tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74060660599730825302011-04-21T18:13:47.911-06:00Bryan Bozung's pilgrimage and journey to the Holy Land: BYU Jerusalem Center, Jerusalem, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Petra, Galilee, Bethlehem, Dead Sea Scrolls.Bryan Bozunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03345285754550130950noreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7406066059973082530.post-37123930411979826532009-04-05T14:50:00.011-06:002009-04-05T19:20:41.223-06:00

Well I obviously haven’t blogged for awhile, and I will try to catch up to an extent, but I am just going to go ahead and tell you briefly how cool today was. Today I bonded more with my fellow Christians than I think I ever will again in my life. It is Palm Sunday and I left from the center at about 7:30 to head over to the Church of the Holy Sepluchre. After watching some different processions

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Well, I'm not too good at this blogging thing lately. I thought for sure I would at least get some updates before I left for the week... but... it is late, I need to go to bed, and I'm afraid it isn't going to happen. I'll post a lot when I get back (hopefully).

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I think I’ve mentioned before that we have been putting together lots of hygiene kits here. And well, I’m not sure why, but I really enjoy doing it. It think it is way fun. I haven’t missed a single shift yet. There are usually two shifts that people are supposed to come in, so I usually go for the first and then just stay for the second because we can always use the people. The first day I kind

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(Thur., Feb. 26) Well, not a lot to say about it. I am on the set up committee, so I spent a couple hours that afternoon setting up for Seder. Seder was really cool. I couldn’t believe we were just sitting there for over four hours in the cafeteria. We all participated in different ways, everyone took turns being servers, narrating, singing, etc. I sang some song with a few other guys… but I

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(Wed., Feb. 25) Well, our City of David field trip began with an amazing 3D movie. It really was quite cool and educational. It definitely gave me a better understanding of the area. It was even better than a really cheesy cartoonish movie we had watched at the Tower of David Museum. It was neat to see some of the ruins of the city, the Gihon Spring, etc. Of course, the coolest part was Hezekiah’

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We have had some intense storms lately and we had a sweet one we went and played in for a little bit (well, I’ve played in them a few times). Sacrament meeting was awesome on the 21st because it was storming really hard outside and there was some huge flashes of lightning and loud thunderclaps. I taught Priesthood that day on Missionary Work.The next day we headed out to the city and it was great

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A memorial at Yad VashemOn 18 February we went to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum. It was a humbling and educational experience. It just sickens me how intolerant mankind has been throughout all of time. I can somewhat comprehend how people could get into their mind to subjugate another race or people under them, but I cannot understand how so many people could actually support the genocide of

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An eventful Sunday (Feb. 15). We started off by going to a service at the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer near the Holy Sepulchre. We went to the Arabic service which was cool. I mean… next time I will go to an English service, but it was a good experience. When that finished we actually wandered over to another service in the Holy Sepluchre. I think it was a Greek Orthodox service, but again,

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Maybe minus the love part. This is still on Friday, but earlier in the day Zach Huff (Brother Huff’s 12 yr old son) had come over to our room and once I reminded him of my name he suddenly knew my last name and said I was in the paper. I didn’t think he had any idea what he was talking about. Later after the party I was walking through the computer lab and there were a bunch of people in there

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This was a packed day. We had Old Testament, then our Judaism class, then our Midterm in Bro. Skinner’s class. Right after I had to prepare a lesson and I taught seminary! The teacher (who is a student at Hebrew U) was out of town, so a few of us volunteered to teach one day each. I was first up. It was fun, I love teaching seminary. Hopefully it wasn’t too boring for them though. I had a few

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So back in the day (Feb. 9) we had our Shephelah field trip, a visit to the lowlands of Israel. The five valleys here was, for the most part, the battlefront for all the wars between the Philistines and the Children of Israel. It was neat to get an idea of what it would have been like to be in these ancient cities whose ruins we were at. To imagine the lack of signal fires from the next closest

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Next stop: Jericho. We saw the oldest building known to man. The tower at Jericho is possibly 9000 years old. Because everything was mudbrick and had returned to its natural state of just mud, there wasn’t much to see at Jericho. However, it was cool nonetheless. We also saw the ruins of Herod’s winter palace, but the coolest thing we saw was the monastery at the Mount of Temptations where Jesus

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Well it has been almost three weeks since I’ve posted anything. And considering I’m in Jerusalem, I’ve done a ton. I should have actually been writing this as things happened, but I guess I’ll just give you the abridged version and break it up in a few different posts so I actually get something posted. I’ll try to recall things in somewhat of the order I’ve done them, but I’m sure I’ll leave a

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(The exodus begins two posts below.)I'll get some more pictures up, but I need to get some from other people's cameras.Friday, Jan. 30We went back to the hotel and had Sacrament Meeting. That was weird. It was Friday morning and we were still in normal clothes. I think half the people were asleep. A few of us guys were singing and we thought we would at least have a chance to go over it once, we

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I loved Luxor.Wednesday, Jan. 28 The Sheraton was right on the Nile. It was awesome. In the restaurant where we ate each meal you were just overlooking the Nile River. We headed first to the Valley of the Kings. First tomb we went to was King Tut’s. Later in the week we got to see some of the treasures discovered there at the Egypt Museum. He was an insignificant king! I can’t imagine how lavish

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I’ve been to Egypt now! Crazy! I’ll try to pull some stuff from my journal to share my experiences there, so it might be more than you want to read. But I know that Dad wants it, so I’ll write a lot.Sunday, Jan 25 I stayed up really late the night before assuming that I would be able to sleep on the bus, but I didn’t do much sleeping because we were having fun. That ended typical for me the rest

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I’ll try to update this more often than once a week, but no promises. I’m going to Egypt in the morning! I figured I better update this before I left. I don’t feel like I have a lot to write about this week, but we’ll see what we can do.Monday was our first entire free day. A bunch of people went to walk the ramparts of the walls. I went again because the last time I went we only got to do the

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First off I’ll start with how good the food is here. Especially how good it is for you to eat at a cafeteria! My table was impressed with how much food I ate tonight. I had a nice stack of plates on my tray. But really, I love trying new things so I have tried everything I can so far! And of course you can always put anything in a pita here. It’s great.Thursday after class we decided to go walk

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Alright, so it definitely takes a little adjustment to have the Sabbath on Saturday, especially when you live and go to school in the same building and there is not really a weekend. It is confusing as to what day it is! Sunday morning we had our Modern Near East classes from both the Jewish perspective, and the Palestinian perspective. I think I will greatly enjoy both classes, though there is

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I have completed my pilgrimage to Jerusalem! Or at least the part of actually getting here. Now the real quest begins as I get to learn more and more about this Holy City. I can’t even describe how amazing it is and how blessed I feel to be here. It’s Shabbat and we just got finished with church. So I’ll catch up from the beginning.The flight here really wasn’t too bad. I feel like I was just

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As you can see I wanted to make sure I stood out in Jerusalem so everyone knew who I was. I have told a few fake stories, but by now I think almost everyone knows the real story of why my hair is so messed up. Shaving a strip in my head was a great way to start off my journey to Jerusalem. I decided to cut my hair the morning before orientation in Provo. I removed the guard to switch to the next

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