This picture (which has nothing to do with the post,) features a prophetic looking Bro.Ludlow and his er, "attentive class" visiting a synagogue in Capernaum. (Yes, the same one where the Savior would have taught, excepting that the synagogue where we're sitting was built right on top of that one.... so not really the same place, but you get the picture.) I highly recommend blowing this picture up--it's really fun to see everyone's expressions.
http://ce.byu.edu/jc/hosting-video.cfm
Follow this link and you'll get to see a movie-tour of the Jerusalem Center!
OH MAN, this movie made me laugh. I got sentimental too. They call it the "Hosting Video" of the Jerusalem Center, but what it really is is the movie that they play at the beginning of a tour of the center. They have the whole movie in five different languages available at the center. And they use at least four of those languages every week. No, really. The center often takes through more than eight tour groups per day. Anyway--the movie. It's really slow-going, so I'll understand if you skip through bits of it, or all of it, in fact. And I'm sorry that the window is so small.
Just as a note, after this film, you will NOT hear a short organ recital, OR tour the center's gardens. But watch the video anyway. And you can skip through the part about BYU Provo, unless you want a good laugh at everyone's 90's clothes.
Other things to note:
They claim that the center accommodates "some 800 students each year," but last year the number was only 280, so keep that in mind. The full capacity of the building per semester is 160 students (4 busses,) but my group was the largest and only had 81 (two busses.)
I loved the library soooooo much. I was in there all the time.
The "theater" that is shown in the film we called the "dome room," because the ceiling was a dome and the whole thing had really good acoustics. It is where we had relief society meetings.
The forum has orange seats--and was my favorite classroom at the center. And it was never as full of students as the movie portrayed, but that's okay.
At he end of the movie he says something in Arabic, and then says "broochim chabaim," which is Hebrew for "Blessed are they who arrive." It is a fond welcome greeting.
The Hebrew teacher featured on the movie is Judy Goldman, my teacher--and I loved her!
The "multipurpose room" is now an art gallery filled with beautiful photos of Jerusalem.
The shot of the "student housing" is.... let's just say that the rooms were only that clean during cleaning checks.
The "aged olive tree" in the movie looks like its dying, but now its branches are covered and flourishing. In fact, the whole place looks barren in the photo compared to the wildlife that's there now. We had way more plants than the movie lets on.
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