Dancing

I'm taking a ballroom dance class, and I must say that it is pretty awesome. We will be learning 4 dances, the foxtrot, the waltz, the cha-cha, and swing dance. Right now we are learning the foxtrot. I really like the foxtrot and my teacher. She teaches us at a good pace  and in a good order. Even if I don't feel completely comfortable with the last step that we just learned, the next step that she teaches us compliments the last step and helps me learn the last one even better. She is also really good a making sure everyone has a partner. In my class we have more girls then guys (of course). To make sure that every girl has a chance to dance with a partner we switch partners about 5 times a class. She also watches to make sure that the girls that didn't have partners before have a partner the next time. I really like this because you get to experience different styles of leading, which is especially nice if you had someone who was a bad leader before.

So this leads me to a humorous story (or at least humorous to me). One of the guys in my class is really tall, his name is Regan. I barely come up to shoulder. Well he asked me to dance. This makes for a very awkward dance position because your arms are suppose to be parallel to the floor. Needless to say that unless he wanted to hold on to my head his arms couldn't be parallel to the floor. Well we tried our best and made didn't do have bad. The other awkward part is that while we were in dance position, if I ever wanted to talk to him I had to look straight up.

Now for a really humorous story. Our teacher was talking to us about how the foxtrot is a traveling dance and how we had to REALLY big steps so that we could travel really far. Well since my partner Regan is really tall he was really excited because he can take REALLY big steps. The couple next to us looked at Regan and then looked at me and said "Yeah, but I think that your partner counter acts that."

Stuck

One of my favorite Christmas movies is called A Christmas Story. It is seriously amazing. One of the best parts is when one of the kids sticks his tongue to a telephone pole and it gets stuck. Now you may be wondering why I bring up a Christmas moving in the middle of July. The reason is simple, I can now say that is no fun to be the one with your tongue stuck.

No, I did not get my tongue stuck to a telephone pole. I got my tongue stuck to a Popsicle. Yes, it hurt. What was worst is that it got really confusing when I couldn't decided whether to laugh or cry. I ended up doing both

Firtst Week

School started for me this week and now my first week back to school is over. I survived. I thought I might share with you some of my adventure from the first week of school.

Zeta had RUSH this week, which meant Tuesday night and Thursday night where devoted to that. Tuesday night we met all the girls that wanted to RUSH. There were so many and I'm sure that it was completely overwhelming to them. We have a very cute them this year, its capture the moment. I love it! I think that it fits the college mentality. Our display was really cute. Katie did an amazing job! Unfortunately I don't have pictures. On Thursday we got out new girls. It seems like we have some really cute, outgoing girls. I can't wait to get to know them better. We also went to the Sigma Gamma Chi carnival which is always a blast.

On Monday while I was getting ready for school I tripped twice. My mom found it pretty funny. I told her that it was a great way to start out the first day of school on an uphill campus. Believe it or not I've never actually tripped on Campus. So what do I do? Not only do I trip, but I completely fall down. By the time I'm done falling I'm facing in the opposite direction of the way I was walking. Luckily I was followed by a polite person, who helped me up and made sure that I was ok instead of just walking by. I did a quick inventory of myself and made sure that I was ok. However that night I discovered that one of my toes was scrapped up and swollen and the next day discovered that my knee was bruised. Not bad for one fall.

I really liked all but one of my classes, but that is okay because I found a class to replace it and now I like all of my classes. :)

I didn't really want to go back to go as of Sunday night, but realized that I really missed school as soon as I got back on campus. I love my campus and think that it is beautiful (of course it will be even prettier when they are done with construction). I love learning and going to school. I guess I just forgot that because of my last year. My last year was really hard on me and made me forget how much I love school. Now I am refreshed and ready to learn some more.

Random Thoughts

So I have a bunch of thought running through my head, and I'm hoping that if I write them down that I will be able to think straight again. None of them are  really connected and none of them are long enough to put into a post by themselves, so I am going to post them all together.

I miss my dad. He is in Korea for 3 weeks. Normally when he leaves town he is able to call us at night. But since it is international its a little bit harder. We can email him, but it just isn't the same.

I'm kind of mad at myself because I forgot about two different appointments in the same week.

I'm getting my hair done tomorrow. I'm really excited. It probably won't look to different, but it will be nice to get rid of all my split ends.

I hate that Disney movies can make me cry, even after I've seen them a million times.

I loved being able to see Heather, Sarah, Alex, Natalie, Drew, James, Megan, Andrew, Emily, and baby Sarah. I have so my fun being with them. It is crazy to see how big my cousins get. Both families need to visit more often. Especially since James thought I was 14.

Swings are the best part about going to a park.

I can't believe how much my little brother can eat! I bet he is going to be really tall.

School starts in less than two weeks. Crazy? Yes! Where did my summer go. At the same time I'm kind of excited.With school starting so does ZETA! Totally excited to jump into the new semester. It is going to be amazing.

My best friends Annie came home from Ukraine. I'm so excited to have her back home. Hopefully we will be able to do lots of stuff before school starts.

I was called as a Nursery worker. I'm really excited. I think that little kids are so much fun and I can't think of a better calling then to get to play with little kids all day.

So that is basically all the random thoughts in my head right now. I kind of liked doing that, and I am pretty sure that I will do it again. Stay tune for more random thought with Justine.

Best Quote EVER!!

Okay so I will probably be the only person in the world who will think that this quote is amazing, but that is okay. For that reason I have to give a little background information about myself and about the show that this quote came from.

First me. I love my name. I think that it sounds beautiful and elegant. The only thing that I hate about my name is that it seems that no one one can read or say my name right the first time.Ever since I was a little, people have messed up my name. I have been called the wrong name more than I can remember and have had it spelled wrong only slightly less. Justin is usually what I get mistaken for.

Second the show. It is called the Wizards of Waverly place. It is about a family of wizards. In this particular episode Justin and Alex both win a contest to write and illustrate a comic book. At the end of the episode they are reading the review of their comic book.

Now here is the quote

"The Russo sisters, Alex and Justine, have taken over the reigns with flair."

Do you see why I find that completely awesome? After 21 years of being called Justin when my name is Justine, its nice to see someone named Justin mistaken for a Justine!

Collections

Each person in my family collects things, with the exception of one person. Bet you can't guess who. Yep me. My Dad collects everything. We say that he collects collections. He collects hotwheel cars, Disney pins, airplanes, watches, comic books, and legos etc etc. That is only a small list of things that he collects. My Mom collects tea cups. Michal collects dolls, and Disney pins. Nathaniel collects baseball caps and Disney pins. Aly collects stuffed animal or as she calls them her pets. My Mom says that I collect bobby pins, but I don't think that really counts.

The fact that I don't collect anything kind of frustrates my Dad because when he goes on work trips he doesn't know what to get me. He always has at least a start with everyone else because of what they collect. Well I figured out something that I collect but I don't think that it is going to help very much. I collect hobbies. See I was right it isn't going to help him very much.

Oops

I am a horrible speller. I always have been.  When I was in Elementary school I hated taking the weekly spelling tests. I had to study my spelling words everyday. I wasn't one of the kids who could just figure out how to spell words by sounding it out in my head. I had to look it (still do) or ask someone else how to spell it. In jr. my first drafts would always come back covered in red marks of things that I needed to fix, usually because I didn't like to take the time to read through my drafts before I turned them in.

So why do I tell you this? The answer is simple... When my little sister read my last blog post she found at least three grammar and spelling errors. She probably found more but didn't tell me because she could tell that I was getting annoyed. I went back and fixed the ones that I could find but I probably didn't get them all. There are probably a few in this post as well (kind of ironic huh?)

So this post is mostly to inform you that most of my posts will have grammar or spelling errors. Will I try to catch them? Yes. Will I be successful at trying to catch them? Probably not.