November Already?

I can’t even believe that it is November already? What the heck happened to October? I’m surely not complaining about this fact, just amazed at how fast it came and went. Now if the next month and a half of my life can go that fast I am set for life!

I had lots of fun things to look forward to in October that came and went: Debbie’s wedding, J.wride, CANANDA, and lots of other small events. When I think about November I don’t really have anything that I am looking forward to. I may need some help in this department, all of my important dates, are currently placed in December. But while November is here I would like to make the best of it.

I would like to say, that I am extremely excited that today, marks the beginning of no shave November, which I love very dearly. Other than that I feel like November may be filled with lots of school work, which sucks, but it also good as that means I am that much closer to being done!! So here is to making this November a good one!!

Ashley P! 

Productivity

Today, I feel like I have gotten lots and lots done. Maybe that has to do with the fact that I woke up at 5:30 in the am. Maybe it just has to do with the fact that I can be amazing at points in my life. So to start the day, I hit the gym. It felt like basketball practice all over again. I forgot how much I loved those days of yearly morning practices. After the gym I hit the school work.

My Tuesdays and Thursdays are full of classes. I get to go to class from 8-5:45, with one break for about an hour and a half. I have a really hard time paying attention in class, but today I feel like I have gotten some things done. However, normally I am working on something for nothing relevant to the actual class I am sitting in, but as long as I am getting things done that it’s fine. For example, I am sitting in class right now as I am writing this post.

I have decided that I will one day right a post about my test strategies. I might wait and post this after I have taken my last final as I do not want my sharing of my strategy to result in bad test scores for myself. I did figure out that I should graduate with honors no matter what, and that does bring some joy to my heart.

Ashley P! 

Just Another Day

Tonight, as I decided to finally sit down and study I used YouTube as my study tool. I have not this in the past and figured it might be a good idea. I know that if I read the book I will just be confused so I thought why not let somebody else try to explain it to me. I think it might have actually worked out real well and I might be using YouTube in the future as well. I even cleaned my room while studying. I don’t think very many people can say that! But I can! Haha. I guess we will see how well it really worked tomorrow.

I also had another meeting for my internship in Ghana!  I am getting more and more excited for it. Three months is a long time and I think I will probably end up getting homesick, but I cannot pass up an opportunity like this. One day even one day soon I will be married and will not be able to travel the world like I can know. That is why I am taking every opportunity I can get. Also, if anyone has some extra sky miles they need used for any airline and want to donate them to me, I wouldn’t say no.

Overall life just keeps on going. I do think I work too much though. In my final paper I turned in for one of my classes I used the words “the insured” my teacher was real confused. I just cussed at my computer, because I would do that.

Ashley P! 

Canada Eh!

What can I say? I am addicted to traveling. If I could just travel the rest of my life I would. So this weekend for fall break I departed on a most wonderful trip to Canada. Canada was a lot different than I had imagined, but overall I really enjoyed it. I didn't realize how many different nationalities there are in Canada. It was pretty crazy. I did really enjoy the French though. It is always good to be able to practice my French a little even if it is just reading it.

One of the greatest stories from the trip is how good my driving skills are. I may or may not have totally trashed two of my tires. Okay lets me honest I did. I do however feel like it takes a lot of talent to take two of your tires out in one go. I mean honestly I haven’t heard of very many individuals who have succeeding in doing this. One time my mother did so I guess we can form our own club. But I do have a pretty decent reason for why what happened, happened.

Sometimes, I am just driving along in the middle of nowhere Montana. It turns out a lot of Montana seems to be in the middle of nowhere. Anyways, the important stuff. I was just driving along when I saw this black box in the middle of the road. For some reason I thought that it might scratch the bottom of my car, so I tried to avoid it. In the process of this, I ended up just running it over with both of my passenger car tires. I may have said the words, “Oh, shit!” But I feel like there are some moments in life where swearing is appropriate. And this was probably one of those moments. I was real good at life though and I didn't even cry. I made the necessary phone calls and got a hold of this nice man named Adam who could come and help me. There are a number of things that fell into place perfectly which proves that God lives and loves all of his children. Within a few hours we were back on the road heading to Canada.

The main purpose of our trip was to see the Calgary Temple. It was such a beautiful temple and we were also able to visit the Carston temple which was also very beautiful.  I love temples! Nothing to super exciting happened, on the rest of the trip but we all had a super great time. I now am thinking of where I want to go next before my big trip to Ghana. Any suggestions?

I also forgot to mention that I went to Taco Bell! I love going to Taco Bell in different countries! I got some yummy food and it made my day!

Ashley P! 

An 84!!! Never Felt So Good!

Why hello blogging world! I have missed you lots. I have tried being more productive in the past couple days, but I really don’t think I was that successful. However, I did just get an 84 on my Russian mid-term and I could not be happier! Usually, I like grades in the 90s, but hell a 84 just made my day!  I have concluded that there is no way my teacher read the essays that I write. I honestly think he looks at my current grade and give me that grade on my essay. The other day I spend lots of times writting a paper and he gave me a 70 on it. I had taken two quizes that I had also gotten 70s on and I think he just took that grade and transferred it to my paper. What a nice man.

I have a couple more things to do before fall break officially starts for me. I have a paper to write tonight, a meeting about Ghana!! And then I just have to work a few hours in the morning. Then we are headed off to Canada! It really should be a party and a half! I will give a full break down of the trip upon arrival home. We are going to try to make it to our hotel tomorrow by seven so we can watch Vampire Diaries. Haha we will see if that works out or not. There will be five people in my car, two of which I don’t really know. But vacations are always way better with strangers right!?!?

Other than that nothing to interesting has been happening in my life. I went to a wedding last week. I like wedding lots. I can’t wait to plan one of my own. It is a real good thing that pinterest has been invented. What one earth did people do without it? I better start my paper!

 Aren't we all just the cutest?

 We got to help make the salad in the kitchen!

Ashley p!

Change of Plans?

I am not sure how it happens, but every single day of my life I change my life plan. If I have not changed what I plan on doing with my day, something must be seriously wrong with me. However, I feel like there are so many unknown variables I just cannot solve the equation. I just need one constant, and I am pretty sure that the constant that might just fix everything is a man. So until I find him and I know he is out there I guess I will continually change my life plan on a daily basis.

What is the newest life plan you may ask. Well that is a great question! Currently, I am looking into getting a masters form the University of Phoenix!  Yay! Exciting right! The have a campus in Murray I could attend, so I can become a teacher! I could start in June which would be so awesome. The program is a year and a half. I like this idea more and more.

Ashley P!

Life Goes On

Throughout my life I have found myself to get hung up on the small details, and over react towards things that I cannot change. Continually, I have realized that life goes on. While things may or may not happen in my life, I need to realize that life is not going to stop and wait for me to get my act together. Life continues moving with or without me.

It is easy to blame situations on problems on other people and not take the credit ourselves. In the long run though, we are essentially responsible for our choices and in turn the consequences of those choices. And that is the beauty of life. Sorry, I feel like I talked about this in a previous blog post, but lately I have just been fascinated by choices.

Today, as I listened to conference you could say I was shocked. As I listened to the announcement of President Monson, my jaw literally dropped. Looking back on my life there is no way that I would have been ready to serve a mission at age 19. I was always so impressed with those young men I knew that chose to serve the lord. There are so many decisions I have to make in the upcoming months. While this announcement has changed a lot of girl’s plans, I feel it is not going to change my timeline.

Going to Africa, is a once in a lifetime opportunity that I am still going to purse. Upon my return home, I then plan on making a final decision on a mission. I do not want to rule anything out at this moment in my life. I am so happy and grateful though for more young men and young women to have the opportunity to serve at a younger age. I feel there are many who love the gospel and realize its value at this age; this will allow them to go out. And still allows others more time to prepare and serve the lord in their own time. God loves his children, it’s a fact.

Ashley P

Blogging! :)

So I am like really starting to like this blogging thing, every other second I am like I should put that in my blog, and then I realize I am not that cool and no one would want to read that. I only end up writing like a tenth or something of what I would actually want to put on here. Also I try to keep most of my drama to myself. But I promise you that there is sometimes lots of drama in my life.

Right now though I would like to give a shout out to my worldwide readers! I think I have had readers from Germany, India, Russia, and like Peru which makes me extremely happy. I am curious to how these individuals found my blog and if it was good enough that they will come back to read some more.

Now if anyone from Russia is currently reading this I need your help. Yes that is how desperate I am. I know absolutely nothing about Russia, and somehow ended up in a Russia politics and history class. So if you could maybe just give me a rundown of the basics or something that could be really helpful.  

I also feel that the month of October deserves a shout out. Thank you for coming.  I am excited to experience October this year. There are lots of great things going on, but if we could just fast forward to mid-December I don’t think that you would find me complaining.

Ashley P!