Colds and Food poison

So once again I have a lack of pictures for my blog. I do have a lot of pictures from our FHE activity, but that is the only activity that I have pictures of.... This week was a rough one for me. I know that I said that I was going to do better this week, and I did try. The only issue is that this week was the week my immune system decided to say bye. So all week I had some serious issues with a Cold, and if you know me by now you know that along with a cold comes the "wonderful Asthma". So that made it really hard to keep up in classes, let alone even have the motivation to want to keep up in classes. I prevailed though! by the end of the week I had gotten all of the necessary things done, with plans to spend the weekend to finish up my HW and study for the Biology exam that I have on Tuesday. Sadly once again my immune system decided to get the better of me, well...... it was helped out with some Pad Thai.
Friday night I knew I was going to have a long night because of the HW I needed to get done, and hopefully the grading. So in order to help relieve some of the stress and boredom I decided to treat myself to some Pad Thai, bad idea. One hour after eating the Pad Thai, Mom and Dad called me to see how I was doing, while calling we began talking about what we had eaten and what mom and Dad were doing for their dates, I know its a kellar thing we find fun in these type of conversations ;)
any way as Mom and Dad were telling me what they had had on their date, all of the sudden it hit!
...................................................................................................... I won't gross you all out with the details, but needless to say I ended up having food poisoning from the Pad Thai that I had tried to cheer myself up with!!!!! I ended up going to be early and staying in bed all Saturday. I did not get nearly the amount of work done hat I had hoped to get done :P
But this week will be better! I am feeling much better, still not fully recovered, I still have a bit of the cold left over. But in the long run feeling much much better.

Another thing, it turns out that last week the weather man was wrong about predicting the warmer weather for this week. So I was looking forward to up in the forties, and ended up in the twenties. I am hoping for warm weather this week though! I think I will be able to pull out my bike this week and begin to take it on campus with me! the sidewalks are pretty much all cleared off. We will see :D :D
That is all the stories for this week. The last thing to tell is what we did for FHE. We rented a Puppy for 90 Mins! We originally ordered a Chocolate Lab, but it got sick so we got a golden retriever. This was his first visit ever, so he did not even have a name! We named him George. Not sure if the owners will keep that name, but it seemed to fit him ;)
here are a bunch of pictures of us playing with George.

 

I hope you all enjoyed this weeks update. I love you all. I know that with Gods help we can get through any trial that we are facing, even if they are caused by illnesses. Hope you are all well and healthy.

Love, 

Tesia

Focus Needed.....

Not really sure what to title this Blog. This week was really not a productive week at all. It was one of those weeks where you have so much that you need to do, and then as soon as you sit down to get to work and start doing it, something distracts you. By the end of the week I felt very unproductive and I had a test score that showed this :(

Saturday though was a good day. I got a good amount of HW done and I went shopping for all of the things I needed. I think though I will not need to go shopping for food for another month of so :)

Here are a few photos of what is happening here is beautiful Rexburg.

 To start out with, these two photos are to show you that things are warming up here! It has almost gotten to the 40's and I think this upcoming week it is supposed to warm get above the 40's. It is nice to see it getting light out so early and to not have to wear all of the heavy clothes so often. The lake/fountain that school has is melted  and the snow is beginning to disappear. It is actually safe to walk across the parking lot where I live now! I am glad for this as I leave early in the morning when it used to be not a good thing that the sun was not out. 

And now for another thing that we did in O-Chem. This Lab was probably the easiest for me to do and then the longest. Its funny it was supposed to be the shortest lab we did but I took almost all 2 hours because I had to repeat it 3 times. In this lab we were trying to identify and unknown substance (drug), so we took 4 known substances and the unknown, put them on this special TLC paper. then the paper was put in a mixture of components that we made and as it sat there the liquid went up the paper. Once the liquid was near the top we put the TLC paper under a black light, and all of the substances made shapes and traveled some distance. by recognizing the one or combinations of substances that he unknown seemed to be the same as, we were able to determine what the unknown substance was. I wish I had been able to get a picture of the TLC paper under the black light, sadly the crowd was to big.

The reason I had to redo the lab 3 times is because in this lab we had 4 people at the lab table prepare one of the known substances for us to test, and then everyone did their own unknown substance. My first try one of the substances did not turn out right so I was not able to recognize my unknown. The second time all of the known substances turned out beautifully but my unknown did not show up at all. Finally 3rd time was the charm and worked! By that time the TA was the only one left in the Lab so he was waiting on me, thankfully he offered to help me so that it would go faster. I was grateful for that.

 On Friday I was talking to Mom and Dad and they told me that what I thought was going to be my B-Day present was actually an early Valentines present :D. So Saturday morning I opened it. Lets see if you can guess what it was....

 Hey look a little peak!

 A little more

 Oh you can probably guess what it is..

Tada! you were right! it was a toaster. I love it so much :D :D I am very greatful for this wonderful present, it is super nice to have and makes me very happy. Thanks So Much for your wonderful present :D So this week is my shoutout to Mom and Dad. 

And finally a nostalgic moment for me last night. I bought some pita bread, and made a very nice sandwich for dinner. Oh so many memories popping back.It was very yummy, though I have discovered that Pita bread is very much not very cheap bread! But it was a nice splurge once.

Well I am determined to make this upcoming week (2-exams coming up!!!!) much more productive and focused. Wish me luck.

I love you all so very much ;) Something good that has started happening. With the warming up of the mornings I have started going to the gym and exercising again. Right now I am building up to a 20 min run again. I really do want to be able to run a 5K some time. This would be a huge accomplishment for me. Wish me luck!

Hope you are all doing well. I love you all very much.

Tesia

Late again.... he he :)

Well I didn't have time to update my blog from last week... sorry. I was busy studying like CRAZY for a biology exam that I had on Monday. Then on Friday I had a O-chem quiz so all week I was busy studying for that and so I do not have any pictures from this week or really anything to tell. My days were full of studying, studying, and more studying. In fact so much so that I have all of my Homework that I technically should have worked on during the week now for this weekend! The good news is that I got a 92 on my Biology exam and an 84 on my O-chem quiz (this is the highest grade I have ever gotten in a chemistry class on a exam/quiz). So that was quite a blessing from the Lord and a wonderful experience to have. 

So this week will really be an update for last week. I do have a lot of pictures from last week :)

Lets start with Monday. Monday FHE we all got together and had a snowball fight. The snow was not the right kind for a snowball fight, but it was fun anyway. We all went out into a field and the snow was up to my knee. Let me tell you it is very hard to run and try to throw any amount of snow when you are attempting to run through knee high, iced-over snow. In the end we all spent a good 10-15 mins out there and had Hot Chocolate after. I have a beautiful bruise on my leg from where the ice layer of the snow hit it every time I fell over. It never hurt, just very beautiful.. These pictures are of how I looked after I had thawed off a little, I think Christina had more snow on her in the end though. she got more into it then I did.

During the last week we had some beautiful ice storms. Here are some pictures of the after affects. These are always fun to see, they make the world look like a winter wonderland. The only real downside to them is the danger they present to drivers and how cold it is in the mornings walking across campus to class.

This was my favorite picture. This is a weeping willow tree that was covered in Ice. I couldn't get to close to it, because I had to run to class, but it was BEAUTIFUL!!!

 On Friday I had the opportunity to go to a mixer with some special visitors.These visitors were coming to talk to students on campus about how to do well in life, and what they should do with their lives. They are all well to do in their own lives (high up in companies/running their own companies). I had the opportunity because of all that I had finished to go to this mixer and talk to them. I was really nervous about going, but it was fun. It was a lot like the parties that we used to go with Mom at Christmas Time that Penn University would put on for the Doctors, just a little less fancy. Sarah helped me understand a lot more of what I should expect and helped me be much better prepared. So Shout out to my amazingly awesome sister for helping me with this.
This is what I wore. I did look a little better than this, these are pictures from the night before when I was trying to figure out what I was going to wear.

At the actual mixer it was not appropriate setting to take pictures. but this was one that everyone was taking a picture of. The conference that the visitors were going to speak at is called Power to Become. So this is an advertisement thing they had. If you can't tell it is covered in Donuts :D Super Yummy.

  On Thursday was my O-Chem lab. Another fun lab in the book for me :D I believe this is my first time ever running a lab all on my own, no lab partners.  In this lab we mixed two chemicals together, and then by mixing a bunch of other chemicals with the mixture we were able to extract the original two mixtures. Then test how pure the chemicals we extracted were.

In this picture I am just trying to show you how the machine worked. we put our chemicals in these tiny glass tubes, so small we couldn't really see them, and then put the tubes in this machine. This machine heated up and then allowed us to watch the chemicals to measure their melting point. This was one of the ways we measured how pure the extracted chemicals were.

 This is what the Machine looks like from the front. If you look really really really really close at the top of the machine you can sort of see an outline of the tube we inserted. This is just to give you an idea of how small they actually were. and then how magnified the machine made them look to us. Science is cool :)

And below is what it looks like looking down the tube. These two chemicals are the same ones, It was the end of lab and we were trying to go fast so two of us were running the machine at the same time. lucky for us these machines are made to hold three tubes at a time, as you can probably tell from the picture.

 You know it is going to be a good class when your Bio. Teacher is using a babies toy to teach about proteins. It was surprisingly very understandable and the toy actually helped a whole lot!

And then comes Friday. The Power to Be conference. It was a two day conference but I only had the time to go on Friday. There were a lot of amazing speakers and some really wonderful things said at this conference. It ended up being more of the speakers telling their stories and then telling us how important it is for us to trust in God and work hard. We had a comedian for the last hour. He was so super funny! I loved that he was committed to doing only clean jokes, and still so funny. The seat I chose had a green light that shined right at my face the majority of the time. so the placement was a bit unlucky, but it was very fun.

During dinner that they fed us the drumm line came in and played for us. I didn't even know we had a drum line until last P2B confernce, since we don't do any competitive sports or things like that. But it was super awesome. sadly I was sitting at the back of the room so by the time I was able to squirm to the front they were leaving so this was the only picture that I was able to get of them.

 And this is the comedian that performed for us. He only does private showings so you can't find a show of him, It is mostly if you are at a conference that has hired him.

This Monday (like this week, not last week) I had my Bio exam. So last Saturday I spent the day studying. I thought I would show you all one of the ways that I have found helps me study. You know those movies of teachers who have the kid write on all the board something like "I will not ....." until the board is all filled, and then if they are lucky they can do it to all the other boards in the classroom? Well I have discovered that this is actually a wonderful way to memorize things! So I got a piece of whiteboard that is paper size and that is exactly what I do.

 This is a picture of just one of the many mechanisms that I had the opportunity to memorize for this past O-Chem Quiz. For those who don't know what a mechanism is, It is a drawing that shows a chemical reaction and how the electrons flow in said chemical reaction.

 And now a silly picture. Here is a smiley face, inspired by Dad and family.