Manic Monday

Oh man! It's only Monday! I have a feeling this week is going to go by slower than cold tar! Hahaha that phrase reminds me of my mom! I am really looking forward to this weekend. I think it is going to be really fun. This morning I managed to stay awake the whole time in Physical Science. Today my professor did some pretty awesome demos, and I am almost 99% positive that is why I kept my eyes open the whole time. Other than Physical Science, college has been so amazing. I have met some really cool people and made some great friends. My roommates are amazing. My ward is starting to grow on me. A lot of boys have received their mission calls. I am planning on going to a few missionary farewells in the next few weeks, and I am very excited for them. One boy is going to Madrid, Spain; I think he is leaving in February. I am so jealous! I really want to go to Madrid for a study abroad. I love Spanish, and I would like to learn how to speak it more fluidly. That reminds me of some songs my high school Spanish teachers used to play for us in class. There are the always popular "Capital Rocks". These songs were a way to help us learn the Central and South American Countries and their capitals. Another song I really liked was La Camisa Negra by Juanes. I even got into the Spanish stations on the radio. There was some really good music on those stations. I even improved at understanding what they were saying in the songs. My sister made fun of me when I would listen to the Spanish stations in the car, though.
Right now I am listening to Linkin Park. I really like Leave Out All the Rest and Shadow of the Day. I know that these songs are kind of old, but I really like them. I am also a big fan of Matt Nathanson's new CD. But no matter how much I like those artists, I just have a partiality towards small name garage bands, as long as they sound nice and have an amazing lead singer. I truly appreciate vocalists that don't need to be digitally edited to sound good.
We are having a ward talent show in January, and I am looking forward to trying out for it. Hopefully, the talent show will give some of those small garage bands to perform. A lot of the people in my ward have really nice voices. We almost lost our chance to have a talent show, because one of the girls in my ward tried to change it to a ward lip synching competition. I guess she doesn't feel like she has any real talent to contribute. Luckily, the other people at my meeting had the same feelings that I did, so our talent show will go on!
I think I am going to start finding songs that describe my day and inserting them at the end of each of my blogs. So far, I think today's song is Manic Monday. Thank you to the Bangles.