The past few days have been extremely interesting to say the least. Kenzie and I had registration on Friday. We took our 8 bus from Stranmillis to the City Centre, and we proceeded to walk around for about 20 minutes looking for the 3 bus. We finally asked someone where the 3 busses were and he directed us to the right hand side(facing the building) of City Hall. We knew that the buses all went to City Hall, but we didn't quite know where they all stopped.

Once we arrived at the Tower St. building, we knew we were very early. I was introduced to one of my professors who showed me to Sandy's office. Sandy is the Course Co-Ordinator for my course. She then introduced me to another one of my professors(Laura). Laura showed me around the building and then took me back to what they call the cantine. At this point we had to wait until our registration time. Sandy brought me my form to fill out, which was kind of confusing. When it was time, we were called into the room to get our forms signed by the course tutor. Sandy proceeded to tell me that most of my classes will be held at the Crescent Arts Centre, which is near Queen's University. In other words, they will be held a good bit closer to where I am staying, and I will only take one bus to get there. I will only have to go to Tower St. two days a week in the afternoons. All in all it went very well.

On Saturday, we took a trip up to Belfast Castle. I will post a picture below. It was absolutely gorgeous. It took us almost an hour to reach the castle, mostly because we somehow managed to take the LONG way around. However, I will say that it was completely worth it. We were able to walk through part of the castle, the garden, and the cellar. We heard a lot about the history of the castle and who inhabited it. The flowers that were in the garden were gorgeous, and the view was to die for. We did find a shorter way down and returned to Stranmillis after almost 5 hours.

Today, we had our first day of orientation, and all I can say is wow. Parts of it were interesting and informative. Other parts were, as the Irish say, "a bit of craic". I am looking forward to the rest of the week and the beginning of classes.

Until next time kiddos....