JC Talent Show

The talent show on Friday was amazing. At first it seemed that there wouldn't be much participation becuase no one would put their name up on the sign up list. Finally everyone put their names up when Lauren put a deadline on it. It was the best talent show I have ever attended. Everyone participated. The people who didn't participate got assigned to do a skit at the beginning in a group, (yes the faculty included they did an very witty Jericho skit). Everyone was so creative. There was live music, "Disney 'a whole new world' complete with authentic costumes and altered humorous lyrics." Poetry: a tribute to all the funny things Bro. Seeley has said in class. There were serious numbers, including Ashoken farewell played by Kyle and there was a lot of funny stuff. My roomates learned the entire dance to an 'Okay Go' music video. Anne, Jared, Emily, and Cami did a hilarious pantomime which they called 'Dinosaurs'. They were really good at it, they looked like little Jurassic park animals. It was high quality entertainment and I basically laughed for 3 hours straight (yes the talent show ended up going until 10 pm!). Pretty much the highlight for me was a video wherein Davey, Derek, David, Kyle, and Chris impersonated our teachers. They had their mannerisms and voices down! It was so funny, we all gave them a standing ovation at the end. The faculty was all sitting in the back, I was worried they wouldn't like it. I think they liked it. Bro. D told us he has been impersonated before by John Bytheway (his mannerisms are so consistent that he's easy to impersonate). Today in class Bro D asked Davey for a copy of the video to send to his daughter. The video just got put up on u-tube a few minutes ago entitled "The best teachers ever assembled at the BYU JC" (I dont' know if you can find it from that). Our group has a lot of energy. According to Bro H of all the groups he's had ours has the most energy. It's good but we just need to make sure we don't do anything stupid. Every announcement session we all are reminded to respect the building, not eat or drink anywhere but the oasis, our rooms, and the snack bar. We've had some incidents. A ceiling tile got knocked down while we were playing soccer in the gym and some students stained the marble floor by dancing on it without shoes. You can see the spots from the 7th floor when you look down to the 6th, its so sad. I think they just forgot about always wearing shoes...no one will make that mistake again. It's good that everyone has fun but this is a wonderful beautiful building that we should be very careful with.
Anyway, in case you wanted to know, it did snow in Jerusalem, I don't know if I said that. I didn't really get any cool Dome of the Rock snow pictures though because it was foggy and then it melted really fast. Other current events are the deans of the BYU religion class got here on Sunday night. They have been sitting in on our classes. Bro H even got them into the dome of rock (no tourists can go in) through his Arab contacts (A lot of the stuff I put on here is things other students have told me, I wonder how that know it and how much of its true). Anyway, Friday we have a big midterm test in Ancient Near East which everyone is studying for (which I should be doing). Tomorrow is our field trip through Hezekiah's tunnel which I'm really looking forward to and I will tell you about. Dinner is going on in the Oasis right now so I'm gonna go eat. Later!