Mid terms already?

It is already the middle of the semester and it is mid-term time! I can't believe how fast it is going :-s

First of all I will tell you about my roommates.......
they are wonderful :-D one of them- Mickenzie is from Canada so it's cool to have another international student!

My education
In case you didn't know, I have changed my major to Business Management and I am doing a cluster/minor thing in Chinese. Apart from the fact that Chinese is almost killing me I am so glad that I switched :-p
This semester I decided to get involved in a wider range of organisations so I am extremely busy all week. I am Preference manager; I am running the dance where girls ask the guys. I am also an officer for the business organisation known as SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise), where we run projects to help out businesses in the community. I am also a member of the Chinese Association so I get to attend some funky Chinese do's! Oh and I am joining the Republican society on campus, so hopefully I will get to travel a bit with them!

R-town weather
As I mentioned before, it was pretty hot at the beginning of the semester which was extremely nice! Unfortunately at the end of September it snowed :-( and more recently; over conference weekend there was a snow blizzard here with 5inches of snow and then it was back to 75 degree weather again...weird. It has snowed again since and it is definitely beginning to get a lot colder....it is about 2 or 3 degrees right now. I am looking forward to the snow so that we can go skiing and snowboarding, but other than that....I'm not looking forward to the cold :-s

The past month
About a month ago we went to the sand dunes for a bonfire party with a big group of people...it was fun driving around in the guys' huge trucks around the dunes....and especially funny when one guy got stuck :-p
There was also a huge park party a few weeks ago, put on by a security company...Weeman and Preston from Jackass were there. It's basically just music, $1000's worth of prizes and stupid games, oh and free food and drink...so definitely worth going! At the party there was a competition running, called 'fear factor', and part of it was where people had to eat cockroaches....they then offered $500 cash to any girl that would eat 3 cockroaches....I so would have done it but I wasn't quick enough...oh well!
The other week there was the biggest concert on campus called 'Guitars Unplugged', I think I may have mentioned it last semester?! Anyway my roommates and I managed to get tickets and so we went...one of my good friends, JC, was playing in one of the bands so it was great to watch and then there was a big dance afterwards...it was funny! We then had a party at our apartment.
Recently pretty much everybody has been going crazy for this song by Souljia Boy- "Tell 'em Crank that"....it is really big here in the states and everybody is learning the dance for it...it is hilarious! Mickenzie and Brittany had a dance session in the car park with this blasting out :-p Anyway, it is funny.
Last week was one crazily busy week but a great week at the same time. On friday we went to a Halloween party at Pinnacle which was fun...my costume this year is the Greek Goddess, Aphrodite. The party actually wasn't as good as we had hoped but oh well, there was still fun to be had :-D
On Saturday, I played Mah Jong with some Chinese and Taiwanese friends.
Later on a group of us went to Applebee's for dinner and then watched the baseball....the Red Sox are in the World Series!!!! Woohoo!!!! Once the baseball finished, we had a pyjama party at our apartment and watched Disturbia! It was great. The film wasn't that scary but I managed to freak myself out pretty well.























Dates
For my first date of the semester I got taken absailing in the dark and then we were meant to go hot tubbing but they were being cleaned! It was a really fun date but he is a lot older and so we both knew that there was nothing there. My classes and associations have been keeping me so busy...I have had to turn down 2 dates!! One general rule is to never turn down dates but I have had to as I was so busy :-s
Anyway....
I also went on a date with a guy called Tim...it was a lot of fun! It was a double date with my roommate Mary and a guy called Cade. They took us to this skating place where there were loads of people dressed in 70's stuff :-p too funny. So we were roller blading there....so American but absolutely hilarious. I then had my first EVER Arctic Circle experience...it was good! The next stop was Cade's house where we hung out for a bit before going to Tim's where we played the best game! We were in hysterics for most of it.
I have also been on a date with a guy called JC. We have become quite good friends as he was in SIFE with me and we found out we knew a few of the same people in Beijing (he lived there for 6 months and knew them through Jes). Well he picked me up and we went out for a Chinese meal...American Chinese food is not good but it was an enjoyable experience all the same. He then took me to his parents house in IF where we watched the American version of 'The Office'...funny but not as good as the original English version! JC then gave me a tour of his house....wow! Just to give you an idea, they have a huge grand piano and a huge indoor swimming pool with a slide and diving board! Crazy! After being impressed by his house we went to Wendy's for a frosty....yummy. Oh and he has a very cool car.
As you can tell, my dates so far have been extremely enjoyable!

Jes and Jordon
I got to see Jessamyn and Jordon recently which was fantastic!!!! It was funny, as soon as I saw Jordon it was as if he had never been away...I loved it!! He has matured a bit more but he is so much cooler! Jes and I also got to a see a few friends from California and Boston which was incredibly fun. Oh and I saw Naomi! It was great to see her as she is doing so well.


Classes
My business class is the funnest class ever....it dominates! We were put into groups at the beginning of the semester as we have to do a lot of group projects. One of recent projects was to educate the class on the WTO (World Trade Organisation) so we chose to perform a rap...it was hilarious and it definitely had the wow factor :-p
Vanessa makes one intense gangster.
Our next project is a super hero project....should be good!



Well, I believe that is everything. If you think I have missed anything out then please let me know.
I have yet another jam packed week this week with even more stress!! Yay.
Sorry it has taken me so long to update my blog....I really am way too busy most of the time :-s And I am sorry about the pictures....I always forget to take pictures so I never have pictures of everything I am up to and all the people I am talking about!