess I'm just not the slang type.

Although the other day Jun called me crazy and I replyed "Crazy like a fox!"

Cookies

Time goes by rather fast and there are things on my mind to write about but it just doesn't seem like I ever have that much time to do it... Or I'm lazy and just don't want to do it at the time, which is more often than not the case. I'm writing now and that's the important thing!
For me Monday, Labor Day, was the last day of Summer and the beginning of school. A day I've been looking forward to for a long time. Come Monday night I was feeling a little sad for some reason and there's only one thing that truly cures those pre-school blues... Cookies!

It just so happened that part of my shopping was getting random baking ingredients, with those and a few ingredients left by the previous roommates (vanilla, butter, chocolate chips) we created a poor batch of cookies using the Toll House Recipe.

Cooked a little too long and came out a little too flat...

Jun has never had homemade cookies and he was very intrigued by what was doing. After I had finished the cookie dough I had a bitof it and I offered it to Jun. He wasn't sure what to do and then I told him to eat it. His eyes lit up like a child that was let loose in a candy store. All he could do was bring his hands up to his mouth and make circular motions and syaing "It's so... It's so... Sweet! It's so good!" He enjoyed the dough. Then I baked the cookies and like I said they didn't turn out quite as I had hoped but they were still good. I just made on pan on Monday night and they were eaten by the three of us (Yeong was there but he didn't say much, he did like them though).

...that didn't matter to Jun

I came home on Tuesday and made the rest of them, had a few and then went out to do some stuff when I came home that night Jun apologized for eating the rest of them. I didn't mind, he just might reach his goal of becoming fat if he keeps it up (he can't though, all he eats is rice, dried fish, seaweed and rotten cabbage he calls kimchi).