Hello?
Whats up? We've chatted before right? You're the one who might be taking tennis right?
...yes.  I made the joke about lifting milk cartons...
Yup, i definitely remember you :) So what are you doing for mothers day?
Thank you. Making dinner, I think Some kind of fancy chicken You?
Ooo impressive I am currently makeing a model of the mesa temple with my 3d pen I would've done i lt earlier but it came to me this morning
Whoa. Equally impressive. ...actually more impressive. Do you use a 3d pen often?
Yeah, pretty often, i made the eiffel tower for my sister and a batman logo for my dad and a flash logo for my brother What about you? Do you cook often? And is this like alton brown styoe cooking or martha stewart style cooking? :)
Nice! Are you guys superheroes fans then? Haha, it's note like my dad is cooking and I'm the extra set of hands *more like I cook...sometimes.
Make sense. I actually like baking, not quite as manly but when ik craving some cookies..... ;)
Hey, nothing says manly then a triple chocolate cake. Obviously.
I make a mean key lime cake. Very manly
Haha, of course. You have to squeeze the limes to get the juice. That takes effort. Oh that's another thing you can add to your exercise regime
Oh my gosh i never should have told you about this What do you do for workouts?
Haha. My apologies. Workouts...mix of cardio and abs If I can't get to any sports in gym class Or YW/YM
Yeah thats pretty much all i do. I ran cross country then i swam Swimming is intense on abs And also makes you look like a either a fool or the coolest person around in your jammers :)
*facepalming* Nice. You are one of those extremely fit kids then that I wish I could be but pack the motivation to do *lack
I definitely wasnt at all, i was the chubby out of shape kid who couldnt walk up the stairs without being super tired. But i didnt like how i looked or felt so i changed it And now i love running and swimming and exersice in general. Ill help you out, we can go on runs and go swimming at BYU :)
*applause* That is awesome. Last time you said you were scrawny kid thought. How long ago did you do this? Haha thanks. Buy I am a horrible long distance athlete *apologizing for all those typos
Winter of junior year i was upwards of 185-190 pounds at only like 5. 10. I stsrted running and lost like 45ish pounds in 4 months or so. I weigh about 145 now So where are you staying at school? Got to know where i can get you running :)
Heritage. Cooking dorms woot! Good weight. Ugh 5"10. You tall person
Which building are you in? Wait how tall are you?
Uh. 28. I am a proud 5"3.5. You can take my roommate running. She's more a jogger than I am
Okay, you're a girl, i couldnt peg which gender you were. That explains the height ;) Also, do heratige halls not have names? Im in helaman and all of the buildings have names
Thank. I try for the adrogenous online communicator. Ugh. I know. shortness is not fun I don't...think so. Where are you at?
Ooo andgrogenous, fun word :) Well im short for a guy so.... I am in budge hall If thats what you mean by that vauge question ;)
Right? 3 point SAT word right there. You are 5"11. That is not short. That is tall. Regardless of gender. If you really feel, it's at least average and not far below Yes. Sorry. Should've made that more specific.
You seem to be making me feel better about my height, and i thank you for that, but im good with my height ;) Also, im just messing with you, you dont have to be more specific. So what major are you going into? I feel like i asked this before but ive forgotten
Haha. That's fine. There are so many people on here that it's hard to keep them straight. Going into an English major. With random bio classes You?
Sweet! I have not met an english major yet! That means i didnt forget like a jerk :) Im going into buisness and either electrical or mechanical engineering
Oo. Nice, the technical stuff. Your good at math and physics stuff then? My sister went into a mechanical engineering.
Yeah im pretty good, we'll see what i get on my IB maths and physics test ;) So you're not the eldest!? Sad, being the eldest rules:)
HOLY GUAC YOU KNOW WHAT IB IS. Finally I've had to explain that to people a lot on here. Which math did you take? Haha, I'm the youngest of four
Wait you have IB too!? Where do you live?! Not in a creepy way, in a ive never heard of IB in the US before way I took HL math, what about you?
NY. Wait, where are you if you're not in the US? Bear in mind I'm not a full IB diploma student. I took HL the first year and then switched to AP stats. Thought it would be better for life skills...not really
Now im not being specific enough, i guess saying maths threw it off. I shouldve said anywhere else in the US ;) I live in boring old cincinnati I am full IB though, got three more tests left.
Ah. Gottcha.  Cinncinatti is boring...? Oof. Good luck. Which ones. I finished mine on Wednesday. HOA was rough I have to go for a little bit. If you need to go, you can.
More boring than New York State, the actual city is pretty cool but not much else And i would go, but IB is small at my school and i dont know what HOA is and now im curious Plus you seem cool ;) I have Psych paper 2, and both of my spanish exams
Haha. Thank you. I shall return. Hopefully.
Ive finished the 3 maths ones, the 2 english, the 3 physics  and the first psych Wait, hopefully return?! Is life on the line here?
No. Life is not on the line. But my mom is taking longer to go then I thought. Which math option did you do? What'd you think of the Lit exam?
I did statistics but we had now where enough time to study it so i think i did very bad I thought lit was pretty easy So what is HOA?
Stands for History of America's. Had to write a total of 6 essays in 5.5 hours Hello?
Still here, just left the page for a bit Jeez, thats a big test Although a lot of them are that big That sounds cool though, my school pretty much has the basics and thats it, actually the school just decided to get rid of it
Seriously? Smart school. I don't think IB really benefited me At least didn't get me out of classes for BYU. Sadness
Really? Did you have to do the out of class bits? Like the EE and the group 4?
Well, b/c I wasn't full IB I didn't have to do the EE or CAS. But b/c I had an IB science I had to do the group 4 and b/c of weirdness, I had do the group 4 twice
That is weird. I thought the EE was a good experience and the intensity of IB really helped me Hey do you want to see the final product? Its not quite right and its not my best 3d model but i like it Im afraid i havent enough white plastic
Yes! Wait, can you send a picture on this?
Nope ive tried, do you have an instagram?
Well glad that someone has found value in IB. Uh, no. Is your account private?
Yeah, how about a snapchat?
...I'm going to put it out there before you ask anymore: I literally have 0 social media My apologies for being socially unconnected.
That was all i have, oh well, i guess you cant see it. Phone numbers are a little too personal for this site Also, why dont you have any social media?
Most definitely. Argh. Now that's sad: I can't see it. Uh...mostly because...I just don't? I guess my parents were pretty strict on how much social media I had so it took a while just to get my own email
You could always just get a snapchat really quick
Plus not having a phone until pretty recently kind of put a link ther *kink
Unless your parents are still not okay with snapchat Yeah i didnt have a phone until junior year
I could...I don't even know if they know what that is... Haha good, not the only one
Its really not bad so long as you are selective with who you are friends with Like one guy only put pictures of weed on his story so i unfriended him I wouldnt do it if you think your parents wouldnt be cool with it Also, not haveing a phone was such a pain!
Wow. How'd you get that guy in the first place? Haha. Thanks for inderstanding *understanding Hear hear! Not fun being out of the loop on a high school setting
He was in my math class so i followed him. But hes a total pothead Seriously though, id reccomend convincing sus padres to let you get a snapchat :)
. Makes for great jokes though. Teacher: everyone pit your phones away. Me: Ok *mimes putting a phone away*
Also, because it was such a pain for my parents to get in contact with me after matches they decided to grt my brother one, hes in 8th grade!! Yeah i did make those a lot :)
Ooh. Lucky kid. Matches...you played tennis, right? Also random question: do you just use random spanish when you have conversations?
Yup i played tennis
Hear hear. I have to borrow my mom's phone if I go places...it's a flip phone
Wait didnt you just say you got a phone recently? Y yo tengo un examen de Espanol en martes y miercoles y yo necessito practicar para lo.
OK no judging. I have a phone. But it isn't on a plan yet until June b/c of the monthly pay and my parents don't want it activated till June b/c I'll be paying for it.
Tambien me gusta espanol en general Lol, sounds tragic But you csn get apps and stuff?
I see. Wish I could respond but my five years of Spanish ended sophomore year. Lo siento Yes, I can get apps (Actually pretty proud I could still translate what you said)
Okay, im glad i wasnt influencing toward snapchat fruitlessly
Yeeaah. That would've been sad
Y si tu has tenido cinco anos de espanol que tu tienes mas anos de espanol que yo ;)
Really? How many have you had?
Yo tome cuatro anos de espanol
Eh, that's still a good amount of spanish
Pero mis professoras en anos dos y tres estu Fueron menor de bueno* My teacher this year is brilliant though
Oh, that's unfortunate. Buy that's good! All my teachers were really bad except for 7th grade *But
Rough. I do really like the language though, its very flowy and poetic It would be cool to go to spain on my mission
Haha. That would be cool. Unless you get sent to France... I really want to learn more languages but our school options are super limited and the teachers aren't that great
Whats wrong with france? My dad went to paris on his mission Yeah we only have spanish and french at my school
Nothing. It just seems the opposite of Spanish Ditto. We used to have Mandarin but that went downhill...really quickly
Its actually pretty similar from what ive seen. My uncle went to mexico on his mission and his daughters both went to a french immersion school so they are pretty fluent He said he can pick up a lot of it What happened to mandarin?
Woah frech immersion school. That's cool. Well my friend's brother was in the class a couple years ago and everyone started dropping out until it was only him and they couldn't drop the class because he still wanted
Thats funny, i bet it would be hard but cool
To take it. So he spent most of the year being taught by other HS teachers and through Skype and even a museum interpreter
Thats cool My young mens president is pretty fluent in mandarin because he went to taiwan on his mission Hes super cool and he speaks it sometimes, it just sounds hard
Nice! One of our YW is half Taiwanese b/c her parents met when her dad went there on his mission I'm hoping to take Mandarin at BYU
That would be cool! Are they general classes? I would totally take that!
Like not major specific? I'm 99% positive it's not Only problem is that the beginner class is every morning at 8
Ooo, not sure i want that.... maybe though. By general i meant can i get generals credits for it?
I think so... Yeah, that was my thought but I really want to do it, so take that my future self
Except i also kinda want to take yoga class in the morning and that might be early too I really need to start looking at classes in depth
Probably. When is your registration day? Oof yoga. I'm as inflexible as a fish is fuzzy
Nice simile there :) Not sure, i havent really checked Nevermind, i got the 13th, what about you?
Heey. Ditto Thanks. Similes are fun. And metaphors Lots of the classes are filling up though b/c of upperclassmen getting earlier pick days
Yeah, the troubles of being a freshman :) All of the cool generals are gone Like im guessing fencing will be off the table
Eh, you never know
Its just a cool class and im guessing a lot of people will want it Have you tried to get a snapchat yet!?
I'm trying to search the class but I'm not finding it in the catalog. Uh...no. I'm helping my dad make mother's day dinner and I was playing Scrabble with my mom...so no It'll happen...eventually
I want to show someone my creation Maybe they dont have it anymore That'd be sad Oh im so bad a scrabble
I love Scrabble! Haha, its why I'm going into english I'm sorry I can't see your creation. Have you given it to her yet? Mrgh, slicing radishes is hard I'm not seeing a fencing class...but there seems to be a fencing club...
Yeah i have but its still on the table Im just horrid  at spelling I like cutting stuff Wow that sounds terrible, i like chopping food Dicing onions is fun, you make a bunch of cuts then you have a diced onion that still has its shape
Chopping food is fun until your hand starts seizing up. Onions? Oh man my eyes tear up so bad
Yeah, i guess so, you just gotta chop fast Ive also heard that refrierating helps a lot Somehow it condences or unbinds the molecules that make you cry
Haha. #notafastchopper Huh, really? I should try that. We usually just keep our onions out in the open
Supposedly you only have to put it in about a half hour before Lol, at my first trek, we were making dinner and i was chopping the onions pretty fast and evidentally i was cutting them too big so a girl in my family got mad at me
If I try it and it doesn't work, my eyeballs will blame their tears on you
Oh good to know Sailor Im glad i get that guilt Where did the user sailor come from?
Your very welcome. Feel the incoming blame. Sailor? That's my actual name.
Oh really? Thats a cool name. I would never have guessed that though
Haha. Thanks. Yeah a lot of people assume that it's just a username What about you? Are JIV your initials or something?
Sort of, my first name is John Hence the J The IV is my suffix
Suffix...so your John the Fourth? That's cool. Like how you did that.
Thanks! Yeah i like it. All four of our middle names sre the same too, Cherrington I wont same my last name though :)
Woah! Cool name! What's your family history like/from? Right Because that would make a rulebreaker and unlike baking, rulebreaker is not manly a = you
Honesltly? Not sure what its from, i think its referencing an old surname that connotes english people from cheerington Cause im pretty much the whitest guy ever genetically :) england, denmark etc
Hmm. Yeah that's pretty white
Ive got some french too, thats a little better But still white Not that theres anything wrong with england or denmark :)
Of course not. Without England there be no popular tea and without Denmark there'd be no.... I'm drawing a blank for famous things from denmark
Not like tea is much use to me Isnt hamlet in denmark? Also evidently legos were invented there
Meh, that's right. Hamlet. Not that I have anything against Hamlet, but we talked about for a good month and a half in Lit class. It was bad. LEGOS is a much better option *are
Really? We never did Hamlet. We did Macbeth
I need to read more Shakespeare. I think the Regents 12th grade class read Macbeth Lots of death apparently
Yeah..... It was quite bloody
What other books did you read?
Hey! You might actually know the depressing books i had to read! There was the handmaids tale, the god of small things (aka the 50 shades of india), the road, chronicle of a desth foretold, orpheous lost, and the things they carried Those are what i remember right now
Chronicle I know, things they carried I know, the rest are a mystery. Is that for both years if Lit? Haha, you agree with the depressing theme of IB lit books
I also read things fall apart, the visit and gulivers travels That was just for the 2 HL lit years And they are totslly depressing! Did you ever have tonread ethan frome?
Gulliver's travels? That's a classic. Ethan Frome? I...don't think so. What was that about? We read chronciles, things they carried, no exit, the assault, love medicine, heartof darkness, Hamlet, great Gatsby, the awakening,and lots of Hemingway and T.S Elliot
Hey heart of darkness is referenced a lot in the god of small things! Gulliver was good. Ethan frome was not. It was anout a guy who married his wife to quickly and ended up hating her and falling in love with her niece.
Mrgh that book is dense. It took me about 3 hours to get through 10-15 pages. I kept falling asleep Wow. That took a turn really quickly. What a dude
But he is too good a person to leave her so he just sorta hates his life for awhile. Then the niece and he decide to commit suicide together to be together but fail.
Sounds like A Shakespeare
So the wife takes care of their crippled selves for the rest of their lives What really took me a while to read was the intro to the scarlet letter
You read Scarlet letter? Mrgh I need to read that. How long?
Like the entire summer It was so boring I just kept putting it off Dont read it
Ouch, I know the feeling. Was that for school?
Yeah sophmore year The rest of the book wasnt that terrible but i didnt like it much
What other books did you read in sophomore year? 10th grade English was kind of lame. The teacher was bonkers
I cant remember My teacher was normal though Ive had the same english teacher for the past 3 years
Whoa really? Good thing he's good. I would not have survived with my 10th grade teacher
She* Shes also the IB coordinator so if she was crazy id have been doomed! It was still awkward sitting alone with her for my math test
Sorry. She. Haha she was the IB coordinator? We call ours GR and she is so great. She's one of those passive aggressive types and it's just great The whole math test? All 3 parts? (GR teaches lit and TOK)
Ours is pretty passive agressive too:) one of the dnglish classes has like 25 people and mine has 5 so she likes my class and hates the other The 3rd part was all alone, the first two i was alone for the last hour or so The SLs just left after they were done Our TOK guy was an awesome 50 something short man with a silver cross chain and a bushy mustache And he does magic!!
Hm must be a shared characteristic of IB coordinators.  Wow class of 5? Nice! Holy guac your TOK teacher sounds awesome! The whole works. (side note: if you need to go do something feel free to, considering we've been going at this for...a really long time)
Nope im good if you're good. Im just watching a hilarious comedian named ryan hamilton with my family Im dieing ;)
Yep! Still good. Comedy is good for the soul. Don't think I've heard of him. Though frankly my comedy is pretty limited to Studio C. Don't die though. It's bad for your health
Really!? Hadnt heard that! He seems pretty clean though Hes on netflix, if you are allowed to have that. ;) Plus tou still dont have a snapchat so.....
I know! Someone needs to spread the word about it. Yeah...we don't have Netflix...we live off of DVD and our 4 TV channels I getting the feeling that I should be getting a certain app... *I'm
Wait you only have 4 channels? I was joking! Really? You're getting that feeling. You're brilliant sherlock ;)
Yes. 4 channels. Sometimes two of them are the same. Thank you. I feel like a genius now, all these brainwaves I'm getting
A real benedict cumberbatch ;) Someone i guess you wouldnt know..... ;)
OK Ok, I know very well who doctor strange is thank you very much Haha and Robert down jr for that matter too *downey
I was referencing benedict cumberbatches other role As sherlock holmes...... On the show, Sherlock ;)
...we're going to ignore the fact that I live under a rock
We?.... You can, ive got at least 2 more jokes in me ;) So how far away from New York city do you live? Is it really cool?
Hold it. I need to hear these two jokes now. About 5 hours. It's pretty cool. Big. Loud. Busy. Tall fancy expensive buildings
I dont have them laid out i just feel it. When i said we i almost said "you can continue to hide under a rock but im not ignoring it" It sounds so cool. Ive never even been to the east coast Or the west coast for that matter. Everywhere in between, ive been there. But the coasts havent happened yet
...thanks Haha, hat's like the opposite for me: been to the coasts nothing in the middle So you've never seen the ocean?
Hey! I didnt make the joke! You just asked. And no, ive never seen the ocean, its super sad Of course that means you've never seen wisconsin, or kentucky or chicago. Or the great city of Cincinnati
I'm regretting asking now. Yep. Never seen those great places. Though I'd did send a flat Stanley to Chicago with my sister once Well, when you get to UT you'll be closer to the ocean... kind of...OH might be the same distance...
Then you've practically been! Yeah, i might have to roadtrip out to california sometime
Go during the winter. Everything will be green there.
Yeah but i still want to swim in the ocean It'll be too cold then
Swimming in the cold ocean isn't manly enough?
I mean, ive done it before, i just prefer warm sun and stuff I swam in a mountain pool from snowmelt on my first high adventure so......
Preach Mrgh I wish the YW went on high adventure. We're kind of going on on, white water rafting at Thousand islands Ithink the coldest I've done is a lake at 6 in the morning...so not that cold Props to you
Yeah young womens camp doesnt sound nearly as cool Did you hear they are fully allowing girls into boy scouts though? Its just scouts now
Dude you have no idea. We sleep in cabins. With indoor bathrooms in separate buildings
Thats not even camping You stayed at a resort
Yeah I heard. And that the youth program for the church is going to change I know! I want to go camping camping but there are girls in my stake that are less...willing
I have a problem with girls in boy scouts, it defeats the purpose of the brotherhood thing! Just make girl scouts not terrible!!
Haha. Yeah...I've never been on Girl scouts but I don't think they're.as survival based as boy scouts...are they?
From what ive heard? They sell cookies. So its basically a secret child slavery ring You can go camping all the time in provo!
Very adept description I'm so excited to maybe possible go camping! *possibly And hiking and a bunch of other things.
Hammock camping is the way to go by the way And you've got to go longboarding
I need to do a lot of things We went on Trek and one of the YM hammocked in the storm Woke up to a bunch of sligs in his shoea *slugs
He sounds legit Now i need to see if i can bring my hammock to trek this year!!
He probably slept the best out of everyone that night. How often do you guys have your trek? What's it like?
Its every 4 years but i was turning 14 soon so they just let me go Its probably pretty similar, they split us into families with one kid from each age group then you pull all of your stuff Sometime along the line someone dressed as different pioneers had memorized journal entries of pioneers and recited them, on guy had the entire first vision bit down Then you cross some rivers, hate your life for a bit and play games at the end! There was also a square dance
Oh lucky! What are the trails like out there? How many families do you usually get?
They are very hilly and tree packed There were a good 10-20 i think Whats it like in new york?
Holy guac 10-20? We had a grand total of...5...and the leader cart Lots of narrow woods and fields with ruts and cow pies And mud. So much mid *mud
Its probably towards the 10 end, but we're the tri-stake area so all three participate
Haha yeah that was just our stake. Our cart was so stuffed And half the guys were barely working and half the girls weren't very strong
I was working, i was just small and weak so i didnt do much I almost got slammed into a river by the cart once though
Oh dear. How close to you guys get to a river?
Very, the ohio river is the dividing line between ohio and kentucky and Cincinnati pretty muchbrides that line like a cowboy rides a horse
Woah. That's cool The rivers we had were trickles and more cracked rocks in trenches to cart over
Oh, we didnt have to go through the ohio river, its like 300 meters across and super deep This is the same river that eventually connects to the erie canal But we did have rivers up to shin height to wade through
Haha. Too much of a reenactment. Heeey Erie canal! That's rough Mud was up to...is above the ankle *just It's awesome that other stakes all over the states have trek
Gives all us LDS kids something to relate abiut, especially because some of the other youth conferences can be cooler in different places But trek is always the same
...unless you're in UT. I've heard their trek is pulling handcarts around the block...
Yeah sounds terrible Benefits of mot living in utah, and we had a better chance of getting into BYU
Really? That's a new one.
From what ibe heard BYU is the 1% school for utahans
Huh. Interesting
I guess its just because they want diversity out of utah Which i can under Stand*
Ah. Blessed diversity. I've met this one person on here from Nigeria. Is that diverse enough?
Yeah thats pretty diverse, are they a freshman this year?
Yep. Incoming for fall
Well thats cool Dont think ive ever net anyone from nigeria befor
Haha. Yeah me neither...until this chat thing came into existence
I guess ill have to try to make friends with them in the fall this yesr And everyone else of course
No, just leave everyone else behind. You only need to make friends with the internationally diverse students
Nah, my roomste might get miffed And all of my friends from cincinnati They'd be miffed too
That...could be a problem. College is time for a brand new slate! No, don't really do that. That would be horrible and sad and mean.
I wasnt planning on it :) It would be difficult with my roomate still being my roomate
... extremely awkwarx *awkward I gotta go. The great sleep King has sent out his orders
Ive got to go to sleep too
Good luck on IB
If you've got a snapchat... now would be the time:) You too!
I got the memo the first time. Patience Padawan
Ooo nice reference