Jeremiah & Hannah's Blog: Still Summer?

T-minus one month until I leave for Costa Rica! Just yesterday I had a Spanish Skype Interview with Veritas University (the university I will be attending) in order to find the level of Spanish I should be placed in. The interview went quite well! Better than I was expecting anyway… I spoke for thirteen minutes straight in Spanish. I was pretty nervous beforehand, just hoping that I would understand half of what she was asking me. I ended up really enjoying the conversation and having to speak in Spanish! That bodes well for the semester ahead of me! I can’t wait to become more conversational in Spanish!

Jeremiah is down to only three weeks left in his internship! But as of August 20^th, he is also now in school full time (A senior! Where did the time go?). That means he is very busy fitting in 40 hours of work, 15 credits of school, and homework. But he is managing, taking it day by day and still very much enjoying his internship. Proud of how hard he is working, and amazed at how he manages it all!

While Jeremiah slaves away, I feel guilty that I have quite a bit of free time before I leave for my study abroad! I am definitely enjoying the free time and trying to treasure it before I no longer have any summer to enjoy! So yes, it is still summer for me! I have been keeping busy with a few different activities… Babysitting, crafting, working, and reading to name a few things. Wicked is coming to Gammage, the theater that I work at, and it is here for six weeks! So starting tonight through the time that I leave for Costa Rica I will work/see Wicked 20 times!! It’s a good thing I enjoy the show, but I’m not sure how much I’ll like it after the 10^th time! Also I just started up an online business class called Essentials of Selling. I have decided I would like to pursue a minor in Business, so this will get me three credits closer and so far I am enjoying the class!

Here are some of the crafts that I have been working on!

A tic-tac-toe board for a game area at my friend Heather's wedding.

Decorating mugs- always wanted to try it!

Stenciled a map of Europe on this box for a place to store all of the ticket stubs I collected in Europe! Then drew the map of our route.

All of the paper/stubs from our trip!

Books I’ve read this summer that I highly recommend: Columbine by Dave Cullen, Seductive Poison by Deborah Layton, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay, Paper Towns by John Green. These are just some of the books I’ve read this summer. I love having the time to read as much as I want when I’m not in school!

By the way I have phrased the beginning of this post it would sound like Jeremiah and I never see each other! While the next three to four weeks will probably be that way, we made our last few weeks of summer some to remember! I’ll show in pictures what we’ve done.

Jeremiah and I attended Heather and Kohl's wedding! Heather pole vaulted with me in high school and was/is one of my very good friends!

The usual silly pictures with these kiddos!

Family homemade pizza night!

A beautiful AZ sunset (same night as the pizza night)

We moved in Jeremiah's brother, Nathan, into his dorm at ASU's Polytechnic campus! While we were helping him move in, I was mistaken as a CA twice! I guess I have a certain look about me??