Conclusion

The one thing that I talk about a few time in my blog is my family and home.  This is the only real pattern that is in my blog.  Throughout the semster I have been excited to go home a see my family.  Christmas break was such a short time to be home and I have really missed my family. My blog has mainly been about my thoughts towards different things I have done or seen throughout the semester.  For the longest time I didn't know either what to blog about or I would forget.  I didn't learn to check my Facebook until I came to college so blogging was a whole new step. It has been fun to figuring out the whole blogging thing. I would have to write myself little notes to remember to write on my blog. I would like to keep up my blog because it is fun going back to see what I write and it is a good way to write down what I am thinking. I want to create a new blog that I talk about agriculture and specifically aimed towards the beef industry. I have been a Beef Ambassdaor for California and when I went to nationals they really hit hard the use of social media.  They told us that we all need to start blogging and getting the real story of agriculture to everyone.  I never really started doing any of that because I wasn't big on social media. I had a Facebook but I checked it maybe once a month and even then I was only on it for 5 minutes.  Overall, I enjoyed learning to blog and plan on continuing to blog on a regular basis.

P.S. I posted comments on BYU Cougars and True Blue Fan.

Favorite Place

Coming to Provo has opened my eyes to so many new and wonderful things.  Coming from a small town we didn't have much of anything.  One of my new favorite places to go is the Cocoa Bean.  They have hot chocolate drinks and the best thing of all, cupcakes.  They have a schedule of the different types of cupcakes and they days they make them.  It is the cutest place that you have ever seen.  They have all sorts of delicious cupcakes with great names.  One of my favorites is called "party in your mouth."  I just love all of them.  If you are ever in the mood for a delicious cupcake then this is the place to go.

Easter Traditions

So this being my first Easter away from home I found myself really missing all of our Easter traditions.  We always go to my grandma and grandpa's house for Easter.  We start out the afternoon with an Easter egg hunt.  When we do our egg hunt we each have a specific color egg that we are allowed to find.  Each kid has a dozen eggs that they have to find.  I usually always chose a pink color because that is my favorite color.  Many years there are one or two plastic eggs that someone can't find.  Occasionall someone will find an old egg from the previous year that we never found.  The boundries for the egg hunt are always the same.  It is always in the barnyard and a few of the buildings next to it.  I love the Easter egg hunt.

The other Easter tradition my family has is called a string hunt.  All the string starts in the garage then some unrolls a ball of string laying it all over the yard.  They put the string around trees, undercars, and even across the street.  Before we begin the string hunt there are strings going everywhere.  Each person has a string that someone else pit out for them.  You then have to roll up all of your string and at the end of the string is a prize.  That is one of my favorite Easter traditions that my family has.  Part of the reason I like it so much is because no one else does it.  It is a tradition that I plan on passing down to my kids.

Easter back home last year

Butt Slaps

So going to the men's BYU volleyball games has become one of my new favorite things to do.  I enjoy watching the players not only while they are actually playing but how they interact. One of the things they do that always makes me laugh is the butt slap and every now and then the butt grab. I know that is many sposts the butt slap is common.  I still find it strange and funny mainly because I never played a sport where a butt slap was a part of the game.  I also find that it is nore common in men's sports than it is in women's sports.  So both my roommate and I came to the conclusion that the most common way guys show approval is through a butt slap.  A guy on there team makes a good play they slap there butt, when they like a girl they slap her butt (even though thats not really appropriate). I guess butt slapping is just a guys way of giving approval no matter who it is.

Soccer

Since I have come to school I really miss playing soccer.  I really wanted to play on an intramural soccer team but the problem was I didn't know anyone.  I made some attemptes but the people I asked I didn't really know so it was kind of awkward.  I learned to love soccer as a kid.  Is started playing when I was 5 years old.  I played every single year all the way through high school.  I was actually captain of my team both my junior and senior year.  I loved playing soccer.  I would do anything to play soccer.  My junior year I would travel up to Medford, Oregon to play on team.  It was an hour drive each way to practice.  I would have to drive uo there atleast 3 to 4 time per a week.  I have really missed playing soccer.  I have made a goal that next year when I come back to BYU in the fall that I am GOING to find people to be on team with.  I am a naturally shy person and I am going to try and oversome those tendencies.  I want to play so I have descided that I need to be more forward and ask people to make a team with me or ask to join a team even if it feels a little uncomfortable.

BYU Men's Fashion

So coming to BYU from a rural town was a quite a shock.  One of the biggest shock was how guys dress at BYU.  Where I went to high school most guys wore Wranglers and Carharts.  Guys did not dress "fashionably."  One thing that I do not understand are manpris.  They capris for guys.  That is just one of the strangest things that guys wear that I do not understand, but it might be because I am a Wrangler and Carhart kid of girl. I don't mean to offend anyone if they wear them or like guys who wear them.  I personally just find them very femine for guys.

Crazy Weather

So Utah has some of the craziest weather.  Where I am from there is strange weather sometimes but nothing quite like the weahter was on Wednesday.  When I woke up and looked out my window everything was white and big flakes were falling.  I was not supecting that at all.  I had checked the weather the night before and I was expecting maybe a little rain but was completly shocked to find it snowing.  Then as the day went on it stopped snowing and the sun came out.  By the time I was walking back from my chemistry class all the snow was gone from campus.  You could not even tell that it had snowed earlier that day.  It was even kind of warm for having snowed earlier.  Then Thursday was such a beautiful day.  It was some of the most drastic weather changes I have ever seen.

***So I if I said the wrong date that it actually snowed it is because all my days have blended togther being the last full week of school.