Adventures on the Emerald Isle: I Always Wear My Kilt to the Cinema

It’s decided. Thursday afternoons will be my blogging time to keep me awake during Politics in Northern Ireland. Today’s blog post will be about nothing in particular, just some little high points of my week, but I’ve got some pretty nifty pictures to show you all, including a man in a kilt.

If you’re friends with me on Facebook, you’ve already seen my status about it. Sunday night I went to the theatre to see Insidious 2 with two of my friends on the trip, Joe and Chay. While I was waiting for them to get there, I was a man in line for a ticket wearing you guessed it – a kilt. For you naysayers chanting, “Pics or it didn’t happen!” I just want to say, “Oh. It happened.”

I always thought kilts were a Scottish thing, but whatevs. You rock that kilt, Broski.

After the movie was over it was pretty late and I didn’t want to walk back to my house by myself, so I called a cab for the first time in my life. Being the embarrassing ignorant American I am, I told the cab driver I was at the “Quhay-side Shopping Center” (spelled Quayside). After I made a fool of myself, the cab driver kindly corrected me and explained that it’s pronounced “Key-side.” Oops.

Also last Friday night we were wandering around the mall and ran into the Deputy Mayor of Derry, Gary Middleton. He was looking for shoes for a wedding he was going to be in. He tweeted back at some of us. Obviously we’re BFFFL’s.

Clearly we have a great friendship.

This Tuesday we finally got our placement details for our internships! I’ll be volunteering at a women’s center with my friend Sara in November! It’s a place where women and their children can seek solace from abuse. I’m not sure what exactly what we’ll be doing, but I am just so happy that I was placed where I was. When we signed up for options back in March, I felt God calling me to work with women, so I just put down the 3 women’s centers available in no particular order. I can’t wait!

Below are some pictures of the Peace Bridge in Derry that links the Catholic and Protestant sides of the city, as well as some photos of the peace center where Joe will be volunteering at for his internship. Also this Saturday we will be going to the Inishowen Peninsula in Donegal, so I’ll be talking about that and have more pictures for you all next week!