BYUJ

So I found out something SO exciting yesterday!! I got accepted into BYU Jerusalem!! I still cannot believe it! Okay I am going to give you a brief summary of how this all came about! So I had heard about BYUJ a couple times in passing, but I never gave it much thought, I never had a burning desire to go there, whatever. But my second semester in Hawaii, I was assigned to go to a family history sunday school class, and I didn't really want to, because they were assigning us alphabetically, and so none of my friends were going. But I was like whatever, I'll just go. So I did, and I went in and sat by this girl, and we started talking and she was telling me everything she had done, and she said she went to BYUJ for a semester. And I was like what! Thats so cool! Because I had never met anyone who had gone! And she told me how great of an experience it was, and how much she loved it! So as soon as I got home from church, I looked up the BYUJ website and read everything & watched the videos, and made sure I was totally qualified to apply. So I called my parents, and told them I wanted to go, and they asked a few questions about it, and they said it sounded great (I think they thought I wasn't actually going to apply, that it was just another one of my my many big dreams I rant about!). But that night, I printed off the application and got started! The application was ALOT of stuff you had to do, I almost gave up a couple times because of it! But no, I got everything done, and sent it off by the deadline, and I honestly didn't think I would get in, but I thought I may as well try!! So I sent in the application March 16, and then I didn't hear anything back until about the middle of May, when I got a packet from them. They said that they accept 200 people to the program, and if more than that apply, they do a random draw, and whoever doesn't make it on the list gets put on a waiting list. And I was number 10 on the waiting list. I thought I had no hope, and started looking into getting a working visa for Australia so I could go work there for a year in September. Then over the next few weeks, I found out I was down to #8, then to #4. Then on Monday, I got a call to my cell, and it was a lady from the application centre who said, I was off the waiting list, and I just needed to have a phone interview! So I had that yesterday, and at the end of that, she told me I was in!! I am SO excited!!

This is how I felt when I found out! I was sooo excited!! And I still am! And I guess who I really need to thank for all of this is my dear cousin Karen! When I was in grade 12, she was the one who wanted me to apply to BYU Provo, and go there with her, so she is the reason I wrote the ACT, and applied for BYU & BYUH, which is how I was able to apply for BYUJ (you have to have been going to school full time for the last 2 semesters at one of the BYU's)! So thank you Karen!!!



Now I just have to come up with $10,000!
Also, I either have to sign up for Arabic or Hebrew, and I have nooo idea which one to take, so any suggestions would be very helpful!!

I have the travel bug!

Haha I thought this seemed like an appropriate name for my new blog! I just can't seem to be able to stay in Edmonton! But really, after living there for 18 years, I need some change and I just seem to have the travel bug!
So I am living in Cardston with my grandparents, and working in Waterton and loving it! Working front desk at a hotel is a lot more stressful than I thought it would be, and I have to wake up at five everyday to get ready and drive to Waterton, but the mountains look so incredibly beautiful a 6am, it's worth it! Seriously though, if you have never driven to Waterton at 6am or earlier, you are missing out, it is stunning, I almost crash driving because I can't peel my eyes away from the mountains! Each day I see the same ones, and each day they continue to take my breath away. Waterton is truly one of the most beautiful places on earth, it actually reminds me alot of Hawaii, with the huge, beautiful mountains, haha except they are snow-capped instead of lush and green, and there are glacier lakes instead of the ocean!

This picture does NOT do it justice, but there was the PRETTIEST sunset ever on the way home from work, it was comparable to some of the one's in Hawaii :)

Old Chief! My favorite mountain ever, this is a horrible picture of it! This is the mountain that almost makes me crash, because driving into Waterton, it is on the left side of me! I cannot wait to climb it this summer!!