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PS Contributions would be appreciated!

This summer I have decided to take a traveling course through BYU-I. The tour will take place during the first block of summer semester and is only offered to about thirty-five students this year. I have been priviledged to be chosen to go, while I am there I will be taking biology and anthropology classes as we travel through Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. The trip will cost $2500 plus tuition, books, and personal expenses. I would greatly appreciate any contribution you could make to my cause. I know this experience is going to be very rewarding, both personally and educationally, and I am earnestly looking forward to it.
If you, your company, or anyone you know would be willing to help please let me know. And I can send a personalized letter to them requesting their help. Anything will be of great help. Thank you for considering helping me and I will remember all help I recieve as I travel and learn amazing things that will change my life.
Please leave me a comment, e-mail me, or call me with any questions!
karianag@gmail.com
919-604-6923

62 Days till Mexico but who's counting?

Brett wanted me to put a picture of my black eye up (from jumping off my apartment, so worth it) and well it's not a very good one and my room mates say it was a lot worse then this picture seems but I don't think it was all that bad.

Brett also informed me that it has been a while since I posted anything. And well there's a good reason, this past week was half way through this semester so every teacher decided to pile on the projects. Pluss I started a job, I do custodial work on campus from 4am to 7am mon through fri, yes it's early and no it has not affected my night life yet but I haven't been doing it long enough, and once it starts taking time away from my evenings (because I'm so dang tired) then I might have to look into other options. But it's a good job, pretty easy and pays better then any of the other jobs I've been looking at. Considering the fact that I was already tired all the time I have now become more of a zombie and my days seem to smush together and I can't remember when I did what or when I supposed to do what. So I live for the weekends even more!

Well nothing too exciting has happened recently cause I've been too busy to want to do much, whenever I have some free time I either take a nap or just relax with my friends because I takes way too much effort to do anything else. But last sat I went rock climbing and it was fun but I was too worn out to truely enjoy it:/ but the sat before I did go snowboarding and it was amazing (I wish I could go all the time and get good at it!).

Well I noticed my last post was on valentines day and I thought I would mention my evening sure ended up looking up... I went and got dinner with my room mates boyfriend and then went to the library to print stuff off, little did I know they were trying to keep me away from the apartment for a bit. My friend had bought balloons and candy and put them in my room while I was gone and then when I got home he was just chilling on my couch, so I went to put my coat in my room and realized why he had been there, it was pretty cute.

So I have started count downs again...

hopefully 12 days till I take a trip to Utah

hopefully 33 days till I get to go see the family for Cache's blessing

**45 days till The Office starts up with new episodes

45 days till winter semester ends

62 days till I leave for Mexico

93ish days till I go to DC!

100ish days till I go home and have to work my butt off:(

WOW! I'm so excited for the next few months!!!

Happy Single Awareness Day... I guess

Well classes are going good. The weather has been pretty good lately. Boys are well boys. Basically... life is pretty good. Since I live in Rexburg life isn't all that exciting but I try to keep things exciting so lately I have...

watched pond skimming, you going skiing or boarding down a hill and get enough speed and skim over a pool of water, def. would have been sweet if I was good enough at boarding to do it.

jumped off the 2nd and 3rd floor of my apartment into snow, yea it's really easy to get hurt by doing this but well that didn't stop me (I did get a black I, serves me right I guess).

went sledding on well it wasn't really snow, more like a sheet of ice so we decided to go off jumps making me fly about 3 feet into the air and then not land back on the tube, yea it kind really hurt but I got back up and went again and again and again.

I bake cookies a lot and make breakfast for friends all the time, which is weird for me cause I never really cooked much until i go here.

I have watched probably over a hundred movies since I've been here, and lately we've been on a scary movie streak because my friends are trying to find one that I actually get scared in, none of that jump because something pops out and I fine the rest of the time.

I have played a few games, including twister with way too many people on the board.

I've been on a few dates but mostly just chill with lots of people.

And of course the temple dedication which was amazing!

Well that is a well kind of short not really, more like long, recap of what I do when I'm not in class or studying (wait that's why I came to college, someone should have told me that before). Well Happy Valentines Day ya'll and have a good 3 day weekend (if you get Pres. Day off), I know I will.

No me gusta escuela.

Where to begin! So classes have started and they are CRAZY but I still love being back at college. I like being busy again it's so nice, when I look back at the past few months I can't figure out how I lived because now when I'm stuck in my apartment doing nothing for a few hours I start to go crazy.
Classes... well I'm taking 14 credits so it's not too bad but I hate lecture type classes and most of them are lecture so it's way boring. I'm taking...
eng312 and everyone in my class is mearried (I guess I should have figured that when I signed up for a junior class) but considering English is my least favorite class it's not too bad, the teacher is pretty nice and we do a lot of group projects which definately has it's down falls (when there's 9 people in your group all with different schedules it's difficult to meet outside of class to finish projects).
rel121 which is the first half of the Book of Mormon, it's not bad and really relaxed which is nice because I've heard too many stories where someones religion teacher was crazy and they had pop quizzes and major tests all the time, none of that so far:)
arch100 which is a lecture class and so amazing oh wait all I do is sit there and learn stuff I don't really need to know (most of the people in the class want to be architect's or something like that, an interior designer doesn't need to know all that stuff but luckily it's a class of over 50 and there's only about 5 girls, NICE).
arch102 the lab that goes with the lecture, you would think it would be better since it's not a lecture and more of a hands on but so far we're just learning the basics so it's a lot of busy work, I'm hoping once we get past learning terms and such we can start drawing floor plans and fun stuff.
soc112 sociology is a kind of hard and boring lecture class but everything I've learned so far is really interesting, focusing is the only problem I have, mainly because I just get distracted too easily.
art220 is a cermaics class and won't help my major (I'm taking it as a fun class) but a 3 hour long class sure goes by slow, I have it twice a week and one of the two days is lecture (way boring) but luckily the other is hands on and sooo fun! I've already made a vase and a jewlery box (well my own version of them, the vaze looks nothing like what you think a vase is but I made it to hold flowers so that makes it a vase and the jewlery box doesn't have a lid and is in the shape of a flower not a box but I made it for my jewlery therefore jewlery box).
Wow... so that's my life currently, that and sledding, tubbing, movies, games, walking around in the freezing cold (it was -35 degrees when I left for class the other day, with the wind chill, 12 degrees is my new warm, SCARY I know), and most importantly dating:) Oh yeah and every once in a while I try to catch some sleep but that's the last thing on my mind.

"I'm going to (Boise) Idaho!"

Well I've been all over this weekend... I flew into Salt Lake on thur. and Thayne and MaryAnne picked me up. I chilled with them on thur. and fri. then I went up to Provo fri. and sat. and chilled with some friends from NC and some friends from HI, it was awesome. Then sun. I went to Rupert for Richard's (my cousin's) baby blessing, and I got to see Grandma Garner, which was a special treat! Then mon. David (one of Devin's friends from Rupert) drove me up to Rexburg and now I am in my new apartment... I'm not quite settled in but I'm about half way there. My room, room mate is not here yet and I'm crossing my fingers that there was a mix up and I won't have one (because there is barely any storage space and without a room mate my space would double), I do have 4 room mates though and I've met all but one and they all seem pretty nice. Well classes don't start till wed. so tomorrow I'll have time to walk around campus and figure out how to get places, and try to get used to this freezing weather. Everything is so far so good though!