Greetings,
The mentions below are just a few ramblings, I think it has always been more important for me to write them than it has been for other people to read them. The dream is always that some future historian will dig up the idle thoughts contained in such writings and analyze them in some vain attempt to understand the total man but I that I think, is an idyllic dream.
The real purpose of this blog is to chronicle the next four months of my life for those who are curious (or pretend to be) about the on goings at the BYU Jerusalem Center. I am incredibly excited to be part of a small group of 82 students flying out in three days. We will leave April 27th, the first day of classes for the spring term at BYU and remain in the middle east until August 12th, the last day of classes for summer term. In the course of 4 months we will travel to Egypt, Jordan, and Galilee for extensive amounts of time as well as dozens of other locations close to base camp in Jerusalem. I recently moved out of my college apartment and currently I am organizing all the stuff I brought back from 8 months of university life along with everything I left here and trying to pull together a 50 lb suitcase suitable for international travel. I am far from packed.
I will leave Tuesday at 10:15 am and fly through New York to Tel Aviv, arriving sometime around 1 pm on Wednesday Israel time. Israel is 9 hours in the future so as I am writing this in Utah at 8:45 pm it is 5:45 am in Israel (the next day). That means if you want to catch me awake you will have to be up after 10 pm or perhaps easier sometime before 1 pm Utah Time.
Cheerio!
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