El fin de semestre

The semester is ending. Thank god.
This week I spent the night at the Axi house for the first time without there being an offical or  "unoffical"  Axi event. It was...nice. I didn't realize how many of the girls stop by the house to study and goof off. Incase I haven't clarified before...our house is an old house off natural bridge road. My dad used to live in the neighborhood behind it when he and his siblings were kids. I imagine that the Axi house is just as old (especially by the way it looks). There's a sweet spiral staircase going up stairs and down. The house in general is just old though. It creaks and looks old. It's nice. At the beginning of this semester our National Council came in and decided that they were going to redo our mainfloor (livingroom/dining room). They're almost done now. They only have to hang the composites and other pictures back up. We have a new couch, dining table and other various things. They also painted our walls, too. It looks amaXing!

So I spent the night at the Axi house in attempt to be able to study later, maybe catch some sleep and then not have to drive thirty  minutes to class in the morning. Trish stayed up with/past me. She made me hot tea with sugar and it was delicious!! Probably one of my new favorite things while studying. It kept me awake, surprisingly.

I had to take a Spanish oral final the next morning and got extremely nervous! So I'm not totally sure how I did on that. It drives me nuts that there's so much to the finals in language courses. I mean, I understand but it feels like 8billion times more than what you would have to study for for any other course! Oh well. One more and then I'll be done with spanish for this semester!

I'm done with classes and everything untill next wednesday (math final) and thursday (spanish written final & english paper due). Then the semester will be done and I'll be on break! Thank the lord!!


On tuesday I took Leilah to see MegaMind. It was my first time hanging out with her (and my first 3D movie). Megamind all in all was a pretty decent movie! It was pretty funny, though the whole 3D aspect of it wasn't anything to pay the extra $3-4 for. It cost me $22 to bring myself and a CHILD to a movie on a weekday. Ridiculous!

Leilah was adorable! She's also incredibly smart! She's a 4th grader reading at a middle school level, she gets good grades and she's got high goals already. When I was in elementary school I thought I would go to college and learn to be...something (A vet, a teacher, an egyptologist...it varied) but I never thought in detail about it. I didn't even know what Harvard was! Leilah has already decided that she wants to go to Harvard and become a lawyer. Her mother told her that if she's going to be a lawyer she'll have to defend animal rights and Leilah's fine with that but she wants to do all sorts of things with her career and defend lots of people! She's adorable. She has a cell phone too, she shares it with her brother though (poor high schooler has a purple phone). At the end of the night she wanted a picture of us on her new phone. :)

I'm taking her to see the Celebration of Lights in Ft. Zumwalt Park next tuesday. I'm looking forward to spending more time with her, though the cold will be unwelcomed. I'm really enjoying the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, it's more rewarding than I expected. I'd recommend it to others too. In addition, they have a program for couples. They can "adopt" a little brother or sister and then together spend time with that child.

Neil comes home next saturday, which I'm pretty psyched for it's been far too long! I can't wait for this break. Everyone will be home and able to spend time together! So excited!!

Wish me luck on finals!