Volley, Tie Dye and Photo Shoots

I don't know where to begin, but let's just say not much has changed.  I am still busy as always.  Lots of volleyball, school and photo shoots.  My CTeam girls now have a record of 8 - 1.  Not too shabby at all and in our last tournament we placed 3rd below Service and South.  The other weekend, the girls had a sleepover at one of the captain's house.  I decided I would come over and we would tie dye pink shirts for the upcoming Breast Cancer Awareness night, October 11.  I checked out a tutorial on YouTube on how to tie dye the awareness ribbon onto the shirt, like the photo on the left.

Let's just say the guy on YouTube made it look so easy and then when we attempted it, it was frustrating.  I called it a mental patience test, haha.  Most of the shirts looked pretty good, but not perfect.  I decided we use puff paint to outline the ribbon and they can write sayings like "Set for the Cure, Dig for the Cure, Spike for the Cure" depending on their positions.  After tie dye, I introduced the girls a game called CatchPhrase.  We had a lot of fun yelling and screaming at each other. It was pretty intense.   I left around 11pm and said good bye to the girls.  I had fun getting to know Oakley's mom, Katie.  She is an amazing person and mother.  I am glad she let the girls sleepover and bond.  It was just so nice to see all my girls bonding together and having fun with each other.

My CTeam girls and I <3

Other than volleyball, school is going pretty well.  I had my first exams in Mathematical Proofs and  Ordinary Differential Equations(AKA ODE), which is pretty much Calculus II extended.  2.5 more months to go for the semester.  I already can't wait for it to be over.  Just one more year if all goes well.  Can't believe how close, yet so far I am from obtaining that degree.

Cory and I also purchased tickets to Oregon to see his family December 13 - January 11.  We are taking our finals early so we can leave ASAP.  Awesome!  We made this decision because it has been more than a year since Cory has seen his family.  It is like we either go in winter or we go in summer.  We didn't think next summer would work because we would probably be in summer school, which is why we didn't go this last summer.  Winter wins.

So, we are celebrating Christmas, New Years and my 24th birthday down there.  I am excited to see Oregon in the winter for some reason.  The summers impressed me, so let's see how winter goes.  It is a bummer we won't be spending the holidays this time around with my family.  Now that I think about it, this will be the first time I won't be spending the holidays with them.  It is like one families gain is another's loss.  If only we all lived in the same state.  Hopefully, while we are down there, we can also catch some concerts or something awesome too :)

To close, here are the recent photo shoots I have done.  Two couples and one senior.  My next one is a family shoot with a 7 month old with her mom and dad.  Now that I realize, Cory and I need some updated photos too.  I have been so focused on taking other people's photos, but not ours.  I need to get back on that and capture photos of my life.  Photos are forever, a snapshot of a memory.

Back to classes

1 week down of classes and 15 to go for the fall semester.  I am now booked with classes beyond Calculus III and it just gets more arduous for this math major.  First week of classes went pretty good.  I have one professor with a strong Indian accent who teaches intro to proofs.  He said, "this class is about sets, sets and sets"  It sounded like "sex, sex and sex".  I couldn't help but laugh in my brain. He wrote down the word, set theory, on the board to clarify.  Every year his speech about set theory gets confusing for students because it sounds like he said sex, which the class has nothing entertaining like that.

Now to complain:  I already have one professor to complain about and that is my linear algebra professor.  He is horrible!  I don't care if he has a doctorate, he needs to treat us students with respect.  He is the most arrogant human being I have ever met.  If I could, I would of switched out, but this class is needed now for it is a prerequisite for another math course.  He barely teaches and doesn't even let us use the text book for reference.  He puts us in groups like we are back in high school to work on homework.  This is how it went last wednesday morning when we got in our "groups" for homework.

*Gly searches in book to figure out how to do the first problem, because classmates are clueless.*
*Professor comes up to Gly's desk and says "You don't need to look in the book, just do the work"
Gly "But I don't know how to do the first problem"
Professor "We just learned about it.  Know your definitions"  *Professor walks away*

My group looked at me with a 'oh no he didn't' attitude.  We were all in the same crappy boat of confusion.  Anyways, what a jerk!  How can he expect us to understand fresh material right away?  He pretty much told me to close my book that I paid $150 for!  Maybe I will start a blog on how he makes me angry everyday I meet him in class.

Enough about school.  Well, my volleyball team is doing really good.  We are 3 - 0 right now.  We have 2 games this week and a tournament for the upcoming weekend.  I have a good group of girls.  My goal is to inspire them to be a better player and a better person.  I found a pair of my old volleyball shoes.  Well, only 3 years old.  They are in good condition and I only used them in the gym. I bought new ones that are lighter to replace them last year.  I decided to give my old pair away, so it doesn't sit in my closet.  There are 3 girls on my team with that same shoe size.  So to be fair for competition, I am having them write an essay on their favorite motivational quote due Tuesday.  The essay will entail, what the quote means to them, how they use it in life and how they use it in volleyball.  The winner will receive the nice Mizuno volleyball shoes.

Just a few other things that have happened:
-I won a $500 scholarship from UAA by writing an essay.  I am now waiting for it to be in our bank account.  I plan on paying off one of our credit cards with it.  Well we used our credit card for text books anyways, so that pretty much cancels it.
-We watched Gabriel Iglesias perform at the State Fair with Banan & Crystal.  It was a grand time!  It was hilarious!!
-Cory applied for another job on base.  He is so persistant, I love it.  I really hope he gets it THIS TIME because, it would be great for us.  Although, you never know in the military.
-Check out my updated photo shoots that I have done Here

Upcoming events:
-Engagement photo shoot on the 11th.
-Little brother, Justin, turns 13 on the 13th (Golden Birthday!).
-Senior photo shoot and Mom turns 49 on the 17th.
-Adult league volleyball starts the 18th.

Well now we plan on going outside to take a little hike or something.  We have been doing homework all day and now it is time to give ourselves a nice brain break!

<3 Gly