Mr. and Mrs. Salls

Yes, it is official. I am a student nurse who has worked with REAL patients! Lets see, I showered someone, changed a brief, took vitals, dressed, fed, and even took a break to eat at Wendy's! Its not easy working in the locked unit (sounds scarier than it is) but with my mad nursing skills...it was no problem. (ok, acutally i was completely pooped by the end of my shift!) And...Yes, I would appreciate it if you started referring to me as Nurse Janet.

After a very busy day of fun beach activites, we ended up at Sunset beach to watch the sunset. We even saw a seal!

I finally did it! I conquered my fears and jumped of the rock at Waimea Bay. I was getting ready to jump when another girl asked if I wanted to hold hands and jump because she was scared too. I figured that that would be fine. Well...back in the day when I used to go bridge/cliff jumping all the time I never held hands with anyone, so I didn't really know what i was doing. Some might say that is common sense, but apparently not for me. She jumped before me, but we were holding hands, so it threw off my balance...in the end...I hit the water sideways! Yeah...I probably won't be jumping off the rock again.

You can't tell, but the whole inside of my leg was instantly bruised.

This summer term i spent nearly $200 on books. You would think that i would get a good chunk of money back. NO! I got $17 back! ok...enough complaining, but that does kind of seem like an injustice to me!

After several attempts to load some pictures, here they are!

Ever since I was a child, I have disliked hair. It is fine when it is on someones head, i.e. attached, but anywhere else is gross. I used to hate it when my brothers would get their hair cut because there would be little hair pieces everywhere, all over the counter and in my food! Even when they would say that they had cleaned it up, there was also some hair left. As i have grown older, and more mature (haha), I have somewhat grown out of this. At least I don't make a huge deal out of it. Ok...keep that in mind for the next part of the story. So some friends and I went to get dinner in Haleiwa at Cholos, a Mexican restaurant. It was good, I got a chicken taco salad. I have eaten most of it when I feel something really gross in my mouth-YES A HAIR! I am trying to stay calm, but all of my childhood fears came back to me! It was the sickest thing! I spit all of the food that was in my mouth out into a napkin. I wanted to throw up. I didn't, I just stopped eating my salad because I was way too grossed out to eat anymore. Finding a hair in your food has to be one of the sickest things ever! At least we got a picture of us before the gross hair incident-otherwise i would have had a frowny face!

Tuesday was spent in Honolulu at the Bodies exhibit! It was so fun! I took me back to the days of anatomy lab-which I loved so much. The only downer is that they don't let you touch anything and I had forgotten a lot of things. Time to brush up on my terminology before school starts! The grossest thing at the exhibition was a teratoma. I had read about them, but never seen a real one. Basically it is a tumor that grows other kinds of tissue and even organs, although that is rare. They generally contain hair, teeth, and bone! I know I am going to be a nurse, and I am supposed to be able to handle these types of things, but i think it was one of the sickest things i have ever seen in my whole life! Here are some pictures so you can get an idea of what they are like! They are even grosser in person.

I went skydiving!! It was so fun!! Here are a few pics and movie clips so you can share in the fun!

I got the privilege of being a building counselor for EFY here is Laie! It was such an amazing experience! I learned so much from the kids! I was in charge of the musical program and it was fantastic! My kids sang so well! I was so proud of them!! I loved learning and remembering to rely on the Lord this week as I was still in school too and things were very busy. I am so blessed!

Things are done a little differently here is Laie, Hawaii. I have to pay to do laundry...so instead I decided that i will now wash all of my clothes in the sink. So far it has worked out nicely. And I am getting in touch with my pioneer roots!

The fourth was great!! Not only was it a day off from school, I didn't even do any homework!! I went to the beach with friends and got buried in the sand. Then we went to turtle bay to watch fireworks. Drea, my roommate, and I explored around the resort while we were waiting for it to get dark. It was beautiful! Before the show a HUGE rainstorm came through. I have never seen if rain so hard before in my life-that is including 18 years of Seattle rain too. So we ran for cover...unfortunately it took me a little longer to get to cover. So needless to say, I was very wet. After the rain stopped, we watched fireworks!! Then we hit up foodland for treats and went to celebreate a friends birthday! We played twister-one of my faves!

I got a letter today! It was from Sister Alexander! It was so fun to get a letter here in Hawaii and hear from Becca. She is doing great and is loving her mission. I felt like I was a missionary because I was so excited to get a letter! Other high points from this week include going to the temple, seeing a beautiful sunrise, and making cookies!