Summer Babe

Well, it's my third day in Puerto Rico, and I was officially a beach bum on the first day. Actually, I've made it to the beach only once so far, so I guess I'm not really a "beach bum"--just a bum. I don't know what it is exactly that is making me so incredibly lazy--the lack of air conditioning in the condo (or use thereof), the fact that I'm finished with another semester of school (6 down, 1 to go!), the sore throat I started getting last weekend (third time to get sick in 4 months), or the sleep I'm trying to catch up on since finals, moving, packing, and traveling. I hope I snap back into it, but for now I'm just hanging around the condo (carless with nowhere to go, really).

I'm looking forward to working in the real world! Although I can boast that I got straight A's again this semester, I honestly think it doesn't mean anything. Sure I worked hard on homework, projects, presentations, and tests, but that means absolutely nothing when working in the business world. (At least that's what I think.) I can admit that I've mastered how to take undergraduate college classes, but I don't know how to overwhelm an employer by exceeding expectations or come up with ideas that will drastically raise the bottom line. I have a lot to learn, even though I've been in school for 16 years now. What I'm trying to say is that I'm excited about working for an actual firm (BBDO) and see what ad agencies are all about. I hope my Spanish doesn't fail me--I also look forward to brushing up on the Spanish that has been incrementally slipping away from me since my last Spanish class in high school.

Here are some photos from my last month in Provo.

1) I went to the Hare Krishna festival of colors, which is called Holi, in Spanish Fork. There's a full-out Hindu temple in Spanish Fork that you go to (and practically everyone at BYU knows about it and went to it because we had to walk miles to get back to where we parked). You buy this colored flour and when they light the demon on fire, you're supposed to throw the flour on everyone. Krishna is a deity worshipped in Hinduism, and I'm not exactly sure, but I think they light this demon on fire and celebrate it at Holi. As you can see, I got a whole bag of yellow flour dumped on my face, which is unfortunate because yellow just really isn't my color. After throwing flour around and having your eyes blinded and throats choked up, you yell out this chant that goes something along the lines of "Hare! Hare! Krishna! Krishna! Hare Krishna! Hare Krishna! Hare! Hare! Rama! Rama! Hare Rama! Hare Rama! Hare Krishna! Hare Krishna!" I can't remember exactly. I wore my family reunion shirt from 1997--that shirt's a goner.

2) We fit 9 people in that Honda Civic: 3 in the front, 6 in the back.

3) This is Melissa and me at the Charity Ball Auction. We hung out almost every day this semester--she is absolutely wonderful, and I'm lucky to be friends with Melissa. I'm afraid that if she came to Puerto Rico, Mom would say to Melissa and me the same thing she said to Bernice and me in high school: "You're lucky you found each other because you two are so strange." Melissa and I get along so well. :) We went to men's volleyball games, baseball games, basketball games, dollar movies. You name it, we went there.