A Job, Ballet, and everything in between

So, it's finally Friday! This week has gone by super slow (but in a good busy way).   This week was my first full week of classes and they are going very well. (I just can not procrastinate this semester! ) I also was able to add a ballet technique class to my schedule. I love the class so much and feel that I have already learned a lot just in the past two classes. But between a jazz technique class and ballet twice a week; my poor body is so sore. I look like an old lady trying to walk up stairs. Hopefully this will only last for the first few weeks.  Wednesday I had a job interview at the Dance Building and got the job!!!!! I'm so excited, I thinks its going to be a great opportunity for me. Yesterday, was our first away football game. We played against Vandy, and beat their butts 17 to 13!!! :D I enjoyed the game with a bunch of friends from church. This is how we watch the game (pictures below)....... yes..outside on the roof. (We are just that cool) We had a great time cheering on the Gamecocks! This coming week will be the first home game...and this girl right here is pumped! 
Thanks goodness for this long holiday weekend!! I get to catch up on sleep and hopeful get some homework done early! I'll be starting my new job (hopefully) this Wednesday!
 Hope everyone has a wonderful long weekend and a great week! 
xoxo

Note: I just got out of ballet class. I usually don't walk
around in black leggings. :)

Getting Back into the Swing of Things

Tuition  is paid, dorm is decorated, and friends are back. 
I'm so excited to be back at USC and so ready for this year! I don't start classes until Thursday, so I have the next few days to get back into the swing of things.  I'm so grateful that I was able to room with my awesome roommate from last year. Wouldn't know what I would do with out her! And we also have awesome suite-mates this year!! I'm not looking forward to walking to classes in this humid and hot weather, but that's good ol' South Carolina for ya! I'm really excited about my classes this semester. But next semester I'll have to declare a major and I'm not really sure what I want to major in anymore. So I have a lot of thinking and figuring out to do this semester. Dance is still a big part of  me and I still plan to open a studio of my own....but I want to have another job to fall back on.

Here are some pictures of my new dorm :) 

CLASSES AND FIRE ALARMS

I had a wonderful first two days of classes! Thursday was super busy. I had an 8 o'clock class then a job interview right after that. I ended up not getting the job, but I got a call for another interview for a job at the USC Dance Conservatory...so fingers crossed this one will work out! Thursday I also had two other classes after my interview and those went really well too. I really like my professors so far. Friday I only had one 9 o'clock class then after that I came back to the dorm and crashed only to wake up to a fire alarm! :/ So my bed is lofted up to the celling, that way I can have my desk under my bed to save room. Well when the fire alarm went off, it scared me to death because the alarm is right beside my bed. So I almost killed myself trying to get off my bed. I tear my PJ pants off and throw on my jeans that are way to big (cuz I was not going to go outside in my PJs...fire or no fire!) but didn't have time to fool with my belt. So I grab my keys and run out the door. 
As I'm quickly going down the stairs I'm having to hold my jeans up because they are falling off my butt! THEN I REALIZED....I had put a green face mask on before I took a nap...and still had it on my face! And I didn't put it on my whole face (at least that would have looked normal) but no I only had one BIG green spot on my forehead. I was so embarrassed. 

So this has been my week...hopefully next week won't be so dramatic. ;) I'll try to update as much a possible. 
xoxo

My dorm

After 2 weeks, I finally finished decorating my dorm

My dresser 

Notice how high my bed is?!?! Not fun getting off of it in the middle of the night to pee! ~just saying

My flower and photo collage. I had a collage photo frame, but it was to heavy to hang up even with 

command strips. So I made this instead... 

My awesome London poster I got for like 9 dollars and my ballet calender I got on sale for $3. 

Closer picture of my desk.

First week recap!

I  absolutely LOVE being a college kid!!!!! But I will say it has been a challenge getting back on a school schedule and walking around this huge campus. My poor legs are so sore. My first week of classes went really well!  I am taking 5 classes; Psychology, Statistics, University 101, Jazz technique, and Dance Improvisation. My psychology class is so interesting, I've really enjoyed it so far. The only problem with that class is trying to find the best way, for me, to take notes......but I will figure something out! :)  Statistics is my one and only eight o'clock class (thank goodness) and I actually really like the class. University 101 I really enjoy as well, its a small class so I get to know all my classmates instead of just knowing one or two people in class.  Dance improvisation is the most interesting class I have, but I love it. Like Thursday in class we had to use points of our body (like elbow, knee, chin, toe, ankle, etc.) and spell out our names. Which is really cool because you never really think that you could create a dance just with spelling your name in the air. (but you can! ;) )  I've never taken a dance class like this, but I think in the long run it will make me a better dancer.  The jazz technique class I have not gone to yet...its a class I added later on in the week, and its only a Monday class. So with tomorrow being MLK day, I won't start that class until the 23rd :( 

Thursday my awesome roommate Carla and I along with Carla's boyfriend and his roommate went to a free movie here on campus. We saw Tower Heists which was a really good/funny movie. They also gave us free popcorn and coke, which is always a plus!!!! :D 

First Weekend at USC

So this past week has been pretty exciting. Sunday (Jan. 1st) I came home from a wonderful Christmas trip to Tennessee. I got to stay with my best friend and her family while I was there, and had so much fun. I love them so much and hated leaving. I also got to see and spend a lot of time with my friends, whom I've missed very much. And sorry I didn't take any pictures while I was in Tennessee. :/ Wednesday (Jan 4th) was my freshman orientation at USC. My mama went with me and we learn a lot of stuff about the campus and college. After that, I went and registered for classes and got my student ID. (exciting!!) I was so happy after registering for classes, because I was able to get into a dance class (which was my goal) and that also meant I was an official college kid!! :D woot woot!! Saturday (Jan. 7th) I moved into my dorm! I have an awesome roommate, and I'm so excited to spend this semester with her.  After I got settled, I went out to look for the buildings where my classes would be. At first I went in a huge circle and ended up finding none of them and learned very quickly how big this campus really was. So I went back to my dorm for a little while to look over the map again. The 2nd time I finally found the buildings I was looking for and only got lost once. But the bad thing was I learned that I have to walk up and down a huge steep  hill pretty much very day. (not looking forward to that!) Here is a picture from google maps. note: the hill is even steeper then it looks....trust me! 

Tomorrow I start my classes!! I only have four classes for this semester (as of right now) which is not too bad. But I'm still kind of nervous. Thank goodness though my first class Monday doesn't start until 11:15 (heck yeah, I get to sleep in). But on Tuesdays and Thursdays my first class is at 8:oo am :/ But I can't complain the building for that class is right across from my dorm (and the only one that is near my dorm). So all in all I think its going to be a great semester! :D 

Count down to college!!

Only 52 days until I move into my dorm at USC!!! I'm super excited, but it has been so stressful getting all the paper work and scholarships/financial aid straighten out. :(  Today I have been unpacking a bunch of boxes and re-packing the things that will go with me to college. I'm so excited to decorate my dorm and meet my roommate! :) I'm so ready to be back on a school schedule and hopefully get back into a dance class or two!  
In other news...I have been going to a singles branch (for those of you that don't know, a singles branch is a LDS church for young adults who are not married). I've had such a great time going and meeting all these great young adults.  And I am looking forward to getting to know everyone and becoming great friends! :) ( But thank goodness for my best friend Ginny! Without her I would have talked myself out of going because I was so nervous at first. lol )
 I hope all of y'all are doing well! Sorry it's been so long since I've posted anything. I promise to write more!! :) Hope everyone is getting excited about the holidays, I know I am! :) talk to ya soon <3

Nineteen Birthday Candles

As my dear friend Ginny says.."there is no fun in turning nineteen, nothing special happens." If you think, at fifteen you get your permit to drive, pretty exciting huh?  Then you have your sweet sixteen! You throw a huge party and you aren't forced to drive around with your parents in the front seat anymore. Seventeen is the age when you put that license to good use and drive around town til night fall with your best friends. By eighteen your are now considered an adult by law, which seems so awesome. And when you turn the big 2-0, you are out of your teenage years and ready to start your life. But nineteen is just the age between eighteen and twenty, nothing special just nineteen.

So as my birthday approached , I wasn't really looking forward to it. But when I woke up this morning to my mom and siblings singing happy birthday,I thought maybe this whole being nineteen thing isn't going to be so dull at all.  :) The rest of the day was good. Mom took me to go get my eye brows waxed (which is always fun!! ) My Aunt Terry brought over USC decorated cupcakes that she made. They're are so cute, and were super delicious!!

We didn't have 19 candles so we just used one

Mama made my favorite Mexican Dip for dinner, which was also delicious!! Thanks mom!! :D

yum!!

I want to thank everyone who wished me a happy birthday on facebook and twitter, it made my birthday even better!! <3

I also want to wish a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to two of my best friends! Miss Ariena VanWey who's birthday is two days after mine and Miss Ginny Reese who's birthday is only ten days after today. May nineteen prove us wrong and be a great age to be!!!