1. My friend, Lindsey Thurmon, at her belated birthday party!
2. Eunice, Jason, Laurel, Adam taking a break from studying
3. Me, Laurel and Kyle
4. Eunice plucking my eyebrows....mom would be so proud
5. An amazing picture kim took, of course


I must apologize. I give all of you such a hard time about not commenting on my blog and then I take a month off. SO, I AM SORRY. Jt keeps harassing me about it. It is really busy this semester. I do come home in 11 days! Which is exciting but the break is terribly short....just two weeks. SO much to do in that time! I hope I can see as many people and do as much as I can. I really can't wait for sushi, steak, creme brulee, real books, new jeans (since the laundry here lost mine), and so much more shopping and friends and food and family!!!!!!! I must go study now! Two big tests this week! Love you guys!

These are pictures from our football game Friday night. Yes we won! Like the banquet, I have many pictures from football so you may be seeing them for the next few days. I really hope that you all enjoy them. I wish more of you would post and say hello, but I know, I know, you read but don't post. You are forgiven!!!!

1. Our Team

2. Me getting ready to have Angie fall on top of me

3. Eunice jumping on Lindsey and celebrating Lindsey's interception

4. Jenn, Lisa, Laurel, Adam, and Kyle with the sign they made for us

5. Me and Lisa Foody....she is the best

6. Lindsey Thurmon, Me and Angie....my tall friends that I go to church with and play bball with

7. Puja and me before the game

Even More Banquet Pictures...

1. Me and JT

2. Me and JT and TruTru (this local guy)

3. Me and Eunice at ribs

4. Me, JT, and my friend JT

5. Me and Lisa Espiritu

6. Me and JT with our Pina coladas

7. JT and Jay

8. Maria and Eunice at the pool

9. Christy Stewart and Puja

10. Me and Kim, my roomie

I will post football pics and tell you all abou the game! Love you guys

~nat

JUST SOME MORE PICS FOR YOU>>>>>>>

1. Me and Jennilee

2. The view from our room

3. Eunice and me

4. Amy Macher, me, and Kristy Smith

5. JT and Jay at the pool

6. Me and Shruti

7. Me and Christine

8. JT, me, Eunice, Adam, Laurel at ribs

9. Me and JT (my fav picture0

10. Me and Lindsey

These are pictures from my fourth semester banquet. 1) Me and Lisa Foody 2) Eunice, Laurel, and me (my Bible study girls) 3) Puja, Lindsey, me and Lisa 4) Puja, me, JT, Lindsey 5) Me and JT at sunset 6) Me, Adam, and Maria 7) Eunice, me, JT

I hope you enjoy the pictures.....I have SO many from this weekend that there will be more to come.

We had a really great time as you can see. We went swimming early in the day before the banquet. We had dinner and drinks and danced and took lots of pictures. They had a slideslow from a collection of pictures from everyone in our semester. There was also a video presentation made by our professors, many of whom attended the banquet. We had a great time at Fort Young during the day prior to the banquet. I will put pictures of that on tomorrow. Many of friends were there so we swam and ate and drank.... And of course, we went in and watched the great game between Xavier and Ohio State.

Well, I need to go pay attention to class. I hope all is well at home! Hope to hear from you soon.

~nat

Destiny? There's only your time & then there's not-your-time, he said. All the rest is made up to keep you busy. ~Storypeople

These pictures are from my friend Eunice's surprise birthday party. We had the party for her the night of the mini with no electricity at all. It made for a nice atmosphere with candles and all. Her friend, Jennilee, was the mastermind behind the ordeal, and she did a fabulous job putting it together. I don't have any pictures from JT's visit downloaded yet. Once I do, I will share them.

JT left today. I am still sad, but I have a short time left here this semester. I will give more details of his visit once I post the pictures! I love you guys!

~nat

Theory
trying to remember when it stopped being theory & turned into real life, because theory was a whole lot easier... from storypeople.com (I don't have any pictures right now....sorry)

I will get to see JT in approximately 51 hours. Needless to say, I am quite excite. This weekend is our fourth semester banquet. We are going to Fort Young Hotel, as are many of my classmates and friends, and swimming before the banquet and sleeping there afterwards. I am excited because Mom and I picked out a really pretty dress when I was at home over Christmas and she then sent me a great pair of shoes to wear with the dress.....It looks really good. I should have some very good pictures after this weekend. On Friday, I am taking JT to the rib place in Portsmouth. Before that, though, I am taking him to my basketball game. We are not going to play but I want him to meet the girls that I play ball with every week. Saturday we are going to Roseau early in the morning and having brunch at this "quaint" place on the water. Then we are going to swim all day. Maybe I will get a tan....not burnt! We leave for the banquet at 4:30 and who knows how long that will last....Then most people are going back to Fort Young afterwards to hang out. On Sunday, I am not sure what we are going to do. Maybe go to the beach and to church. Who knows.....gotta love spontaneity.

I hope things are going well at home. We had our second exam Monday. I can not believe I only have 2.5 weeks left of my basic sciences. Basically that means everything I need to know from a book, I should know in the next two and half weeks. That is kind of scary. The whole month of April is spent taking exams...no classes. Quite stressful but it is almost over.

Let me know how things are going!!!! I miss everyone very much.

~nat

Aren't these the two cutest girls ever? Can you guess who they are? See if you can guess.....
~nat

I never met the Devil (yet) but I imagine it's a pretty scary experience but then again I guess that's the point. ~storypeople.com (I think this quote is really funny actually. Hope you enjoy.)

These are more the of 133 pictures from my birthday. I hope that you enjoy the pictures. They are basically of the same people so i won't name everyone again. Anyways....Not much is going on here. I am still waiting on packages from my mom and my dad. It has taken almost four weeks....However, I guess it just extends my birthday until I get the packages. I am looking forward to receiving them, nonetheless.

let's see, what else is new. I am sick right. I am better today than yesterday. Thank goodness I did not have class yesterday because I was in bed with a high fever and feeling miserable. Today I just feel yucky and weak but not miserable. It was one of those days when you want to be at home with someone bringing you Sprite and popcicles and soup. However, that is one of those rotten things about becoming an adult...you just deal with it.

Well, I should pay attention....I am in pharmacology discussing adverse reactions of all the drugs we have studied thus far....I know, it is a lot of fun...

~nat

"When people asked how old she was, she would say 1009365, more or less, because she was so glad to be alive that she counted every day a birthday.
She had some disagreement from her knees about the actual figures though. . . " ~storypeople.com

( I really like this quote because lately, I have really been enjoying life. I am not old but I am fairly sore today because I ran and did lunges yesterday.)

These are pictures from my birthday party/dinner on Friday night. The first picture of me and my Bible study girls, Lisa Cole, Laurel and Eunice. Next is me being silly. Then is me and my friend Maria, then is Lisa Foody (the birthday planner) and I. Puja, Lindsey, and I are in the next picture. And lastly is everyone that went to dinner....Eunice, me, Puja, lindsey, laurel, lisa C, Kim, Lisa F.

Needless to say, we had a very good time. Lisa is the best birthday planner. We had cake and dancing and great LOBSTER. It was so much fun!!!!!!!! My friend lindsey, AKA PAPARAZZI, took 133 pictures and three videos from friday night. Thus, these are only a small sample of the many pictures. She is a crazy girl! But I love her.

I am in class so I should go! I just wanted to tell everyone thank you for the many birthday wishes and love sent from home. I love you guys and miss you. I do know, though, that this will be worth it in the end!!!! See you soon!

~nat