The end is nearing...

So I'm about two weeks away from the end of the semester...and yes I'm slightly freaking out. Finals, papers, projects, studying...it's an overwhelming time! But that's how every end of semester goes, right? Yeah, but that doesn't make it any less stressful! But I'm definitely ready for this semester to FINALLY be over. The weather is DRIVING ME INSANE!! Here was today's forecast: cloudy and windy, snowed overnight 3 inches. 5 minutes later, sun is out clouds are gone, no wind. 10 minutes later, RAINING. 5 minutes later, sun is OUT! 5 minutes later, snowing/slushing (that's rain and snow mixed in one...it sucks.) 5 minutes later, sun is out. 5 minutes later SNOWING. and i kid you not! No joke guys, the weather literally changed every 5 minutes...okay maybe not every 5 minutes but DEFINITELY every hour. I'd come home from a class, walk in my apt with the sun shining, and get ready to leave again and open the door to hard core snow. UGH! SICK!!
There's this program on campus, called the Heber J. Grant Scholarship Program...it gives scholarships to students with "disadvantaged backgrounds", but it's WAY more than just the scholarship. They have implemented a mentoring program and offer a class to teach basic life skills. AND all of this is student led. Amazing, yeah? There is only ONE paid faculty adviser, and the rest is volunteer work. Basically it helps those students become better, and improve their lives. Basically it's an amazing program.
So I took the class in the fall, got introduced to the program, then was a mentor this semester. Then I applied to be in the leadership council, had an interview, the whole she-bang and actually got something! Cool huh?! I'm sooooo stinking excited. I am a coordinator under the mentors area. Ok, so I know this probably makes NO sense to you, but it's difficult to explain and I don't feel like going into that much detail. So we went on a retreat last weekend, (which was INCREDIBLE!) and had all sorts of awesome training and games and LOTS of good food, snow ball fights, and yeah, it was definitely one of the highlights of my experience here.
Tonight we had a training meeting for all of the volunteer mentors and I had to present the program to them then do the actual training. It was a little intimidating I'm not gonna lie. It was a great learning experience though because I've never ever done anything like that. Sure I've given presentations in class, and I've taught dances in drill team, but I have never taught 20 people about a program and trained them on what they need to do. NOR have I EVER talked for that long in front of a bunch of people either. It was a 50 minutes meeting and I was in front of everyone talking for at least 40 of the minutes. Granted I wasn't talking the entire time, but getting other people involved is somewhat difficult sometimes...people are very reluctant to give their opinions and thoughts; I had to drag it out of them. But I have to admit, it was an awesome experience!
So basically that's all that's been going on with me lately. I'm dang excited for this summer. It's going to be amazing! I'm gonna take a couple of classes, work at Gandolfo's (Hopefully!) and do the whole leadership thing..OH and play frisbee! It's going to be fantastic! Then taking a trip in August...which is seriously going to be the highlight of my life! :D

Sorry if this bored you to tears...I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!

Just to spice this blog up a lil...here's a pic of me and my roommates (minus one). Three of us are in a clogging class together, so for our ward talent show we did a little dance and wore our tutus that Lisa's (the one in the middle) mom made. SWEET!!!