27 dresses.

so turned in my application for ra. and this is something i really want to do. alot.
its seriously not even about the free housing (which would be nice) or the single room (which would be nice). its about getting to work with girls and build relationships and build community and the more i think about it the more love cbu. and i feel like i could do a good job of encouraging my residents to be the people God wants them to be. sadly though 150 applications were turned in for only 60ish spots. and a lot of great people applied. so if i dont get it i will be bummed but i know that there was someone better for the job and its just not the right time.
i had my interview on friday. and it was silly. overall i think i did a good job. i had fun, laughed a lot, cried a little. ended it off with a display of my coolest talent. i can stick my finger pretty far into my eyeball socket.
and then this morning form 8:30- 12 all the ra applicants had to go thorough a three part group interview process day thing. it was a lot of fun. we were split into nine groups and my group (pink2!) was awesome. some super nice people. we are pretty much all friends now and im excited to see them around campus!
after lunch and bible study i took a nap. it was so nice.

about five thirty chelsea jumped on top of me and woke me up.
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randomly chelsA called me monday and asked if i wanted to hang out with her. and i did. so we did.

we started out the night with panera and some great conversation. catching up is fun, there is always so much to talk about. and lots of laughing. we saw 27 dresses. so cute. nice chick flick. happy ending. love story. lots of laughs. see it if your into that sort of think. don't if your not.
coffee depot and back to the cottage for some more laughing, myspace stalking, and match.com applying. haha.
so after finishing my match.com profile we decided not to submit it. so sadly if my soul mate (whatever that means) is on that site i may never find him. but seriously the questions they as are super funny. so if you're ever bored and in the mood for a good laugh...
random fact:chelsea is compeating in the miss riverside pageant. im excited for her. she has to study the history and through her research (wikipedia) she learned that maeby from arrested development is totally from riverside.

why i dont hate the fact that i am still in riverside.

i feel really sick today. something is going around the school.
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so i was talking to my mom about being sick and a hour later my mom, dad, and hannah show up on my doorstep with hot apple cider for me. such a surprise.
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we had a nice short visit and i got to hold my puppy, whom i love. and get hugs from mom and dad.

i originally wanted to leave riverside and move away as soon as high school was over but i really love cbu and i think i might have chosen to go here even if "here" was somewhere else. seriously. i love this school.

film class.

so at first i wasnt sure what to think of this class. i was kinda intimadated by my teacher and the other students. on the first day we had to tell everyone what our favorite movie is. most people had these really deep movies that are commended for their cinematography. so i was getting pretty nervous, what should i say? i couldnt possibly be honest and tell the whole class my favorite movie is sisterhood of the traveling pants. so i said fight club. in hindsight i should have listed a few movies so people would think i was well rounded.

so my teacher is totally a member of the writers guild. so in my opinion class should be canceled while they are on strike. professor kevanos has this passionate rich voice. i just want him to narrate my life.

we started out watching thiss horrible racist film, Birth of a Nation.aside from being so dumb and promoting the reclamation the South after the uncivil blacks had destroyed the great southern values. the black cast members are portrayed as lesser beings. white supremacy is shown trough dialog and behaviors. even though the southerners had lost the civil war they retained their honor and dignity by caring for one another, and working hard for the cause. they were shown as the victims of slavery in America.

aside from that it was three hours long! and silent! ew.

then we watched battleship potemkin. i originally thought we might be viewing some russian version of pokemon (gotta catch em all!). but i was wrong.
the next movie was the german film metropolis. eh. nothing really to say about this one.

then we got to watch gold rush. a great charlie chaplin movie.
so funny!
like for reals laughing out loud.

then today we watched It Happened One Night. clark gable and claudette colbert. so cute. so funny. i was impressed. i still have about 20 minutes left that i still have to watch. but i am actually looking forward to doing that homework.
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so im looking forward to the rest of the class. now that we have gotten out of the silent era.
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i love spanish.

i love spanish. and i think this is hilarious.
it makes me want to take another spanish class.

i am pretty good at understanding about 80% of the conversations i hear. maybe that percantage is a little high. im not so good at speaking.
although my pronunciation is good.
example: a few times in the cafeteria i will ask for carne asada tacos. and i say it with a real good accent and then the servers ask me if i speak spanish. because i sound so prefessional.

my awesome grandma weinsttein taught spanish kindergarden in north hollwood for the longest time. and she is pretty much fluent. it was always fun for me when we would go out to lunch or something and she would talk to somone in spanish, because people dont expect to see a little old jewish lady speaking spanish.

passion conference.

passion
thats where im headed this weekend.

francis chan
louie giglio
david crowder band
chris tomlin
matt redman

im excited.

thanks mlk jr.

thanks to the awesomeness that is martin luther king junior i had a awesome four day weekend (four-day because i never have school on fridays).

friday- i joined cindy, holly, and monica at pf changs. we feasted on yummy food (crispy honey shrimp is my fave) and had a great time. i love that place. riverside has really stepped it up restaurant wise. later that night kristin and i went to the movies. we saw atonement. it was pretty good. a nice mix of artsy stuff, history, mystery, suspense. the film moves super slow at times, but besides that and the glamorization of smoking it was two thumbs up. and im really a fan of the green dress kiera wore. its so glamorous. good movie. i would recommend it.


saturday- i slept way way in. and then cindy janai and i went to java bliss to get our study on. but they closed at 7 so we had to bounce over to my house for great conversations, homework, and guitar hero.

sunday- church at the grove. i went to "big church" and i think im learning i have the attention span of a junior higher. the service highlighted some of the trips that the church went on this past year, and educatated the members about the importance of going to the ends of the earth.

the past year and a half has been awesome in regards to my mission opportuinities. i got to go to mexico, chile, utah, and cambodia. but i really dont know what the Lord has in store for me this summer. Back to cambodia? hatti? utah? costa rica? tibet? job? summer camp? san fransisco? i just dont know...

after brunch janai and i watched a good ten hours of prison break season 2. it was intense. great show.

we went to sandals at 7. and i really dont know what to say.
ok i will say that sometimes all the "stuff" gets in the way of worship. and i know its not about whether or not i like the particular song we are singing... but whether or not it is pleasing to Gods ears. but for me smacking a beach ball around during the singing of Queen's "we will rock you" was pretty distracting from the reason i sing.

we came back form sandals and watched more prison break.
i fell asleep to this...

monday- kristin woke me up in time for lunch. following a 2 1/2 caf expierence we had a mlk photo shoot.

then some more prison break. we plowed through most of season two. we only have 2 episodes left! seriously and amazing show. i can not wait for season three to come out on dvd. (i cant watch it on real time tv because every single commercial break is a clif hanger and im too impatient to wait a whole week for a new episode...so i just wait months and watch it all in one foul swoop)(i know. fell swoop, but i have been saying fowl for years)

then i went to jonnie mac and drew's apartment. we played guitar hero.

i cleaned my room. did laundry. read some. painted my nails (gold sparkley). ate a few lemon heads. thanks for staying with me through this lonnnng blog. i think this is my longest yet. or maybe i just put some big pictures up in here to deceive you.
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Taking out the trash (tv).

i confess. watching garbage on tv is one of my vices.

My tv is almost always on mtv. and i watch whatever trash they feed me. but this semester i am trying something new: if i have homework or reading to do im not going to turn the tv on.

all this week i hadnt watched anything until what not to wear last night.

ok. thats a lie. i did watch the office with mon and holly. and degrassi with julia and kristin. but besides that nothing.

in other news: i am completely addicted to jetman. serously all you facebookers need to add it.
or maybe you shouldn't.