So I took my last 2 finals today - Animal Restraint and History 202. Yepp, Animal Restraint is a real class haha I never got to post about the cool field trips we had for that class so since it's the end of the semester I figured I would sum it up in one post! The first half of the semester we went on a couple field trips but they weren't too great. We went to the BYU vet clinic twice - once to work with cats and another time to work with dogs. We also went to an exotic vet clinic in Draper and learned about how to restrain different types of birds. Unfortunately we didn't get any hands on stuff because he didn't have any birds in that day, so it was lame and we only had a powerpoint presentation by the vet. The last month of the semester was when we started going on the cool field trips! The first cool field trip was to the Church's Dairy Farm in Elberta. We saw how all the cows got, milked saw some newborn baby calves, and even watched a cow give birth! That was pretty nifty haha I will probably never see that happen again!
yepp, that calf is about 5 minutes old!
After seeing all of that, we went to a section of the dairy farm with head stocks and once the cows were in the head stocks we put halters on tem and learned how to correctly tie them up as a form of basic restraint and way to hold cows in order to give them oral medications.
The next week we went to a goat farm and helped the owner draw blood from all his goats to test for parasites and microbes. It was definitely kinda frustrating and rushed and my least favorite field trip. Also the field trip went way to long and I just wasn't digging the whole goat thing haha The second to last week of class we went a vets land/ stable/ barn and learned about horse restraint. I helped pick out the horses hooves and also gave the horse an IM injections (intra-muscular)! So now the horse won't get west nile virus all thanks to me!
It was definitely a unique experience! I tried to put the needle in carefully but the skin was so thick it wouldn't go in! Apparently you just have to stab the horse haha so that's what I did! We also saw some cute little sheep in the lot next to it and they were freaking adorable. There were these little black lambs that would frolic across the field and it was kinda the cutest thing ever!
Our last field trip was to the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork and learned about Llama restraint techniques! We learned how to corner llamas, halter them, and sheer them. We also took the llamas on walks! It was cool :) haha I really wanted to watch the Emperor's New Groove after hanging out with all the llamas!
There are more pics with the llamas on someone elses camera but unfortunately I don't have them! But anwayyy, those are the coolest parts of Bio 270 aka Animal Restraint in one blog post! Oh, and it's officially summer! WOOHOO! :)
So I know I already posted today, but I did the coolest thing tonight and I couldn't wait to post about it! After our last ward prayer of the year, our ward set off floating lanterns! Just like the ones in the Tangled!
Unfortunately we didn't have as many lanterns as were in Tangled, but I am pretty sure I had the same facial expression as Rapunzel during the whole lantern scene because I was just so awe-struck, amazed, happy, mesmerized, etc. haha anyway, here's what the lanterns looked like before we lit them. They were a lot bigger than I thought they would be!
After we all got our lanterns, we walked over to the law school parking lot and started lighting them!
After they began to fill with hot air we were able to let them go and watch them float away!
It was such a cool experience to light my own lantern and watch it float up into the sky and join the other lanterns! A whole portion of the sky was filled with them! People started showing up from all directions to see the lanterns and a lot of cars drove up and just watched us set them off. I heard the Daily Universe even showed up; maybe our ward will be in the news! So that's pretty cool! I wish we had more lanterns because I could have set those off all night and just watched them in the sky! The pictures don't even do the event justice! Doesn't help that I took the pictures on my phone either.. Oh well! Even though we didn't have as many lanterns as in Tangled it was still amazing and so pretty to see in person! What a great way to end my Sunday/ weekend!
So last night I went and saw the Vow at the dollar theater with whole bunch of people from Maeser and Gates Hall. I realized it was the third weekend in a row that I saw a movie at the dollar theater! haha I rocked my new black beanie thanks to my "beanie stylist" Hunter! I cannot put beanies on for my life so he always has to put it on for me haha but we had some difficulties putting it on at first...
Christian called me a hopeless hobo...no big deal haha Luckily we got it fixed and thanks to 2 wonderful bobby pins I got it to stay in place. After the movie we hit up Denny's and I finally got the pancakes I have been craving every night for the past month! haha They tasted soo good, especially since I had been wanting Denny's pancakes for so long! It was a pretty great Saturday night and a nice way to get my mind off of finals!
Today was the last day of church with the good ol' 51st ward..it was definitely bitter sweet and 4 hours long! Since we have sacrament meeting last, it was no big deal if we went over haha so our sacrament meeting was 2 hours and 15 minutes. I definitely feel accomplished making it through, but it was a really good meeting so it wasn't awful to sit that long. Except my stomach did start growling so I had to whip out my snacks to keep it quiet! My roomies and I all came prepared because we knew the meeting would go over! Overall though, it was a great last Sunday with my awesome ward! I am sad to be leaving it, and I can't believe next Sunday I will have to go to a non-freshman singles ward....not cool. At least I have some friends to go with that will help make the singles ward at home bearable and hopefully enjoyable! so ya that's about it.... peace out :)
So yesterday I ended my post with one of my song obsessions, but I just have to post my other song obsession because it's so great.....
yepp I am totally in love with the biebster's new song and I listen to it like 25 times a day. Shout out to Christian and Hunter who got me addicted to the song. Almost every time I have stopped by their apartment this past week or so it's been playing...and now I am addicted to it. And I kinda like how he says swaggy and buzz lightyear in it...makes me laugh, smile, and giggle haha Also, I rode a public bus for the first time today, well almost the first time. I rode the bus in Hong Kong with my family when I was 10 but that doesn't really count haha Celia and I hit up the nail salon, DownEast Basics Outlet, and Roxy/Quicksilver Outlet. It was so exciting to ride the bus haha but I probably would prefer just driving my own car. However, the bus works great when I am a car-free college student. In addition to riding the bus and pampering myself, I also took some finals...Microbiology and Book of Mormon. 2 down, 3 to go! I am almost half way through! Woohoo! In one week I will be home and unpacking! So exciting, yet bitter sweet! Oh, and lastly...I hate this weather...rain rain go away. come again another day...when I am no longer in Provo haha peacee out!
So posting this is one of my little breaks from studying for finals! I have definitely learned some things these past 2 reading days! Okay first of all, I am super grateful for them. I definitely could not go straight from classes into finals...how did I ever to that in high school? haha Also, I learned it was possible to study 13 hours in one day. yep. definitely did that yesterday. Got up at 6:45am and went to bed at 2:30am. Why was I up so late...because I was at the library until it closed with miss Annabelle (Marcel left the study sesh early). I have never stayed at the library studying until it closed haha I kinda wanted to have a mini dance party as I was leaving thanks to the lovely Journey that was playing. I also learned that I hate when people talk really loud in quiet zones at the library!! Especially when there are signs on each table that say "FINALS WEEK - thanks for being quiet!" These people were speaking French so loud at the table behind me and then this RM at the table next to them just had to join their conversation because he served his mission in France! They were talking in normal voices in a quiet zone for half an hour! Rude - I know. We all finally moved and as we walked by their table Marcel dropped one of the quiet signs on their table haha I hope they got the message! Anyway, same thing happened today! I isolated my self in one of these fancy little cubicles....
I was about 5 feet from a study room and these 2 girls were giggling, screaming, and all excited/nervous about their new found, hopeful love lives haha. It was kinda funny, but definitely got old as I was trying to memorize the pathogenic mechanisms of Staphylococcus aureus and other ridiculous microbiology things. So just know those study rooms aren't sound proof!
Among all of this studying I have managed to hit up the pool these past two nights! It was my first time working out at the pool and I learned that I could never be swimmer competitively because I can't swim very straight haha Tonight, after I hit up the gym and swam some laps, my roommate Rachel and I taught our roomie Celia how to swim! Actually, let me rephrase that, Rachel taught Celia how to swim and I was the cheerleader/ assistant swim teacher/put in my 2 cents here and there! haha She did great! I would not have guessed it was her first time swimming and let alone her first time treading water in the deep end. Afterwards we hit up the sauna, that was also a first for me! haha It was a nice way to dry off and get warm...but I can honestly say that I would prefer it to not be a dry sauna...oh well I can't complain! But you know what I can complain about? The construction outside my window! Wakes me up every morning at 7am with loud crashing, banging, and earthquakes. And they like to start at the corner right out side my window, therefore they like to wake Penrose Hall up every morning...it's kinda ridiculous haha Hopefully they start a little later tomorrow so I can sleep in a little bit before I go take some of my finals! Since I don't have any good pics for these last couple days, I'll share my latest song obsession... Carrie Underwood's Good Girl
Yep I kinda love it! haha probably have listened to it 15 or 20 times today! Gotta love some good ol' country and you just can't not love Carre Underwood! If you don't like Carrie than you can just leave.... haha anyway that sums up the past 2 days!! peaceee out.
With finals coming up it's definitely safe to say that I am kinda stressed! I still have one more exam this week before I can really start focusing on finals...thanks a lot Chemistry! I have some goals for this next week in a half to keep myself on track! I promised myself that I would pray and read my scriptures every morning before I start studying. That way I will start my day off right! Also, I am going to keep my no sweets thing going! I am actually at 3 weeks today and it feels great to have made it this long! I have made it 4 times longer than I did during No Sugar November.. ya that only last about 5 days haha Also I am going to try and stay somewhat physically fit during finals week! Meaning I will go to the gym at least twice this week and twice next week! If I can balance nutrition, physical exercise, spiritual wellness, and studying I am hoping to have a productive finals week! Starting Thursday I am not going to even worry about packing! That is going to have to stay off my mind until I finish my last final! I just have to keep calm and focused! If all else fails, I just have to remember that once I get through finals its SUMMER!
Keep Calm, It's Almost Summer! Yep..That is definitely gonna help me get through finals week! Good luck to all of you taking finals and we got this! It's time to conquer finals and bring on the summertime!!
For my History 202 class we had to do a reading about the power of corn from a book called "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan. Sounds kinda dumb right? but I found it totally interesting! It brought back memories of watching King Corn in Anatomy/Physiology last year during our nutrition unit. It's kind of ridiculous how corn is such a huge part of our diet and we don't even realize it. Corn has shaped the food industry! That's right this little vegetable...
...has shaped a large portion of our food industry! Corn is a great material with lots of starch and can now be produced in large masses with chemical fertilizers and farming technology. High fructose corn syrup was a miraculous invention and a lot of our food turns out to be just a clever re-arrangement of corn. In fact, a lot of those random, obscure additives in our food are one of those corn re-arrangements!
Even our meat comes from corn because cows, pigs, and chickens are now fed corn because it is cheaper and fattens them up faster, which increases production and allows the price of meat to be lower. That's good for us, right?! Only sad thing is that the corn isn't good for cows and many of the animals have had to become adapted to eating corn. I'm not an animal activist or anything, I just think it's super interesting the role corn plays in our lives. So moral of the story, eat more fresh fruits and veggies and next time you get processed/packaged food from the supermarket, look at the ingredients and see much of it is made from corn! You will be shocked, I know I was!
