Friday, May 13, 2011
Drumroll please....
So..... I got it! I received my first EVER passport in the mail yesterday. When my mom called me to inform me of this wonderful news I was super excited and pleasantly surprised!! I put off getting my passport for some reason and so I was worried it would not get here in time, it being busy season and all. Happy day...it ended up getting to me before it was scheduled to. YIPPEE!!
Exciting News....
You might consider me a nerd because I love to watch Rick Steve's Europe.
I guess I just get sucked into all of the cool places he visits. Watching him makes me feel like I am there....and who wouldn't want to be there? I have so many places I would love to visit in Europe: Paris, Vienna, Rome,and Madrid.... I mean, really. Visiting all those places would be living the dream. I have had a couple of people ask me where I would specifically go if I could travel ANYWHERE (my dream destination) and I have always said, "England." I LOVE England, and everything about it. I love Jane Austen, accents, the history, the people, the places, the food! Not only does it hold a lot of the history of the world, but it holds a lot of history from both sides of my family. My ancestors are from England. I have always wanted to visit England, and my wishing grew after my older sister was accepted to a study abroad program to London, and two of my best friends did a backpacking trip from one end of the UK to the other.
This past year I thought about it a lot. I stopped by the Study Abroad offices and collected papers on all of the England study abroad options and looked to see which one looked the best. I decided on London Study Abroad Summer 2011. I don't think I really thought I would be able to go, but it was exciting to me all the same. When I got home that day I taped the paper up in my room. Hopefully that would motivate me to get there!
Winter semester my mind took off. I somehow decided that I COULD do the study abroad, that I WOULD apply, and that it would be STUPID to at least not try. I hardly remember the application process. I just remember that I did it, almost automatically.
One early Saturday morning I received an email that said,
"Congratulations on your acceptance to BYU's Summer 2011 London SA Summer program."
I was ECSTATIC. I ran around my apartment, and screamed, and laughed, and jumped up and down. I am pretty sure my roommates thought I was crazy. Then I called the fam...and I continued to run around, and scream and laugh. It was great.
I am incredibly excited for this upcoming adventure. I am excited for everything that I will see, and learn, and all the awesome people I will meet. I know this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and I feel so blessed and grateful that I can be a part of it all. I CAN'T WAIT! :)
AH London! I am going to see this soon! YIPPEE!!
I guess I just get sucked into all of the cool places he visits. Watching him makes me feel like I am there....and who wouldn't want to be there? I have so many places I would love to visit in Europe: Paris, Vienna, Rome,and Madrid.... I mean, really. Visiting all those places would be living the dream. I have had a couple of people ask me where I would specifically go if I could travel ANYWHERE (my dream destination) and I have always said, "England." I LOVE England, and everything about it. I love Jane Austen, accents, the history, the people, the places, the food! Not only does it hold a lot of the history of the world, but it holds a lot of history from both sides of my family. My ancestors are from England. I have always wanted to visit England, and my wishing grew after my older sister was accepted to a study abroad program to London, and two of my best friends did a backpacking trip from one end of the UK to the other.
This past year I thought about it a lot. I stopped by the Study Abroad offices and collected papers on all of the England study abroad options and looked to see which one looked the best. I decided on London Study Abroad Summer 2011. I don't think I really thought I would be able to go, but it was exciting to me all the same. When I got home that day I taped the paper up in my room. Hopefully that would motivate me to get there!
Winter semester my mind took off. I somehow decided that I COULD do the study abroad, that I WOULD apply, and that it would be STUPID to at least not try. I hardly remember the application process. I just remember that I did it, almost automatically.
One early Saturday morning I received an email that said,
"Congratulations on your acceptance to BYU's Summer 2011 London SA Summer program."
I was ECSTATIC. I ran around my apartment, and screamed, and laughed, and jumped up and down. I am pretty sure my roommates thought I was crazy. Then I called the fam...and I continued to run around, and scream and laugh. It was great.
I am incredibly excited for this upcoming adventure. I am excited for everything that I will see, and learn, and all the awesome people I will meet. I know this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and I feel so blessed and grateful that I can be a part of it all. I CAN'T WAIT! :)
AH London! I am going to see this soon! YIPPEE!!
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