So...

I got into grad school! My mom just forwarded me the acceptance letter from BYU's new MFA program! I'll probably end up getting to teach a freshman English class, besides studying exactly what I have realized I love most in school--personal essays (among other types of creative writing). I love the fact that I'm headed towards what I love; I guess it's cool to have found what I would want to do whether I got any credit for it or not, and then to have the chance to do it for credit and to progress towards a worthwhile job through which I could contribute something I believe is meaningful to the world.

Just wanted to letcha know :).

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Under the center we all write our names. Sometime I'll have to tell you about how we started the Mustache Militia here, and how I am sure that I finally have the final ingredient needed to convince Heidi Hatch to kiss me. Ahh yeeah.

Lachish shall not fall again.
Yo soy Rambo.

Un poquito mas

This wasn't like Moria; Moria was like this. Now I know why it was supposed to be impressive. Welcome to the Karnak Temple, folks.



For all you Dragon Ball Z fans: Ka-me-ha-me...


Moroni 10:3 "...Remember how merciful the Lord hath been..."

y mas - Egypt

Here's to you, Communism. A fine meal at the Kibbutz. Felt like I was in The Giver. The Giver + great ice cream.

Hatshepsut's funerary temple. She was a psycho-pharaoh. At the top of the mtn. you can see a natural pyramid shape. On the other side of it to the right is another valley system sort of thing--The Valley of the Kings. That was probably the coolest thing ever, except we couldn't bring cameras in there. It was epic. EPIC.Pyramids. Gotta put 'em up there.


Felucah ride on the Nile. Way chill. I leaned off the masthead like Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet would have done but then got reprimanded.

Don't eat the fruit they say. It'll give you dysentery (or at least diarrhea--"Pharaoh's Revenge"/"the Cairo quick-step") they say. Pah.

I live on the Nile; I get whatever I wish--I'm Pharaoh. Get it?

But the real Pharaoh was only biding his time. He later struck at 3 am--on Sinai. Course, the food was worth it. DELICIOUS. This is the view of the Nile we had from the Sheraton. INSANE, man. Egypt alone was worth $10,000. That is not a joke. No. Oh no.


This is what me and my homeys do on Saturday afternoons.

Und mehr

I just thought I'd better post this one too--just found it in Dan's photos he lent me--because it is mighty in formidability and hallowed in memory.

Dome of the rock with Dan Jones, Amjad--whom I mentioned in an early post--Dan King, and John Wiest.
This is a view from the battlements over Damascus Gate (the main, north entrance to the Old City; the battlements were built by Suleyman the Magnificent in 1500 something). It looks down onto the classic market you first start walking into. I figured every student who's ever been there would love to see it. Go ahead, find great filafels on the right; a little further, and it forks: more market stuff on left, Shabban's etc. on the right (and gummies!).

More photos

Meet Elias. Jovial. Spanish speaking. 92 yrs old. Lives around the corner. Lived through the Holocaust.
Lord of the Flies in the Kidron Valley. Potatoes and onions smoked at least partially on a trashfire.
Gonna blow these walls down baby. Lowest city on earth: Jericho. It rains once a year there. It started raining about five minutes after we took this picture. What are the odds. Then I biffed trying to bring the biggest rock I could possibly carry to the pavilion in the background for an object lesson. Hahaha.

Gallery of Long Awaited Photos

Southern Utah boys at Nabi Samwil (Jordan Mulford and I)




Gethsemane. There's a little cross in the center of the picture if you look close.
My favorite view of Jerusalem, for some reason, or at least the part that ... yeah, I think it is my favorite--rivaled only by Dome of the Rock.
Colgate.
Dan King and I, looking jemele.