The day is cold and gloomy, but no snow yet.

The day is going well so far. My jaw is feeling a little better from the dentist yesterday, and Spanish was hilarious today because Prof. Cluff was on one. He told us how his best friend growing up was an actor so that should explain some of his weirdness. However, the father of his best friend was a mortician and a Danish immigrant, and they lived in an apartment above the mortuary. Sometimes, Prof. Cluff and his friend would have to help carry bodies into the mortuary. Usually the bodies would be in coffins but sometimes, according to Prof. Cluff, they would be in clear body bags. Prof. Cluff's weirdness sort of makes sense now, but he's still my favorite professor.

I took my Spanish oral exam today and while I was waiting to go in, this couple walked by probably about 3 or 4 times and I kept trying not to laugh each time. The boy would not shut up about Arabic dialects! "Well, I love Arabic dialects. I lot of people don't, but I just love them!" Next time around, "Egyptian Arabic gets a lot of flack but I don't know what it is about it. Yeah, I really like Egyptian Arabic." Next time around, "Even BYU students don't like a lot of Arabic dialects because we all learn such-and-such dialect" blah, blah, blah. I felt sorry for the girl because she had to hand out with a super nerd for who knows how long.

Yesterday, I saw an awesome jazz concert. The group is called Synthesis and their CDs are available to purchase. I've never heard such a great live jazz band. It was even more awesome that our own Ben Nichols from our FHE group had two solos on the saxophone. He is an incredible musician and such a nice guy. For example, he gave everyone at family home evening 2 free tickets to the show. I wish Dad had been there because he would have really liked it.

Anyway, that's all for now. I'm sorry if the life story of Amy Sargeant isn't too exciting but you have to dump your thoughts somewhere, right?

Thank goodness for Thanksgiving

I'm so glad that I got to spend last week at home. It was good to see family, hang around the house with little children, help with cooking (try to at least), play the piano, help Maddie with her school project, see old teachers, and sleep in my own bed! The bad thing is that now I'm depressed and I don't want to do anything. Stupid school. Luckily, I took some pictures to document the trip, although I didn't get any of Syd's party or Maddie's party. However, if you want to see pictures of those you can go to Mom's or Allyson's blogs.


Here's Tyler wearing Aubrey's stocking on his head. This picture pretty much sums up his behavior the entire time - crazy or "trazy" for those of you that speak his lingo. My favorite was when he kept running up to David to get squirt of whip cream in his mouth. He would run up to David and say "whip cream!" then open his mouth, receive a squirt, and run off again. However, the phrase"whip cream" apparently became too boring, so the phrase was shortened to "whip!" However, after a few of these, Tyler switched it up with "whipper!"


Here's Grandma Linda and Aubrey watching TV. I didn't quite catch it in the picture, but Aubrey's face was a classic - it was as if she was disgusted with the show we were watching (I can't remember what it was).


Mom and Dad went out to dinner for their anniversary. We must have taken about 20 pictures of them with 3 different cameras and we came to one very important conclusion: none of us are very good photographers.


Maddie and I made masks for a school project for her English class. This is the one I made and Maddie made a fox and it's really cute.

Feng Shui...okay, not really.

Aleks got a TV and so we had to rearrange the furniture...again. Well, we were sick of the old look any. And our wall was looking a little bare so we put up my Indian tapestry - very difficult to do when you can't use thumb tacks.


Another view of our lovely living room.


I had to put this picture in to show how our couch blocks most of the entrance to the kitchen. At first it was kind of annoying because I kept running into the couch when I was in a hurry. However, we discovered that it's kind of fun to hurtle the coach. Good times :)

Spanish Love Song

I'm pretty sure that you don't have to speak Spanish in order to appreciate this. Actually, it's probably better if you don't speak it. Enjoy!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9227IDYhVKU

Only one week until vacation!

So far the week has been going well. Family home evening was fun - we had a BBQ and sort of played keep-away with a soccer ball. After everyone left, a few of us stayed around the grill and just talked. It was a good experience getting to know people better. I also tried to make coconut rice. Sam made it for us the other day and it was delicious! However, mine was not so delicious so I'll have to work on that.

Today, we heard Pres. Monson speak at the devotional. He is so funny and such a great person. I don't really have many plans for today other than working on my essay for Anthropology and studying for my dreaded Humanities exam. I hope everyone is doing well, and people need to UPDATE!! (Thank you Maddie for doing it)

New template and weekend news

Hurray, the Internet is working again. I don't know why, but for some reason, our whole building was not getting Internet. It was really annoying. So, anyway, I changed the template for my blog. What do you think?

This weekend was pretty fun. We found a really, really good Thai restaurant called Thai Chili Gardens. It was amazing. Then Sam, Ashley, Sam's friend Josh, and I went to the Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork for a festival. It was a lot of fun and Ashley got an awesome outfit. Today, I got to go eat dinner at the Duncan's and look and Uncle Dave's cool pictures from his sailing adventure. However, now it's down to business because I have several tests and essays that need to get done this week.

Two Beautiful Sights

So, the other day (Tuesday, I think) I saw two things. First, Abby and I were driving down Orem Center St. and we saw this really ugly, old, squashed looking sports car. We laughed and joked about it because it seriously looked as if the Explorer could have taken this thing out. I kept wondering how anybody would enjoy climbing in and out of it since it was so low to the ground. I was picturing in my mind Marty McFly diving into the time machine to make a quick getaway. So, this ugly car pulls up to a stop light and we came up right behind it, trying to make out what model it was. However, we couldn't see any name or company logo so we inched forward. There, in very faded black letters, we read:
That's right! A DeLorean!!! I wish I took a picture because it was honestly one of the coolest things ever. And, I must have subconsciously known what it was because I was picturing Marty McFly diving into his own car. I told Abby to follow it so that we could see the guy open the awesome doors and get out but we had places to be. According to Wikipedia:
"Prices for DMC-12s vary widely and are dependent upon supply and demand. As of early 2007, a De Lorean in good to excellent condition can be had for around $20,000 to $29,000. Mint-condition cars can fetch up to $50,000. There are an estimated 6,500 surviving DMC-12s today. Some of the larger parts carry a steep price tag, such as the fiberglass underbody. Most parts are reasonably priced and readily available."


So, the second cool thing I saw on Tuesday was this: I was driving on State Street and I came up to a stop light. All of a sudden I could "feel" a car coming up next to me. I say feel because this tiny little car was making my Hyundai shake. I looked over and saw one of the most beautiful cars I've ever seen. When the light turned green, the guy driving revved the engine so loud that I almost had a heart attack. It was the loudest engine I'd ever seen. Just before he drove away, I glimpsed the tiny cursive lettering of the model:

yep, a brand new lamborghini. Here's what it looked like, same color and everything:

So, there's my exciting story. Enjoy!

Bumstying Around...

Well, I guess it's time for another post since it's been almost a week. Nothing really exciting has happened since the last post. Saturday was a blast as usual - I went to Karate and then Sam and I went to the library and checked out several Japanese. We ended up watching Yojimbo (hear that Dad?) which was an awesome movie. I quite enjoyed it. In the evening, Abby and I had nothing better to do than bumsty around town and then go to a movie. We saw No Reservations and I highly recommend it because it was very good; much more substance to it than I expected. Sunday was good - I enjoyed playing Loaded Questions with Abby, Aunt Joy, Ashley, Sam, and our friend Kip (or Keeeeep, as Isabel refers to him as). It was a long, funny game - I'm pretty sure we didn't stop laughing for almost 3 hours straight.

Other than that, I've been frantically working on papers for various classes. I don't have any big exams during the semester, just papers and small tests ever few weeks. I like it better because it gives me a better chance of improving my grade but it sure keeps me on my toes. I'm planning on going to La Brioche, Ivan's family's bakery tomorrow, so I can take Argentine pastries to my Spanish class and hopefully bride my teacher into giving some extra credit. We're working on cultural stuff right now, so I'm sure he won't mind. I've also been trying to keep up with my Karate homework - 200 stomach punches, 200 knife-hand blocks, 60 round-house kicks, 40 push-ups - each day this week. It's grueling but I'll get through it. Besides, I can't wait until Karate this Saturday. I don't know if I've mentioned it but Saturday's pretty much my favorite day :)

Ah, Halloween.

So, I wouldn't even have put this picture on here if I didn't think that Ally and Susan would kill me if I didn't. But seriously, who wants to see a picture of a chubby Jedi with the wrong color of light saber? And also, this is the only picture I have of my costume. Unfortunately, our pumpkins got stolen before we had an opportunity to take pictures of them. Sad, I know. But anyway, enjoy (or don't) this random picture - the only one I have of Halloween!