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School started! Yes!

...big winner...

today i won big! greatest moment in my life!

today at wolverine wednesday the africa club was presenting on their accomplishments from the year, along with the presentation there was a game of sorts. they young man in charge asked a young man from the crowd to name all the countries in africa that he could. the chap didn't do so bad, he was able to name over thirty and the crowd was throughly impressed. the mc asked if anyone would like to challenge the man, i rose my hand and they called me up... the moment i had been waiting for all my life, a chance to show my skills off in front of a large lunch crowd! he counted down... 5,4,3,2,1... handed me the mic and I wowed them! 53 of the 54 countries in africa! that's right i missed one, in my defense there were only 53 when I learned it and technically there are only 53, they claim one is in africa, but it's really owned my france... but i am not bitter! I still won big! a t-shirt! my skills and hard work have finally paid off and the people of UVU have seen my only real skill! 

for those of you who don't believe me! here she be!

cape verde, morocco, algeria, tunisia, libya, egypt, sudan, chad, niger, mali, mauritania, senegal, gambia, guine bissau, guine, liberia, sierra leone, ivory coast, burkina faso, ghana, togo, benin, nigeria, cameron, equatorial guine, sao, tome, principe, gabon, congo, angola, zaire, central african republic, ethiopia, eritrea, djibouti, somalia, kenya, tanzania, burundi, rwanda, uganda, zambia, malawi, mozambique, zimbabwe, botswana, namibia, south africa, lesthoto, swaziland, madagascar, comoros, seychelles and mauritius, AFRICA IS A GREAT BIG PLACE!

...valentines-shmalentines...

my title may lead you to believe that I hate valentines day, but I don't. I like seeing all of the cute couples walking around school with balloons tied to their backpacks, bundles of roses in every girl's hand, BUT my favorite part might possibly be the conversation hearts... why you ask? for a few reasons 1... they make conversations so much more interesting 2... you can answer questions with a piece of candy that says "call me" or " fab" and 3... my boss gives me one that says

"6 wives okay?"

{ for those of you who do not know phil clegg let me fill you in. phil is like a chocolate covered gummy bear, he is hard on the outside, but his inside is gooey goodness. somedays phil is really happy while other days you may be slightly terrified of him. } 

a while back phil was being moody and i asked him "where is the love phil" and he looked and me and said " i do love you, if i could have 2 wives you'd be my first choice at a second one" as you can imagine I was shocked and walked back to me desk yelling" this is not okay phil, this is not okay!" while phil was laughing hysterically in his office.  this has become a running joke in the office. every day or two someone walks past asking me how my wedding plans are going and if its legal yet! so phil's conversation heart to me today was probably the greatest valentine ever! who knew conversation hearts encouraged polygamy?

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!