Why I Hate Group Projects....

This week we found out groups for a group project in my LDS Marriage and Family class. There are 7 kids in my group, and in the next two weeks we have to meet on at least two separate occasions. All 7 of us have jobs, are full time students, and have other obligations already. When I went to sleep last night, my inbox on my email was empty. This morning when I woke up, like 7 hours later, I had 14 emails just from my group members, trying to figure out when this week we can get together.

I feel kind of bad about all the trouble in coordinating schedules for a meeting this week. This week in on-campus housing is Safety Week. This means I have extra things Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday night. Tuesday night it's a Fire Drill, then my normal Staff Meeting, followed by a Hall Council Training Meeting. Wednesday night it's a Safety Seminar. Friday it's working at the Safety Store where residents will come in and redeem the points they earn throughout the week by practicing safe behaviors (we check the blinds at night to see if they're closed, I do random door checks 3 times a day to see who is locking their door.. stuff like that). Thursday night is my hall activity, followed by the season premiere of The Office, which is kind of like our hall activity part two.

We've basically resorted to meeting after 9pm on Wednesday because between now and Saturday that was the only time we could all meet. Go figure.

Luckily, next week I only have stuff Tuesday night (staff meeting) and then working one other day. My schedule will be much nicer to share with them.

I don't know if this post should be more why I hate group projects, or why I hate safety week... but neither are very fun, and if I had my way, I would get rid of both.

On a different note. My apartment had a fiesta on Sunday to celebrate Kourtney's birthday. We had a pinata (a donkey named Paco), tacos, and some funny gifts for her. Our FHE group came over which was crazy, 15 people in our kitchen was a little much. It was a great fiesta though.

We also had a stake fireside where President Wilcox (as in Brad Wilcox, the EFY speaker and such) who is in the stake presidency spoke. It was fabulous. Our Stake President, President Ward challenged everyone to read The Book of Mormon by March 1st (or was it March 31st?) and to participate in Indexing. Then he said that when we finish The Book of Mormon we'll have another fireside, in which our stake will also perform From Cumorah's Hill (which everyone I know of who reads this blog should know about). I'm excited at the thought of Cumorah's Hill for a 3rd time. While I'm not sure if I'm going to participate, or let all the freshman do it and just sit in the audience, I'm super excited to be able to atleast see it and hear the music again!

ALSO... in our ward for ward prayer, we rotate which FHE group is in charge. The first time your group is in charge you have to do a skit or something to introduce everyone. We've seen groups that have made family slideshows, a group that made a music video, and a group that just kind of showed up and said their names. Our group is in charge next week, and we decided we had to do something really cool. We had already wanted to choreograph a dance to a medley of songs from Hairspray (my roommate used Garage Band-possibly the coolest program I've ever seen- to get the parts from each of the songs we used). We decided that rather than make a movie and have the ward watch the movie of us dancing... we're going to perform the dance live. Last night we started working on it, and I am SOOOO excited! It's pretty intense.

I'll post a picture of my roommates once I can steal the picture we took together at our Fiesta. Hopefully I can get that soon. Also, I'll see if I can get someone to record our dance and I'll post that on here too if I get the chance.