The things I do when I don't have my roommates around...

So I ended up having to come back to Logan two days early this Thanksgiving weekend. I was sure that I'd be really bored...but as a matter of fact I just hung out at the computer labs doing homework. And I ended up finding really cool movies on youtube that I watched...:) I found Persuasion 2007 version and watched it...great stuff ;) (very similiar to Pride and Prejudice) And somehow they got the Joseph Smith movie from temple square and put it on youtube...so I haven't been bored at all with that and catching up on homework.

Happy story is that there is only one week left of school and then two finals for me...:) I am quite ready for tuesday of finals week to be here and then I can be done with this college stuff. Although I can imagine in about how many months that I'll be sad that I'm not in college anymore...:o

Funny story...or more annoying then anything!

So usually when I have to do tons of homework and that sort of thing I usually find songs on youtube to listen to. And so somehow the song list came up with Joseph Smith songs and so I started listening to one of them and I glanced down on the comment list to see this person who kept going off about all this anit-Mormon stuff. Yeah, I was kind of annoyed so usually I don't comment on there, but I commented and basically he had been going off about polygamy of course and how we all think that we'll be doing it in the after life. So basically I said that it of course was true, so of course this guy jumped on that and started going off about how he was so right and it's wierd that we hide it. But then I realized that I'd kind of done a bad thing because he was referring to we just think that men can get as many wifes as they want and stuff. But I'd been referring to there will be polygamy but it will be just among the people who you were married to on earth and nothing more. So basically I just said there's alot more to it and you'll have to talk to the missionaries to find out the rest. And then I also just made reference to the fact that alot of these people just look up Joseph Smith and then go off about anit-mormon stuff just to get us to debate with them...so anyone who is LDS should just ignore them. And the funny thing is that these guys started going off from my thing about all this stuff and they totally ignored what I'd said about them just trying to get us to debate with them. It was kind of funny, but I basically ignore their gunk because honestly they just want us to argue with them. That's going to great fun being a missionary having to deal with that and it won't be just over the internet either...scary!!

Just so you all know...

So I'm pretty sure that my family thought that I was going to apostize a few days ago...as in LDS church apostize. Basically due to the fact that I've now talked to three different bishops about getting temple endowments out and they keep telling me that I'm not ready and should wait. So after three years of this and three different bishops saying this I was just really sick of it and was complaining to everyone about it since the third time was just this week. I didn't realize that everyone was all worried about it until I got past being mad about it and suddenly everyone has been like "oh good we were kind of worried about you." But just so you all know there are sometimes that you just want to be mad about something...even if it is really dumb to do that...but after this last incident I was just being silly and being mad about it just to be mad about it. I'm over it now although I still think it's annoying...but you know?

I was kind of thinking about it though and how there literally are people who get offended and do apostize and that sort of thing. Even when it's less dramatic and it's just something like having a ward get split and people have to go to a different ward and so they get offended and stop going to church just because of that. But even with this whole temple thing I would NEVER do that...because what's the point of that? Basically it's called apostizing because you're mad that you didn't get your way...so yeah none of you need to be worried I was just complaining to complain and that was about it.

I've figured it out...

So in my cultural diversity class we've been talking about world religions and so this last week we were talking about Doism and Confusicium which are Chinese religions. And one of the girls in the class said that she had tried to talk to her sister who lives in China about their religions and she'd never heard of them. Well, she didn't recognize the names and so when the girl in my class told her that they were names of religions her sister wasn't surprised that she hadn't heard of them. And this girl basically found out from her sister that the majority of China population is Athiest, because it's a communistic country and the government won't let them practice their religions. So their temples haven't been used in a long time and there is always the possibility that some of the people say that they're athiest but they still have their religion at home. (so the governement isn't aware of it) But that is just sad...and it also explains alot as to why there aren't LDS missionaries in China. (except for Hong Kong which has a different government with it)

This actually explains alot also in relation to a meeting I went to a few weeks ago about China. This group called Link is trying to spread awareness that a huge percentage of Korea is in poverty and due to that alot of them try to get into China so that they don't starve. But they of course go in without passports and the pretty much get caught and sent right back to Korea...unless they are sneaky and can hide out somewhere. In the movie which was filmed in 2005 said that pretty much anyone who went back to Korea who had tried to go into China would end up in 'death camps', which I'm not going to explain since the name explains itself. So anyways, I guess some Americans have tried to talk to China and convince them to let the Korean refugees stay, but it hasn't done any good. Because they keep insisting that they're getting in illegally and what not. So after finding out this thing about the government and religion it actually isn't to surprising that they are so against Korean's coming in, even if they are half dead from starvation. I guess though that in Korean this Link group has started a underground raidroad system. Which is that they can go underground, but through donation funds and such Link helps them get to Mongolia, USA and other places. So it's not as bad as it sounds...but it's still pretty bad. To think I went to this presentation just to get 5 extra points in stats and it had absolutely nothing to do with research.

But my roommates prediction that I will be the first person ever to go on a mission to China 100% chance won't be happening...:) Actually I could go to Hong Kong...I almost forgot about that one.

Maybe it's not as great as it sounds to graduate after all...

I think that I am more frustrated with the after graduation part of things now then I am with any of the classes that I'm in right now. I actually keep getting stress head aches from trying to figure out what to do after graduating, because I am still going on a mission. But it's kind of hard when you have to pay off a student loan first, and the only job you can find related to your major without needing to know Spanish is a 10 hour/week job. So yeah, I am actually considering trying to get a job at a bank, along with the 10 hour/week job that is related to the major. Because I know several people who have graduated who have ended up at banks. So that is probably what I'll end up doing too, but have that as a plan isn't so helpful though since there isn't really a guarantee that there will be any job openings at any Logan banks in January. So I will just continue to get stress headaches I suppose for the next month or so. But I am thinking it's probably also harder to graduate in December then April, because it's like Christmas and not a high job obtaining time of the year as it would be to graduate just as summer is arriving. So just hopefully a bank job works out or I can find something at least a bit decent for being someone with a bachelors degree...we'll see though.

Actually, I can't blame the stress headaches completely on graduating though...alot of it has to do with trying to get 150 hours for a gerontology practicum. I still have to get at least 45 hours in the next few weeks and both sites are running out of stuff to do. But I doubt that they'll just tell me that they have nothing left, they'll keep coming up with stuff to do. So just hopefully I don't get to bored with it and can manage to still get 45 more hours.

I have decided that I probably won't be a researcher someday, because at the moment I'm helping a professor write a journal article that she's trying to get published. But in order to do it I have to read the majority of those research journals that I once was able to just pick and choose what I read. So now I actually have to read the majority of it, methods and results and all. And it's really hard to get through them and come up with enough information that makes sense to put into this new journal article that is being written. But just about 15 more hours with that and then I can be done with it and get like 30 more hours at the Senior Center and then I'll be forever done with this gerontology practicum.

Why oh why didn't I think of this like five years ago...

Earlier today I went into the student center in attempts to go into the computer lab, but they ended up being closed strangely enough. So I was wondering around and randomly started looking at the job board, even though it's kind of bad timing because if I were to get a job now I'd have to work during Christmas. But there were some interesting looking jobs and so when I finally figured out that the Education buildings computer lab was opened I started looking at the on-line job board, which is the same thing. But I came across a job opening very much related to my major and it pays about $14.00/hour. It's a family specialist at Centro De La Familia De Utah in Providence. So I started looking at it to find that it's connected with Head Start which is were I did some of my practicum at last semester. But you have to know Spanish to get it...guess what? I didn't think of needing to know spanish a few years ago and so I never took any spanish classes. Yeah, I probably could apply but won't get the job without knowing spanish...why oh why didn't I think of this like five years ago??? Because I will probably run across this problem in more jobs then just the Head Start ones...sigh!!

I seriously can't believe it...

So today we had our monthly staff meeting for work and they kept bringing up that everyone needed to make sure they're putting the correct hours on time cards. And they've mentioned it several times in the last few days...so I was kind of confused. (along with quite a few others I found out later) And then they brought up that one of the guys quit...who I actually didn't know since I guess that he works on the opposite days. So finally part way through the meeting the time card stuff came up again and the supervisor finally admitted that this guy named Marc actually didn't quit, he actually was fired. Because he would leave like a hour early, never tell anyone that he was leaving and just go. Then he'd put on his time card that he was there the whole time when he wasn't. And they figured it out so he got fired...which is pretty sad for a work study job. But yeah, I just figured that I didn't know who this person was...which was probably good. Until later one of the other girls I was with after the meeting mentioned that he is her Family Finance TA and so I still didn't know who he was still. And then like a half hour later I suddenly realized that I knew exacally who he was, because this guy named Marc has been in several of my classes and he was at the orientations for the job at the starting of the year. But once I realized that I knew who it was I seriously couldn't believe that he'd even be doing stuff like that. But apparently the government is still letting him keep the work study money and he can now go get another job with it. But if he tries that again then he has to pay them back...even though that is what htey should be doing right now and not waiting until later.

When stuff like that happens though it's pretty shocking, especially since in Utah it's pretty easy to fall into the mentality that stuff like that doesn't go...but it does sadly enough.