Becoming an Oxfordian!

What a whirlwind the past 3 days have been! I have had such a good time trying to adjust to this incredible city! Our airplane ride was an experience for sure, I was sitting on a aisle next to a man who travels to Narobi Africa 6 times a year for a month at a time! It was awesome to get to hear his story!
Here is a collage that sums up our plane ride pretty well!

Once we got to London we had about an hour and a half drive to our little home on Canterbury road!

I am living in House 9 for the next four weeks it was built in 1850!!! It is a precious house! I love it! The first day we got unpacked and trekked down to Downtown Oxford! walking around down here is like walking around in a movie, everything is so picturesque! Here are a few pictures from our walk to downtown! 

This city is so enchanting! I just am loving it here! After walking around we decided to grab dinner at a local pub called the Royal Oak! It was so good! We all got hamburgers! 

The first night we went to bed super early because we were pooped! 

Day 2: 

We went to class from about 9-12! Most of todays class consisted of lots of questions about the culture! I am really going to enjoy being here! Almost immediately after class our little group ran down to On the Hoof! Its the quaintest little sandwich shop that I just LOVED it & see myself chowing down there often! 

After that we freshened up and headed back into town!  Here are a few more pictures of the downtown city of Oxford! 

 This pub is where C.S. Lewis and J.R.R Tolken talked about Theology and things! It is so neat to be in these places that so many famous people have been to!! 

Here is a city view down the main alley

 This is one of my new sweet friends Jenny Dodd!! She is absolutely precious! In this picture we are in a church that was built in 900!! So ancient! It was amazing!! 

 This building is was built in 1400... seriously amazing... maybe wasn't an Austin Reed back then but the building is original! 

This wall that I am touching was built in 1000... It was the original wall of the city of Oxford! It was incredible to touch this piece of history! 

 This is Christ Church! It was maybe one of the most beautiful palaces I have seen yet! 

Hopefully I will update again soon! But that sums up my first 2 full days in Oxford! 

The Perfect Planner

If anyone knows me, they understand how incredibly important a planner is to me. 

I have always thought about making my own planner but have never sat down to do it. 

So, I did it. I made it annnddd I LOVE IT!

I thought I would share it with you all! Feel free to use it as well! Everything should print perfectly if you are an OCD planner like me, this should be the perfect planner for you!

This is the Cover - Which I got laminated 

Inside the Cover 

First Page! 

I use this page as a filler and it most of the time is adjacent to the monthly calander

This is the Left Page

anddd the Right

Here are the Monthly Calanders

And I used this as the back cover and laminated it as well!

Here are some pictures of mine! I got it bound at Fedex for like 5 dollars!!! 

Enjoy! 

End of the year update? fine by me!

Well, seeing as I didn't do much blog updating this semester its about time to catch my faithful readers (thanks mom) reader up! :)

Lets see where I left off! I moved into a house! Thats pretty exciting stuff!

Here are some pictures of our humble commode abode.

It has been so different living in a house but so much fun! I love the fact that I am able to cook and bake whenever I want! The house has also been a great place for me to escape this semester with the business of life I am able to just retreat to my room and have some alone time!

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School this semester was good! I made a 4.0, so that is always a relief! I stayed busy with club and friends and work! Academically I made quite a few decsions which included declaring 3 minors - psychology, communications and gerontology and I decided that I want to graduate early (I know... what was I thinking?!?!).

So this spring semester is going to be a doooosseeyyyy! I am enrolled in 21 hours (again... what was I thinking?), doing sing song (at least 10 hrs a week), and working (20 hours a week). So to say I will have my hands full this semester!

I am graduating December 14, 2012 people. mark this down and plan to be there :) (got it mom?)

After this spring I am getting an awesome oppertunity to study abroad in Oxford England! I am planning to be there from July 9th to August 9th (yes that is when the olympics are going to be in London)! I feel pretty lucky to have such an incredible opportunity!

In the fall I have pretty much secured an internship with The House that Kerry Built in Abilene, which is a day care, health facility for children who are deemed "medically fragile". So to say that I am excited is an understatement :). For those who don't know what I want to do when I graduate, my dream is to become a child-life specialist and work at a children's hospital, such as cooks children's or Medical City Dallas (maybe eventually one day... St. Jude).

Other than that, there is no new news to report with school just chugging along!

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Lastly I will just share some pictures of some sweet friends over this year, these people are a tramendous blessing in my life and I thank God every day for people like them!