FHE!!

Hey everyone! So today was our first official FHE group meeting/ activity. It was a complete success. My FHE group is very active and outgoing. I am excited. This semester is going to be a lot of fun with them. We have some great ideas planned.

Okay now to greater news. So my Russian teacher is in the process of getting a trip to Russia approved through BYU-I. If it is approved I am going to Russia next summer. It is not set in stone yet. But if it is approved this time next year I will have taken my first trip out of the country. I am so excited I really want to go. I can't really explain it but I just really feel like I need to go to Russia this is so weird but I love it haha. Well that is all for now. xoxo

The Biggest Scam in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey everyone okay so if you haven't heard BYU-I has been having trouble with the financial aid office and students receiving financial aid. Well I have been one of the poor unfortunate souls that have had to wait longer and longer for financial aid. Well today I looked online and found out that I had received financial aid. I was so excited I had finally gotten financial aid I was going to be able to pay off school expenses and go grocery shopping. Well I fell off cloud nine so fast that I hit the core of the earth. Turns out I only received a Stafford subsidized loan and unsubsidized loans, totaling to an amount that for two semesters will only pay for my tuition and housing. I have no money to pay of books now or to buy groceries. Also I had received a parent loan for almost 4,000 dollars. Turns out Parent loans are the BIGGEST SCAMS EVER!!!!!! You get the money but your parents have to pay off the loan 60 days after the student receives the loan and interest starts accumulating as soon as the student gets the loan or accepts it. Now for those of you who know my parents you know that is not going to happen and I don't want my parents to have to go through that. So right now I only have money to pay my tuition and housing. So I'm going to my financial aid office tomorrow to talk to advisor to see if there are any other available awards. This is the most ridiculous thing ever. I am so fed up with BYU-I right now. Okay well the administration and financial aid office. I love the school don't get me wrong but come on.

I feel horrible right now for my roommates especially Tiffany bless her heart. They have been so understanding with all the situations and trials I have been going through. I really don't know what I would have done with out them. I am so thankful for having them. I can honestly say if it were not for the them and my roommates spring semester I would not be where I am now. I truly am thankful for everything I have been put through I have grown so much spiritually and as a person and as a daughter of God. I would not have changes anything for the world and I am grateful. I know some of you are probably thinking "get over yourself other people in the world have it worse than you" and this is true but things have been hard. But they have been great too.

So now that I am done ranting and venting my life has been pretty good. I received a calling today in church which I am really excited for I will mention when I have officially been sustained and everything but yeah I am really excited. This semester looks so good for me right now. Many great things are in store for me and I could not be happier. I am starting my major this semester and taking some pretty awesome classes. My major is Inter-graded Studio Art emphasizing in photography. I find it amazing even though I have been beaten down and so many horrible things have happened to me I can still have the best life ever. Things are going to be okay. Even though I always need constant reminding of that, but it is so true. If I just remain faithful and endure to the end everything is going to be okay. I feel so blessed and grateful right now. I really could not be happier and I really would not be here if it were not for my friends and family. They have been a rock for me my whole life I know I don't say it enough but I am truly grateful for my parents and all that they do and sacrifice for me and I love them with all my heart.

Well it is 10:30 and I really need to start homework so farewell all. And thanks for dealing with my rantings. xoxo

Quickie update

Okay so still have no idea why i'm doing this but anyways just thought i should let everyone know im not dead and am alive haha. just strutting my stuff up here at BYU-I and loving it. my classes are going well. i am taking a russian 1o1 class and love it. im thinking about going to russia next summer with my school but i have no idea yet. that really is pretty much my life right now school school oh did i mention school =D . oh my cousin derek comes home tomorrow from serving a mission for our church in peurto rico so excited i cant wait to talk to him. well that is it for now xoxo