end of the semester

I've been on vacation since last Thursday and I've been sick at home since that same day :-( It started with a sore throat, and then a stuffy nose, and then fever and weakness. I'm slowly getting over it, especially after John took me on a nice walk around the Provo Temple this afternoon.

For the last day of school, my classes had parties. One class doesn't get along very well. They are divided into two groups: the Russians and the anti-Russians. So only the anti group came for the party. I guess they don't want to be together if they don't have to :-) We had some food, took some pictures, and one class made a video of people that slept in class throughout the semester, which turned out to be EVERYONE in EVERY class! It was quite entertaining.

Besides sleeping, drinking water, blowing my nose, crying over chick-flicks, I also made some Chinese and Korean food to entertain myself. I successfully made Chinese steam bread and Korean glazed potatoes (Gamjia Jorim). Everything turned out great.

I remember my mom used to make steamed buns with brown sugar stuffing inside. I loved those. They were always the highlight of my day :-) So I was quite proud to tell my mom about my new achievement :-)

We're going to Vagas, the Grand Canyon, Southern UT for a week with my cousin. Hope the weather cooperates!

Happy Easter!

This is such a wonderful time of a year to remember our Savior and redeemer Jesus Christ. One of my all-time favorite Easter talks was given by Elder Wirthlin, entitled Sunday Will Come, in which he stated,

"Each of us will have our own Fridays—those days when the universe itself seems shattered and the shards of our world lie littered about us in pieces. We all will experience those broken times when it seems we can never be put together again. We will all have our Fridays.

But I testify to you in the name of the One who conquered death—Sunday will come. In the darkness of our sorrow, Sunday will come.

No matter our desperation, no matter our grief, Sunday will come. In this life or the next, Sunday will come."

This past Sunday, Elder Holland gave another great Easter talk. You can check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpFhS0dAduc

Our Easter Sunday includes a great stake conference and a greater dinner at Hayley & Ray's. The weather was even nice outside so we could go egg-hunt and egg coloring :-)

Dirt-worm cake, looks disgusting, tastes great!Hayley makes THE BEST cheese cake. Serioously it's so much better than Cheesecake Factory and any other cheesecake I've ever tasted :-) It literally tastes like heaven!