I would most definitely take a trip to Melbourne, Australia with some of my buddies We'd do a trip down the Great Ocean Road in a big van/motor home sort of thing with plenty of surf boards, guitars, ukuleles and all of that jazz Pit stops into Torquay, Bells Beach, World Surf League museums, rainforests and big tourist spots along the road like London Bridge and the Twelve Apostles
oh my gosh that sounds amazing! you sound like you've put a lot of thought into this..!
Haha yeah I have a full Pinterest board about the trip I want to take to Australia I want to go sooo bad Are there any places in the world that you would visit if money wasn't a problem?
I feel like there's certain historic places that would be amazing to see so it's hard to narrow it just to one!! umm i feel like i'd love to visit all the temples of it were even possible to do so haha
Yeah would be super cool!! It would definitely take a lot of time haha Are there any countries you can think of that you'd really love to go to?
Australia for sure! I also would love to visit England and Wales too!
YESSSS Those places are soooo pretty Have you ever heard of Isle of Skye in Scotland?
yeah but i can't remember what it is
Ohhhhh myyyy you should look up pictures of it it's honestly so beautiful It's super green and there are endless hills it looks like a little fairy land haha
my main reason behind visiting wales is because i have some welsh heritage but have no idea about anything involving the country and all that stuff haha
Dude me too!! I have Welsh heritage on both sides of my family
oh my goodness definitely have to look it up it sounds gorgeous!
Yes definitely do it!!
I have Russian, Norwegian, Swedish, and Welsh hah
Ayeee I'm Norwegian and Swedish too!
Why are we not friends already?? sounds like we have a lot in common
My dad legit looks like he should be a viking he's super tall and just has that look Haha I know right!! This is wild!
My dad is 6' but i got the short genes from my mom who is 5'4 so i'm 5'3 haha
Haha yeah my dad is 6'5 and my mom is 5'3 but I lucked out with 5'6 somehow
nice!! so why'd you choose to go to byu??
Good question! I actually thought I was going to go to BYUI...I didn't think I would make it into BYU because I'm not this outstanding 4.0+ student ya know? But I felt really strong that I was meant to go to BYU for some reason I want to major in Communication Disorders and only BYU has that major so it put even more stress on me wanting to get in Buuuut I had a positive perspective and thought, alright wherever the Lord wants me to go that's where I'm meant to be Then plot twiiiiist I get the letter from BYU and now I'm starting in June! It just always felt right to me and I honestly couldn't be more excited!
Ahh that's so crazy! the same thing happened to me! i  was planning on going to utah state but one day i got this reallly strong prompting to go to byu so i looked into it and started getting this feeling that that is definitely where i need to be! i got accepted and am heading down in august!! i can't imagine going anywhere else! it also helped me realize that i didn't want to follow the career path that i've been planning on for practically my whole life so now i'm trying to find what i think i should do!
Holy wow that is amazing!! Promptings create some crazy stuff, I was planning on majoring in music my entire life but I changed my mind this year because I felt prompted to keep working in the psychology office at my school and i just fell in love with it This is so cool and whack we have so much and common haha *in
i was planning on becoming a veterinarian but the more i got experience in the field and everything the more i realized i didn't want to spend my life doing it.. so now i'm still trying to figure everything out haha i know it's so crazy!!
Dang it's really good you figured that out now though before going to college and everything! Thankfully your first few years are a time for trying new things, there are so many possibilities out there , it'll just take some time to play around and figure it out
yeah definitely! are you living on campus??
Yeah! I'll be in the heritage halls. What about you?
i'm living in helaman halls :) i haven't met my roommate yet bc she's from virginia but she seems super sweet. we haven't really talked a lot though haha
Yeah I tried reaching out to my roommates too but only one of them really talked to me... The uncertainty of it all makes it super nerve racking but super exciting at the same time haha
yeah i get that.. i've talked to a few people just through instagram so i at least have a few friends and one is actually going to be in my ward too so it'll be good :)
That's awesome!! I've made a few friends who are coming in the fall but so far I don't really know of anyone coming this summer :(
i've heard of a few! they started this gigantic group chat for all the freshman and it had like two hundred people in it and i wasn't super interested in it so i left the chat
Oh dang was it super hectic with a lot of replies or was it just kinda awkward??
not everyone replied so it wasn't bad, but everyone was trying to show off and it just got old haha
ooofffff yeah that's no bueno haha
so where are you from??
I'm from good ol southern California! What about you?
that's where i'm originally from!! oh my gosh haha i moved to utah 6 years ago
Wait cheese and rice no way what part of California??
san diego! what about you??
Huntington Beach!! That's like a solid hour from m me
dang!! it's so weird how much we have in common!!
I know right!!! ok ok we have to become friends and meet in the fall haha
yessss definitely
what is your instagram??
@victoria.garvin
sick I'll add you rn the deed has been done
sweet! i'll go follow you :)
hoorayyy
you're so cute plus i love your feed!!
ahhh so are you!!! and thank you!!!
heck yeah now we can be friends! we definitely need to hang out once school starys starts*
YessSSssSsSs
what are you most excited for once school starts??
Oh my gosh how can I pick??
i know!!
Hmm I think I'm just really excited to meet new people and make lots of new friends
same here! plus football games haha
yes oh my lanta
so why'd you decide to go to summer term?
I'm even excited for all of the classes and even studying haha it's weird but I can't wait to study stuff that actually interests me
yeah me too!!
Well my friend who graduated from BYU told me I'd have a better chance if I applied for summer so I did it and it worked! I was hesitant at first because of not having a summer but if I stayed here I would just be working two jobs the whole time so I thought oh whale let's go for it
really? i heard that it's just as hard to get into summer as it is for fall oh yeah byu is definitely better than two jobs haha
My friend said it was a bit easier because less people apply for it so the chances are a little bit better I suppose Oh yeah I totally agree with you there haha
yeah that makes sense haha everyone thinks i'm going to get married my first year and it's so weird like i was told i'm not allowed to get married my first year haha
Dude same here!! I don't want that to happen legit five of my friends that graduated last year are all married right now Nooooope nope nope nope nope
there are like 5 people in my grade that are engaged already
WHAT Holy freaking cheese and actual rice That's wild
i know!! it's so crazy to me! a girl i'm kinda friends with got engaged yesterday and i can't believe that they won't wait just a few more weeks so she can graduate first
That is insaaaane what the heck Is she dating a guy that's older than her?
yeah he graduated a year ago i think
Only  a year ago? Major ooofff They're so young!
i know! that's how all of the couples are that are engaged..they're all seniors or graduated a year or two ago
oh my gosh Utah needs to simmer down for a hot minute everyone is getting married so fast
one girl literally got out of a relationship and started dating this guy that's like 23!/!; got engaged after 2 months 23 and**
Whaaaaaat theeeeee This is all just so overly wild
i don't think they're gonna last to be honest..
That's so sad :( I wish people would wait and date each other for a longer amount of time because you can't really know someone after only two months! Sometimes it works out of course, but rather be safe than sorry
exactly! i think some people can, but knowing these two and their personalities and everything i don't quite understand why they're engaged??
Ugh I hate those kinds of situations because you want so badly to save them from it and you want to help but they never listen because they're wrapped up in the whole "I'm in love" feeling so they do whatever they want to do
Yes!! that's how one of my friends was! she was dating this guy for a few months and ended up breaking the law of chastity..he broke up with her after about 10 months and told her that since she was moving away for college about 4 hours from home he was going to cheat on her
ohhhh noooooo that makes me so sad!!! oh my gosh that's horrible :((((
that knowing who he was as a person he'd cheat on her and we tried to warn her about him from the very first month they started dating it was sooo sad
Errrrgggg I wish that people would just listen sometimes !!
and the saddest part is that she doesn't feel guilty for breaking the law of chastity.. she even went and slept with someone else after they broke up:(
Okay there's the biggest ooffff of all
that's part of why i'm so excited to go to byu.. i know not everyone there is perfect, but the majority of people keep their standards to the best of their ability
That's really hard especially when you're close friends with them and all you want for them is to be happy but you watch them go down the wrong path and it's heartbreaking Yeah same here! It's definitely not perfect but compared to where I live it's wayyyy better
it's part of why we've drifted so far apart these past years to be honest but i'm so excited to go to byu and meet all sorts of good people
Yeah I have a friend that did the same kind of thing and we drifted apart too :( it's so hard to watch Yes me too!! It's going to be so refreshing
well i'm glad we're friends then haha :)
haha me too!! I can't wait to meet you!
have you talked to very many people that are going?
Yeah I have a good number of friends that live around here that are going in the fall! Some of my friends just finished up freshman year so I've been talking to them more to get some advice
oh that's good! i've seen a lot of people from this one area going so that might be some of your friends haha
Ohh like who? Mayyyybe I know them
ummm alex shreeve and anika dunkley? some of their friends too
oh yeah I've talked to alex just barely but I don't really know him
yeah we just follow each other haha
yeah haha ok I 'm sorry I have to cut this off but I have to go :(
i swear i gained like over 100 new followers the week acceptance went out
Dude same here!!!! I have to work on a little Spanish project for a hot minute but it was so fun talking to you though and I can't wait to meet you!
you too!!