I'm back in Rexburg. A place I thought I'd never find myself again, but hey... sometimes what I have planned for myself is not what is supposed to happen. And I am seriously enjoying the crap out of being here! Things have been going swimmingly; it's warmer than usual for this time of year, I have a vehicle this time around, I found a job, and my grades are excellent (if I do say so myself.) But I have had to adjust a little to a few things. I'd love to make suggestions to you folks, if you ever decide you want to visit Rexburg. Or live here (if you're crazy enough.) This blog will also list reasons as to why there should be a BYU-Texas.
- Wind. Rexburg is notorious for being windy, but holy mother of sausage and cheese sometimes it's absolutely ridiculous! You know it's bad when you're driving 30 miles an hour and it's tossing your car to and fro and you're afraid it's going to run you right off the road. And fixing my hair? Forget it. I might as well put a bag over my head to prevent getting stuck in the eye with my own hair. Oh, and don't wear sticky lipgloss. Then not only does your hair poke your eye balls, but it gets stuck in your lip gloss. Which is fun and all, except that it isn't.
- If you decide to tan outside in front of your apartment complex, you will get cat called and whistled at. Even if you're fully clothed. It's really annoying. Unless the people giving you attention are attractive males. Then it's fine. If it's not obnoxious and over the top. So pretty much if they're coming over to talk, as opposed to honking their car horn at you, it becomes acceptable.
- Skinny jeans are a huge fad up here. At least right now. However, many females don't know how to wear them. That also goes for normal pants. All I have to say is if you sit down and you feel a breeze around your rear-end area, part of your no-no square is showing. Just make sure to buy pants that fit!
- Carry an umbrella with you at all times. You never know when I stray Idaho cloud will drift over your head and pour rain on you for ten minutes while you're walking home from class, and then the sun decided to come out as soon as you walk into your apartment, and stays out for the rest of the day.
- Idaho Falls to Rexburg is what La Cantera is to San Antonio shoppers. Just on a much smaller scale. It's just that there's not much in Rexburg, so in order to be around restaurants and a mall and some sort of sanity, I.F is the closest place to go. So have a car or know someone who has a car. And visit often.
- Don't drive close to campus right after Devotional lets out. You will hit a pedestrian. There are so many of them that it's hard to keep track. You might even sit at a stop light for ten minutes before you can drive across the street. That, or get so sick of all the people walking that you hit someone. Which is bad, or at least that's what they tell me. Also, if you're a driver in Rexburg, the little people on their bikes will annoy the poo out of you. Always. You'll just see them and get irritated. Also the pedestrians will try to direct car traffic. They always do. Which makes no sense to me, considering if they're at a crosswalk, they automatically have right of way. I like annoying them by staying stopped when they're trying to tell me to go. Hehe.
- 3rd floor and 1st floor of the library: social floors. 2nd floor: quiet floor. I label myself as one of those losers who goes up to the 3rd floor, and then doesn't know anyone, and therefore experiences zero social interaction. I want to meet new people, but it's like people do the same thing as me. They don't know anyone, so they don't talk to anyone. I will fix this someday.
- Own good movies. It seems we can't figure out other things to do, so watching movies always happens.
** Reasons we should have a BYU-Texas: Texas has none of these issues. Except maybe the skinny jeans thing. If anything, it's worse there. But oh well! Texas is totally worth it. The only thing is traffic on 20 as opposed to traffic on any Texas Interstate. There never is any. Which is wonderful.
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