BYU girl!

Yesterday was the day I've been dreading all summer.

Saying goodbye to the littles before they go to school.

Was it raining when we unloaded the car?

Of course it was.

Stick told Rachel he didn't know we needed to rent a U-Haul to take her to BYU. But, being the good man that he his, he brought a dolly (hand truck) and we loaded it up.

Crummy back-lit picture of her room.

We were very glad that her roommate wasn't unloading at the same time, because the room is tiny.

Mr. Technology at work. College students these days need their own router, so they can get internet in their room.

Also, the chair at her desk rocks. Neato!

I originally took all these pictures to show our kids who didn't come with us.

See boys? She has a perfect view of the basketball court.

Her closet seemed teensy upon first inspection, but she was able to get most of her stuff into it. Not her hundreds dozens of pairs of shoes, but all the clothes, at least.

The beds had a piece that you could pull down to raise up the bed.

So high in fact that my tall(ish) girl had to take a flying leap just to get on it. (Not recommended for shorties.) This left her lots of room underneath to put bins for her hundreds dozens of pairs of shoes.

Bathroom, as you can plainly see. She and her roommate will share with the two girls in the room next door who are both from CA. (When we were there, the CA girls were nowhere to be seen.) Behind this sink area is another smallish room with a shower on one side and a toilet on the other.

See the up high bed? We put the fridge under the bed (you can see it with a bright pink sticker on it, under Rachel's feet) instead of on her roommate's desk.

While Stick was computering, I helped unpack all her things.

Then we just stayed and visited for awhile, since her roommate Maddie (a friend from CCHS) was at work and we didn't want to leave Rachel all alone. Once Maddie came, Stick helped her lift her bed too. I hope she and Rachel have a good year. Maddie is pretty much the complete polar opposite of Rachel, which will hopefully be ok. An opposites attract kind of thing, but not in a creepy way....

Pointing to her room.

This terrible picture that I had to crop severely and lighten a ton so you could even see the girls, shows Rachel, her roommate Maddie(with the french braid) and their other friend from Draper, Maddie (yes they both have the same name) who coincidentally lives across the hallway, on their way to dinner. I wish I would have thought to actually get a picture of you know, their faces.

An interesting note about the friend Maddie (not the roommate). Her dad was in my BYU freshman ward, and her aunt was my freshman roommate at Heritage Halls. Her parents lived in our same apartment complex in Walnut Creek for a short time before we moved back to UT. Currently they live in Draper too and the girls went to CCHS together. Now the girls live across the hallway from each other, not by design, they just got lucky.

As we drove away, I was surprisingly ok. I had anticipated I'd be a wreck, but I wasn't. As I reflect on it now, I think I'm just so happy and excited for her to be there.

It was fun to move her in. It was fun to see all the other families moving in their clean cut, good looking kids. Not necessarily handsome/pretty kids, although there were plenty of those, but kids that just looked good, happy, and clean. All the things that BYU is, I could see in those kids. It was fun to see the big calendar in the dorm hallway listing tons of activities in the next month. I smiled to hear Rachel's roommate who went to school in the summer say that she was so bored and antsy at home during the two week break between summer and fall semesters, that she could not wait to get back to BYU. I remember having those same feelings long ago.

I loved BYU, it was such a great time in my life. I'm a much different person now than I was back then in the Fall of 1990. I attribute much of my personal growth to my time at BYU, to the influence of my friends there, to all the various experiences I had there. I met Stick there. I'm still friends with some of the people I met my very first week there. When I started out, I never thought I would actually graduate because I would run out of money long before I was done. But somehow it all worked out. Graduation day was a very thrilling day for me.

I'm so happy for you, my darling girl.

Rise and shout!

2 Comments

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So happy to read all this. I have been thinking about her all week! Glad to hear things are going well. Such a happy time! I would like weekly updates, thank you. :)

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Great update!

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