Lindsey Bohn: November 2013

ALRIGHT... well, this week was insaaaaane! Monday was productive, then we had FHE that night in the ice caves:D It was such a crazy experience. We piled everyone in two trucks and rode some really bumpy roads over the ice and snow. When we got there, we had to hike down to the caves. The snow was deep and it was really dark, so I was nervous someone might get hurt. These caves were unbelievable. The floor was entirely made of ice and the ceiling had ice stalactites that glistened like diamonds. At one point we had to slide down a drop on a rope because the structure was 100% ice. There were crevasses we had to climb in and at the end was a big slide. My pants were soaked by the end, but it was SO cool!!!

We were at the very end of the cave- what a fun night:)

Right before the 5K race!!!

I won the turkeyyyy!!!

The gun goes off!

Last week was nice and busy! Wednesday I went to a speed-dating social which ended being alright. There were a bunch of cute girls and a few OK-ish guys. I wasn't there long before I decided to leave and go Country dancing which was so much fun!!! But I had to leave that really early because I had 5:30am work Thursday morning. Thursday was such a long day because I ended working about 7-8 hours.

Thursday and Friday was choir practice and performance which was really fun to be a part of! At the choir concert we sang a song with the men's choir and the entire symphony orchestra which was awesome!!! I stayed after to watch the orchestra concert. At that point I concluded that I will be in the Orchestra next semester. I miss playing the violin so much! After the Friday concert, I went Latin and Ballroom dancing where I met up with some old friends that are really cool guys (one of which is really cute)! That was such a fun night:)

Saturday was awesome!!! I got up early and my friend Cade picked me up in his car to run a race!! It ended up being one of the funnest things I have done while being here at BYUI. Cade is such an awesome guy:) He's heading out on his mission in 2 months, which makes our friendship very carefree and unserious which I love because I'm so used to wife-hungry RMs. Cade and I warmed up and then both of us reached our goals! There was a random drawing of names to get a free turkey. My chances were so slim because there were so many names in there, but I WON!!!!! What a cool experience:D Cade took me home and I put the turkey in the sink and tried to figure out what I was going to do with it. I then went swing dancing and did homework for several hours. At 4:30 I went to work. It ended up being a little boring because it was a wedding reception- we had to wait around for a long time, but I still love my job and socializing that comes with it.

That night was amazing! My roommates didn't wait for me and decided to go to "Catching Fire" while I was at work, so I went with a girl from work and a bunch of her crazy roommates at the 10:50 showing:) There's a guy from work that I liked who was going to be there- so it was cool to see him. The movie was fantastic!- It blew me away!! It was like 10X better than the first movie. My roommates had to open the gate to let me in past curfew.

My roommates and Katie's boyfriend hanging out on Saturday after the race.

Sunday night beautiful sunset!:)Megan and Sarah at the 2nd story

My turkey= a success!!!

All of us trying to coordinate what we are going to make!

The turkey remains- Fred is dead ;)

Our pre-Thanksgiving Thanksgiving dinner!

Sunday morning I was so confused as to what I should do with my turkey! I called up Grandma Christensen who has done this many many times. I am pleased to say that I succeeded:)!!! I was so proud of myself. Sunday I also had to prepare a lesson that was completely open ended. I chose to teach on gratitude since it was the most appropriate. I prepared for several hours and it went well. That night Megan, Sarah and I made our own Thanksgiving dinner! They made mashed potatoes, gravy with the turkey juice, the veggies that were in the turkey and I made cookie dough that didn't really turn out. I also went to dinner with some friends from high school. I always go singing at stadium singing which is so fun because I meet new people every time since I don't normally have a hymn book:)

My friend's dinner.

Stadium singing with random people.

My dad used to have a stand partner (now Brother Dubell) when he went to BYUI in the Symphony Orchestra. My dad told me I had to get a picture of him:) It was a very interesting meeting, he told me that he suddenly felt very old to have a child of Brad Bohn attending BYUI.

Okay so my mom had a cart when she went to BYUI that she was in charge of as her job. She would sell soup and sandwiches and just stand there looking pretty;) I found her cart hidden in the corner of the hart building- it lives on!!!!:)

Monday and Tuesday was filled with straight studying and projects that I plowed through. It added up to about 12 hours of homework:P Mom made me go to the doctor because I had been sick for like 3 wks straight and only got worse, so they prescribed me some medicine that has helped immensely. I worked devotional on Tuesday which was fun. That night I got a phone call from a guy named James who said that I had met him speed dating. He asked me out on a date for that night. I had planned to study for 4 hours, but I ditched that idea:) It was a fun night! We doubled with his roommate and his roommate's girlfriend. Two of his friends joined up halfway through and we kept teasing them about being on a date with each other. We went bowling which James killed it! He got 147 pts, i did alright but we had fun:) Theeeeeen, we went out to eat to pizza pie cafe and ordered buffet style! It was really fun because his roommates were really funny. James was really sweet and kept making sure I was doing okay. We went back to his place after that and we kept discussing the fact that we wanted to play games or watch a movie but no one stepped up and decided for like and hour. James then could see I was looking tired (felt a little sick) and so he walked me home. It was really fun though! It was really flattering to get treated, it added up to a lot which I was surprised of.

Well I got home and did homework for several hours, woke up and did homework for several hours and packed my bags to go to Idaho Falls for Thanksgiving. Now I'm chillin at my grandma Bohn's house waiting for an insane amount of family to arrive:) Life is good! I am happy because my homework is done and the party has just begun. I'll also have some time to get better so that the last 4 weeks of school are awesome!!!

This is my science class. I figured that you never get to see what my classes may be like.

     Man...this has been such a fun week! It's been one of the funnest so far:D Soooooo, I suppose ill start at the beginning. Monday- I did a health evaluation that is free here where nutritionist people tell me what I need to do to eat better. I just need to eat more I guess and then eat less sweet foods :/. Then I met an instructor who teaches fitness and runs marathons a lot. He gave me some helpful advice that I appreciated. He even invited me to go to one of his classes (I did go, and it nearly killed me- it was a weight training class. KILLER. I think I'll take it next semester). I also grabbed some groceries. That night we had FHE which has been okay lately, but we did something different this time! We played games at the guy's game room for a while and ended up deciding to play 'Murder in the Dark' in the guy's apartment. It was so fun!!! So fun that we played it for nearly 2 1/2 hours. This game is where we each pull cards from a deck and whoever gets the joker is the murderer. Then we turn the lights off and in this little area everyone wanders around. The murderer simply has to take his finger and swipe your neck for you to die. If you have been killed you fall to the ground. Once a living person steps and finds a "body," they yell "body!" and we turn the lights on to find who died. Then we take a vote on who we think it is, if the person we select admits to being the murderer, then the round is over. If the person is not the murderer we keep playing over and over until the murderer is found. Sometimes the murderer was so good at faking us out that they won by being one of two left. We added scary music to the game, strobe lights (flicking the flashlight on and off randomly) and Jordan had a camera that could video tape in the dark, so it was absolutely hilarious to see people die- haha, sounds morbid, I know. So that was a total blast.
        On Tuesday I did a ton of studying, then I sang in the Women's choir- always such a wonderful experience. That night was abs night and I did the bicycle for a while for a workout. On Wednesday, I went to my many classes, worked on homework, worked for 2 hours (again- I LOOOOVE MY JOB!!!). Then I went Country dancing for 3 hours. That was fun, but I wish more guys went. There are usually all the guys in the middle with girls and then about 50 girls on the sidelines that didn't get asked to dance. I am sort of reverting back to asking guys again because I found that if I don't I only get asked like 2 times the whole night. Thursday- I studied for hours for a math test. It took me 2 hours to take the stupid test that I got an 80% on. Yeah, I'm fine with whatever I get just as long as I can say that I did my best. That night I was feeling sick (head cold and sore throat), so I skipped dance and went home to sleep. I woke up to peanut butter cookies my roommates made and finished watching 'Titanic.'
       Friday was insanity. I am so glad I got through it since I was still trying to partially function. I went to my two morning classes, worked for 4 hours, then went to choir. After choir, I got together a group of altos and sopranos willing to stay and practice with the men. The Men's choir instructor was beyond thrilled. Most of the songs we sing with the boys, we just don't practice with them. It was SOOO FUN! My friend and I were the only sopranos, so it was so fun to hold that super high part together as only two people. I also had many guy friends in Men's Choir. I loved hearing tons on manly voices- we aren't used to practicing this music with them. After the practice, I met three other guys (Zach, Aaron, and Martin) who I was leading the paintball trip with the next day. We all prepped the cases of paintballs and picked up the vans. I felt very feminine in my black dress in contrast to these guys haha.
      I was going to meet Ashley Benson and a good friend I had made in Math class to go out to dinner. I told the guys that I had to leave so they started teasing me that I was going on a date. They dropped me off in front of the Snow building though which I appreciated. Ashley and I walked to Sammy's and met Chelsae there. It was such a fun night! We had dinner and some amazing pie shakes (my most favorite food- pumpkin cheesecake pie shakes). Then we walked 15 minutes to 'Fat Cats' where we saw 'Thor 2' the movie. It was AWESOME! I liked the movie a lot, but I will say that even more than the movie I loved having some girls I enjoy talking with who respect me and my ideas. I don't enjoy that pleasure very often. After the movie we "attempted" to walk home (it had gotten extremely cold very fast) and I felt really stupid in my dress all of the sudden. But a nice couple stopped and drove us all home -I love Rexburg people, they are so kind. Well, my friend Cade texted me and invited me to play games in the gardens at 9:30 PM and bring friends. So I invited people and Austin Lange showed up with some of his friends and I also invited Chelsae. We met at the guy's apartments and walked to the gardens. There was about 20 girls and 5 guys--- :/     So playing sardines was a little hard because the girls wouldn't stop giggling and making noise. We then played zombie tag with glow sticks- that was so fun! I really like Cade- he's so positive and is so good at carrying conversation. I'll get off my mission right when he does so I know one person I will know when I get back. Well, it started to snow hard and we went to the guy's apartments at midnight for hot cocoa. What a fun night:) I made it back to my dorm sprinting through the snow by 1 am curfew barely.
     I woke up to go to a 'Gateway Seminar,' a class we have to take for Math 108. There was a blanket of snow everywhere! After the Seminar, I packed my stuff and headed down to the Outdoor resources center where we were getting everything ready for paintball. I didn't mention that my voice worsened the night before into a raspy croak, but Saturday morning I literally had NO voice whatsoever. How embarrassing. I have decided that I would rather lose a limb than be unable to talk and communicate with people the rest of my life. So I could only help so much, Martin had to talk for me a lot. Well, I guess even more people had signed up the night before, so we had to get another van. I reeeally didn't want to drive before, but now I was terrified because ice was all over the roads!!! I would be in charge of 12 lives other than my own and I had never really driven in such conditions before, but there was no one else to do it. I was praying the entire way there. God was with me- I was so grateful.

This is all after the crazy snow Friday night! The whole campus had a feeling of excitement:)

Martin is in the white, Zack is in the camo.

Me ready to fight!!!

        We got there and paintball was so fun!!! There was several inches of snow everywhere, so that was crazy. We had masks and guns. If we got shot, we had to put our hands up and walk to base. One game we played included capturing a flag. In that game I was hiding behind a tree and some idiot thought it would be funny to shoot me over and over rather than just once. That hurt, I got paint all across my body and leg. I had never done anything like this before so it was fun:) Martin, one of the volunteers was unusually kind to me. I don't know whether it was because he felt bad for me or because he's just a nice person. Well, after freezing to death and shooting people fore 2 hours, I prayed the whole way back. The lord was with me I am certain.


         When I got home that night, I did homework for several hours. I had a date with a guy named Logan. I was a little nervous because my voice was still entirely gone and most of dating consists of communication. He has an interesting personality as well- but no, it was SO FUN!!! We tripled with two other couples and went rock climbing. I told him I was sorry about my voice, and he told me he was just impressed I was still going in my condition. I would never miss the party ;) Well, I actually had so much fun climbing- I would do it every day if I had the opportunity! After climbing, we joined one of the other couples and picked up two boxes of ice cream from the store. Then we went back to the guy's apartment and had a competition making ice cream sculptures! We carved with spoons and knives. It was so fun! Logan and I carved an Easter Island head. Sam and Tabatha carved a house and then a cool looking dog. We ended up eating the entire thing! Then we played Mario for a while which was fun. Then right before midnight Logan walked me home. Even though I could barely talk the entire night, he was so awesome about it. Yes...life is awesome if you make it awesome!!!:) I can officially say now that I love it here. This week I feel like I have some closer friends.