Christmas Cheer!

Abigail and I had gone to Reno to pick Katie up from her London adventures!

The few days after that had been skiing, lounging around, wrapping presents and hanging out with family. Christmas eve was at Gigi's house mom, dad, us kids and jim.... the whole gang! Christmas morning we (the gang) went skiing together. Found Uncle Mike and Aunt Lynda and went tubing! We had somehow lost dad along the way but we soon found him on our way back to the car... evidently he had pushed some guy down in the lift line because he was skiing recklessly. But we hadn't seen the whole thing so on the chair ride we were thinking that he had punched someone who had allegedly keyed his car the day before. We were wrong. Abigail fell over twice, Katie got taken out by a snowboarder, I had a yucky cold, and nothing happened to Hugh. We opened presents and had delicious quiche. Analisa took her 3 kids to Piedmont Ca, to see her parents and brothers. She drove back that afternoon.

After the Christmas fiasco, I found a job at Heavenly (thanks to Uncle Mike and Aunt Lynda) and I now take surveys from customers for marketing purposes... We shall see how the minimum wage part time goes for me....
Tonight is new years and I have no idea what my plans are.

xoxo
Andrea

Bay-Snow

After finals I need to get out of Tahoe. I chose the best day, after the biggest snow storm yet this year.
Well I had my biology final, went home and packed and the next morning I headed to the bay area. I had breakfast with Becca, lunch in Davis with Zanny and Elena, two friends since I was a youngin. I headed to Marin and stayed with my Boppa for the night, we went to Trader Jo's and the store in the morning and I then headed into the city. I had coffee with Mackenna and Ashley, two friends from high school and then stayed the night with Shannon, a close family friend who is in the San Francisco Ballet. After shopping the next day and stealing some amazing things (not literally, just great finds) I headed to Diablo to stay with the Moulthrops, some family friends. I stayed two nights and was about to head back to Tahoe but the weather kept me another day. Lunch with Analisa (stepmom) and her parents, brother and sister-in-law. Her father had beed 5 days post-op from a back surgery and was doing FANTASTIC!
The drive home was easier than I had thought too!

Now skiing, attempting to find a job, and expecting Katie and Hugh to come home!!!

London; part 2

SATURDAY we ventured over to porabello road and Abigail and I make a fabulous shopping pair! She got a crepe, we walked 'down' the road, looked at plenty of cute things, I kept trying to find a replacement puzzle ring for the one that my mom had given me, and I managed to lose it. But there was no success in that department. We did find a really cute store called Octopus and spent the majority of our money there. We also lost everyone else from the group, but went to another store called Accessorize and Abi got Christmas gifts for her friends.
Then we went back to the meeting place but no one was there, and we walked back down the street attempting to look for any signs of our family, who all managed to wear black, awesome. Then Abigail saw Katie and we said that we would meet back in the cupcake line in about 30ish minutes. The cupcakes, well not as good as Katie said they would be.
After dinner etc, I packed all of my things up and headed to bed.

MONDAY bright and early, (it was still dark) Zach and I went to catch a scheduled Taxi to take us to the train station, but it was pouring rain and we took a wrong turn to get to the cab stand, but ended up finding it! Zach and I said our goodbyes and I took a train to the airport, checked in, got coffee, went through security looked at the duty free items and only bought post cards, and spent ALL my pounds! so proud :)
The flight was not as comfortable as on the way back, due to the lack of sibling comfort :( Then I had to kill a few hours in the San Francisco air port because we didn't know how close to cut it with the timing of customs and the next flight. Well customs only took about 15 min and the 4 hours of waiting for my flight, so I slept for 3 hours of it on a bench. I later found out that Caitlin (I visited her in Oregon) had been in the SAME terminal at the SAME time, on her way back to school, but I failed to even think to call her, (I blame jet lag).
My dad picked me up at the fabulous Reno airport (my favorite airport in the world, no joke) along with Bill Brown, a family friend. My bag on the other had, went to Florida? Not sure, why or how that happened, but it got delivered to the house the next morning regardless. It did smell like cigarette smoke and the handle was broken but shit happens, no need to cry over spilt milk.

Here are the some of the black and white photos I took...

London; part 1

OK first of all... London was super cool!!!

Kaite has already started her portion of blogging about our trip, so rather than saying basically the same thing about what we did and where we went, I will just add my own commentary...

SUNDAY the jet lag sucked! Hugh decided not to sleep on the plane so Abigail slept on the floor (between the chairs, where your feet are supposed to go, mad props) and I slept on Hugh. The apartment was really nice and we all bummed around for the rest of the night because we were pooped and I was so freaking excited about all the pies that England has, it is a problem. Abigail and I managed to stay up until 7:45.. I think Hugh went to bed around 9 or so?

MONDAY while Katie was in class, we went to Westminster Abbey, and it could have been one of my favorite places we visited. There was so much history within such a condensed area (considering how long it has been around) that I could have spend another hour in there reading all of the graves and memorials. We had lunch at another pub and more pies to go around :D Then we walked through part of St. James Park and saw the Buckingham Palace. Seeing as how it would get dark at 4:30 and most museums close at 5 and it is much too dark to do any sightseeing, we were about to head back to the apartment, when we saw the Queen's Gallery. It is located on the side of the palace and it contains art work, armor, furniture, cutlery and JEWELRY! which had all been in the Royal Family. The jewelry was the most impressive, in my opinion, however google wasn't helping me and therefor there is no picture to show my favorite diamond necklace on display...



Dinner was at a yummy at an italian restaurant near the apartment. Abi had a yummy desert, I think it looked like gonads covered in milk chocolate mouse, GROSS... the waiter was entertaining, but very hard to hear.
Sleeping over at Katie's was short-lived. I wanted to sleep all the way though the night and not wake up at 4am, so I took an ambian and tried to stay wake and talk while she was doing homework, needles to say I fell asleep mid sentence and started to drool and I fail to remember any of our conversation.

TUESDAY at the Tower of London, again I was the last one out because I was trying to read everything, so people were waiting for me at the exit. That is where the picture on Katie's blog was taken... they were waiting for me. We had lunch at St. Katherine's Dock and from all the walking around for a few hours we walked to the grocery store and then ordered a
turkey. Naps for all! Then we all headed out to greek food and Avenue Q which was so great! It was hilarious!

WEDNESDAY the bus tour sucked and it was so cold and miserable that I was so glad once we got off! Having to pay to use a restroom is stupid, especially when you don't have any money and are about to pee your pants! So not cool.
When Katie brought out her sandwich, we were ALL salivating, however Kaite's comment about how we never know when we are going to get food etc... well it depends, sometime its the ONLY priority or it isn't a priority AT ALL... no middle ground so its hard to tell. Then when Katie maneuvered us through non busy streets, she didn't mention they were the whore-house streets... and how Katie knew of these streets, we will never know...
I had heaps of fun watching everyone try and climb up, seeing all the other tourists there taking ridiculous pictures (us included) and the group of people dancing and being video taped. I also totally missed the statue that Katie was talking about but the video link is pretty cool, and after seeing it I wish I would have noticed what she had been talking about, or heard the conversation.
Now on to Covent Garden and the street performer, he made me laugh but only because he wasn't succeeding and I don't think it was on purpose. Poor fellow...



THURSDAY we went SHOPPING! But amazingly I didn't but anything but that may have to do with the fact that the pound is 1.67 to the US dollar... boo hoo And now I have to fill in this part of the day.
We left around 930 am, and took the bus and then the tube to Harrods, or the shopping area around it. And let me tell you that Harrods is HUGE! It takes up an entire block, the bottom floor is half food court, and when they say food court, don't think American shopping mall. Think elegant sit down dining of 6 different types, gourmet to the max! It was unbelievable.
Jim is not a fan of shopping so he did not join us or the Simmons for our shopping adventure and so he went to some museum instead. Then Zach and the gang went to the War Room Museum and then the Churchill museum. It was interesting but by that point in the week we were all burnt out by museums... but the coolest thing about the War Rooms, was that the day that WWII ended all the staff working there turned out the lights and it wasn't touched again until it was proposed to turn into a museum. So everything there was exactly as it was the day the war ended.
This is also Thanksgiving Day but Katie had class, as you could tell so Mat Simmons ordered Indian take-out. None of us ever had any Indian so it was an adventure, and we never had any idea what exactly we were eating... Great Adventure!

FRIDAY we took a long, long, longggg train ride to the complete opposite side of London to Hampton Court Palace. It was beautiful and magnificent, also quite cold but ho hum. We toured around the palace of how Henry the VIII lived and how the castle worked, with headphones and all! It was funny how many tours gave out head phones and a recording of what you are looking at. There was Westminster Abbey, Queen's Gallery, the tour bus War Rooms, Churchill, and Hampton Court. Impressive in my opinion.



On the train ride back I left everyone in the center of London for some alone time. I wandered along the edge of Hyde park and through random blocks of the city because I didn't really know where I was, and the streets do not run off of a grid system which was quite confusing. I went back into Harrods on my way home and purchased my Christmas present to myself, which was a fabulous wool overcoat, which I had seen the day before.
I came back to a delicious Thanksgiving dinner, Robin was there along with our whole gang!




More coming up soon!

Oregon

So this last weekend I went to go see Caitlin Moulthrop in Eugene Oregon, where she attends U of O. I left my Bio lab and headed strait to Reno and slept at Jim's house. Then I woke up at 4:30 am to head off the the air port early Friday morning... ehh

Yet again I screwed up in security, my waterbottle (tin, reusable) still had water in it!) doiiii Andrea! So I dumped it out quickly and jumped back in line, and thank god for Reno, and no one ever wants to go there... security wasn't too bad. The flight was fun, Cait picked me up and we had some breakfast. The street was cute and we did a little Christmas shopping!

Then we went shopping, and shopping... oh yea and shopping! Ha ha. Then we drove back to her cute little apartment, where her roommate was to be missing (thank god, I have heard some horror stories) Lovely mexican for dinner and a movie, ya you are jealous of our PJ party!

The next day we toured the school, or should I say that Caitlin gave me a tour. Then we grabbed lunch at trader jo's and took a nap/ showers. Got ready for the football game, they were playing Arizona! So we met up with her family friends for a tailgater, but first we had to walk all the way around the stadium! Ha ha Caitlin was super upset at this point because apparently she had to do the same thing the last game, but in the opposite direction, I just happened to find it funny, which I don't think helped her mood out all that much... teehee!

OK, so the game was SICK! I love football live! And there were really gross hicks sitting in front of us, and it was a bummer but added to the experience. It was chilly out but thankfully we beat the weather and it DID NOT rain! Which was a total surprise because it was supposed to rain the entire freaking weekend! And the weather man was wrong, so thank you Mr. Weather Man!

So everyone there was cold (I was thoroughly prepared with hand warmers to the boot) and at the end of the 4th quarter we headed out to beat the traffic. When we got back we checked the score just to double check and this is how the conversation went:

Cait "Ohhhh mmyyy GODDDDDD!"

Me "Yea what happened?"

Cait "The score was 47-44! We lost!"

Me "Wait whoooahhh what? How?"

Cait "I don't know if I can believe this, I need to check a more reliable source because I am getting a lot of different numbers!"

.......

Me "Find anything"

Cait "Well I don't know... What's a reliable place"

Me "For sports, you mean like ESPN?"

Cait "Oh yea, RIGHT!"

Oh I can't tell you how freaking hard I was laughing! I fell over.... But I guess you had to be there

The next morning we were planning on waking up early and heading to the coast to hang out/ picnic like the cute couple we are, but we opted out of waking up at 7:30. So at 9 am we packed up all my stuff and headed to the bluff for a quick hike which I thought was a fabulous way to start off the morning! Coffee, quick change, and on the road again Play song>

We tried to grab lunch at a place the Cait likes (gluten free-friendly) but they were closed so we ventured across the street to a breakfast nook, super cute and delecious! Then I went back to the airport and thank goodness I was early because security was loonnggggg!

I all of the pictures I took in the last month or so because my memory on my computer is full. I am currently working on trying to solve that problem so cross your fingers for me, and I think that Cait has some saved that she can send me!

Now I have 5 days until London and I am so super duper excited!

Refrigerators

I had quite a strange weekend.

It started off with me being sick to my stomach and not going to Calc to take notes... oh well. then I got my act together for some Chem tutoring. I am so glad that I went because I had an "ah ha!" moment. Worked out got Abi from dance, and with Riley we went to go see the god family (Bob, Rosie, Roberta etc...) for some family time. It was good to see all of them, unfortunately Kalie and Brittany had to go to their dad's house for the weekend, so yet again, we didn't get to see them AGAIN!

Ok so we had my favortie cheese enchalatas (which we made with my fake cheese so I could actually enjoy them to the max) and we then watched Nacho Libre, and I think the best part was watching Rosie and Roberta die of laughter! Abi and I were slightly lost, but then again, laughter is contagious so it was just a great movie.

Then we had eggs, hashbrowns and bacon for breakfast. Roberta cut my hair. Dad wouldn't stop nagging me about what my plans were, because I didn't know what my plans were in the first place. So all in all we met up with dad and Analisa in carson so watch the Michael Jackson video which was really good.

I watched the USC Arizona game and then headed to bed, I really wanted to find something to go out and do with my friends, but living in a small town, that can be hard to find sometimes.

OK so then on Saturday I spent the ENTIRE day organizing the Crap in my room. Can I say that I was having an OCD day? I would say yes.

Later in the day I was reheating food in the microwave and it stopped working, along with the refrigerator! Ahh panic attack right?

So I reset all of the breakers and still nothing... Mom was freaking out at me though text messages, which were just making me more angry! So then I took all of the food from the fridge into the garage fridge (which i had to take all the non perishables out first, aka wine beer and soda). Next I took all the meat out of the freezer and put it into a cooler (seeing as how there was no room in the garage freezer). Shortly after Andy Dauscher (handyman neighbor) came to the rescue! He tried all the same things I did. Then we pulled out the fridge unit, and attempted the plug, no success, only sneezes from all the dust. So I did a quick sweep job and we pushed it back. In the end it turned out to be a circuit breaker which wasn't working right (sneakily stuck). OK so I lysoled the bah-jesus out of the fridge, seeing as there was no food in it, and transfered all the food back, lysoled out the garage fridge and put all the previous materials back in. Now onto the freezer. I did the same with the lysol, but with out the bah-jesus bit (because it was still sorta frozen). But I did manage to organize it: red meats, white meats, packaged foods, sweets (so they are harder to reach on the bottom) and in the door was breakfast stuff, vegetables, nuts, and ice-packs/ juice. I was very proud of myself.

BUT THEN....

I tried to reheat something in the microwave again and it stopped working and I was so worried that it was going to cut out the fridge again, it thankfully didn't. Its just time for a new microwave, and hence we are now mircrowave-less.

Wonderful, lesson learned; don't pack so much food into the fridge if you aren't willing to lose it.

And now my mom is FINALLY home from a wedding in Ohio that she went to with JimmyWimmy.

Thanks it, thats all!

--> for now

xoxo

Oops I didn't finish that one... but so I obviously made up my mind, and I stayed here in Tahoe, and I think it was the best decision for me, academically... not socially though, because I haven't really had super close friends IN Tahoe, because... well lets face it, I never spent all that much time here anyways. I miss my social life, but that leaves me time for other things. So far I have:

taught myself to knit and crochet, diet (ha well Im working on that one), stay in better contact with long distance (aka ALL) my friends, and thoroughly learn to love and appreciate all that I DO have all around me.

I have been taking classes at Lake Tahoe Community College and I am taking Biology, Chemistry and Calculus. Fair enough to say that my accidemic plate is FULL and don't have much time for a social schedule at that. But I am trying to keep my mind on other things, (not school and not Nikolai) and its really really hard to keep your brain NOT thinking about things... hence the knitting etc. but due to the changing seasons where it is much too cold to go to the beach, and too little snow to go skiing... I am at a loss.... any help people?

But we get to go see Katie in London on the 21, EXACTLY 2 weeks from now and Im going to pee my pants Im so excited!!!! :D Zach Kropf (Paris), and the Simmons (Switzerland) are going visit us there for Thanksgiving...

I find this very amusing that we are celebrating a holiday of liberation from England... so we will just celebrate there! HA HA!

I also realized that I didn't last post after finals, I think that was the last time that I THOUGHT about posting, and obviously failed to do so, instead I had a black eye...

Finals sucked, at least that much I remember and I was super looking forward to coming home, especially after all the happenings with Nikolai (this is also the most I have mentioned him in a long time, funny).

Last weekend (Halloween) I went to go see Trine is Salt Lake City and had a freaking blast! Mind you we were waisted the whole weekend... but it was well worth it for the two of us! I was a clown and she was a scarecrow (also she used my wonderful elephant outfit for our day of giggles, bike riding, pedicures with beer and dirty dirty looks from mormons)

Did you know that in the state of Utah they do not serve alcohol until AFTER 12pm!? Not good for curing a hangover! And on the pedicure note... well we went to a concert to see The Sounds! They were freaking awesome! I bypassed the ENTIRE bar line to get us drinks and I was getting really dirty looks from dumb blonds (not that I am one or anything) from behind me, but I fully prepared to pull off retartd incase it got to be ugly. Ha ha funny "in the moment story only Trine can fully appreciate;) ).So after ward on my attempt to get Trine and her 17yr old sister back stage, we killed time at the gay bar next door and Kelsi got my ID taken, so I hung around for an hour after, busted out some tears, and got it back, FO FREE!!! Then I walked about 2 blocks back to Applebee's to meet up with them while they waited for me... I was about to get mugged but SOMEHOW talked them out of it. I think it was the guilt tripping them, because this one lady said that she had a daughter my age but she had a kid so I mentioned something along the lines of "yeaaa soooo has SHE ever got mugged or raped, because that would be so sad and unfortunate" and after that, she looked at the two guys she was with and they walked away and said to have a good night. I had to pee... like really really had to pee too, and I had to hold it in too! I amaze myself sometimes.

OK so back to the pedicure, my feet were trashed from tromping around in heels and getting beat up in a mosh-pit, and my heels (from fabulous ross) were ripped to shreds :( So when we got up the next morning we had a yummy yummy home made brunch and then hopped on bicycles to whole foods about 3miles away, we were both still drunk after all this that by the time we got to whole foods it was time to reboost our energy*. The clerk gave us dirty looks buying beer at 12ish in the afternoon. So we took our goodies into the nail place and we got funny looks from the asians and they immediately starting talking in "asian" behind our backs, but technically it was infront of us, but what else could we expect? My blisters were ripped open and nail polish remover was poured into it immediately following, and she was laughing! I totally didn't deserve THAT! I know I was being irresponsible but not to the degree of that unwanted pain that I (actually Trine, love ya!) was paying for! I mean COME ON!

Then we rode to radome stores buying crap we didn't need, and halloween costume parts.

We watched some TV, took a nap to get ready for the evening, and away we went to costume preparations, drinks and a photo-fest! (can't find my cord at the moment but you'll see pictures, not to worry!)

Fun night, with mixed drinks that we were paranoid that had been roofied (hadn't been in the end) black lights, spiderwebs, a creeper grandpa, Waldo, H1N1 (very cute boy that Trine snagged), and an awesome Sweeney Todd.

We had Tea the next day with her family for Kelsi's B-day and then we went sopping and I spent a little too much money.. oh how fashion is my weak spot.

Flew home and sat between two crazy ladies!

Then back to school and that is about IT.

Now hopefully I can consistently write on my blog from here on out, my goal is every 2 weeks. Remind me, it could help

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX

So I think that the last time that I posted was finals from Denver.

Its now November 6th... Geeze, can I say sorry?

Summer:

it went by so quickly! Nikolai broke up with me, so i kept myself busy and worked 2 jobs.

One job was at Del Sol, "where everything changes color in the sun, WOW!" it was lots of fun there especially when I would tell little kids that they were doing magic hehe!

My other job was at the fabulous Heavenly Valley Ski Resort (mmm runs in the family?). I was an attendee at the climbing wall. Which actually was a trailer version that was self belaying and all we had to do was pop it up in the morning, clip kids into their harnesses and helmets and onto the wall, all at the same time collecting tickets. There was a "spider climber", which is an air filled bounce house version of a slide with an obstacle course in order to get to the actual slide. The obstacle course was actually 6 layers of seat belts folded in an out of one another in an interlacing pattern, connected to the sides by coil springs (like a trampoline) just so they would give a little and spread apart to get a body through. Finally after a difficult attempt to get to the top of 6 layers of hell getting squished in by seat-belts you reach a slide, about 30 ft in the air and sweet success! The slide IS the best part, but the joys of working there, we get to run up the slide and bounce around and not mess with the difficulties of trying to get through the seat-belt jungle.

Well there there is the flyer, the zip line, that people pay about $80 a person to ride just once. Being an employee however, we got to ride daily in order to make sure it works properly. And I loved every crying moment of it (watering eyes from professional aerodynamics) I was the only girl working there (exception a liftee who got fired because she left someone on the chair and shut it down for the day, really smart crowd) so of course I had to be competitive and beat everyone down... it didn't actually work every time. Unfortunately someone did pass away at the end of the season, due to an unfortunate freak accident and a very windy week. the cable of the zip line retrieval system snapped, got whipped up in the wind and wrapped in the shives (wheels, but thanks dad for the technical word, I sound so much smarter) of the chairlift about 50ish (I'm not good with distance) yards away, there was only that one couple on the chair, newly weds, and they suffered the unfortunate tangle of cords wrapped around them. The man fell to his death and had to be care flighted off of the mountain, the zip line was shut down from there on out, concluding the summer.

I don't remember much else of the summer, except for working a lot. Saw some friends that were home from college like Mackenna and Coral etc... Ali Caffery and her family always stay at the Hyatt in Incline every summer with 2 other families, so I went and saw her! Trine Vik also swung through town with her friend Jordan after their intensive EMT course in Yosemite.

I had to make up my mind whether or not I was going to go back to University of Denver, or not.

Ouch Nikolaiiiiiiii

I fell.... in the park... all my fault

Ouch

Black eye, very swollen nose. I guess you cant see all that well... 

SOS Outreach

So my first week of school, after spring break and into the next quarter. I am currently sitting in my room, alone drinking wine and eating Thai take out. I watched Tarzan, then Hercules and now it is the beginning of Aladin. God I love the disney channel when they have marathons of good movies! I had a very big blonde moment when I scheduled my plane ticket, I accidentally made it for April 22, not March. So I flew out monday morning and made it back to school in time for Bio class. My classes this quarter are spanish, and my teacher is a kook! Bio concepts, evolution, and so far, I like the teacher but I am holding off on my full opinion because I don't want to  be caught biting my tongue... A requirement class called Creative Expressions (CREX for short) and mine is: Speaking Out, Ideas that Matter, so far seems like it will be fun! And an Art History: Survey of Asian Art, and that teacher, well, she likes to talk about her cats, a lot.. and you know how my family and I feel about cats ha ha!

For the art history class we have to attend 3 art openings throughout the quarter. I went to one last night (Friday) in Cherry Creek, the shopping center north of where DU is.  It was in a furniture gallery so I decided to go because it was the closest, it turns out that the event was for SOS Outreach. This organization is to promote children to get out and go skiing and boarding. So they had a competition for K2 snowboards and to design a now cover for it. They also promoted 14 vodka. So for $12 we got free food, little bites from a mexican place, free drinks, and to look at a whole bunch of snowboard designs! There was also a raffle for a bunch of snowboard gear, too bad we didn't win. It was just up my ally. After that we went to a nice restaurant near by, North, and had appetizers for dinner.

Thursday we got calls, texts and emails at 6 am saying school was shut down for the day in regards to a snow day. Confused as we were because there was no snow on the ground. Well I got up at 8 am and my friend on my floor asked if I wanted to go skiing with another 2 girls from our floor. So we needed to go to Boulder to get one of the girls pass then on to Vail, and then we found out there was so much traffic that we decided just to try and ski and Eldora instead! However there was so much freaking traffic that we couldn't even get off the freeway! We turned around and went back to school. I went on a costume hunt and thursday night I got invited to a concert where Kinetics was playing and it was hosted by one of the frats here at DU. All of the proceeds went to a disabled children's foundation, it was a 70's theme called Mustache Bash and it was nuts! They played a bunch of old 70's rock songs.

Im going to start off my second week of school, Wish me Luck!

Snow

So last week, it was 75 outside, we were tanning and playing football. Today I woke up, and there is snow everywhere! Its 10 out with windchill, it is -2, and most mountain passes are closed, and traffic is going and a Consistent 10 MPH. Do I hope it is a snow day! heck yea because finals start tomorrow!!! Wish me luck... Then I am off to sunny Palm Springs with my dad, Hugh, Abigail and Kaite... Home for two days to get my teeth fixed FINALLY! I really just want it to be friday boo hoo

The week before

So finals start next week, so I feel as though, with school, it is the calm before the storm. I seem to have no homework this week which has been a first for the entire quarter. I am really liking my spanish teacher as well. Biology is tough but I also expected it. It has been strangely warm here, today it was 70. I am really home sick... and not a whole lot else to report, I want to go to a beach.

Missing a lot of time

So I know it has been a while since I last posted and I tried right after the new year but for some reason it didn't want to post! Pretty much to sum it up... I went to Jackson, Wyoming. Mischa, Nikolai's brother, shot a buffalo! We spent New Years Eve at the Dorros' (family friends of the Dziezyc's). Moroccan was the theme and belly dancers to boot.

~May Brian Mahann rest peacefully

After I returned to my dorm I had a lot of unpacking to do and not to mention putting a lot of my furniture back against the walls.  My classes consist of spanish, calculus, biology cell concepts and a writing and literature class. My first few weeks went well. I went to the Xgames in Aspen with a few girls. Nikolai drove there from Salt Lake where he goes to school. Last weekend I went to Boulder to spend time skiing with my dad at Eldora skiing and to watch the super bowl! I felt very sick later in the day on Sunday and my mom told me to go get tested for the flu. Ta Da I got the flu and I had 2 mid terms yesterday and I hope the one on Friday goes better. Well I hope I feel better soon too!

I don't have much else going on other than that. Valentine's Day I am going to go see Nikolai in Salt Lake and the weather has been super nice, almost like its spring! 

~xo~ Andrea

Ps this is a picture I took, this is Trine Vik from Park City, Utah and Ali Caffery from Chicago, Illinois. They are 2 of my girl friends from school, obviously.

meow.. i like thai food and biggie, and nikolai sometimes