NEW SEMESTER, NEW POST

where I would like to be instead of a state where it snows Hi. Jess here. It’s been a while. I haven’t posted since the beginning of last semester. Oops. It was a whirlwind of learning from school and life and work, and I suspect that this semester will be just as, if not more,…

taking care of ourselves

We're back in America, we've moved to our own tiny place in Orem, and we've survived our first week of the new fall semester at BYU. Portugal was amazing. Guys. Like, seriously amazing. It was everything my mission wasn't in all the best way. More to come on that maybe later, but my phone is…

slovakia, the land of cheese so good I cried

Our first day in Slovakia was the happiest day. Honestly, every day in Slovakia was a happy day. We spent the day walking around Bratislava, the capitol city, in insane heat, and we couldn’t have been more excited to be alive. The whole week of being able to see the country and meet the people…

view from my fave building in moscow

Cathedral of Christ the Savior. I'm in love! I'm in love! And I don't care who knows it!! What gets me is the bright white stone and the shining gold helmet domes (Thanks, Wikipedia, for teaching me about the variety of what I've been calling "onion domes." Hurray for the internet!) against the gorgeous blue…

so happy in Sochi

Guys. It feels like we went on a vacation within a vacation. Here in Moscow, we're technically both working and taking classes, but it still feels very much like a vacation, especially compared to the busy grind of a normal semester. So when we were presented with a 5-day trip to a beach town, we…