Dates, Dates, and More Dates

Posted by Brittany Karford Rogers (BA ’07), Associate Editor

Via Skype, Sini's oldest brother, Oaquim, informed her that something was different: “She has the opportunity to spend more time with guys. It shows on her face,” he says.

Here are a few highlights of her semester's dates:

• Her first blind date--a date with a friend's boyfriend's friend--entailed a BYU women's volleyball game followed by grilled s'mores and an outdoor volleyball game at Heritage Halls. A boy there with another girl noticed Sini and asked her out the next day. "He asked me to go four-wheeling," Sini says.
  
• Then there was Homecoming: after hours spent sitting next to Sini in Symphony Orchestra, in classes, and in church, Spencer Jensen worked up the courage to ask her to Homecoming. Though Sini was performing in Spectacular on Thursday and Friday night, Saturday was wide open. "We went with a group of his friends to the Old Spaghetti Factory and then to the casual dance," says Sini. "It was a good time."
  
• The most awkward date of the semester was a setup arranged by her "Sandy mom"--the mother of her friend who served in Finland. The blind date took Sini to Brick Oven and mini-golfing. "He didn't talk much," says Sini, adding, with emphasis, "He's, like, 25."
  
• Her favorite date of the semester took her go-carting, to "the Sonic," and to watch the movie Cars in a park.