The story of how it all began . . . .

So since this is a blog all of my trip to Jerusalem I figured I would share the story about me deciding to go to Jerusalem. So I have taken a few religion classes from an amazing professor, Brother Baron. He used to be a Jew and has visited Jerusalem quite a few times. I was discussing Jerusalem with him last Fall semester and he said "If your single and can afford it, you HAVE to go". I immediately ran up to the religion department and got a brochure and called my parents. They agreed that if I didn't get into the nursing program they would pay for me to go. Well a few weeks later I got my acceptance letter into the nursing program and begged my parents to still allow me to go but they wouldn't budge. They would not let me defer a semester of nursing and go. So I figured my dream of going to Jerusalem was gone. As soon as I had accepted that I wouldn't be going to Jerusalem, I got a letter from the nursing program saying that they were going to take a group of us that wanted to go to Jerusalem. I was so excited and immediately got permission from my parents to be able to go. I started to plan my life around this trip and was 100% positive that I was going. To my surprise there ended up being 14 people from the nursing program applying to go and they could only allow 10. I began to panic and was super nervous that I wouldn't be able to go. They told us that they would take more associate students (which is what I am) than bachelor students. At the last meeting they told us that that was changed that they actually like to take more bachelor students over associate students. I waited a month to hear which students were picked to go and out of 9 associate students that applied only 4 made it in. Luckily one of those students was me!! I now have everything done and I'm just waiting to leave on August 30th. I'll try to keep everyone updated and let you know about all the different experiences I have!