Sun, sea, sand and living in Paradise.

What a wonderful life it is. I even have photographic proof! I uploaded all the pictures and edited them, but there are a whole 37 of them (not including the ones I didn't like and deleted)- that takes to long to publish! I'll do that later, perhaps in another post.

This week, I'm only working 19 hours a week (some sort of policy that we can't work 38 hours a week for more than 3 weeks in a month) and it has been just perfect. Phew! I work MWF, 12-6.30 or so and have Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday off. A nice change from working 38 hours a week, 11-7 daily and only have 1 rotating off-day. I feel energized to work each time. Dealing with guests that often wears me out fast!

Tuesday wasn't productive at all, I napped for most of it after having woken up just in time for lunch. Later in the evening though, Rachael and I auditioned for another movie. A comedy, this time. Glenn hinted that I probably wouldn't get casted since I was in the last one (the LEAD, nonetheless) and a ton of other people - new ones - who were pretty good had auditioned. There were nearly 20 of us, which was a surprising turnout.

Well, callbacks was yesterday. I didn't make it. I'm somewhat disappointed, but just mildly. I didn't have my hopes up at all really. I had my chance, other people get to act now. Rachael, however made it.

Well, here's the funny part: the movie is called "The Big Toe". Heaven knows what Glenn is up to this time, but whatever it is, Rachael gets to be the toe!!! She's not too pleased about it at all, the poor girl, but I think it's hilarious. You can read all about her frustration in this post.

Rachael did good in the auditions. Neither of us are sure exactly what being the great toe in the movie involves, but there will be a cast meeting for them tomorrow and maybe she can find out then. To be honest, Glenn probably isn't sure either. Hehe. Unless he gets done writing the script by then.

I don't remember if I talked about it here, but we watched a private viewing of "Shadows" last week, the movie I "starred" in. It was quite a relief for me. Seeing myself on the screen was weird but I don't think I ruined the movie like I thought I would. Someone else could probably have done a better job, but I will give kudos to myself for pulling through the most challenging acting role I've ever had. As soon as it is shown here in school in the Fall, I promise I'll get a copy and do everything in my power to get it on here so you can watch too. It's only 29 minutes long - including credits. Glenn will be publishing the preview soon, I'll be sure to hook you up!

So after another great day of work (I am getting offered tips more and more these days, I wonder what that means? Sucks to have to turn them down) I had another great day off today. Woke up at 1pm, had a simple but yummy cafeteria lunch and then headed to the beach with Mark and Rachael. We went to the Hukilau beach at first, our intention to see if we could find Scott, who had gone earlier, since we didn't see him there, and it was crowded, we decided to drive down to Pounders (both are about a 3 minute drive from campus) Neither Rachael nor I had been there before, but we like it much better than Hukilau now. Baywatch Hawaii filmed there once, last year, or the year before that. I was here then and remember many of my friends along with the rest of the school going to check it out.

Anyway, I we spent a good ammount of time there, I nearly went into the water this time. I guess technically I did, halfway. I don't usually go into the ocean when I go to the beach because I am afraid of how cold it is (hey, I'm skinny, I get cold easy!) and because I like not being all icky and sandy afterwards. I usually go to the beach for the atmosphere and for the sun. My intention was to even out my tourguide tan some.

Well, there are trees at Pounders (while there are none at Hukilau) so we layed under the shade. For some reason, instead of just doing that the whole time, Mark initiated sandcastle-building (which turned out to be just a wall) and Rachael was wanting to get up and do something anyway. I got sucked in too and helped fortify the wall. It was fun, we did a great job, it lasted for a long time.

However, in the process, waves came crashing up from behind me and all my intentions of staying dry were soon forgotten. I got the bottom half of my body wet, but since I just washed my hair that morning (yes, I am a girly girl) I decided against swimming. The sand and the waves got me just enough to create a pile of sand on my room floor later today, when I took my swimsuit off. I hate getting wet sand in my swinsuit. *shudder*

Today was the first time I'd been to the beach in a while though (the weather wasn't always sunny when I wanted to go in the Spring and I work too much during the summer) and it was nice. More fun then ever because we actually did something besides taking a nap on the beach. I would've liked that too, though. I can be rather lethargic. Especially on my days off.

We went to dinner after a few hours of play on the beach and met up with Reed. He said that after dinner, he would "cube" us all and he did - one at a time. It was fun. I'd ellaborate, but it's late, maybe some other time. Basically it was an activity where he told us to visuallize 3 things and each of its characteristics (which we imagined up) represented something in relation to our personalities and our relationship with the world. It was really neat.

After that, we thought we'd take more personality tests so headed to the computer lab in the Reading Writing Center and took a simplified Keisler (spelling?) test which once again reaffirmed that I am a ENFP. I remember blogging about that before. It was the exact same test too, I'm pretty sure. It was cool to learn about my other friends through those tests. For the next while after that though, we all wandered off on the internet and did our own things. It was really weird, sitting around together, but not interacting. We're like family that way. Reed especially likes hanging out with us, even if he's playing solitaire instead of watching the movie we are because he doesn't like it. It's strange, I know, but still really nice.

Since that was kind of silly though, we ended up moving to play a game of Simpson's Clue which I lost, of course. I've never won before, although I know how, I have a hard time keeping track of things and keep messing up my system for keeping track of who has what.

The night ended with Mark, Scott and I going to 7-11 to get some food (pork hash is YUMMY) and then scripture study with Mark. *sigh*

It was simply a great day. I'm tired now need to sleep. I'll post pictures soon. Looking through them really made me realize what a beautiful place I'm in. As much as I miss having my family nearby, I'm really grateful to be living in this tropical paradise surrounded by people I love. I wouldn't trade these memories in for the world.