So I am officially back in the Netherlands now! It was weird, because I consider California as home and would NEVER call Holland home, but driving back to the house, it felt like I was coming home. I guess it's because it's where my family is, and we're finally all together again :)
I flew in early on Thursday morning, and Mom and Dad picked me up from Schipol and drove me home. Then the Elders and Harry came over from dinner that night. It's been forever since I've had missionaries over! You don't really get that in college, which kind of stinks, but oh well, I'll get to do it this summer. It looks like they come over every Thursday night, which is nice for them, because they get yummy American food ;-) This week is steak, so it's good for everyone haha.
So my family has been letting this German kid, Robin, from my brothers' school live with them, because he used to have to wake up REALLY early to take the train to school because his family lives so far away. He's a sweet kid, he fits in pretty well with the family, which is nice, since he's here from Monday afternoon to Friday morning, then he goes home for the weekend. But he'd been living in my room, and we had to switch everything out, so now he and Chris are sharing a room, and I get one all to myself :-)
So Mom and Dad are supposed to go on a Baltic cruise next week. The big stop on this trip is St. Petersburg, which makes me SO jealous, because you can't imagine how badly I want to go to Russia haha. But my Mom just says that someday we'll get to go on our own cruise, and it took her how long to be able to? So I get no sympathy from her in my plight haha. But it's all good, I'll get over to Russian someday, I guess.
So my best friend from freshman year, Trevor, is going to be coming home from his mission in about 6 weeks! I'm super excited to get to hang out with him again next year. A lot of guys from my freshman year have started coming home, so it's a really exciting time. I remember when they were all leaving, and how I thought it would be forever, but two years really isn't that long at all. It amazes me how fast the time has flown. I mean, I'm graduating from college in less than a year! That's a very bizarre thought to me. You always think it's going to last forever, but college really doesn't last that long at all.
So this summer is going to be pretty busy. I have an online class I need to get done, and Chris is supposed to be flying out in a little over a month to go back to the States to work and save up money for his mission. He'll be over there until he has to come back for his mission farewell, which will probably be at the end of this year. I can't believe my brother is going to be leaving on a mission at the end of this year! It's crazy. And then my tia, Kathy, will be coming over here to vacation with us for about a month, which should be a lot of fun. She'll be here for pretty much all of July, and then I'll be leaving in the middle of August or so to go back to Utah. I don't even think I'll be able to move into my house at that time, I'll probably have to kick at my Uncle Ivan and Aunt Lori's place again, or maybe with Kathy's sister and brother-in-law, so we'll see what happens. I didn't want to have to come back until the 22nd, but there's a chance I'll have to get my wisdom teeth out at the end of the summer back in Utah if I can't get it done here, so my parents decided to send me back a week earlier just in case we had to do that. But I didn't need to be back until August 22nd (which is the move-in day on my contract), and then I have new-student orientation training on the 23rd, and then the actual NSO from the 25th-27th. I'm actually excited to by a Y group leader for NSO this year. I think it will be fun to welcome the incoming freshman my senior year of college, and give them a nice intro to the campus and BYU life. I hope they like me ;-) But then orientation will end on Saturday, and the Monday after I'll start school! I'm excited for next year, because I get to take a lot of ballroom classes since I decided to make ballroom my minor (more or less. I'm not doing the actual ballroom minor, because I would have to extend my graduation date in order to do that, but I have to have 8-9 hours of non-humanities coursework, and since I already had 2.5 for ballroom, I just decided to make things fun and continue on with that). Needless to say, I'm really excited for all of my ballroom stuff :-) I'm really hoping I'll make it onto team next year some time, but we'll see how things go, I guess. It would really be a dream come true if I could make that happen.
So I'm kind of an old lady, and I've been going to bed really early since I got back. I sleep for almost 12 hours, but because I'm going to bed so early it's not making me wake up very late in the afternoon, so that's good :-) Tomorrow I have to go to a doctor's appointment with D.J. and Mom, because D.J. needs more meds and Mom wants him to get his lungs tested, and then she also wants to get me in so we can talk to a doctor about my skin. For those of you who see me on a regular basis, you know I have pretty bad acne on my face, and nothing topical I've been given has worked, so we're hoping the doctors will actually listen to me this summer and give me a pill of some sort to get rid of my acne. I can't tell you how much I want to get it gone; it's only gotten worse since I've come to college, and I hate having it. I get the really gross cystic acne, too, so it's even painful to have. Needless to say, once I can get it gone, life will be AMAZING. So here's hoping :-)
I flew in early on Thursday morning, and Mom and Dad picked me up from Schipol and drove me home. Then the Elders and Harry came over from dinner that night. It's been forever since I've had missionaries over! You don't really get that in college, which kind of stinks, but oh well, I'll get to do it this summer. It looks like they come over every Thursday night, which is nice for them, because they get yummy American food ;-) This week is steak, so it's good for everyone haha.
So my family has been letting this German kid, Robin, from my brothers' school live with them, because he used to have to wake up REALLY early to take the train to school because his family lives so far away. He's a sweet kid, he fits in pretty well with the family, which is nice, since he's here from Monday afternoon to Friday morning, then he goes home for the weekend. But he'd been living in my room, and we had to switch everything out, so now he and Chris are sharing a room, and I get one all to myself :-)
So Mom and Dad are supposed to go on a Baltic cruise next week. The big stop on this trip is St. Petersburg, which makes me SO jealous, because you can't imagine how badly I want to go to Russia haha. But my Mom just says that someday we'll get to go on our own cruise, and it took her how long to be able to? So I get no sympathy from her in my plight haha. But it's all good, I'll get over to Russian someday, I guess.
So my best friend from freshman year, Trevor, is going to be coming home from his mission in about 6 weeks! I'm super excited to get to hang out with him again next year. A lot of guys from my freshman year have started coming home, so it's a really exciting time. I remember when they were all leaving, and how I thought it would be forever, but two years really isn't that long at all. It amazes me how fast the time has flown. I mean, I'm graduating from college in less than a year! That's a very bizarre thought to me. You always think it's going to last forever, but college really doesn't last that long at all.
So this summer is going to be pretty busy. I have an online class I need to get done, and Chris is supposed to be flying out in a little over a month to go back to the States to work and save up money for his mission. He'll be over there until he has to come back for his mission farewell, which will probably be at the end of this year. I can't believe my brother is going to be leaving on a mission at the end of this year! It's crazy. And then my tia, Kathy, will be coming over here to vacation with us for about a month, which should be a lot of fun. She'll be here for pretty much all of July, and then I'll be leaving in the middle of August or so to go back to Utah. I don't even think I'll be able to move into my house at that time, I'll probably have to kick at my Uncle Ivan and Aunt Lori's place again, or maybe with Kathy's sister and brother-in-law, so we'll see what happens. I didn't want to have to come back until the 22nd, but there's a chance I'll have to get my wisdom teeth out at the end of the summer back in Utah if I can't get it done here, so my parents decided to send me back a week earlier just in case we had to do that. But I didn't need to be back until August 22nd (which is the move-in day on my contract), and then I have new-student orientation training on the 23rd, and then the actual NSO from the 25th-27th. I'm actually excited to by a Y group leader for NSO this year. I think it will be fun to welcome the incoming freshman my senior year of college, and give them a nice intro to the campus and BYU life. I hope they like me ;-) But then orientation will end on Saturday, and the Monday after I'll start school! I'm excited for next year, because I get to take a lot of ballroom classes since I decided to make ballroom my minor (more or less. I'm not doing the actual ballroom minor, because I would have to extend my graduation date in order to do that, but I have to have 8-9 hours of non-humanities coursework, and since I already had 2.5 for ballroom, I just decided to make things fun and continue on with that). Needless to say, I'm really excited for all of my ballroom stuff :-) I'm really hoping I'll make it onto team next year some time, but we'll see how things go, I guess. It would really be a dream come true if I could make that happen.
So I'm kind of an old lady, and I've been going to bed really early since I got back. I sleep for almost 12 hours, but because I'm going to bed so early it's not making me wake up very late in the afternoon, so that's good :-) Tomorrow I have to go to a doctor's appointment with D.J. and Mom, because D.J. needs more meds and Mom wants him to get his lungs tested, and then she also wants to get me in so we can talk to a doctor about my skin. For those of you who see me on a regular basis, you know I have pretty bad acne on my face, and nothing topical I've been given has worked, so we're hoping the doctors will actually listen to me this summer and give me a pill of some sort to get rid of my acne. I can't tell you how much I want to get it gone; it's only gotten worse since I've come to college, and I hate having it. I get the really gross cystic acne, too, so it's even painful to have. Needless to say, once I can get it gone, life will be AMAZING. So here's hoping :-)
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