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.