Officially I leave for Europe well Prague, Vienna, Slovenia, Croatia and Italy to be exact in six days! In that six days span I also complete my job at Salt Lake Community College in the athletic department as well. With budget cuts, my job was getting cut after this year and I just decided I would end sooner.  I am thankful to know that it is all almost over.  While this work year has been an excellent learning adventure-- it wouldn't be an adventure that I would sign up for again. I feel like a new chapter of my life is emerging with the start of my trip to Europe, writing a book with my father and starting graduate school all in the next three months. 

Europe is phrase one of this new start.  I haven't more excited to go on an adventure, than I have been with this trip. It is a much needed vacation and a much needed rebuild on my life. I started to feel as if I was drowning in my own emotions, thoughts and ideas. I have needed to capture a clear head and I think going to Europe is going to help achieve this desire. At first I stressed do to the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay for this trip. That stress went away when my mom told me that I should use some of the saving bonds I received when I was little, so I am. What is even more crazy about this, is that I have way more money accumulated from these bonds then I ever would have imaged.  So some of the money is for Europe and some of it is going towards my car/school fund. I feel pretty content knowing that my savings bonds have gone a long way.

For all of you worried I wouldn't keep an active blog while I travel, I have great news that I will be keeping an active blog. I will update you all with my wonderful trip with my brother and our crazy times. I also will be adding numerous pictures (which I am bad at, but I will get better,) and adding my absolute expressions!

So in six days I am off...off to a month of adventures, fun and overly zealous times. It will help me to become refreshed, renewed and totally relaxed again. HOORAY! 

Getting handed the friend card

   If I get "I just want to be friends" card one more time by a guy, after we became more than friends I am going to scream.  Seriously, I am so tired of this sequence which seems to happen to me time after time. Is it me, or is it the type of guys that I choose to date? 

   What is worse than getting the friend card is seeing the guys that I used to date or my so-called friend find another girl to date right afterwards. That too has happened to me.  

   So I told myself I wouldn't vent about this new encounter of my recent friend card drawing, but it did just happen and I am a bit frailed and bit sadden by this new encounter. I knew the inevitable would be coming in the future, but I wasn't ready this soon. I am not ready to accept this new outcome, not yet at least.  I guess it is good that I am going to Europe in a week because I definitely need a new scene at the moment. 

   Europe is going to be a blast, five countries in three and a half weeks with my brother who is Mr. Social and Mr. Popular it can't get much better than that. I'll be traveling and able to flirt with Italian men, Croatian men, Czech me, Austrian men, and Slovanian men all I want and not feel guility! 

   I know that someday some guy will really want to be with me, love me and just want to be with me.  He won't hand me the friend card after we have dated for a month and a half, instead we'll continue to date and continue to grow in our relationship. 

   To put a positive spin, things like this only make me stronger and more of an awesome woman. 

Much Love,

Jenna 

Yoga Mania!

    This year I have really started to embrace yoga.  I absolutely love participating in the practices. Yoga is more than exercise for me, it's a release, my zen and a chance for me to engage in mind and body development and challenges. I also love it because I have met so many wonderful, open-minded and fun people in my classes.  Yoga also attracts good looking men, so that is the icing on the cake.  

    I have been doing yoga on a regular base since January, twice a week in a classroom setting and twice on my own in the morning. I do a form of yoga called "Sola Yoga."  With this form everyone uses a stick to help enhance poses that might be difficult for some and it helps to further extend the pose. This is the first Yoga class in which I really love and using a stick has helped that love. 

    There are so benefits for Yoga like flexibility, an improved physical and mentally state of mind, openness, energy and it helps to improve your brain memory. I have noticed how much Yoga has helped my snowboarding.  After boarding all day I realized this. I was exhausted after a day of boarding in fresh powder and usually that means I have to stop, but today nothing could stop me! My body somehow continued and continued with ease and with confident. I got better the more tired I got.  It was awesome! Yoga has given me so much more endurance, confidence and flexibility. 

     It has absolutely helped to change my life.  Nothing beats doing some Yoga overseeing a gorgeous mountain! 

     If anyone is interested in incorporating Yoga into their daily lives, then check out www.freeyoga.com, it'll change your life!

      

So I applied to graduate school at Westminster College in Salt Lake for my Masters in the Art of Teaching. I am also hoping to either get a certificate in Special Education or English as a Second Language. I would love to teach aboard for a summer, or perhaps even a year. The one great thing about this year was that I started to figure out exactly what I want to do with my life. I am engaged in the Sport's world as a profession right now and I realize how much it stresses me out. I want to be in a profession, and a job that I love and that I can truly be creative and be myself in.

Westminster is such a perfect fit for me. I did the big University for my under-graduate degree and I think going smaller for my graduate degree is a good idea. The class size ratio is 11 to 1 and I like the way the program is run and set up. I love Liberal Art Schools!

All I have to do now is get in! Hopefully I'll find out in one week whether my dream will come true or not. I have confidence that it will.

I'll keep you all updated.

A few great quotes, for a few great people!

To go along with my last post, I wanted to share some of my favorite quotes that I have seen lately. These quotes are positive and great daily reminders about becoming the best possible you. Whenever I am having a bad day, I will look at some of these quotes and it helps to remind myself of who I am and where I want to be.

"To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom."
- Sacrates-

"Let the past fall away
Let the future fall away
Let the present moment be perfect!"
- Steve Norval-

Life is easy
Life is good
Let all good things come to me!
- The Secret-

"Use the light within you to regain your natural clearness of light."
- Loa Teu-

I am just wanting to spread the love, kindness and positive aura to everyone!
Love you all.