All the Bitter Sweet Lemons

I tried to go on the master cleanse this week. It calls for drinking a special lemon aid and lots of water for a week. I made it a day. Ya, it was intense. In my own defense I did it six months ago and made it ten days. So I felt that I’ve done my duty to the master cleanse and we can part as friends with no hard feelings. The problem is that when we broke up, it left a terrible mess in my apartment in the form of 200 lemons. What do you do with 200 lemons? What do you do with one lemon? I’ll tell you what, you invite as many people in your singles ward that are willing and host an Iron Chef showdown. It was a blast! We split up in teams by apartment and had an unveiling of the secret ingredient. Each team had exactly one hour to make an appetizer, main course and desert. I chose to use the lemon as a curdling agent and make buttermilk biscuits. They were pretty good. Me and my roommates made a baked lemon noddle dish and lemon syrup for crapes. Can you believe we still didn’t win?  In a surprising turn of events a boy apartment swept the competition with muffins, chicken, and lemon bars. I guess you can’t compete with the classics.

This week marks the end of my adventure here at Alta. One whole year of living the life here in Provo. I am going to miss a lot of it, my roommates, living so close to campus, the social life, etc. I am not going to miss paying rent I can’t really afford, living so close to the BYU stadium, the social life, etc. It has been a bitter sweet day reflecting on all that I have loved and learned about life this past year. I will miss it. On the other hand I’m excited to spend the summer with family and the adventures that await. Another bitter sweet occurrence of the day was attending my last presidency meeting for relief society. I learned a lot with this calling; however I would be more than happy to go back to being a vising teacher district leader or something.

One more week and I am done with this semester. I have exactly one year left! Yes! (Dancing in the street may commence)!!!  It has not been too bad actually I’m just very overdue for a break. The last few weeks have been the only really bad time this semester and most of that was due to a world conference my department was hosting. It was really neat to meet some deaf celebrities and deaf people from all over the world. My favorite was the German man who kept slipping between German sign and ASL. I understood about 10% of what he said. There were ASL students from all levels volunteering and helping with things around the conference. It was a great confidence boost to realize how far I have come in studying this language in two years. I feel so blessed to be doing something so cool with my life. I LOVE DEAF STUDIES. Without a doubt ASL is the lemonade of my life. The trial that continues to test and try me but taste so sweet when I get a glimpse of the end. 

As so many endings are leading to new beginnings I have learned that when life gives you lemons you can make lemonade and it will taste pretty sweet, but I cant drink lemon aid for four more months so I will live it up to the best of my ability and have an iron chef adventure instead. cheers to all your crazy cook offs!

just a few ramblings

I've decided to be a photographer. I will go in and change my major on Monday. I spent all day Thursday  taking photos for my final projet of ASL tehcnology. Way fun. I even enjoyed spending the two hours it took to edit and format my qictures the way that I wanted them. I really like the idea of learning lighting and contrast and all the elements that make up good photography. My dream came to a halting crash when I realized the good cameras came cheapest at about $1200. Oh well, all I really wanted was to look cool with a camera around my kneck. I suppose I will have to settle looking cool with my hands flying in a secret language.

The semester is almost over. I have exactly two weeks to finish all my projects, test, assighnemnts and move out of my apartment. It is a little sad. To face it all. This time in my life coming to an end. I have loved being with my roomates and living so close to school. I plan to live down here in the fall but I know it will not be the same. I have loved my roomates and my ward. I have truly been blesed to be among such awsome people.

So my little brother got married yesterday. Well he got married on paper but not in spirit. Its weird and complicated but because they plan to get married in China, in order for it to be legal they have to be married in America first. We just tacked it onto the end of our family Easter celebration. You know, "Who ever finds the most eggs gets to be the flower girl after dinner!" eat some deviled eggs, have a wedding, your typical Sharp family celebration. And since everything is about me I thought I should note that there nuptials mean that I am the only one in my family that is single. In a family of eight that is quite a feat. I have never been the "only" in my family for anything! so ya for me. No but seriously congrats Matt and Evelyn.

Oh my goodness, I almost forgot. Happy Easter! It has been a good a fairly good day. I went to church, did some family history, made dinner, enjoyed said dinner with roommates and Jordan Mitchell. Talked to some long lost family members, and now updated my blog. Now you see why I only update once every month.

I have accomplished one thing on my bucket list this week. I rode on a motorcycle this week. So amazing. Its like flying but with power! I think I need one, I just cant ever tell my mom that I have one. Whelp now that I have told you all absolutely nothing, I think its time for bed.