Pictures: (l-r: view from the street, Chris and Randy's room, Reznick 16 Courtyard - my dorm- and the old city- click any image for full size version)

Shalom.
As Randy noted, sorry this has taken so long to get up. Putting up photos has proven to be almost impossible with Israeli options, but after long last here is the first set. So far we have yet to explore most of Jerusalem, but our campus is situation directly above it on the highest of the six hills. Mt. Scopus has been some of the most hotly contested ground in human history, and was actually still in Arab control thirty years ago. From the walk to class we can see the old city and most of old Jerusalem. At night the whole city glows with the lights reflecting off the stone walls. There are never any clouds, and the whole sky is full of strange stars none of us have every seen before.
This photo was taken directly from the landing of stairs to our classroom, Education 601. The campus is huge and a little intimidating. The entire thing is built of white Jeruslame limestone. The dorms are full of courtyards and are entirely surrounded with walls built of the same white limtestone. Sadly, the insides do not even begin to live up to the whole image. Frankly put, they are third world. But it seems a small price to pay for being here.
I got in half a day before everyone else and so was stuck on my own for an entire day. The whole experience was really surreal. I stepped of of El Al 401 at Ben Gurion and was instantly in another entire world. I couldn't read a single sign, I didn't know a single person, no one was there to ensure that I made it to Jerusalem. I fortuanatley ran into a Hebrew U fellow summer student and so was able to get a shared taxi (Nesher Sherut) and made it to Jerusalem. On the ride over I really realized that I was in Israel. This place actually feels like Israel, if that makes any sense. The complete lack of any familiarity was disconcerting at first, and I spent most of the first day completely lost.
I hung out with a bunch of fellow international students for the first day, and then was finally able to find the others at class the next day. More on that with the next post.