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!!