This is probably not an announcement to many people, but I thought I would write about it and share the excitement (as well as the nerves)!
In September last year, I decided to change my major. I then had to decide what schooling path I would take now that my plans changed. I no longer needed to be in the Mesa Grow Your Own Teacher Program, even though it was a great program and such an honor!
I could now leave Mesa and go somewhere else if I so desired. Well I did desire and I was planning to apply to the University of Arizona and move to Tucson. My parents and I went down there to go through the initial orientation and take a tour of the campus and the college I was going to major in. We spent the weekend down there and were able to get more acquainted with it.
Move forward to April of this year. My mom was searching on the internet and found that my major was an option at BYU. I have been wanting to go to BYU my whole life, ever since I was little. My mom's entire family's blood and mine runs Cougar Blue. Both my Grandma and Grandpa Johnson went there, my mom, her two brothers, and her sister. Also two of my cousins are attending there (well Jordan is on his mission, but he will still be attending there). And also two of my cousins on my dad's side are attending there.
It has been a goal my entire life to go there and when I wasn't able to, I felt awful. I felt that I was breaking a family tradition. Now, I know nobody else felt this way, but I did and it was so important to me.
Well anyway, back to the story... In April my mom found that my current major (Child Development) was available at BYU. Well, I jumped at this opportunity and I was so excited for the next week! Well, I have been excited since then, but it was especially exciting that whole week. We looked up what I needed to do to apply and found out that I missed the deadline for Fall Semester. Bummer! So I began applying for Winter Semester. It took me a little while to find the time to complete my application. So in June/July before I left for Pocatello for vacation I finished it. Well, I had several transcripts I needed to get transferred, so that took a little while and then I had a hold up on the transcript I needed from Augustana College (long story... ok not really). I waited for what seems like forever and my official acceptance finally came a couple of weeks ago!
So... I am moving to Rexburg the end of December/beginning of January! The people that I have told (which is quite a few) have asked me if I was crazy. Yes, apparantly I am! In the beginning of this decision, I was scared, not terrified like I was when I was planning on moving to Tucson, but still a little nervous. That is old news! Now I can hardly wait for Fall Semester to end so that I can get up there. I know this decision has been hard on some, like Janet who made it seem like the world was coming to an end. But that's ok because we have a great way to communicate and keep in touch and I would never just leave and abandon her.
I am so excited to be trying something new. Yes, me the girl who thrives in her comfort zone, is excited about trying something new! Miracles do happen. :-)
