People might think I am a heartless girl because I don't cry very much - whether dealing with spiritual matters or goodbyes or whatever. Usually people only see me cry when I'm laughing my head off, because I always have tears running when that happens.
I am proud of myself for keeping that tradition this week. The past week has been full of "lasts" and it has been hard and sad. But I have been so happy to see the things that I have seen!
On Monday and Tuesday we had our last days of Jesus' life field trips. Today (Wednesday) I had the BEST LAST DAY EVER in Jerusalem. And at the beginning of the day I decided that someday I am going to come back to Israel and this city. Because it has become that important to me.
Today on my free day I hung out with Ann, Amberlea, and Morgan, and had sooooo much fun! We walked for miles today, from one side of the city to the other and back and forth. I saw my favorite places in Jerusalem today and it was perfect:
*Western Wall.
*Garden Tomb
*Temple Mount (aka: Dome of the Rock)
*West Jeru
*Shuk
This may not sound like a lot of walking, but believe me it is. And we saw all 4 quarters of the Old City and all got the things accomplished/bought that we needed/wanted to and we all had fun and it finished off with one of the most beautiful sunsets I've ever seen. We were blessed with wonderful weather today, a miracles considering the storms we have had here earlier in the week. Heavenly Father loves me and blessed me with a perfect final day.
After we got back and watched the sunset, I paid my bills, finished packing, weighed my suitcases successfully, took my phone upstairs, turned in my library books, cleared our gazillion water bottles, took our leftover bathroom/med supplies to the collection, took my linens upstairs, and had
AN AWESOME DINNER & MEMORIES NIGHT. Thank you to those who put the program together. We heard from our professors whom WE LOVE TO PIECES and watched our Waka 'Round the World video, and watched our half our long slideshow. I loved the teachers sharing their memories and that I was a part of them. I have not laughed so hard for so long in a long long time. The slideshow was awesome.
Now all those on the Austrian Air flight are just waiting around until 3am when we will leave Jerusalem, drive to Tel Aviv, and fly away :(
Bittersweet. I'm so sad to leave my home. But I'm so excited to go home home. I can't wait to see my family and friends. I have said these things so many times to myself and to other people and I still cannot believe that my time in Jerusalem has ended for now and new phases of life are going to begin. WEIRD. But super exciting.
I will see my parents tomorrow night! I hope I can see some friends this weekend! And I will see my sisters next week! And I will get to see my nephews and meet my nieces!
You wanna know the weirdest thing about going home? CHURCH IS ON SUNDAY. WHAT MORMON EVER THOUGHT THAT WAS WEIRD UNLESS THEY'VE BEEN TO ISRAEL?
Something funny that was just said in the computer room. Jake is a funny guy. He is also wonderful and is putting all of our pictures that we've compiled onto external hard rives for us all. How nice. So as I'm writing this and people are asking him where on the list they are and if their USB drives were working, Jake said "We are just going to put them all on mine or Stephanie's external hard drives. USB drives are just being temperamental. USB drives are like women..." HAHAHA silly Jake.
Then someone asked Jake for a last one of his theories. And this is what he said: "If you can't be yourself in front of God, maybe you should rethink your self." Deep and profound. Cool beans. I like it.
It's only 11:42pm, what am I going to do for the next 3 hours to keep myself awake?
After reading your post it reminded me of that time you and me were with Jessica and we had just gotten slurpees. Remember how you tried to make that u-turn and we got stuck and we were laughing so hardand you had tears running out of your eyes? Oh man, good times. That's what always comes to my mind when I buy a slurpee.
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