Friday, October 31, 2008

The Young and the Restless


Warning: This post is NOT about a soap opera!

ANOTHER beautiful anthropology interview that I must do for another wonderful 3 page paper... Yes, I'm sorry. but PLEASE help me out! We do have a little more time this time around-- I'm pretty sure it's due next Friday-- so 1 week! I also need to do 6 interviews, but I don't think the question is as deep. Well, actually, maybe it is...This question is for the youngins-- so like the 20 somethings. (the more mature audience can answer too, but I'm supposed to interview "young and restless" individuals... hence the title. Yes my teacher actually used those words.

So here it is!

WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM LIFE?

Please expand an this as much as possible; interpret it as you will. I hope to get more instruction on it today in class!

THANK YOU!!!! LOVE YOU!!!

Happy Halloween!!!

Francisco and I carved our pumpkins last Thursday! It was really fun but Francisco kept saying how old were you when you used to do this??? This is dangerous! haha, but alas, I supposed it is dangerous.
Is he eating his pumpkin??? No, He's teaching him how to "open wide!" because he needs some work on those teeth! heehee

This was the first pumpkin Francisco has ever carved! Not bad, eh? Mine is supposed to be a Grandpa in honor of our costumes--- can you tell??? I names him Francisco! haha just kidding!

I went to the Student Dietetic Association Social last night and dressed like a pregnant woman! I had to wake up at 4am for work and then stay there till 5pm! So, i had completely exhausted and decided, what a perfect costume for an exhausted woman with a stomach ache! So, i ate caramel apples and took pictures (Since I am the new SDA Historian! woohoo!) The other two girls are Gayle (the cowgirl) and Whitney (the stop light). They are 2 wonderful girls in the Junior class of dietetics with me! We have an AWESOME class! It's so fun to be forced to get to know 35 other wonderful women! :)

Saturday, October 25, 2008

The Adventures of Autumn

We have just had so many exciting adventures this season! First, we got a camera! Our other camera broke because we got sand in it on our honeymoon... silly us. So, we found the same one on eBay for about half the price! We are so excited to have a decent camera again!

Next off, I burnt my fingers in Pen court! Pen court is the restaurant that the Dietetic students run as a food management lab. I was in the cooks station and bringing our more green beans and the hotel pan I was transferring them into was next to the hot pan they cooked in & the heat transferred & I grabbed the hotel pan that was now on fire! It totally stinks cuz it was my left hand and of course, I'm left handed! So, I couldn't write for a good 3 days and I couldn't type and of course, I had 2 papers to write and a tests to take that included essay questions all due within 2 days of the burn! It's looking a lot better now, but I still have no feeling-- it feels like a band-aid is on my finger when i touch it! weird!



Next Adventures! We got to go to a pumpkin patch as most of you probably already know from Sarah and Amanda's blogs, and we don't have any pictures of that, but it was fun and we picked out pumpkins and played a game at Victor and Amanda's. It was fun to get to hang out with both sides of the family!

We also went to Cornbellies on tuesday night! We went with Sarah and Brett and Livie and the Eldredges! It was freezing cold! Francsico didn't deal with that very well. He kept mumbling, "Utah fun..." haha We did have fun though. We went through the corn maze, the not so haunted haunted dinosaur, ate greasy french fries and burning hot chocolate, watched pig races where Sarah had to kiss a pig! and went on a hayride from heck! The boy driving the tractor went way to fast and our trailer was flying around, bouncing and banging; we could barely hang on! It was crazy!
Francisco had a lot of fun in the children's activity area we raced ducks by pumping water down a track and milked a cardboard cow! He also said his favorite part was when we stopped to play a little bit of Tether ball! haha It was really fun though!

Last night, we went to a Halloween Costume party! We dressed up as "Our 50th Wedding Anniversary" or just Gramma and Papa, but either way, it was way fun! Francisco has on polyester pants and a button up sweater, with a stuffed gut so he's have the grandpa pooch! I look more like I'm 5 rather than 75, but oh well; I looked cute! We were the only married couple there too-- it kinda felt like a singles ward, but that's okay. We got to dance and hangout and see a few friends that I haven't seen for awhile. :) Apparently some really molly mormon girls asked one of my friends how long we'd been dating after they saw us dancing, cuz we were so scandalous? I don't think we were doing anything real inappropriate... especially dressed up as old geysers... but they felt better when they knew we were married... haha We also left way early and at that point I really did feel like an old woman-- can't stay up past 11. How pathetic! haha

Monday, October 20, 2008

Please! Help! I need somebody! Help! (me with my homework!)

Okay, so for my lovely Anthropology class, I have to write a lovely 3 page paper about human actions. They forced us to read a selection of articles that included the extremes of both sides; people risking their lives for complete strangers (saving their lives for no reward, reason, etc) doing good for reason, to a piece on Auschwitz, the Jewish camp where they killed all the Jews for no reason at all.

Now here's where you come into play! My question for you is:

1. What motivates people to do evil things? What leads them to depravity? What makes them lose their morals/values of humanity? or did they ever have any to begin with?
2. How can people know about things like Auschwitz or Hotel Rwanda and not do anything about it?
3. what leads people to human self sacrificing? Why do people do good things w/ no motivation?
4. Can all people be capable of these things? Good or bad? Or is it learned? or innate?

I would really really appreciate your feedback, comments, answers as soon as possible! (I'm a little bit of a slacker and this is due Friday)

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Up the Provo Cayon.


So... school is pretty crazy, mid terms, etc, etc
General Conference was amazing, we really enjoyed it. The other day we went up the canyon and the colors were beautiful, and the view was amazing. The pictures arent' that good cause the camera isn't that good, but the camera was free.

Francisco



I don't know how to align the pictures LOL and I don't have the time to mess with it! Sorry... I'll get better