So I have succumbed to the rest of the world and created a blog. I chose a pretty great day to do it, too, because IT SNOWED TODAY. I am not excited. I am generally sitting in a comfortably warm apartment when the first snow comes to Rexburg, however, today I was oh so lucky to be pelted with rather large clumps of snow as I was walking to the Manwaring Center to work at the Blood Drive booth. Speaking of the Blood Drive, anyone in Rexburg who would like to be a blood donor, please volunteer! There is a booth set up for a few hours every day in the MC where you can sign up to give blood, or for those of you who are a little bit squeamish, just volunteer to hand out juice boxes, make sure no one faints, etc. So just do it if you can. The drive is Oct. 27-29 and Nov. 3-5.
Here are a couple of things that I have witnessed thus far in this semester that I feel like I probably wouldn't see at any other university.
1. I was walking home from studying in the snow building (shocker, I know) when I hear over the loud speaker at a football game, the following conversation:
"Hey everybody, I just wanna thank you all for coming out to the game today! (Thunderous applause, well as much applause as about 75 people can make) I just wanna ask my girlfriend to come down here for a second. (She proceeds to walk to the field from the bleachers) Hey, baby, how are you today? I'm so glad you could come to my game."
"I'm…good." (She is obviously embarrassed.)
"Well, baby, you know I love you and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Will you marry me?"(Again with the "thunderous" applause and cheering and cue the wedding march)
I couldn't hear her answer but I assume it was yes, because in last week's edition of The Scroll, there was an article about it.
2. 3 of the most adorable little boys came to my door selling chocolate chip cookie dough. The little boy said with the most adorable lisp you can imagine, "Hi would you wike to buy thome home made cookie dough? It's just theven dowers a tub." The combination of his adorable face, adorable lisp, and Toy Story t-shirt had me hooked…and anyone who really knows me knows I don't even LIKE chocolate chip cookies! So, the moral of this story is, if you live in Rexburg and have cute kids, send them around to girls apartment complexes to get people to buy your cookie dough, because people like me, and most other girls at BYU-Idaho, can't resist adorable children.
3. I went to the DI the other day to find things I needed for my Halloween costume, and lo and behold, what do I find? The most hideously awesome vest of all time. It looks like "It's a Small World" puked out a vest. There was an entire rack devoted to vests only teachers and little old relief society ladies would wear, I was impressed.
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4. Today I was sitting in the Hinckley building trying so desperately hard not to fall asleep while reading a short story for my Contemporary Britsh and American Literature Class, when all of a sudden, this guy runs into the building and darts up the stairs. I swear it was Adolf Hitler. He had THE Hitler mustache, dark hair, just the right length and he was in a dark suit. Why did this person's loved ones not inform him of this extremely awful predicament he is in??
Gosh I just love BYU-Idaho! It is the best place in the world, no sarcasm intended at all. Everyone should come to school here. I don't know why it took me such a long time to figure out that this is where I belong.
To finish up this, my very first blog post EVER, I would like to express how incredibly excited I am for it to be Friday, October 29, at 7:00 PM. At that approximate time, my twin, Alex Smith, will be arriving at the Idaho Falls Airport to spend the weekend in Rexburg. I cannot express my excitement enough! So, if you wanna party with us, we will most certainly be having a good time, this weekend.
Thanks for reading, sorry if I bored you half to death.
Much Love,
A Southern Girl in the Land of Potatoes