Lockers, Midterms, and Number 19!!

Okay this may be a bit much but I was very excited when this happened.

I finally have my official locker in the team room! With my name and everything. In the beginning of the year all the freshman had to share because there was so many of us but after our quarter grades came in, Dan divided up the single lockers to the freshman who had better GPA's. He surprises us sometimes with leaving new bags, candy, or new sweats in them randomly. Its nice! Anyways the first day I got mine, I took a picture of it. Cheesy I know, but I was excited!

Also you may notice, the cap hanging in my locker is not number 10. Yes it is true, number 10 and I have parted ways. It was too difficult to for me to see number ten when the ref would hold it up during a game ( it only being a fist) So I decided to spring for a new number. Originally I wanted number 8 but this other girl on the team wanted it REALLY badly, so badly to the point where she burst into tears when I beat her at rock, paper, scissors for it. So being the amazingly nice person I am, I let her have it. Only after calling my dad to complain and to be calmed down by him telling me a bunch of other famous athletes who had been number 19 ( my second choice). Thanks dad! So for those of you who will be coming on Saturday, look for number 19!!

Midterms are the worst thing in the world.. I am convinced. Thats all.

Love you.

Well Here I Am..

Okay so I heard more than a few times over Christmas break that I was lagging a little in my pictures that I was sending home, so in response to this I typed up a lengthy email detailing what has been going on here in Irivine complete with pictures, when all of a sudden my battery died in my computer and I lost the whole email! So instead of emailing I am going to give this whole blogging thing a try as Dad earlier suggested. I'm hoping that this might make my updates a little easier. No promises, but we'll just give this a trial run.

School as started again and its hard! I am enrolled in about 14 units this quarter. I have chemistry, a chemistry lab, a biology class called drugs and the brain, and Calculus. This might sound like lot and thats because it is. It is very difficult and I am working hard to manage my time better than last quarter. I study a lot and I refuse to miss class! I am feeling a lot better about class but we'll see, my midterms start next week so if you remember, say a little prayer for me around 8 on wednesday morning!

Water polo is still going and every day it seems like it is getting harder and harder! We have been in the water 12 out of the past 14 days and its exhausting. We've been conditioning and studying plays like crazy. But finally we get to play!! I am so excited for Saturday! We have just been practicing and practicing and now we finally have something to look forward to! I know that playing time for me will be limited,but I am just excited for our team to finally start taking down other teams! I also cannot wait to seeyou guys! Its going to be awesome!

I am also now writing to you as a 19 year old! It was very weird being away from home and hearing happy birthday from my family via skype. My friends were very good to me though, they woke me up early to take me to breakfast and afterwards we drove to Newport to go to the beach. After that we got all dressed up and headed to PF Changs for dinner. It was really fun but they didn't have my crispy green beans. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?? The only reason I wanted to go there for my birthday was for green beans and they ran out!! It was awful.

Getting ready for the beach!

Me and Evan and Chris, two freshman water

polo boys who came to dinner.

So last weekend,Tiffany, Kelsey, Layne, and I decided to take an impromptu trip to Cal Poly to visit some various friends. We were very spontaneous. We stayed with Kevin Doria on the first night and the second night we stayed at Layne's friend Scott's house which was pretty interesting. There are 6 boys from Fresno who live together and rent a very pretty house in SLO. We let the boys engage in their night festivities while the four of us drove to Ablertsons to grab ingredients to make cookies.We baked cookies and watched movies on the couch. It was fun to meet all of Layne's friends from high school. We had fun and definitely made some memories.

All of us on Scott's couch.

We stopped by our house on the way home for some lunch.

This weekend was also pretty nice and relaxing. Tiffany had some of her guy friends from SLO visit her and therefore i was kicked out for the weekend. It was fine by me I didn't feel much like entertaining wierdo boys anyway. Last night Kelsey, Layne, and I took all of our study material to the sophmore waterpolo boys house. They are all geniuses in this class and quizzed us on various facts while the played video games. We ended the night with a little Harry Potter and returned to the dorms. It was a good night.

Some random pictures:

The four of us watching the Womens National Waterpolo Team game.

All of the freshman girls at dinner for Kelsey's Birthday.

Anyways I miss you all and cant wait to see you! Love you!