Don't worry Be happy

This week on Monday through Wednesday it was raining like crazy! On my way to class on Monday I was walking past one of the gardens and I saw this rock that was painted. This caught my eye because it was so out of place. The school is very particular about what they do with their gardens and what goes in them, so this was a random thing. I am glad that I saw it though it made me smile :) The sun is shinning off the stone so I'm not sure if you will be able to tell what it says, but in case you can't it says, "Don't Worry be Happy!"

The rest of this week was really not that eventful. I studied for classes, did Homework, and other things to continue my knowledge gaining. 

On Friday was Mole Day (1 mole = 6.022*10^23). The mole day comes from the 10^23 part of the equation, its the 10th month and the 23rd day. Sadly my chemistry teacher was out on Mole day, because he was going to a daughters wedding. So on Thursday the day before Mole Day my teacher decided that he wanted to celebrate anyway. He brought in a ton of donuts and milk for all of us. It was super yummy and funny. He also had Mole Day music and jokes up. It was a fun day. The other good news is that I got my latest test back from Chemistry. I got a 86%!!! It was super awesome, on average the entire class did a lot better. I personally believe that it is easier to take a test on one chapter than two, and that is part of the reason that our class average did better, but it is also possible that the entire class on average just did a better job at studying. Either way it was a good day :)

On Friday my roommate Kim went to the Masquerade dace with her BF. She invited me, even had a mask I could have borrowed. Part of me wishes I would have gone, and in fact I probably should have gone, but I ended up not going, I stayed home and wasted time instead on movies. Oh well I still had a fun time. Here is a picture of Kin getting her hair done by her BF's mom, his parents came down to visit. They seem like very nice people. Kim looked really cute.

This is not her final but this is the picture that I got of all of her curls up. Sadly I wasn't able to get a final picture of her, she looked really cute though.

Here is a video of the ending of one of the Mole Day songs, my teacher really likes these songs. he was trying to get us all to yell out the 6.022*10^23 part of the song. We apparently did much better than his other classes, I'm not sure that is actually saying much though, we weren't very loud. Oh well a fun day.

So this is a short one this week. I am intent on getting more stories to tell this upcoming week. I guess we will see. I hope you are all doing better. I love you all very much.

Love,
Tesia

The bad and The good

This week I did not get very many pictures at all really. I will start at the beginning with the few pictures that I have. On Monday I woke up and got ready for classes. I have a 7:45 class in the mornings on Mondays, so around 7ish I was out the door and headed to class. I didn't check the weather that day and I was wearing a short sleeved outfit. It ended up being in the low 40's that morning and stayed cold until about 11. I was freezing the whole day especially since I took my bike that morning. so needless to say the cold wind blew and seemed to slice through me. 

I realized that I didn't have a good fall clothes. I have plenty of heavy winter clothes but nothing for that weird in between weather. So I called Mom and she was nice enough to give me some money to go and get some clothes from DI. Here are some pictures of my outfits that I got.

The blue and red outfit is probably the least favorite out of all the outfits. But it is still sort of cute, I learned on this day how hard it is to take a picture of yourself in the mirror.

This one is definitely by far my favorite one. It is super nice to have a cute little jacket that looks nice and semi professional.

And last but not least There is this one, It is a little small, I am hoping I can lose a little more weight and fit into it better, but it is super ward, it is lined with the fake fur type of stuff.

I did get one other jacket, it is a brown one, I haven't worn it yet, so when I wear it I will try to remember to take a picture in it so you all can see. It is really cute :)

I had forgotten how hard it can be to find things that fit and look cute, it took me a little while on this day to find the outfits. I think I went through about 5-6 racks of clothes before I found all of these items. I did what Catherine taught me, where you go through the racks and don't pay attention to size. grab everything that you think look really cute and that you think you would like. then try them on. more than likely most of what you grabbed will not fit you, but you will definitely find a few that do :)

So now onto the next thing. No pictures for this one, but a funny story. I was in mt statistics class learning about the level of significance and how to find it, and other complicated statistics things. At the end of the class my statistics teacher was talking to us about the homework we needed to do, one of the things he showed us was what keys to press on the key board to make a letter or number super or sub script. (Super script, highlight what you are trying to change, then press shift control +) (Subscript, highlight what you are trying to change, then press control and =)

the whole class got really excited over this small thing that he showed us, it was quite funny you should have heard all of the gasps and murmurs of wonder. My teacher made a comment that it was funny when he is teaching a class about statistics, and the things that the class gets excited over are how to do simple things in word. It was a funny experience.

So now onto the next pictures. On October 16, it was Dad's Birthday. It was super fun, I had the opportunity to google hangout with most of the family and we all had a very fun and nice time with Dad. I am so grateful that I have such a wonderful father and parent in my life. 

I was walking through the bookstore, they were having a 75% sale, no i did not get anything. but these are a few pictures of things that I saw that made me think of my family and how much I love them.

 This picture was a calendar. I was seriously considering getting it for Dad's birthday and sending it to him, but the rest of the pictures i didn't think were as cute or funny as this one. So i stuck with taking a picutre for him.

 This picture was just a good one for all of the avid book readers in our family! What a blessing it is in our lives that we have had parents that encourage us to read books, and who taught us the importance of books. I am so grateful for all of the books that we have and the wonderful library that we have.  This one is for all of the Doctor Who fans in my family. They were selling this, apparently if you press the button it will also make the noise. If I had a ton of money I would have gotten it. Oh well, it is a cute thing.

That is all of the pictures that I took this week.

So my title says the bad and the good. That is because of this weekend on Saturday. Saturday itself was a pretty good day. That night though one of my roommates and I got in a bit of a fight, well actually it was between my two other roommates I was just trying to calm things down and be the neutral party, when the one who started it got mad at me for saying anything and was very rude. I got very frustrated with the unnecessary anger towards me and I left. It was not a fun time. I ended up going to the apartment that I had stayed in last semester and just talked and had a good time with one of the girls I had lived with last semester. One of my roommates came over, the one that was not being rude, and gave me a hug and talked to me. It ended up that we got to know each other really well Saturday night because of the talking that we did.
This one roommate that was rude, I have had problems with before, I am thinking I need to talk to her or the management soon. I have really been hoping to avoid this whole ordeal, but it just really came to head Saturday.

Now I did say the bad and the good, so I would like to end with the good. This Friday I had my second Chemistry test. I got an 87% on the multiple choice part!!!!!! This is the first time that I have ever gotten past a 60% on a chemistry multiple choice part of the exam. It is really awesome. It's sort of funny how I figured out what my score was. Apparently my teacher doesn't like us to know what our scores are for the multiple choice part of the exam, not sure why. As you are exiting the testing center they have a tv screen set up for the people who took multiple choice tests to see their scores, they use our student ID numbers to identify whose score is whose so that it is still confidential. anyway when I was looking up my score for the multiple choice part of the exam it said see teacher. I was really confused, but apparently when teachers don't want students to know what their scores are that's what they put. My teacher had told us all that he was going to be in his office all day if we had questions, So I went to him to see what my score was. When I asked him for my score he informed me that he doesn't want students to find know what their scores are until he returns all of the exams. I think I must have looked a bit sad and upset at that but I was OK and was willing to wait to find out. When he saw my face, he got a funny look and asked me for my last name, he then looked up my score then and there and told me what it was. I am so happy that I got such a great score!!!!! It is so awesome :D :D :D :D

So yep that is what happened this week. Life in general is going good, there are some rough patches, but still going good. This upcoming week is a masquerade ball. My roommate has a bunch of masks (gorgeous ones) that she said she would be willing to let me borrow one if I wanted to. So now I am looking for a formal dress to wear everyone :) I am really excited for it.

Hope you all are doing well. I love you bunches and bunches.
Love, Tesia Kellar

Archery, Dancing, and Shooting

This week was full of Homework and studying for exams. Right now I am doing pretty good in most of my classes. I am still finding Chemistry a bit difficult, but my teacher is willing to work with me and is going to help me understand better what I can do to do better in class. I am so grateful for good teachers who are willing to work with me and help me.

Something fun that happened this week, my school had a Career fair! I remember telling Catherine a while ago that I didn't think that they would happen here, but apparently they do them every Fall and Winter Semester, but not the spring Semester. I'm not really sure why they do it this way, but I got to go! :) it was pretty fun, I didn't get a ton of free stuff, but i did get a ton of papers and flyers from schools and businesses.

 These are the only pictures that I have of this memory. It didn't seem very appropriate to walk around the career fair while trying to talk to people and taking pictures at the same time.

The picture on the left is a picture of a bag that I got from one of the displays and in front of it is a first-aid kit and a test-tube shaped container holding mints. It is a pretty cool thing. above this is a picture of all the papers/flyers that I got

Some things that learned from the career fair....
- most of the places looking for interns, or people to hire are looking for business, computer science, engineers, etc majors. There were no medical places looking to hire, and only one recreational place.. But it was pretty cool to see. Most of  the fair took up with places looking for interns, and people to hire. about a quarter of the fair was graduate schools.
I did talk to a few of the schools. One interesting thing, there was a Natruopath medical school there. Utah State was also there. They are starting up a Recreational Therapy Masters program there. it is meant for students who have no experience in the Recreational Therapy. The way that they are working it, they will have their students take the classes for an undergraduate in Recreational Therapy, throw in a few research classes and give them a masters. I think they said it is about a 2-3 year program depending how you do it. That was really relieving to find out that if I don't major in Recreational Therapy that will still be an option that I can go into.

So this next picture is something I saw while on my way to class. It is hard to tell from this picture, but this is a seed spreader that the school uses to seed its lawns. It is HUGE!!! they probably can seed all of their lawns with this in about an hour or so. This seeder made me think of Dad when I saw it, so I took a picture thinking "that's what we need ;)"

 Down below is a huge Praying Mantis that I saw on Friday while walking across campus. I think it was super old because I have never seen one so brown, usually they are a bright green.

The rest of the week was Homework and Studying. I didn't take any pictures of that. Now onto this weekend. I'm not sure if I mentioned it before but one of the groups that I am involved in is the Outdoor Learning Center. This means that I get to go to some of the activities that the school puts on for free, as long as I drive those who have signed up. This week I got my license for driving a 

12- seater van from the school, it was a lot easier than i was afraid it would be. while taking the driving portion of the test i was very grateful for all of the times that mom had me drive our 12-seater.

On Friday was my first Volunteer OLC trip. It was Black Powder guns and Archery. One of my favorite activities. I ended up not driving this time, because we had enough people we only needed to take one van. So pretty much I got to go to an activity for free. really the only thing I did as a volunteer this time, part of the time I was watching the people doing archery making sure they didn't kill each other, while the other volunteer was getting something from the van.

The Black Powder Guns were very fun, I still think I prefer archery though. well here are some pictures of the activities.

 

 

 
These Guns look rather big on me, I'm not sure if that's just the angle of the Camera or if that is really how i looked trying to shoot the guns.

 

We all had the opportunity to load the guns ourselves multiple times. It is a sticky process. first you measure out the Black Powder, then you get this piece of cloth and put this grease on it. then you put the bullet on the other side of the cloth and then put it in the gun, grease side out, the grease helps it go in smoother. then you ram it down. the sticky part is the ramming. the Ram Rod is covered in grease from going up and down so many times.

 
A beautiful Sunset out where we were doing the shooting.

 This is the final picture of the activity. this is all the materials that we used for the Black Powder Guns.

On Saturday I spent the majority of the day finishing most of my Homework, it never seems to end! That night my ward had its opening social. It was a baked potato bar, and country dancing. I had A LOT OF FUN. I have discovered how fun country dancing is. We did not have a huge turn out of people, it was sort of a last minute thrown together type of activity. We had the perfect amount for the dancing, but the food was a lot. needless to say at the end of the activity everyone got to bring a lot of the food home. I will probably not have to go shopping for another 2 weeks ;) Well here are some pictures from the activity.

 This is our Bishops wife. apparently back when BYU-I was ricks she was on the country dancing team. It really doesn't surprise me. she seems like that type of person. If you look just behind her that is our Bishop. They are a super awesome couple, and own a farm. I think they said about 2.5 acres.

There was some training in country dancing along with the actual dancing. My roommate Kim was teaching all of us along with a guy named Brandon. They are both really good, and help us all learn more and become decent dancers at the dances we were doing.

 These ones where I look really concentrated is because I missed the instructions and jumped in right when they were doing the actual dancing, so I was attempting to learn the steps while we went along. It was a lot harder than I thought it would be, but so much fun.

 

 

 

I guess that is all for this week. i hope you all had a wonderful week. and continue to be blessed and work hard.
I love you tons and tons :)
Love, Tesia