"It is not the ctitic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

~Theodore Roosevelt

Monday, January 3, 2011

Starting Off 2011...

~New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.
~Hamilton Wright Mabie

It's a new year! And I honestly have a ton to say. First off, I just moved into my new apartment at BYU :) School starts tomorrow... even though it doesn't feel like it.

It's gonna be a good year. I know everyone says that, but really.

January 1, 2011-snowmobiling in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. I'd never been snowmobiling before. Not that I remember-(I always feel weird saying never cuz I don't remember everything from when I was a kid)

It was exciting-of course :) But also scary. Alright, I may be kind of a wuss, but I could just see myself getting injured.

Three two-person snowmobiles and we were off. Two miles in we stopped because two of the others saw a moose. They went around the trees from where we were to see it better and came back running.

They hopped on their snowmobile and took off... and crashed. But I was too busy crashing to notice. We tipped over hardly moving at all. Sounds like it should have just been funny, huh? Haha, ironic we both crashed at the same time.

But while the guy I was riding with got up fine, my foot was pinned underneath the handlebar on the side of the back seat. It hurt, we kept riding (after only two miles, I wasn't gonna ruin the trip), we went back to the condo, it was swollen, I iced it and such... long story short, I have a badly sprained ankle.

Yes, it's just a sprain, but I couldn't put any weight on it yesterday. I now have giant Ibuprofen pills, a brace, and crutches... yes, I'm supposed to use my foot, but walking to and from and all over campus... I need some help.

They are exhausting though. Tomorrow will be interesting :P Honestly though, I can see a lot of reasons why I needed this. Maybe I'll get to all that in another post though :)
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  1. Corey WilkeyJanuary 3, 2011 at 10:46 PM

    oh bergan...you are such a trooper. so nice of you to not want to ruin the trip, but girl, you gotta speak up when you are hurt! lol

    hope your foot feels better soon! :)

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