BYU-tiful!

I decided that in honor of 1- Experience Utah being featured in the Daily Universe and 2- me being in not Utah [NYC!] I will try to post a photo a day from my BYU campus photo shoot.

Last Sunday I got to thinking that I needed to take advantage of the beautiful autumn colors on campus, so I went and took some pictures. The weather wasn't ideal, but I think the pictures turned out pretty well and it was definitely fun playing on the dead campus all day.

"I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne

BYU Devotionals and Forums

This morning, President Thomas S. Monson of the LDS church gave a devotional at BYU. It was so fantastic. He went through some brief memoirs of all the Prophets who have been alive during his lifetime.

From our seats we could see the teleprompter rolling and at one point he continued with a story as the prompter had stopped. This unscripted story was so funny. (I'll update this post with a link to the talk when it goes up.) Glad I got to enjoy his spontaneity and the view of the teleprompter.

BYU has amazing speakers coming all the time. Last year I got to sit on the floor for Arthur C. Brooks forum, 'Why Giving Matters' and it was incredible. You can see all upcoming forums and devotionals here.

A little something from pre-EU days...

International Cinema has been one of my favorite parts of Utah/ BYU. While I'm not fluent in any other languages, I love seeing foreign films here. Some of my favorites have been Persepolis, A la Folie... Pas du Tout, and so many others.

I'm most excited for the Decalogue series, Pan's Labyrinth, The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, and Children of Heaven. They've got a great line up of films this fall.

There are new films every week from all over the world. So here are some links...

http://ic.byu.edu/

http://ic.byu.edu/PDF_Schedules/CurrentPoster.pdf