Happy 2012 Everyone!!!
First semester went great, finals were quite the experience, but I survived! (partially due some really great news and partially because I spent Thanksgiving break studying all day everyday – it was worth it and definitely paid off) We had a month for break and boy was that nice! It was so enjoyable to spend that time at home and catch up with all my friends I had been neglecting for the 4 previous months!
But now that my busy break is over I need to share the great news I got:
On Friday, December 2nd, at around 8:30 I was in the gym before my final that afternoon when I got a phone call from my sister. In case it wasn’t obvious, it was 8:30 AM, a time my sister never calls because that it way too early in the morning! I was hoping for a call that day so I was already in tears before she finished telling that the Dean of Admissions had just called her to let you know she had been accepted to the College of Dental Medicine with me!!! I think I was more excited than when I got my acceptance call just a year ago! I cannot even begin to express how overjoyed I am to be able to share this experience and future careers together!
Of course, my sister and I knew we couldn’t just call my parents to tell them the big news. So we decided we needed to surprise them and film it again. We called my mom’s assistant Melanie and asked for her help in setting something up. Melanie invited my mom, dad and brother to go for dinner that night with her family at a sports bar to watch our high school football team in the play-offs. My sister , her boyfriend and I drove into Atlanta and met Melanie before the dinner to give her a picture my sister wrapped of us that said “2 is better than 1!” We then snuck into the restaurant and hid until they opened the present, which they thought was a holiday gift from Melanie and her family! It was complete success and if we had kept filming you could have watching my mom sporadically crying for the next 2 hours!
Here is the photo of my sister and I playing with the Panorex when we were little that she framed for the wrapped present:
And here is the video of the surprise!
