On Sunday there was a CES fireside broadcasted from BYUI. I’ve been waiting YEARS for them to come to BYUI to do the broadcast and the semester I leave is the semester they decide to do it there. Sadly, we missed the first 10 minutes of the broadcast because we didn’t get out of the birthday party on time. I can’t even express how heartbroken I was that I didn’t get to see the choir sing or the special music number or wide shots of our beautiful auditorium. I wanted to see that little piece of home soooo bad. I wanted to find my friends in the audience so I could say I saw them while in Peru! It was not meant to be.
We got there right as Elder Perry started speaking…although all we could hear was the Spanish translator over him. I was so conflicted as to what to listen to because you could faintly hear the English at parts but it took just as much concentration to pick that out and block out the Spanish as it did to try and listen to the Spanish and figure out what it was talking about. I picked out works and phrases, sometimes stories, but overall I didn’t get much of the flow. I’ll need to go re-watch it sometime.
I had an epiphany while watching the broadcast though. I am so blessed to know what the prophets and apostle’s voices sound like! People all around the world have to listen to a translator and don’t get to hear them speaking their own language. I get to hear their words exactly as they mean them to be…nothing gets “lost in translation.”
The closing song was great as we got to watch the choir sing and pick out our friends and roommates. Oh goodness, I love BYUI so much! And I miss it! I can’t wait for Spring when I can go back and have “normal life” again…although this break is quite the adventure and I’m sad it has to end.
I registered for my spring classes this morning and it was a piece of cake. I had my mom helping me back home as well to make sure I could get all the classes I wanted. I’m glad the freshman days are over where it took 10-20 minutes to get one class to add because so many people were jamming up the system.
So, what’s my schedule looking like? Let me tell you. I’m taking Advanced First Aid, Program Planning and Implementation, Anat and Phys II, Exercise Physiology and Confectionary. Plus I’ll be working 14 hours (maybe more if they make me…but 14 is good for me haha) a week and hopefully have a calling I enjoy. It’s going to be one crazy semester and I think I might be crazy for taking Anat and Phys II and Exercise Phys in the same semester since they’re both really tough classes, but you gotta do what you gotta do…and I gotta graduate soon!
