These last few days have brought some interesting things. On Thursday night, I was privileged enough to be able to attend a WIMPS crew meeting. WIMPS stands for Where is My Public Servant? and is a part of my organization, Public Achievement. WIMPS works with youth and gets them to work with other communities (ex. Catholic and Protestant) on a project together. For example, they could make a video addressing the issues that they are facing in their communities and be able to present it to the public to try to solve the issue. They write and produce it on their own after being taught how to use the equipment. So on Thursday night, the group was discussing issues such as teen pregnancy and 2 of the girls are writing an article on it and for which I will be interviewed to give an American perspective on it. The kids were a lot of fun and I plan on going every Thursday night until I have to leave Belfast.
Friday brought the arrival of my best friend/roommate Victoria from St. Thomas who is studying abroad in Manchester, England. It was really exciting that she got to come over and visit and experience St. Patrick's Day in Northern Ireland. It was a happy time. Right when she got here, we had lunch, I introduced her to my coworkers at Public Achievement and then we went on a quest to find something to do until she could check into her hostel. We made our way to the Tourism Center where we picked up some brochures and bought tickets to the new Titanic exhibit here in Belfast. We walked up to Queen's University and explored a little in the main building and the Botanic Gardens. After that we checked into her hostel and headed up to my place to hang out until later. The HECUA group and we went to a club called El Divino that night, which was far too classy for me but still a good time.
The next day Vicky and I headed to the Titanic exhibit. It was really really interesting though sort of depressing. We read about the people who made the ship and a bunch that had sailed on it, learned about how it was made, took a virtual tour of it, saw some sample bedrooms, carpeting and dishes, and watched a short film about discovering the Titanic wreck in the Atlantic Ocean. The size of the Titanic is just crazy. After that, we came back to my place and watched the movie with Leo di Caprio and Kate Winslet. Neither of us had watched it since we were young so we found that we understood a lot more. It was honestly a horrible, tragic event.
The rest of that day was pretty chill, we watched Taken 2 and then both went to bed early. The next day was the most interesting. We went down to city hall to watch the parade and then ran into our friend Melissa who is studying at Queen's in Belfast and stayed with her group most of the day. Vicky headed to the bus station at about 6 and I just relaxed that night. Wish she didn't have to go back though!
Today has also been pretty relaxed. I slept in, watched some Workaholics, did some homework and things around my room. I'm looking forward to going back to my internship tomorrow and keeping busy for the week. More soon!
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