Saturday, September 22, 2007

My BYU-I Posse! (Day: "Who Cares?!")


Ok well first I guess we start out with me. Everyone here knows me so there isn't really much to talk about. But this is a cool picture...I thought I looked Austriallian in it. And we went to a dance and I introduced myself to this group of girls as Steve Irwin in an Austriallian accent but then quickly went back to my regular voice and introduced myself for real.





This is Kyle. I haven't really met Kyle fully but he is part of our posse. He's from Idaho and he's cool. He hangs around and he's cool with us.








This is Mac. He's from Montana. Mac is probably the oddest and craziest kid I've ever met. He isn't odd in a hating way. He's odd in a cool, friendly way. He went on a mission, but I forget where. He loves to give everyone massages which he gave me one on my head and it was eerily comfortable. I was a creeped out though so. He's funny and does really crazy, off the wall things. But he is engaged so he's leagues ahead of us. Mac is awesome! I like him!



This is Sam. He is from Mississippi, I think, I kinda forgot. He went on a mission to Portugal, he's also way into art. Actually seen his drawings and stuff....pretty impressed.








This is Jens. He's from Virginia and he is freakin amazing at Guitar. Like it's crazy how good he is at it. He played Thunderstuck and all these crazy things. He is playing right now as I am typing and it is awesome.







This is Christian. He is from Chicago. He's laid back and all and he actually plays Frisbee Golf. Him and I will try and go play a course in Idaho Falls sometime when we can, see who's better.








This is Mike. He's from Virginia. He's really crazy. He's the one that had the bird and wanted to craemate it and did and he's the one that started our little illegal fish fighting gang, which really hasn't done much becuase Mike says only Betas are allowed and only he some. He has 2 which one is mine because I paid for it and everything. He also had a X-Box 360 so he's gonna be the guy I'm gonna hang around a lot when he gets Halo 3.



This is Brian. He's from Sacremento. He's a fricken baller and plays Football and all this stuff. He's like all sports and all that...and is fricken ghetto. He's cool thought.








This is Blake. He's from Louisiana. He's crazy too. For some reason to me, he seems all cool and stuff but then it seems like he trys to act too cool and then it just gets annoying and like he becomes all like weird and different. But he's cool. I like Blake!






This is Andrew. Andrew is my roommate. He's from outside D.C. and he's sick tight. He's a drummer, said he's drummed for like 8 years or something. Him and I are tight with each other.















This is Taylor. He's from Louisiana also. He's cool and all laid back. He like seems Ghetto but then I don't think he is at all. He brought a car here which is a 98 Camero Z28? or something. He's cool though!









So this is my posse that I've been hanging out with since day 1 of BYU-I. And these are also the guys that I've been doing a lot of wild and crazy this with like the bird craemation and all that. But I am having fun up here. All these guys live at the end of the hallway as we do and so yeah. And so that's it. That's my group, that's who I hang with and have all the fun with. And if we can maybe I'll try and do a Def Leppard thing with or something....kinda depends on what people wanna do.


*Edit:

Later on in the semester....I think it was after they read this post....my friends started calling this "posse"....The Brady Bunch Posse....I think it might have gotten a little out of hand but whatever.

Friday, September 21, 2007

IT'S TIME TO PARTY! LET'S PARTY!!!!! (Day: ???)

Ok so tonight my friends and I went to "the biggest party of the school year!" It was at this park called (this is really what's it's called...no joke, I have a hard time saying this name and keeping a straight face) Bever Dick Park. The party was ran by some security co. or something called APX. It was a fun party, loads of people were there, they had free food and soda, and they had these crazy carnival things like a dunking tank, a bounce house, one of those american gladiator foam padded stick fighting things, a bull riding machine, and then this surfboard riding thing (which was a lot like the bull riding thing). I tried the surfing one and I was kind of good but not really. They had awesome music which the blaired and everything. They gave away crap and then they had some special guests. They had Wii-Man, or whatever his name is, who I guess is like a famous midget who was on Jackass the movie or the show or something along with other stuff and then they had this guy named Preston, who is from the same show/movie and was like Wii-Man's friend or something. Anyways they showed up and did all this crazy crap. They had a fear factor thing where like they had about 5 or so girls and 5 or so guys and they started out with the people had to hang onto a pole that was elevated by some tractors and they had to stay on as long as they could while getting pelted by Wii-Man and Preston's Paintball guns. The girls all lost in that round. Then they had the next round where they had to eat cockoroaches from like Africa or something that were really big and hissed and stuff. The first 3 people to down all 3 of them went onto the next round. One person backed out so they offered the cockoroaches to any girl to eat for $500 which one girl did. And then my friends and I left. It was cool. They also handed out $100 and DVDs and T-Shirts and Hats and stuff. I didn't get anything but I did have a DVD in my hand which I was wrestling a girl and another guy over and then after a while I gave up and let them have it. Then people would get up on stage and dance and stuff and crowd surf. I jumped up on stage only to sit on an ATV that they were gonna give away in some raffel and everything. And that was my night. It was cool. I got some pictures and movies but they are on my RAZR and I don't have a cord to export them to my lappy so. But yeah it was fun and that's it.

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Whoever said College life is crazy, wasn't kidding!!!! (Day: ??)

Ok I hope that Dusten, Darin, Bryan, Casey.....someone did something crazier than the thing my friends and I just did....or at least something kind of similar so then I feel better. Ok I have no clue what happened because I was asleep when it all happened, but appearently some friends of mine found a bird (a sparrow I think) with a broken wing and decided they were gonna take it and try and raise it back to health and everything. Well the bird ended up dying. So then my friend that found it decided an even greater idea, which was to craemate it (burn it to ashes, whoever you spell that word). Originally we were gonna go to the sand dunes and do this, instead we decided to do this tonight. First my friend started by putting it in a box with a cross and then writing on the box, then we had a viewing, then we had a little "prayer" which wasn't supposed to be serious at all (it really wasn't taken serious at all because we were laughing during it and someone had the MTC playing in the background), then my 2 friends that found it gave little eulogies about the bird which one of my friends gave a funny eulogie about how he only knew him for 25 minutes and was really close to it and everything. So anyways we took the box and took it outside, put lighter fluid all over the box inside and out, and then lit it on fire. Seriously.....I have no clue what it going on anymore, we have been doing some crazy stuff for a long, long time. There might be a little spot in heck for us in my opinion but then again most likely not.

But if that isn't crazy enough, all my friends and I have fish now in our rooms because we are aloud to keep fish and stuff, and we are going to make an illegal fish fighting thing, we haven't really started it and yet it has begun.

College life here is really weird and crazy and off the wall.....Def Leppard might have been odd but stuff here might give it a little run for it's money....I really don't know anymore.

Someone try and help me understand what is going on and if this is normal.

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Wait, woh, woh.....this is the Lord's School!? (Day: 5)

Ok so....I had my first day of classes on Wednesday and so far I have come to the conclusion that all the classes I am taking for my major are going to be hard and all my general education classes are gonna be or at least seem easy. But I honestly have to say....I'm still trying to get used to, because I'm a little weirded out by, all the church stuff they have at this school. Yeah it's BYU and it should be obvious that they would do this but you are reading the posts of someone that has been slowly getting worked up to this point basically. I went from Orange County, CA where if you mentioned being Mormon they automatically thought you had 100 wives or wanted 100 wives and had horns and all that, then going to Highland, UT in the middle of "HAPPY VALLEY" where they had separation of church and state there but when you had teachers saying things like "My Local Religious Organization" or "His or Her Two Year Religious Excursion" and stuff like that you know they were talking about Church and missions and stuff and then you went to seminary and it was just all out there and you were cool with it. Now I am here....and when I walk into class and they are asking someone to give a prayer or I walk into Biology and the teacher goes from talking about what we are going to learn to talking about Alma and Amulek and getting called out by Zeezorm or whoever and talking about how much money a judge made in Nephite Currency and how much the bribe was that Zeezrom was offering Amulek to deny God and all that.....it is a little weird. I heard and knew that they would do stuff like that....because when they went to College Day at my High School in Utah they talked about this kind of stuff like how sometimes they have prayers and all this stuff....but having prayers and talking about testimonies in classes like Biology, Writing Communication, and Visual Media, all in the same day seems a little more than just sometimes to me.

Now I'm not saying I'm all anti-mormon with this stuff because it is cool.....but it is also really strange for me to have to get used to. Something about Nephite Currancy and Biology and Testimonies and getting lead by the spirit in Visual Media don't really seem to add up or really have a connection to me.....yet......

Anyways life here is gonna be interesting....that is all I know....





SO FAR SO GOOD THOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wish my luck everyone.

Monday, September 10, 2007

Note To Self... (Day: 3)

Ok so today was an interesting day in that it was the start of our freshmen orientation stuff. I went to bits and pieces of it and it was fun and interesting. P.S. This is probably gonna be one of the shortest posts I do. Ok so anyways to end the night they had a dance for just the freshmen and everything which it was alright, especially in the case of scoping out and trying to meet the cute girls. But anyways, from this dance I discovered 2 things that every future freshmen should know: first off, if you are a freshmen, at a new school, where you don't know loads of people, my suggestion is to not go to the first dance of the year. I discovered this when I went to the first dance at my new high school in Utah but it became more official to me tonight. Unless you have a squad of like 20 friends that you know and that know each other and you go with them to the dance, you end up standing around and only lightly dancing. Now this is fine if you wanna do that and just have fun with the slow dances but for me it doesn't really work. I kinda felt stupid just standing around and not really feeling comfortable to dance like I would at like a Family Camp Dance or a Lone Peak High Dance and all that just because I dunno that many people here and didn't feel comfortable.

Ok so Rule #1 Don't go to first dance unless you have a huge squad of friends to go with.

So then here is my next discovery I made: When you see a cute girl or girls, make sure you just always have your eye on them, don't like stock them or anything but don't get distracted by things like text messages either. I found this cute girl who was dressed up all nice and her hair too and her friends all did the same thing, and so I wanted to ask to a slow song and was hoping one was coming up soon. Well I got a text message from a friend in Utah and so I look down and write back and then look up to see if I can still see that girl and she was gone. I ran around to try and find her but with no luck. I looked and looked and couldn't find her and the slow song came and I didn't dance with anyone and so that didn't work out.

My track record for the first dance of the year was Makes: 0, Attempts: 1, Slow Songs: 2

I actually asked a girl who told me flat out No, it was sad but whatever.

Anyways so Rule #2: If you wanna ask a girl to a slow song, make sure you know where she is, but don't like stock or spy on her and creep her out in some weird way.

Anyways so that was my Day 3 and First Dance.....which wasn't all that successful.

But whatever....it's the beginning of school and classes haven't even started....life is pretty good so far.

Sunday, September 9, 2007

BYU-Idaho (Day: 1)

Well after waking up an hour later than expected and driving 4 hours by myself with all my stuff in the little 2005 Colorado Truck with nothing but my iPod playing me Monty Python and the Holy Grail, one of my old Lone Peak Radio Hours, and some other music. It was still a fun little trip! Anyways so I am finally at BYU-I and am finally in Rexburg, so now I can finally write blogs about life up here. And what better way than to start out with DAY 1!!!!!! So after getting through the heart ache of leaving my Mom and my Dad, Paula, and my family, then waking up at 7 am instead of 6 am and driving for 4 hours by myself with my specially made scotcheroos from Grandma Hutchings and calling my mom and dad every once and a while because of my excitement and them calling me just to see how I'm doing and for my dad....telling me where he is as he is trailing behind me on the way up, I made it. So I get here and first off I get lost. I got thrown off because the road infront of my dorm is blocked by road and other construction. So I go up the road towards the main info. hall only to see that it didn't look like that was where I had to be. So I backtrack to this little parking lot that I saw people going into and it looked like people were telling them where to park and everything. Well when I get there....nobody is there to tell you where to park but people are going in and parking. So I decided to go in and park and see what is up. So I get in and right when I do, I see a friend of mine from Lone Peak High there, so I get out and say hi and then walk off to the Hall that I'm next to. I look around and see people sitting there with little tables with all the resident stuff and so I go up to them. They say Hi and ask me if I'm a resident here. I tell them I have no clue, so they ask for my name which I give them and then they find me and give me my resident stuff, so I was in that hall. So they guide me from the table of where I go, and I head off. My room is #223 which I figured, and I think they told me, was on the second floor and then I just followed the numbers all the way to #223. I pull out the key and start working at it and after I get in and go to turn it....the door is pulled open and my roommate happens to already be there. The kid's name is Andrew and he's from Washington D.C. and he is a freshmen. From just talking a little...the kid seems cool to me and I'm happy that he ends up being a freshmen and everything, because I was worried about that, and appearently he was too. So after a while I run off to get some stuff, call Mom and Dad and tell them about the info. I get on my roommate, Dad tells me they are about 30 minutes or so out so I start grabbing stuff and bringing it up. I make 2 trips and by the time I get back for the 3rd, Dad and Paula show up and help me with the last load. They go up with me and meet my roommate and help me with my stuff like my computer and everything. We unpack here and there and try and figure everything out. Once that is done I start realizing that I am smelling a little bad from all the carrying and sweating and stuff and Dad and Paula do too which they weren't all that happy about. The thing that sucks is like I threw on Deoderant in the morning but I guess all they deoderant that I got sucked so bad that they wore off in like seconds and so we had a problem. So since I ran out of deoderant and needed some other things, Dad and Paula decided to help guide me to get my BYU card and then we were gonna run to Wal-Mart or wherever and get some supplies of toiletries and they they would have to bail so they could run back to Utah to make it to Hayley Cowdell's Pre-Wedding Reception. Well when we get to the main hall we find that the I-Card place is closed for some reason, so we try and figure out what I am gonna do about food, so we go to the food people and they tell us if I just give them my BYU # they'll give me food and stuff. So we walk out and run to town. We end up stopping at Walgreen's and Dad and Paula see that they have to leave. So they leave me and I go in to do all the shopping. I get my stuff and go back to my dorm to finish all my unpacking and get cleaned up.

So when I get in my roommate tells me about how him and his friends are gonna go into Idaho Falls for stuff so I offer to drive there. After I unpack and change and everything is set, we took off to go hang out with his friends over at a different apartment building. Well his friends end up being some of the apartment workers who are just getting off for the day. They decided to clean up a little and my roommate gets hungry so we leave to go find what food there was around town. We go up Main Street and then get to a "T" intersection and then go down that road and end up finding a Jack In The Box. They had like Taco Bell, Gandolfo's, Dominoe's, Pizza Hut, and other stuff along the way but I hadn't been to a Jack In The Box since we were coming home from Family Camp so I decided we'd go there. So we go there and get little burgers and then head back to his friend's place. They are all done and we go run out the door. His friends get in one car and we get in my Colorado and take off to Idaho Falls. When we get there we stop by this shopping center which is kind of like a Costco or maybe more like a Sam's Club but it wasn't either of them. It was called something like Wally's Co. or something weird. My roomy said it was like Wal-Mart but not so. Anyways we go in and my roomy gets some things and I get some Roasted Sunflower Seeds like the ones Paula gets for Hawaiian Haystacks and some Butter for my popcorn maker stuff and a pair of sunglasses. So when we pay my roomy offers to pay and I just pay his back 1/2 way which after he bought I quickly paid him back from the money I had in my pocket. Then after everyone got done shopping we went to the Mall to see what it was like. The mall there is a lot like University Mall except smaller and with a little less stores in there, but my roomy and his friends end up going to this place called GNC and looking around at all these vitaimins and stuff, the even cooler thing is my roomy seems to know all the good stuff along with one of his friends who I guess is majoring in Biology and then his other friend worked at a health food store. So we get some stuff called Men's Mega Men which is supposed to be like vitaimins that like have a lot of stuff to help make your muscles stronger and have other good healthy stuff too, and all those guys said it was good and everything. So they get like these big 3-Month lasting packs and I got this little, maybe, 2 week pack because it was $9 and the 3-Month thing was like $30 or so. Well also while I'm there I start asking them about some of this weight losing stuff because I had been saying all summer how once I got to Idaho I was gonna look for this kind of stuff. Well my roomy shows me all these things that he says would work and are GNC made and all that but they are like $30 and I didn't want to spend so much money so quickly, so I decided I'd come back for them some other time and everything and my roommate said he was gonna help me out in working out at the GYM and losing some weight. Well after we get done there my roommate and I decide to check out this costume place that we saw on the way to GNC, so we go cruise it and I go look around in there for a Knight Costume because I wanna do this Monty Python costume but I didn't find anything and then we decided that we wanted to leave.

So we left and came back to our dorm to watch some of the college football that was on the tele and everything and then after that we went to bed, which by then it was like 1:30 for me when I fell asleep and that was because I was writing in my journal and everything. I met some cool people in my hallway and my friend from Lone Peak is on my same hallway and then that was it. The people in the dorm across the hall I'm cool with and they have a 360 and we played a little Halo 2 also yesterday and everything. So everything here is a little weird to me still but cool. Last night I felt like at around 10 pm I should just be getting in my car and driving back hom but I knew I wasn't supposed to and everything so. But yeah so life is good and now I'm all in and everything. There are cute girls here and I'm just going day by day. And now when anything cool happens I'll jump on here and write....or just when I wanna tell about things that happened over the week, I'll write in here too....kinda like a journal but not.

Wish my luck on the new College life and I hope you guys enjoy reading my stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!