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Recap: Part 3 Christmas

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DECEMBER AND ALL THE FUN IT BRINGS But first, a little sadness: When you live with BYU students, you start to bond with them very quickly, and it was really hard to say goodbye. There were a lot of pictures taken and a LOT of tears shed It was also REALLY crazy trying to make sure that everyone had their luggage and that everything was ready to go I don't think I really started to believe that they were going until the last one, Robin, left. Those boys can find fun in any situation though, this pile of pillows and blankets accumulated when all the students put all of their bedding on the 5th floor so they could be cleaned for the next group of students. But that day wasn't too bad though, because: MY NANA AND COUSIN CAME! I was so happy to see my family again, those four months felt like such a long time You could tell that Sammy was also really happy to have his Nana back It was great to know that we would all be there to cel

Recap: Part 2 October-November

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So, to continue the recap of the year so far, in October we had two important holidays, one was a Jewish Holiday which is called Sukkot, or the Feast of the Tabernacles, so we decided that we would make our own Tabernacle, or Sukkah, out side our apartment.  My mom decided a better name for it was our 'Jewish Disco' though. A more traditional sukkah, apparently it's not common to decorate it with lights...  The second important holiday was of course, Halloween!  My mom and brother brought back old costumes of The Bride of Frankenstein and a Knight, but I decided to go a different direction and be a zombie princess ;) Our family's Halloween Costumes No, my dad did not dress up, he does not like Halloween very much, but two people decided to dress up as him ;) Also in October, the BYU students studying here (did I forget to mention that's why my family is over here, my dad is teaching the study abroad students here), and the f

Recap: Part 1 Leaving and Settling in

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Some may say that I'm a little overdue in writing a blog.  I would agree. The reason for this statement would be because I have been living in Jerusalem since last August, and unfortunately, I have not been as good at documenting this trip to the public as my dad has been, as you can see in his blog: Huntsmans in the Holy Land , this is also where you can go if you would be interested in viewing in more detail about what I've been doing this year. In my defense, I tried to blog on my dad's blog, but I kept forgetting to ask him if I could use his computer... so here's the link , it describes in more detail my first few days in Jerusalem and it also shows some of the pictures of my trip to Paris with my mom. As for this blog though, I'll try to do a quick recap about what I've been up to. So, my trip to Jerusalem was very interesting, we drove from our home to the Salt Lake Airport, flew from Salt Lake to Atlanta, then from Atlanta to Tel Aviv, then one