Now that I won't have to write to please all those obnoxious professors any longer, I plan to continue my writing by narrating events in my life for family and friends to enjoy. In Russia I really enjoyed writing about my adventures in my weekly email to my family. Even though I get to talk to them on at least once a week on the phone now I always forget to tell them the funny stories. Hopefully I'll be able to better capture them in writing. Please allow the following to suffice as a brief synopsis of my life thus far, I assume most of you know it but this should fill in the big gaps, and I'll go from there:
This week is the end of my academic adventures (for now) and the very beginning of what I consider to be "real life". I have been working towards my undergraduate degree since 2006, when I graduated from a small school in the Uintah mountains of Utah with 86 other people. 8 years later and a plethora of crazy happenings, including but not limited to: academic probation at BYU, a two year mission to Russia, a winter of skiing at the University of Utah, a wonderful wife, an extended stay in Hawaii, attending four different universities, and completing over 150 credits, I'm happy to finally be graduating next week. It's been an unconventional but rewarding path and I wouldn't change a moment of it. I've learned so much and met so many awesome people from all over the world (literally, everywhere) in my adventures. I am not in close contact with very many of them, but they've all had an impact on my life in some way or another and will not soon be forgotten. Thanks to all of you who've blessed my life. Here are a few fun moments and people from the last 8 years:
I also want to wish my wife a happy birthday today! Because we are usually cramming for finals around April 5th, it's been a while since we've been able to celebrate her birthday on her birthday, so hooray for today, HBD Lindsey! Thanks for being the best thing that ever happened to me.
