Guess who is excited to graduate? This chica! 43 days exactly until the glorious day of May 30--the day where my freedom from high school begins and my life will begin to take off (hopefully in the right direction (: )!
I went to Disneyland this past week for spring break with my family and had an absolute BLAST. It was my second time there and my family's first time, so I got the honor of showing them around the park. :)
As much fun as Disneyland was, the most exciting thing so far of my life happened while standing in line for the Grizzly River Run (yes, I know, that ride is in California Adventure, but I link those two together as just the Disneyland park). My phone buzzed telling me I had a new email, so I turned on my phone to look at it while we were waiting in line. I looked and saw it was from BYU-Idaho and the subject line said, "Scholarship".
I GOT A FULL TUITION SCHOLARSHIP!!!
No longer will I be worrying about how the cheese I will be paying for tuition, fees, textbooks, a super mucho expensive laptop and food, but that was a huge relief! Not many people get a full tuition scholarship. When I toured the campus, they told me I would probably get around a half scholarship, so that's what I planned on as the maximum. But a full tuition! That's $3,500 this year that I won't have to save up! That's a whole lot of money!
Then my parents surprised me, not only were they already paying for my housing, but they said they would also be paying for most of my meals when I go up this fall. I thought I would be in charge of my own food, but they will be! That just covered another $1,500 or so this year. Already, that's about $5,000 that I was planning on having to spend that has now been erased. That's a lot of money that I will be able to save and have in my bank account for the second year of university. If I keep my grades up, it will determine what scholarship I get for the upcoming years, so wish me luck this fall. :)
That was one of the greatest weeks of my life. Disneyland. Sea World. And a full tuition scholarship.
Life is going great.
Until.....
I get back home and realize I have hours of homework. Did I do it? No, of course not! Who does homework over Spring Break? Not I. I didn't think it would matter, it was just homework that we probably wouldn't even be turning in. So I ignored the growing mountain of paper on my desk for another day or so.
I went to my piano lesson on Monday to my favorite teacher ever, Marilyn Larsen. :) I love that woman so much! She is honestly one of my best friends. We tell each other anything and everything and I love having someone like that I can talk to for just a half hour each week. Anyways, I went to piano and NAILED my three songs that I had been assigned. I only had them for two weeks, but I got them down pretty well, or at least the part she assigned me. :) In case you're wondering, no, the songs were not Hot Cross Buns, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, or Three Blind Mice, but were Arabesques by Debussy, Fantasie Impromptu by Chopin, and Claire de Lune by Debussy. All three are each SUCH amazing pieces. I love them so much. I will post YouTube videos of them on the end of this post.
However, after piano, things started going downhill. I went to work to get my work schedule and when I was getting my schedule, I saw that I was scheduled to work that night. 45 minutes earlier. I stood there in shock. When was the last time I ever worked a Monday? Only on holidays! I went home, frustrated because I had HOURS of AP Statistics homework as well as AP English, Medical Anatomy & Physiology, and Government homework. I knew I wouldn't be getting home until about 11 or so.
There went my day.
I got to work and it was SO slow. Luckily my manager saw how stressed out I must have looked and asked if I had homework and would like to go home. I nodded my head vigorously, clocked out and flew out the door, but I ran into a friend and fellow employee who I ended up talking to in the parking lot until about 7:30. I talked to him for 2 hours. It was a great talk, but I was really wanting to get home.
I didn't do my homework when I got home either. I was SO worn out just by rushing around everywhere and cleaning up after my trip (unpacking, laundry, etc.) that I just laid on my bed and fell asleep, the worry of everything piling up in my mind.
So have I had a great day today? Not particularly in school, no, but tonight will be the greatest. :) I have tickets to the Utah Symphony with my parents and they are playing John Williams music! Star Wars, Harry Potter, I don't know what else they're playing, but I am soooo excited!
Anyways, I wanted to share my good fortune this past week with you guys! I am so excited!
Live. Love. Laugh. Grow.
P.S. Here are the videos to the music I'm learning in piano:
Arabesque I by Debussy
Claire de Lune by Debussy (I love the middle part! I love all of it actually, but I love the middle part the most! And the end. That part is good too.)
Fantasie Impromptu by Chopin (try following the music it has on the video. if you keep up, that's pretty good.) :)
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