2 days away!

In less than 54 hours, I will be on my way to the airport. I'm not sure if I quite believe it yet. I am packed. Mostly. Packed in the loose sense of the word, but tighter than the loose sense I was using yesterday. That doesn't really make much sense at all. I have this overwhelming fear that I'm going to forget something important, or that they won't really let us go. But its getting to the point where it's too late for the powers that be to turn back now. I'm really going! I've waited for this my whole life it seems, and I'm going. Monday is our student orientation. I'm going to meet my roommates and get my Jerusalem backpack. Mom and Rebecca will be on their way home by then. Hopefully I'll find someone to drive me to the airport. That's what I'm praying for. My roommate told me she would take me, but that was a couple months ago, and I don't really want to ask that of her on the first day of school. Monday night, or maybe even tomorrow night, I'm planning on finding my home teachers to ask for a blessing, because I could sure use one right about now. I'm not scared to be in Jerusalem. I'm a little nervous about getting there. Packing and checking out of my apartment stressed me out a little more than I could handle on my own, and I haven't fully recovered. But I know that as soon as orientation starts, the overwhelmingly excited part of me will take over, and I'll feel much better.

The picture in my profile is a little small, so I thought I'd post a few more to give you a better idea of my home for the next couple of months. Even though I've been told that pictures can't do it justice.





I put the last one in there because it combines two of my very favorite things in the world... Jerusalem and the BYU Singers!

Two weeks from today, I will get on a plane in Salt Lake with a group of college students I have not yet met. Actually, I have met a few of them, two of which were in Women's Chorus with me this year. Incidentally, I think all three of us have the same voice teacher. But I digress. Together, we will fly halfway across the world, to spend nearly 8 weeks in Israel, Egypt, and Jordan. This grand experience ahead of me has been a dream of mine ever since I can remember, and it's hard to believe its so close! I want to share this experience with everyone I love. My blog certainly won't have everything, and it certainly won't replace my personal journal, but I'll do my best to show and tell all of my many adventures in the Holy Land.