I didn't have time to do the assignments Professor Clarke assigned us because i was too busy with a fun adventure. I hiked the Grand Canyon. My uncle invited me along. He feels that for his daughters graduation trips they need to experience something that shows them that life doesn't owe them anything. He likes to pick hard things.
This year, for his second of three daughters, he decided to hike across the Grand Canyon. On Friday morning we left for the adventure of a life time. We drove down to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon and spent the evening hiking around. If you haven't been there I highly suggest it.
On Saturday we began the journey down the great expanse. Some of the most amazing views I have ever seen were provided throughout the whole hike. We hiked 14 miles down to Phantom Ranch where we spent the night in some rather swanky park service cabins. We had five people in four beds. I'll let you figure out how.
The next morning we made the climb out. It was nine miles from Phantom Ranch up to the South Rim. Seven of those miles were up-hill. We ended up finishing the hike and feeling really accomplished.
Monday, June 8, 2009
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Everything is Funny... at 2 am
Have you noticed that everything is funnier at 2 am. No matter what you are doing or watching, it rends to get funnier and funnier the later into the night it goes. There does reach a point when you get too tired and everything makes you angry, but there are those pristine moments when it stays hilarious.
I've been thinking about this for some time. Before my brother left on his mission a couple of months ago, he and a friend decided they wanted to stay up for 72 hours. The end result was my brother getting angry at everything his friends said as he passed in and out of sleep. One of his friends had to drive him home because he couldn't stay awake.
Another experience occurred a couple of weeks ago. I had just arrived back at my apartment, when one of my roommates who works graveyard shifts decided to turn on Freddy vs. Jason at midnight (Don't worry it was edited). This is supposed to be a scary movie, but at 2 am it was one of the greatest comedies I had seen. We laughed so hard that night at everything that happened in the movie.
Last night some friends and I went to IHOP at a really late or early hour of the day, depending on how you view time. We spent the whole night laughing at everything. Many inappropriate things were said, but we were so tired, we just laughed and laughed. I'm sure if there had been other people there they would have thought we were drunk.
If you are reading this at 2 am, hopefully it is funny. If you haven't stayed up late in the last little bit, try it, and see what things appear funny. I guarantee a good laugh...as long as it's in a group of friends.
I've been thinking about this for some time. Before my brother left on his mission a couple of months ago, he and a friend decided they wanted to stay up for 72 hours. The end result was my brother getting angry at everything his friends said as he passed in and out of sleep. One of his friends had to drive him home because he couldn't stay awake.
Another experience occurred a couple of weeks ago. I had just arrived back at my apartment, when one of my roommates who works graveyard shifts decided to turn on Freddy vs. Jason at midnight (Don't worry it was edited). This is supposed to be a scary movie, but at 2 am it was one of the greatest comedies I had seen. We laughed so hard that night at everything that happened in the movie.
Last night some friends and I went to IHOP at a really late or early hour of the day, depending on how you view time. We spent the whole night laughing at everything. Many inappropriate things were said, but we were so tired, we just laughed and laughed. I'm sure if there had been other people there they would have thought we were drunk.
If you are reading this at 2 am, hopefully it is funny. If you haven't stayed up late in the last little bit, try it, and see what things appear funny. I guarantee a good laugh...as long as it's in a group of friends.
Monday, May 25, 2009
The Unboughten Coke
I have a problem. As soon as any class ends i tend to forget what we were assigned to do in the class until the night before it is due. This happened this last week.
In my MCom class, out teacher asked us to buy a Coke for some random person during the week. We were then asked to write about the experience in our blog. As you can tell i forgot to buy that coke. That is why I am writting about the experience of not buying the coke.
It would be lot cooler story if I were to say that I were abducted by aliens, or mugged and lost all of my money. I could always lie and say these things happened. The honest truth is I just purely forgot until Sunday rolled around and I was supposed to write about the experience.
Procrastination is never a good thing. I should have walked out of class and boughten a Coke for the first person I met. I'm sure they would have been confused. Maybe they wouldn't have even liked Coke. They might have been a little happier the rest of the day. Who knows they could have payed it forward and boughten someone else a Coke. I guess we will never know because the Coke remains unboughten.
In my MCom class, out teacher asked us to buy a Coke for some random person during the week. We were then asked to write about the experience in our blog. As you can tell i forgot to buy that coke. That is why I am writting about the experience of not buying the coke.
It would be lot cooler story if I were to say that I were abducted by aliens, or mugged and lost all of my money. I could always lie and say these things happened. The honest truth is I just purely forgot until Sunday rolled around and I was supposed to write about the experience.
Procrastination is never a good thing. I should have walked out of class and boughten a Coke for the first person I met. I'm sure they would have been confused. Maybe they wouldn't have even liked Coke. They might have been a little happier the rest of the day. Who knows they could have payed it forward and boughten someone else a Coke. I guess we will never know because the Coke remains unboughten.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
A little about me.
Since last week, I had a certain subject on my mind, this week I figured I would excite you with the details of my life.
I was born in San Jose California many years ago. I feel this is why i have an affinity for 49er football. I was born on the day BYU won the Holiday bowl in 1986. I feel this contributed to my liking of BYU football. My parents are both from Utah and my dad attended both Utah and BYU. As you could probably guess, I am not the biggest "true blue" fan that exists. I lived in California until I was about four.
My family moved to Utah and took up residence in exotic Sandy Utah. I spent my whole childhood snow skiing, playing soccer, and causing chaos with my two younger brothers, who are relatively close to me in age. One of them actually shares a birthday with me but is three years younger. My time in Sandy eventually came to an end when my family moved back to California.
When we moved back we moved to Morgan Hill California, the mushroom capital of the United States. It is located right next to Gilroy California which is the garlic capital of the world. Incase you didn't know how mushrooms are grown, there is a lot of manure involved. So nedless to say, the area stunk year round with the combination of mushroom and garlic farms.
My family eventually moved back to Utah, which is where I went to highschool. I am a proud Alta Hawk. While in highschool I ran track and cross-country. I now love watching the marathon everytime the olympics are on, and I blame it on these two sports.
I served a mission in Romania for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I know one of the most useless languages in the world, being romanian. I do still find a use for it everyday as I currently teach at the Missionary Training Center. I am currently single, and loving life right now. Life is always an adventure!
I was born in San Jose California many years ago. I feel this is why i have an affinity for 49er football. I was born on the day BYU won the Holiday bowl in 1986. I feel this contributed to my liking of BYU football. My parents are both from Utah and my dad attended both Utah and BYU. As you could probably guess, I am not the biggest "true blue" fan that exists. I lived in California until I was about four.
My family moved to Utah and took up residence in exotic Sandy Utah. I spent my whole childhood snow skiing, playing soccer, and causing chaos with my two younger brothers, who are relatively close to me in age. One of them actually shares a birthday with me but is three years younger. My time in Sandy eventually came to an end when my family moved back to California.
When we moved back we moved to Morgan Hill California, the mushroom capital of the United States. It is located right next to Gilroy California which is the garlic capital of the world. Incase you didn't know how mushrooms are grown, there is a lot of manure involved. So nedless to say, the area stunk year round with the combination of mushroom and garlic farms.
My family eventually moved back to Utah, which is where I went to highschool. I am a proud Alta Hawk. While in highschool I ran track and cross-country. I now love watching the marathon everytime the olympics are on, and I blame it on these two sports.
I served a mission in Romania for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I know one of the most useless languages in the world, being romanian. I do still find a use for it everyday as I currently teach at the Missionary Training Center. I am currently single, and loving life right now. Life is always an adventure!
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Another Pandemic
The world has a fascination with being sick. Right now the latest craze is the Swine Flu. Over the past couple of years the world has run from cows that have gone mad, birds with the same problem as the pigs, flour that fell into people's envelopes as they were baking, and that weird acronym that Asia fell in love with.
The media has played an important role in the spread of the fear. With nothing happening in politics, and the sports world shifting towards the boring boys of summer, there aren't enough stories to fill the 40 minutes of nightly news coverage. Enter the swine flu pandemic.
Now we can re-use the maps from the election and have nightly updates on which states have been infected. We can break out the funny masks left over from SARS to scare people again. We require good hygene from the population by telling them washing their hands will prevent the spread. We also get to kill off herds of animals that have been infected, just like we did to the cows. Could you imagine us treating the sick population of humans like we treat the sick animals? We cause people to fear their neighbors and tell them to avoid contact with others, just like people feared their mailboxes during the anthrax craze. Too much attention has been given to one topic.
I see more and more kids trying to act sick because now if they can convince others they are sick, they not only miss a day of school but the whole district gets shut down. They get to have a sick day for two weeks with all of their friends! Convince your employer you have it and the whole store gets shut down.
As a society we fail to miss the big pictures. The swine flu has maybe killed 100 people since its discovery. Cancer and AIDS are much more severe problems. Do we need to come up with some weird animal combination name for cancer to become popular. I guess we will run in fear from cancer when we hear the media announce that horse cancer has begun to spread among humans. I think more people were fascinated with AIDS when they found out it originally came from monkeys. What is next - pandabear acne?
The media has played an important role in the spread of the fear. With nothing happening in politics, and the sports world shifting towards the boring boys of summer, there aren't enough stories to fill the 40 minutes of nightly news coverage. Enter the swine flu pandemic.
Now we can re-use the maps from the election and have nightly updates on which states have been infected. We can break out the funny masks left over from SARS to scare people again. We require good hygene from the population by telling them washing their hands will prevent the spread. We also get to kill off herds of animals that have been infected, just like we did to the cows. Could you imagine us treating the sick population of humans like we treat the sick animals? We cause people to fear their neighbors and tell them to avoid contact with others, just like people feared their mailboxes during the anthrax craze. Too much attention has been given to one topic.
I see more and more kids trying to act sick because now if they can convince others they are sick, they not only miss a day of school but the whole district gets shut down. They get to have a sick day for two weeks with all of their friends! Convince your employer you have it and the whole store gets shut down.
As a society we fail to miss the big pictures. The swine flu has maybe killed 100 people since its discovery. Cancer and AIDS are much more severe problems. Do we need to come up with some weird animal combination name for cancer to become popular. I guess we will run in fear from cancer when we hear the media announce that horse cancer has begun to spread among humans. I think more people were fascinated with AIDS when they found out it originally came from monkeys. What is next - pandabear acne?
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