A home away from home
A Home away from Home
Getting into Bethlehem university wasn't one of my initial options of the number of available universities at all. To be honest, I didn't know we even had a university in Bethlehem, until my dad told me about it and even then I still wasn't so sure about applying there... I always had that dream of going abroad to study, you know, every teenagers dream is to break free and just wander. I so wanted to leave the country and I was torn between whether I should study medicine or physical therapy until fate intervened somehow. I ask myself every day, "What is it that got me to apply to this university?" I had no answer at all. Was it because of parents? No. Was it my only option? No. Fate simply got me here..
As thrilled as I was at the prospect of finally becoming a university student I was equally depressed for not knowing anybody, I was at a crossroads simply caught in the struggle of finding myself, finding who am I and who I want to be. It was a tough experience I won't lie yet it was worth it and it still is! Every day is a new adventure, a day simply never ends without learning something new, meeting a new friend, and becoming a better version of myself.
You know as a teenager all you are is a reckless human being that's looking for themselves in this life and well, as for myself, I thought that finding myself would be by traveling to some other country and wandering freely. But I never thought that a university can show you what home truly means. Palestine, peace are all encompassed in my definition of "home". Describing the friends that I have made here are beyond words. Why did I relate this to home? Simply, because some friends are family and mine are truly that. Palestine is all about unity, and Bethlehem university is all about that. You see a Christian setting with a Muslim, studying, talking, laughing, making a lifetimes worth of friendships, and simply living in an atmosphere of both Christian and Muslim students without the
Getting into Bethlehem university wasn't one of my initial options of the number of available universities at all. To be honest, I didn't know we even had a university in Bethlehem, until my dad told me about it and even then I still wasn't so sure about applying there... I always had that dream of going abroad to study, you know, every teenagers dream is to break free and just wander. I so wanted to leave the country and I was torn between whether I should study medicine or physical therapy until fate intervened somehow. I ask myself every day, "What is it that got me to apply to this university?" I had no answer at all. Was it because of parents? No. Was it my only option? No. Fate simply got me here..
As thrilled as I was at the prospect of finally becoming a university student I was equally depressed for not knowing anybody, I was at a crossroads simply caught in the struggle of finding myself, finding who am I and who I want to be. It was a tough experience I won't lie yet it was worth it and it still is! Every day is a new adventure, a day simply never ends without learning something new, meeting a new friend, and becoming a better version of myself.
You know as a teenager all you are is a reckless human being that's looking for themselves in this life and well, as for myself, I thought that finding myself would be by traveling to some other country and wandering freely. But I never thought that a university can show you what home truly means. Palestine, peace are all encompassed in my definition of "home". Describing the friends that I have made here are beyond words. Why did I relate this to home? Simply, because some friends are family and mine are truly that. Palestine is all about unity, and Bethlehem university is all about that. You see a Christian setting with a Muslim, studying, talking, laughing, making a lifetimes worth of friendships, and simply living in an atmosphere of both Christian and Muslim students without the