Phoenix!

So we are stuck in Phoenix, but we found out tonight that some of us are leaving tomorrow, some Friday & some on Saturday! I, unfortanately am with the Saturday group, but we've decided to make the best of our time here!

Phoenix is so ho t(hence the shiny faces), it's hard to find stuff to do, especially since we don't have any transportation! Tonight we went down to Mill Ave and got ice cream, and I think tomorrow we are going to rent tubes & go tubing down some canyon!

Trouble at the airport

After we found out we were going to be stuck in phoenix for a week & we got pizza with our airport food vouchers!

 So this morning at 8, I had to be at the Salt Lake City airport, to catch my flight to Phoenix which left at 10:45. The wait went pretty quick and we arrived in Phoenix in no time! We just had a short period of time for our layover here, except all the sudden we found out our flight to Philadelphia was delayed for an hour, which was just fine. But then we found out our flight was delayed til Friday, because of mechanical problems with the plane, and they are fully booked til Friday & they have no other options to offer us, except to put us up in a hotel and give us money for transportation and food! But right now, the person in Provo who was in charge of booking all our flights is on the phone with the airline, fighting for us to get a sooner flight so we aren't stuck here for 3 days! I'm sure everything will just be fine but I hate waiting, I just want to get to Jeru! Okay just kidding I just found out we are staying in phoenix for a week! nice resort, but I want to get to Jeru!

BYU-J

Hi! So facebook in blocked at the Jerusalem Center (which I actually think is wonderful, I waste way too much time on it anyways!) and we can't email any pictures home because it will like overload their internet or something, so I am going to write about my experiences and post pictures on my blog (which hopefully I am allowed to do, who knows, maybe they've blocked blogs too!). I've started a few other blogs, but I always spend so much time trying to make them look cute, which I usually can't do because I don't really know how, and then I look at other people's blogs and see how cute they are, and then I feel bad about how ugly my blog is so I quit! But I've decided with this one, I'm not going to even bother maing it look cute, so please excuse it's blandness! But I am going to try to update whats going on weekly, and hopefully I will have some interesting experiences and neat pictures to share! Also here is my adress, I love getting mail!
Mailing Address (for letters and correspondence):
BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies
Mary Burtenshaw
P.O. Box 19604
Jerusalem, 91196
Israel


This is going to be my home for the next 3 and a half months! if you want to read more about the centre, this is the link! http://ce.byu.edu/jc/