I'm a cowgirl??

     Well here it is, another school year and I find myself in a new state at a new school. I spent 9 months in Logan and just as I was learning to love it I was faced with the difficult decision to leave and start somewhere new or stay and be another year behind in school. Maybe I should start at the beginning... last May I applied for the social work program at Utah State. I was so excited because I was completely qualified for the program and I just knew I was going to be accepted. So, I started planning for the next school year. Liz and I decided we were going to live together again and get a cute apartment further from campus. I could not have been more excited about the Fall 2011 school year. A few weeks before school ended my parents told me there was a possibility that they would be moving to Canada in May. Because I was completely blindsided, I said okay that's totally fine with me (not that me not being ok with it would have changed anything). I actually didn't give the Canada move much thought after that until my parents went Chetwind, BC to check things out. Suddenly it became real, and I did what I always do... pushed it aside and focused on how much fun I was going to have next year. I moved home for the summer and (not so) patiently waited for my letter from the school of social work. Well, needless to say, I was not accepted. At the time the thought of leaving Utah didn't cross my mind, but when I started to really think about sticking around for another year and maybe, or maybe not, getting into the program the next year I realized I really needed to look at other options. My parents encouraged me to look into the University of Wyoming, so that's what I did. When I weighed the pros and cons UW was the obvious choice for me. So, here I am in Laramie, Wy. Laramie and Logan are so different, but I'm comfortable here. The UW campus is so much like the University of Alabama and I like that. I know that, like Utah, I will grow to love Wyoming.