This Fall, BYU Law School will be adding a very special person to its ranks. My brilliant, witty, cello and piano playing, arts loving, computer programing, ski chaperoning, mathematically minded, devout, and deserving sister, Sara! Hurray! I'm so proud of her. Moreover, I'm so excited for her (and a wee bit jealous). She's lived in places from Hawaii to Boston, but never in a place quite like Provo. I've had P-town on the brain ever since Sara called me with the good news. Sis, here's a little list of things you must do there, besides study and work like there's no tomorrow:- Attend the devotionals in the Marriott Center. They are broad casted all over so it will be tempting to to stay in the Clark, but go!
- Go to soooo many performances at the HFAC. I was generally impressed, or at least entertained, by the stuff I saw.
- Take advantage of the International Cinema. Free. Fun.
- Hang out with my friend Jessika. She's a fellow former Alias fanatic, winter sports fan and a wiz in the kitchen (be sure to peek at her Lion House rec. book). Y'all would have a bunch to talk about. And she's just a lot of fun to hang out with.
- Smile at your red graduate parking tag EVERY DAY.
- Eat at Cafe Rio, the Pita Pit ( on Bulldog I think, by Panda Express), the hamburger place on the corner of Freedom and U. Prkwy, the cafe at the MOA, and Magleby's (if only just to eat their cheesy biscuits while you wait to be seated) every chance you get.
- Go to a football game or two.
- Shop for your groceries at Macys.
- Play on the baby grand Steinway that is tucked away in one of the practice rooms in the basement of the HFAC. Its usually free after 11PM.
- Next spring, admire the magnolia trees along side the sculpture garden and the west side of the HFAC when they are in bloom.
There's so much more that I will be remembering, but that's a good start. Of course, you'll be in daily proximity to several memorable landmarks: my infamous thinking tree by the bell tower, the tables I spent so many hours studying at in the Law Library (not to mention the ginormous flight of stairs that Brett A. stunt-rolled down while the library was packed. You'll laugh when you see it.), the piano in the main floor stadium seating classroom of the Law Library where I practiced for my lessons so often because the practice rooms in the HFAC were booked solid by all those pesty performance majors :), and all those gorgeous magnolia trees. But I mentioned them already.
Congratulations Sara!
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That brings back good memories. International Cinema sure is fun and a little strange. I love the dance performances--and do they do at least one opera a year?--at the HFAC. I'd minus the football game, cause I'm like that, and I never played on the grand piano so I second that one.
First you make me homesick for snow, and now for Provo. I'm on the verge of tears just thinking about those magnolia trees, probably just one of my "pesty" quirks :)
Haha. Jen, I forgot that you were a performance major! I hope you read the sarcasm in that little statement. I was always just a little bitter that I couldn't reserve a time for a practice room although I was practicing 10+ hours a week for a class I was taking for credit. I always had to go from 10:30-midnight. And towards the end of the semester, the rooms were never free and I'd have to find a piano somewhere else on campus and was kicked out of more than a few rooms. I even went back to an apartment complex I had lived at 2 years earlier to use the piano in their clubhouse once. Anyway, nothing personal or even serious intended.
Thanks sister :) The more I think about it, the more excited I become. BYU-U is so much bigger than BYU-H. It is even quite a bit larger than the last graduate school I attended. That is a little intimidating. Luckily, I will be bringing my little piano with me, so I don't have to worry about finding a piano to play on which is good because you make it sound totally impossible. And I am Oooooh so excited to come out to Michigan. Jared is even catching my excitment. Not that he isn't looking forward to seeing you, but he wasn't exactly on board with my big road trip ideas until recently. We are going to have so much fun! Love you tons :) -Sara
Aren't you glad those late-night practice sessions have been replaced with worthy endeavors like LOST?
LOL!!! I totally forgot you were there when he fell down those stairs!! Charming and I tell that story all the time, but it's just not the same as seeing it... (My favorite part was when people thought I'd PUSHED him down!)
Aw, now I'm all Jheshe and Provo nostalgic...
Congratulations, Sara!! You're going to love it. BYU rocks and so does the law library! (That's where Charming and I met--so we will always love it dearly).
Congrats to Sara!! I'm currently enjoying many of the things you listed off here on my little trip to P-Town. Who knows life may bring me back down this way and then we can hang out again! I'm so excited for her!!
That IS fantastic news! Tell your sis welcome to BYU! And I am super flattered that you would include me in your BYU Musts! What a laugh!! :o) We'll certainly have to meet and will surely become best buds if she is anything like you!! :o) Congrats.
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