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 I promise we are still alive. In one piece, maybe not but hey. 
Today was nuts, I had another clinical of 6am-2pm and then had work 6pm-9pm woo!

I helped in a dining room, and my CNA told me she was going to leave for a sec and to make sure no one choked.... I got kind of scared about being left alone with a room full of 20 people with prospects of choking. And all I could imagine was my text book with this guy... (bahaha)



Austin cannot wait to get to the University of Wyoming, he keeps telling me he's not going to make it the rest of the semester. Most of his classes are just his Spanish minor, and has been going to practice his Spanish lots at the school because he's in a phonetics class this semester, and your accent counts! I could have used that in French, my accent is horrendous haha! Excuse me, (hoh hoh hoh mais oui!)

The most exciting news as of late:

So you can only imagine how much more enthused we are!

Okay maybe that was too much. He's going crazy waiting.

He's excited, I'm excited --but I have to admit I am going to miss all my art classes. There's nothing like an afternoon hanging out and painting watercolours. I thought this was a fun scene from our watercolour room, because the chalkboard writing and the projected image made a cool overlay. I did this with a giant U.S. Map I'm working on! I did it on our flat screen TV though. 





Because let me tell you, drawing states and the U.S. backwards (because in Intaglio it gets printed and comes out reversed) ..... YOU TRY IT......



Austin was cringing as I traced it on our TV, but for all you art geeks out there it was an 8B pencil ;) Practically grease! Can't wait to show you!


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