Gigi,
It has been WAAAAY too long dear sister. And we never
finished our trip! I think that after this post, I will try to remember what
came next on the trip…but you know how my memory can be. Be prepared to correct
my blips and mistakes.
This week has been quite exciting. Okay, so not really until
tonight. Mostly the week was me doing homework and studying as all college
students should. Mother said that you once took 21 credits, and I applaud you.
I am only taking 17 credits and I am struggling keeping up. That may also have
something to do with the fact that none of them are fun classes and are all for
my major, but still. On Monday, I FINALLY got a job…and guess what it is…yep
you guessed it. I am a janitor at the school. Early Morning Janitor, which I
have to say, is the best kind. 3 am to 7 am in the morning I am vacuuming,
sweeping and scrubbing rooms and toilets. They are so clean. SO clean, in fact,
that you can even eat off of them. Although I would never recommend it. I think
I am the only one in the building that takes pride in their work, but I
actually like doing a good job. I worked in a different building last Spring
and we cleaned everything VERY thorough. In my current building, the Snow,
people hardly clean at all. It’s kind of sad.
This reminds me of a story. Do you remember when I was in 3rd
grade and everyone in my class was going around and saying what they wanted to
be when they grew up? I think some of the responses were fireman, policeman, a
mother, a surgeon. Then it was my turn. I piped up nice and loud “A MAID” and
everyone looked at me and then laughed. Even the teacher. So humiliating. But I
do believe that is the reason I like cleaning so much.
And that pretty much was my week, which brings us to today. I
was asked to volunteer for a sleigh ride trip at 4:30pm. I agreed and showed up
at 4 for instruction. The leader shows up, hands me the liability forms which
everyone has to sign and tells me to read it to everyone when they arrive. The
forms basically say that you can’t sue BYU-Idaho and you could twist your ankle
or simply die on this trip and that is expected. Then the leader, Lex, said he
had to go pick up the van and the food, and he would be back shortly. I said
alrighty, how hard can it be to keep people busy for 5 minutes…
4:30 rolls around and I decide to start the reading of the
liability form. As the participants were
reading it out loud (I wasn’t going to read it all…it’s an entire page of legal
jargon, so I made them do it!) I started laughing as it said everything that
could possibly happen to the participants. I couldn’t help it. I will have to
find it and type it up for you some time. It really is funny. Everyone finishes
and then it gets quiet…I ask everyone where they are from, everyone answers,
and then again quiet. Thankfully they were all coupled up so they started
talking to themselves. Bullet dodged.
4:40 rolls around…4:45…4:50, and FINALLY he shows up with
the van. He starts checking people in on the computer and they start piling
into the van. It turns out we have 12 people…we have a five passenger van. Strike
2. I run over to Lex and asked what to do and he says, well I guess you get to
drive. Two problems. For starter I did not have my license on me…and second, I don’t
have permission from the school to drive. I haven’t passed the exam yet. But He
said he would take responsibility, and apparently I haven’t learned yet to make
sure I get it in writing, but I accepted the risk. We arrive…at 5:15 after
getting lost twice (I learned to bring my own map from now on) and pull in. I
learn shortly after this that I will be on the sleigh ride. With my thin jacket
and little tennis shoes, I hop on and begin to freeze.
So this “sleigh” is not really a sleigh at all. It was more
of a plank of wood on wheels with hay bales pulled by two horses. It was…interesting. And cold. And cold. Did I mention
it was cold? While we are on the sleigh ride, the driver wants us to get up and
cut the rope on the bales of hay and shove them off the sleigh to feed all the
animals. Somewhere in this long process I lost my hat. My favorite hat. Well,
one of my favorites. The grey one I got for Christmas. I suppose I could just
go down to target to replace it-oh wait, there is no target here. J Gotta Love Rexburg,
Idaho! But all in all a great trip around on the sleigh. I don’t think anyone
in that crew will do it again though.
We start to drive back and I turn around this corner and a
CAT runs out right in front of my car! Ugh stupid cats! It was the cutest
little thing I have ever seen too. So fluffy because it is so cold here in the winter. It is so lucky I was going like 3 miles an
hour and was able to stop quickly. Because that would have ruined my day for
sure.
I will be leading trips like this all the time, so I am sure
that there will be amazing stories coming.
Church is going to start soon…well
okay, I don’t have church till 1:50…but I am thinking about taking a nap before
then.
Love you dearest sister
Little Lucy
