Anticipated Summer Movies

Anyone who has ever met me knows that I love movies. Last summer was a bit of a let down. There were a few good things, but not a lot. This summer is going to be excellent. Here are the movies that I anticipate to be great over the summer.

Avengers: Age of Ultron, May 1st
Okay it is an Avengers movie. And it looks amazing. Who wouldn't go to this? I bet it is the most successful movie of the year. Not the best, Mockingjay Part 2 will be better, but it'll be huge. At the theater, we have ordered special shirts for everyone to wear opening weekend.

Pitch Perfect 2, May 15th

Pitch Perfect was one of my favorite movies. Sequels for movies as awesome as Pitch Perfect usually don't turn out well. They try to hard and it just doesn't go well. I am optimistic about this movie. I think it'll be really funny like the last one, but I bet people are more excited than they need to be.

Tomorrowland, May 22nd

I think it looks cool. The girl in it is in a movie that my parents and I love, Dan in Real Life. She is the moody teenage daughter but now she is the star of the show. Tomorrowland is supposed to be about some town in the future that people study to save the future...? I don't know, but I bet it is successful and a lot of people go. 

San Andreas, May 29th

It is a huge disaster movie with the Rock. Good enough for me and my dad.

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, June 12th
Dad, Malsue, and I will all go see this. It looks like a cross between Fault in Our Stars with A Walk To Remember. It is about a girl who is diagnosed with cancer, and these two kids try to help her out. Looks  like a good movie. I don't know that it'll be big enough and we get in little Tooele, but we will go see it anyways.

Jurassic World, June 12th
This movie is going to be so awesome. Chris Pratt, who I love from Parks and Recreation and Guardians of the Galaxy is the star of the show. I could not tell if this was going to be a sequel or a reboot. It is sort of both. It takes place about 20 years after Jurassic Park failed and the dinosaurs took over and a bunch of people died. The park was rebooted and now called Jurassic World. It is open for about 10 years when visitor numbers start to go down. This means they need to make a new attraction. They decide to create a new dinosaur. Bad idea. Of course this horribly backfires into an awesome movie. So excited!

Inside Out, June 19th
This will be a fun one. So everyone has these little voices in their heads right? Each voice is an emotion, and they determine how we react to stuff. It is a Pixar movie so tons of people will go. I think it looks really good. I recommend watching the trailer, it explains it all. It looks like a a really fun movie that people of many ages will enjoy.

Terminator: Genisys, July 1st
I can't say that I am a huge fan of the Terminator movies, but they are huge and make a new one every few years. I'll go see it. I expect this movie to be pretty popular, as the Avenger crowd will have died down by this time.

Ant-Man, July 17th
Marvel dominates the super hero movie market. Once Avengers dies down, they will release Ant-Man. Paul Rudd is the main star, so I'll go because I think he's fun. I have a really hard time getting excited over a movie called Ant-man. It's a Marvel movie so tons of people will go.

Pixels, July 24th
This film is not yet rated. I think it looks interesting. It is about aliens that see classic video games, see it as us declaring war, so they attack earth as classic video games, pixels and all. Pac-Man, Donkey-Kong, all the classics are here to destroy. I think it looks good. It's an Adam Sandler movie. Usually his movies suck, but he has a good one every once in a while.

Paper Towns, July 24th

Paper Towns is a book written by John Green, who had Fault In Our Stars. He's pretty cool. Every time I finish one of his books I get a really bad  headache. Not sure why. Anyways, this movie is about some high schools guys, one of which has a crush on the girl next door, go on a mission to find the missing girl next door. Margo Roth Spiegelman. She is a very popular but very mysterious girl. After an awesome adventure with Quentin Jacobsen, she disappears. Malsue and I read the book and we are very excited to go.

Mission: Impossible 5, July 31st
It's another Mission: Impossible movie. What more can I say?

Fantastic Four, August 7th
They made this movie a few years back and it was pretty good. Since it was made, the Human Torch has become the much better Captain America. Plus, Marvel can do what they want so why not make another Fantastic Four movie? The cast is so much better. Miles Teller, Micheal B Jordan, fun people. I bet a lot of people go to this after Ant-Man dies down.

These are all the movies I can think of right now. I love working at the theater. It is so much more fun when there are good movies going on. This summer is going to be so busy with huge movies. And these are just the biggest ones I can think of. I recommend watching the trailers on imdb. Get all sorts of excited.

Finals Week

Finals Week is almost over. I only have two more to take and they won't be very hard. The worst ones are over.

Wednesday and Thursday- I needed a quiet place to sit and study and I just couldn't do it in my apartment. I called Gam Wednesday night and asked if I could come stay with her. She said yes and I was on the next train to Salt Lake. I really love staying with Gam and Pa. It is just nice and quiet and very relaxing. Plus I was really sick and just needed to be somewhere else. They were wonderful and let me come stay with them.

Friday- Friday was the first day of Finals. Each test you have to take can go one of two ways; the teacher sends it to the testing center and you take it whenever you want, or they schedule a time in class and everyone takes it at that time. Most of the religion courses are turned in to the testing center and you take them whenever you want. After I left Gam and Pa's house and got back to school, I headed over to the Wilk where they were doing all the religious testing. Book of Mormon and Pearl of Great Price are the two finals I was most confident about. The Book of Mormon one took me about an hour and half and had a big essay portion. Pearl of Great Price only took me about a half hour. They could have gone better, but the way those two teachers do grades it'll be just fine. Later that day, mixing the not-so-wonderful finals, the upcoming beastly finals, not getting a certain job I was excited about, and being sick, I was having a really rough day. I called my mom and we talked for like an hour. She's great. I love her. I feel much better now.

Saturday- Today was the day that I was going to have my hardest final. Not excited and I felt like no amount of studying would make me feel ready. First I had to go take my Crusades final. Really shot myself in the foot here. Once I switched my major, this class and one other only count as elective credits. Taking some rough stuff for elective credits. Anyways, that final went just fine. The teacher is really easy to get along with and you would have to try to not do well in that class, just super boring and not important. The US History final is what I was nervous about. I know my US History very well. But not the way he wants us to. We did not read things like the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Emancipation Proclamation, nothing like that. We hardly even talked about them. We spend a TON of time talking about journal articles and letters written by everyday people in reaction to the politics of the time. So stupid. Those documents do not have great historical significance. We spent less than one day talking about the Revolutionary War, which is probably the most important event in our history. Just can't win with this guy. He admits to being a very harsh grader and that people usually do not do well in his class or get good grades. Why did I do this? Taking his final took me about two hours. All essay. I feel like I answered everything as best as I could and I think my answers  were very good. However, he is very stingy and I may get docked points for anything. You could probably wear a shirt he didn't like and you would get docked points. I finished it and turned it in, but I still can't help but worry about it. It is over now and there is nothing else I can do.

Sunday- We all slept in and got ready for church. I have spent the last several Sundays with my family and my home ward. I have a routine for getting ready and it's all sorts of different when you have roommates around. I love them, but it is still very different from any situation I have been in before. Anyways, while I was sitting in sacrament meeting, Darick's mom Michele called me. She is not the easiest person to get a hold of, so I called her back right after the meeting. We talked on the phone for a long time. She is really fun to talk to. She tells me that Darick will be coming home July 15th at about 2:00 in the afternoon. That is only 87 days away!!!!! It has been so long... It will be crazy having him back but it will also be wonderful. I've started planning a few fun dates that will take pretty much the entire day but it is going to be so much fun.

Monday- I have my Environmental Biology Final scheduled from 11:00-2:00. Should be just fine. I haven't studied a ton, but since it is a topic I am so interested, I seem to have a better memory of things we talk about and the stuff we do. I know the material for that course a lot better than the material for my other courses. I am still going to study for a few hours before I go take it, but it should be just fine.

Tuesday- This is where it gets annoying. I have one last final scheduled for 8:00 that night. Stupid. Can't just take it whenever, have to be there at 8:00 in the evening to take an essay test. It is for Scandinavian History. I took the class because I thought it would be cool to take it and learn about where my hundreds of years of ancestors are from. They were some pretty prominent people. I was not aware that speaking Norwegian and Swedish was a prerequisite. That was not listed when I signed up.  Literally half the time the teacher talks it is in either Swedish or Norwegian. I am also the only student in there who is not married or engaged and did not serve a mission in the Scandinavian region. Really shot myself in the foot with this one. Anyways, during the day my mom is going to come and help me pack up my stuff and come home. Everything must be packed up, cleaned, and moved out by April 25th at 10am, but I am getting out early. Once we finish our tests we are free to go. Since my final is going to finish late, I can't decide if I will check out that night and come home, or if I will stay that night and come home the next day. Probably just come home that night. I'll get everything done on Tuesday so I may as well just go home late that night. On Wednesday I would just get up and check out.

Wednesday- Odds are I will be home by then and enjoying a nice long break! I will have a break of about 4 months! I was going to do spring semester, but none of the classes I need are offered so it wouldn't be worth it to stick around. I'll just get to be home with my family, work at the movie theater that I love so much, play with puppies, play games, I'll start a summer tv series and get hooked on it, Darick will come home soon, it is just going to be a great few months.

This is what my schedule looks like. Crazy few days. Last week was bad too because I had a ton of papers due.

Just like last semester, I try to find humor in things. Here are a few pictures that have helped me have a laugh.

End of Semester Meeting

So the end of the semester and the end of my Freshman year of school are almost here. I am excited for the first year to be done, but there are many things I will miss. Tonight we all had to go to a meeting that covered everything we will need to know for check-out. Pretty simple stuff. They said that the average person spends 5 hours cleaning and 5 hours packing. That sounds like a bit much. When I left home, I had everything packed up pretty fast. It's not that hard. Anyways, I have selected a final check-out time and know when I will be home for the summer. April 22 at 11:30 I will be moved back home full-time. My finals will be on Saturday the 18th, Monday the 20th, and one on Tuesday the 21st at 8:00 pm. After I finish my finals, I can come home.
Freshman year was fun. I'm sure I will do a full post about how it went, but now it not the time. Finals week is upon us yet again. This week I finished all my papers. A 7 page book review on a book I didn't really read much of, an 11 page paper on Swedish politics in the 19th century, and a 3 page paper on Mormon 6-8 for my Book of Mormon class. It's been a crazy few days. Oh well. My finals won't be too bad.
This week we said our final good-byes to our dear friend Christian. He went to the MTC yesterday. He'll be serving the San Francisco area for the next 2 years. It was fun to see him again. He is really funny and we will all miss him.

April loves Thursday

So my roommate April is always crazy on Thursday nights. I am not always sure why, but most of our adventures are on Thursday nights. Tonight we all came home from class to find that Marybeth's wonderful mom had left us all an Easter basket! In our baskets we had all been left these masks. We aren't sure exactly what their purpose is, but it does't matter. They are kinda cool. April freaked out and said we should all put them on and take pictures. I've learned not to question things so much.

I'm in the middle, April is in the green jacket, Ingrid in the blue.

April Fool's Day

So we all have this really good friend, Christian. He just left school a few weeks ago for his mission but he heads to the MTC in like two weeks. He would come over all the time and just hang out with us. We would go play basketball a few times a week. He was so much fun to have around. We, as roommates, don't really go out and do as many things without him. Anyways, he was texting my roommate Alex this morning. Another one of our good friends texted us all and said that his brother had just gotten engaged. It's April Fool's day so he was just kidding... it was kind of dumb. This conversation between Alex and Christian went down this morning. (Alex is green, Christian is gray)

Never been called a shaman before. But I guess I have his permission to get married whenever I want. Christian is a great person.

Completely unrelated, on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, April and I walk to class together. We will usually leave five minutes early and get a bagel on our way to class. We left a little late so we got them after class, but they are super good. Asiago Cheese bagels. Plus the creamery has awesome chocolate milk.

Since it is Easter time, they are selling these super cute cookies. Had to get one.