Okay, so I had started a weekly email a while back, but life has been unbelievably crazy lately and I just never got around to finishing it/writing my next emails... now that I'm home and finals are over I'll try to fill you in...
This is the start of my letter from two weeks ago:
OH MY GOSH IT'S ALMOST FINALS WEEK! HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP! So much to do and no time to do it. I had a tiny break over Thanksgiving, which was good... after a review session for German 330, a wonderful FHE about hope + an episode of Planet Earth on Mon., and a Tuesday that felt like a Friday (we had Friday classes), and some very soar shoulders from our dance routine practices (our routine is going to be AMAZING!!!), I got up early Wednesday morning to pack, make a quick stop at the library to look for some books for my research paper, and get on a bus heading to America Fork. I had brought a ton of homework, but I decided to just take the time on the bus to think. I think it's important every once in a while...
Aunt Heather picked me up at the bus stop; after a delicious lunch she surprised me by taking me to a salon to get my hair deep conditioned. It felt UNBELIEVABLY good... almost like most of my stress went down the drain with the shampoo suds for a while. That evening I helped make some pie crusts while Holly and Brett made some filling - pumpkin and pecan. Their neighbor invited us over to taste-test a new culinary creation of his - a pumpkin with an interesting stuffing in it. Although I usually don't like pumpkin, it tasted pretty good. Jacob and Sarah got out one of the I spy books... one of the ones that even I have trouble with sometimes. We sat contentedly on the couch finding candles, stars, 56 people and other objects on the pages. To finish the evening we all played a game called "Would you rather..." in the basement, and by that time I was quite ready for bed :-).
Okay, here is my add-on today:
Thanksgiving day was full of excellent food and fun family time. We took some crazy pictures at the end to commemorate a day of just relaxing.
Granny and Robyn took me to their house in Sandy where we sang and listened to Christmas music together before I went to bed so I could get up to catch the bus the next morning. The rest of the day I spent doing all my little homework assignments so I could do the real more time-consuming task (writing my 12 pg paper) on Saturday. Saturday I went to the library and was in the basement for a full 7.5 hours without a break; I got the outline and the intro to my paper done. Lillian was there most of the time too, working on some of her assignments, which made it easier. We did take one or two ten minute breaks to just chat, and she gave me lots of helpful advice on the paper.The whole next week all I could think about was dance sport. Practice on both Monday and Wednesday was intense; we learned the last few bars of music in the last five minutes of class on Wednesday, so I practiced them in the apartment until I could dance them without thinking about it. Thursday I was running short on time as I had predicted. Classes went till 5:15pm, then I rushed home to get ready, wolf down dinner, and then briskly walk back to campus to be there for our last-minute run-through. Our Bolango was AMAZING!!! There's a video on Facebook of the whole dance. The dancing afterward was naturally also incredibly fun, and I think that is when I decided Tango is my current favorite dance (Viennese Waltz a close second).
Friday we had our Bolero test, which went well for me even though I hadn't practiced following for a while. I was kind of already stressing out about Saturday at that point, which you will understand when you hear what happened... the day began at 5:30am. I took one of the fastest showers of my life, blow-dried my hair in record time, then hopped into the car with my exhausted roommates to go shopping. Yes, it was our week to cook again. Contrary to my expectations, I almost enjoyed shopping that early when the store was completely empty... no lines, no rush.
We got back around 7:30am, and I was on the road again by 7:40 jogging to get to campus at 8:00am for a movie filming session. We had decided to finish all of the filming for our final project for our 310 German pronunciation class that morning. Luckily everything seemed to go splendidly, and we shot all of the scenes with me in it before 10:30, when I had to leave to head for Brick Oven. At that lovely little restaurant Brett, Heather, Granny, Robyn, cousins, Rachel and I all had lunch to celebrate Rachel's birthday; the food was simply scrumptious, the company just lovely. When I finally got home with a box of delicious leftovers, I collapsed for half an hour before I started my homework for Monday. I just barely finished when it was time to leave again. I walked to campus where I met my date; we headed to the JSB for a hilarious production of Divine Comedy. It was extremely entertaining... just good times in general.
Monday another date took me out to lunch after a long day at school, which was also good times. The last day of dance class was a little sad, as always. We learned some West coast steps and, to my surprise and delight, some Viennese waltz steps instead of two-step. I'm just praying I can make it into 380 this semester again... I've been told lots of people drop over break, so hopefully I can add it soon. Thursday I got my 12 page paper done five minutes before our last class, where we had a small class party, looked at some interesting old books and got some last words of wisdom from our professor.
Friday and Saturday were reading days that I put to good use; Friday after the study marathon my roommate Kelly and I decided it was high time to pass our pets along. Saturday night I had come back to a sign on our door, saying that we had been "ducked". I didn't quite get it, until I opened the dish-washer and found it overflowing with rubber ducks. They had been circulating throughout the FLSR for a few weeks, but hadn't affected us until then. Kelly got out some of her amazing fish line, and we tied all of the ducks to it in regular intervals.
It was incredibly long by the time we were done. Next step in our scheme was tricky... the ducks tended to want to slip out of their knots and fall to the ground if we lost tension in the fish line, so we carefully threaded the whole string up one story and started dragging it through the common room where we got a hoard of curious people to be our helpers. 
My height was extremely useful when it came to the artistic draping of the line. It looked absolutely beautiful when it was done, and it has become one of my favorite college memories so far.
Finals week wasn't really that stressful, surprisingly enough. I had a test a day Monday through Thursday; my favorite was naturally our dance final (Tango!!!), my least favorite was probably the German 320 final, although I'm pretty sure I did well. It snowed most of the week, so one of the most unpleasant parts of the whole ordeal was walking through the dirty slush in the icy wind to get to campus to take tests. Luckily I only got my foot completely soaked once - on my way home from my very last final.
Friday I cleaned the apartment, watched a movie, sent Kelly off, shoveled some snow in front of the FLSR, then turned off the lights in our beautifully decorated, festive apartment to load my bags into Robyn's car. The roads had cleared somewhat luckily, and Rachel, Robyn, Robert and I all made it to Sandy for a scrumptious ham dinner Granny had prepared for us. Early the next morning Rachel and I entered a CRAZY airport terminal, waited in three lines, and finally got baggage checked and boarding cards figured out. After security, everything went very smoothly... we even got to sit next to each other hand have a good long talk. The wind was blowing in our favor, which cut the flight time by about a hour (we made it in about 3hrs 20 min) and before I knew it Mom, Laura and John were there to take my bag and drive me home where there was another scrumptious ham dinner waiting for me, with apple pie for dessert (Mom knows me well :-)).
That should bring you all up to date, hope your holidays are full of happiness, friends, family, good food and fun (alliteration!!)
Love,
Margaret
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