Thursday, December 11, 2008

Mele Kalikimaka


The Family Home Evening Crew!Me and Jboy opening presents!
Well, I've been celebrating Christmas as I can with my friends here before we all split up for our holidays. Our Family Home Evening group decided to have a Christmas Party after the Christmas Devotional Broadcast on Sunday. We had Santa bring us all t-shirts with a picture of our "family" and we had a gift exchange.
Our Stockings all hung by the chimney!! This week I decided to introduce Jboy to gingerbread houses. He's never decorated one before. We used whatever sweets we could find for cheap and my left over graham crackers and made a house and shop. "SAnta" brought my house a REAL lil Christmas pine tree, which I decorated with snowflakes. As this week is coming to a close, we have had a huge rain storm since last night, flooding the island of Oahu. I woke up this morning to a lake outside my door and to news that PCC and the school were completely flooded. All the roads here in Laie along with cities all over the island have turned into rivers. Kids on campus are boogie boarding in the flooded hallways of the dorms and cars are filled with water up to the dashboard! Rain is supposed to continue for the next couple days, and we are hoping the roads will at least open! Kids today that have flights to go home can't get to the airport because of the bridges that are blocked off. The end of this semester has turned into an exciting one, but I still had hoped for some sun before I come back to the snow!


These are pics of todayof the streets here in Laie.
It's still raining, and it's only 1.




This is the street in front of the temple



This below is the temple parking lot and the front of the temple grounds.
The Visitors Center is flooded

More of the roads around campus...



Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Thanksgiving!!

Too poor to go out, so weekends are spent testing my artistic abilities..

Well, Thanksgiving has come and gone, and now it's time for finals, but here's a lil overview of what has been going on...
I've been taking a makeup class, and have made myself look old with makeup, make a bigger nose, and recently we had to do a nonhuman object, so I painted a football on my face. That class is alot of fun!
Grr!

For Thanksgiving I went to the waterpark with a bunch of kids from school for a discount price, and the next day had a dinner together, only AFTER waiting in line outside of Wal Mart for 3 hours to shop the Black Friday sales!
Me N' My roomies

12:30 AM....Headed to Wal Mart!


Lately, with no money-I am a college student after all- I've been just spending time at the beach, and enjoying the Laie Temple, which will be closing for 18 months starting December 28th.


I'm trying to just stay busy with school and enjoy Hawaii before I come home to cold for Christmas break!