Thanksgiving is almost here!

Tuesday we had a devotional by President Monson, which I saw in person at the Marriott center, which I naturally enjoyed very much. Later in the day I went with Lillian to watch the movie Sophie Scholl. It was in German of course, and had me crying at the end. It was a touching, inspiring film about Sophie and her brother Hans, who are part of the resistance organization "the white rose" and get caught distributing anti-Nazism pamphlets at the university. They are sentenced to death, but are willing to die bravely for their country. I think so often we just see the horrible things that people in Germany have done, like Hitler and his devastation, and forget about the real heroes that arose as a result of his oppression. Although it was an excellent movie, it left me about 30 min. to finish my physics homework. Luckily Natalie helped me, and I was able to hand it in on time.
Wednesday morning Natalie and I got up at 5:00am to get ready to go to the temple. This is a new weekly thing that we're doing as a ward: 2 temple trips a week, one at 5:30am on Wednesday mornings, one on Thursday afternoons. It was freezing cold, so I was glad we were all able to fit in Erin's car. There were more people there than I expected, but we were able to get through in about an hours time. It was a great boost to my day to have the spirit of the temple in it, and I hope I will be able to keep it up as the semester goes on. Later I had an awesome voice lesson... my teacher thinks I'm really making progress, which is always a good thing. Around 7:15 Kelsey and I went to go see BYU's production of The Seagull by Anton Chekhov (we got free tickets through Freshmen Academy). I had learned about the play in AP English last year, so when I saw it preformed it helped me pull everything together and appreciate it better. There is some amazing symbolism in the play, but it's rather depressing, not the best choice for when you're feeling down. It discusses the life of an artist and how it differs from the lives around it; I was able to draw some parallels to my German class because we've been discussing Goethe and other great German authors, and they had a lot of the same ideas that Chekhov portrays.
Thursday I was able to accomplish a lot homework wise, and then at 12pm I registered for classes for next semester. I still don't have everything I want/need to take on my schedule, but I hope if I check back often enough I'll be able to get in.
Friday was a relief. Erin, Carly (a friend of Erin's from home) and I went to see the Mr. Heritage competition in the evening which was very amusing. There was everything from ribbon dancing to fiddling, magic tricks and singing. We went to visit another friend of Erin's and Carly's who lives at Heritage, and finally we left, got a pizza, watched a movie and talked for a long time.
Saturday was amazing. First we had this video scavenger hunt floor date with another guys' floor. I had a camera with video capabilities, so I became one of the group leaders. We ran all around campus trying to complete all of the tasks within an hour. It involved being a PDA police, proposing to a complete stranger, a wheelbarrow race, singing "I'm a little Teapot" in the middle of Brigham square, starting a fight and other fun things like that. I have all of our videos on facebook if you're curious: http://hs.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=7321641018, some of them are quite hilarious. That evening I went with Kara and Johnathan Northrup and another friend of Kara's on a date to see the musical "Once on this Island". It was really well done, except for the fact that the main character gets turned into a tree at the end. The music and everything else was great, and so was the Costa Vida taco I had afterwards. To put the cherry on top I watched Star Wars VI with Kelsey and Cami before I went to bed.

Yep, that's pretty much my life right now, hope you're doing well and that you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Love,

Margaret