where'd the time go?

ever heard that song from greece? you know...

"summer lovin', had me a blast...summer lovin', happened so fast..."

that song was written about me...well, minus the actual "love" part.

recently, i've thought about summer a lot. and how amazing it was.

the decision i made to come out here early was one of the best things i've done.

i met so many amazing people who i'm sure will stay in my life for years to come.
and i rekindled friendships that i know will last till time ends. :]

<---this girl. andrea sarah hoffman. we met over four years ago at the magical place, EFY. i find it amazing, yet i'm not surprised, that we've stayed such good friends over the years. i knew when we met that we'd stay friends for sure. and just by chance she happened to be going to school at BYU this summer. it wasn't hard for us to become such good friends again. i owe her SO much. she introduced me to so many great people, and i have her to thank for some of the great friends i have now. i will forever treasure and never forget the manyyyy late night conversations about school, future, family, boys and life in general. she is such a good example to me and we are so alike in so many ways and i really consider her one of my best friends, for sure. she's so smart and wise and i think making some of the decisions i had to make this summer would've been a lot harder if she wasn't there. and sadly, she isn't here now. she's living it up at BYU hawaii. i know she loves it there, but i realllllllly hope she'll come back to Utah soon. our planned out "future" is gonna be so much fun, and i can't do it without you! [this is now my public plea to get you to come back. ;) ] but seriously, i LOVE ;] this girl. and miss her dearly. if you don't know her, you would definitely wish you did.



my favorite beautiful asian! alycia kayli ikegami. i love, love, love this girl. we met for the first time at PF Changs this summer. she is hometown friends with andrea, and so through her our friendship blossomed! she is a wonderful cook, has fantastic style, is so fun and easy to talk to and is an amazing friend. i missssss her. she is definitely included in mine and andrea's "future" plan. one day, we are going to live together and she is gonna cook me delicious asain food and it's going to be amazing. she's living in virginia attending southern virginia university. but hopefully, after enough convincing [along with andi] i can get her to move back. :] i love our skype dates and really am so glad that i got to know her so well this summer. she's definitely one of my best friends. loveeee you. :]

mallory, ryan, bryan, donnovan, john, julius, brittany, meghan, yuki, andrew, stephen, and sooo many more. all of these people have had an impact in some way on my life and i truly am grateful for each one of them in one way or another. coming to utah this summer and meeting all of these people has been one of the smartest things i've ever done.

i'll never, never forget this summer.

:D