let the rain.

"i wish i were pretty, i wish i were brave, if i owned this city then i'd make it behave, if i were fearless then i'd speak more truth, and the world would hear this that's what i wish i'd do" this song always comes to me right about now. the sky is seriously dumping water and i can't believe i live where i do. winter is over, and spring is on its way. but seeing as we're leaving to utah tomorrow i might miss my first spring here. bittersweet, i know. i was just thinking about how weird it's going to be to go back to utah after the past eleven months have happened. i mean, it's complete and total craziness and i can't help but smile at the person i've become...most of the time. everyone has their days, right? well, i'm just super duper happy right now. i'd expect a super long post when i return. until then...well, i'm already a blogging slacker anyways. :D

first impressions

the term 'first impressions' has been on my mind alot lately, maybe because i've had to make a lot of them in the past year. usually, i'm pretty good with first impressions, with the whole smile-look-in-eyes-shake-their-hand-ask-them-about-themself type of thing. but only with people who i haven't known about before i met them, like people at my dads work, friends of a friend etc. the big ones, the potentially life changing first impressions though, i'm awful at those! maybe not awful, because they go similar to how the other ones go, but that's the thing, i don't want them to be like that. i want it to be memorable, i want the person i'm meeting to remember the conversation we had and to hope more could come out of it. yes people, relationships. not necessarily a romantic relationship though, i mean i'm only 15 3/4 people! but there are so many other types of relationships and i want all of those in my life too! i just

Hello april, goodbye winter

*hopefully* it's a toasty forty five degrees outside, the frozen lakes are starting to melt, the twenty foot snow mounds are verging on nonexistience, and the fields are flooded. i think, i just survived my first winter here. what a crazy experience! i never thought i would be okay with weather in the -20's and 52 inches of snow...but i was. really, once you get down to 0*, you really can't tell between that and -40. sure, water freezes or evaporates before it hits the ground, the snow takes on a sparkly effect because it's frozen...AND people are putting their RV's out on the lakes. but other than that' it's been very similar to a Utah winter. except for the snow never dissapears, it's always cold, and our blizzards actually happen. other than that though, things have remained well, almost normal. i'm not nearly as scared for winter anymore, and can't wait for it to hit sixty so i can break out my sandals and shorts. all in all, this has been a very interesting first year here. now i just can't wait for spring. too much to ask? probably. i'm expecting more snow any day now. forever and always, sarah leslie