dripping with passion

Dear Family, Here are some pictures for you from the past week. I have had a lot of fun times! It is becoming a challenge for me to balance playing hard with working hard. I want to make the most of my last three and half months in Boston and at Wellesley! Photos from Lake Day : one of Wellesley's oldest traditions where we have a big carnival and picnic on Severance Green. We don't know it's Lake Day until that morning! To make our Senior Year Lake Day go down in history, me and my friends had a little 1AM secret expedition to Lake Waban that night... Photos from our Ward Campout in Sharon, Vermont : It was such an awesome trip!!! I had a great time getting to know people in my ward and being in the GORGEOUS birthplace of the Prophet Joseph Smith. We had an incredible testimony meeting and on that sunny morning in Sharon I said, "Hail to the Prophet!" His fantastic story is REAL and he did in fact see God the Father and His Son! He was truly blessed to...

There's something pretty magical about walking down Canal Street at midnight in New York City's Chinatown listening to Frank Sinatra sing "If I can make it there, I can make it anywhere!" The next song on random shuffle on my iPod was "City of Blinding Lights" by U2. SWEETNESS! (Made me think of you, Josh and that awesome concert at Madison Square Garden). When I got on the Fung Wah bus on Friday to head for the Big Apple, I realized that it felt like home. It is so fun to be back back east and be able to just pack a backpack and go to New York! Thanks to Noah and Kristi for always letting us stay and to Tal for hanging out with me! I met my good friend from High School, Erin Anderson in NYC for the weekend. She is interning in DC so we decided to meet halfway! She brought her roommate Randi who is wonderful ... and we had a GREAT time! We went to Battery Park, and then the girls took the Staten Island Ferry while I went to lunch with Tal and Mr. London. ...

Ok I'm trying to figure out the blog thing. I made it back to Wellesley and have been here for the past two weeks! It was a little crazy to get everything sorted out as far as class schedule but everything has worked out really well and I have been really happy! The transition was a lot easier than I expected. As soon as I got to Wellesley I felt like I was home. It's a little weird because nothing here has really changed, but I feel like I have changed so much in the past 15 months. But it really does feel good to be back. And I am just soaking up everything that I can in the next 4 months, because by then I will be out of here for good! I am taking five classes: travel writing, history seminar on anti-semitism, religion seminar about the abraham/isaac narrative, statistics for sociology, and physics 101. I like my classes but I have to admit I have not been doing too much schoolwork yet. I need to get on top of it because things are going to start to get really busy real...