Strike!

I didn't have class today because of a strike going on here over pensions. Sooo...my school weekend only lasted from Monday-Tuesday and now I only have two weeks of classes left! But I've got a loooot of studying ahead of me to get through these two weeks.

Ally and I were productive and spent our evening in the library from 6pm til it closed at 10pm. After going over the questions for my sociology final I'm a little more relieved now. What it is, is that he sent me the ten essay questions for my final and I have to pick 3 of them to write three essays on. My exam will be not this following Tuesday but the next, so in the last week of classes, and I have 3 hours to write the 3 essays. I was kind of panicking because the other essay tests in this class I've done well on but that's because I would prepare the whole exam, memorize them, and then just write out what I'd memorized. Those though were only two essays in 40 min and usually only had to memorize about 4 pages worth. For this final I thought I was going to need to memorize more like 12 pages and I knew that wasn't going to be possible. I went through the questions today and made some outlines and it turns out that I should only have to do quite a bit of memorizing for one essay, then one question I can turn it into mainly an opinion piece and for that I wouldn't need to do any memorizing, and then the third one I figured out how to take one of the essays I wrote for another and put it in and so I already have most memorized!! Things are looking better.

But...no more worrying about school for the next couple days because I leave tomorrow morning with Ally for Paris!!!! Our taxi is going to get here at 10am tomorrow and then we're off! Just finished packing and getting ready to go to sleep. Since I have travels this weekend I won't be posting anything until I get back so get ready for my Paris post on Sunday night.

Don't want to start being productive...

Woke up this morning to the room inspection guy coming to look at my room. :P Not like he was really early...I think it was around 10am when he knocked. Took about two seconds. It's apparently a good thing I took down all my pictures and notes because that's mainly what they were checking on haha.

Had my politics day today and realized after I left that I now only have one more Tuesday I have to go to politics lecture and seminar!!! The last week of class we don't have any of our seminars and for lecture he is doing a review for everyone's final that they will take in January...but since I'll already be working on mine and getting close to finishing there would be no point in me attending.

I had a wonderful dinner. :) I made myself a BLT and corn as a side and it was soooo tasty!! I got my questions that I need to start preparing for my final in sociology for two weeks from today and it's stressing me out a little bit. They're gonna be pretty tough but I'm gonna try to just go to the library a couple hours each night that I'm on campus and I think it should be manageable. I'm so close to being done that being able to see the light at the end of my college tunnel is making even studying and writing essays seem ok.

The only thing is...I'm starting to regret planning most of my trips towards the end of my stay here. I am having troubles being really excited about Paris and Scotland because I'm thinking I could use those extra weekends to get through this semester. I think I'll just end up doing a tiny bit of work when I'm on my trips and I'll just have to be ok with that.

Today was another milestone...well...to me it was! I'm now out of the 30s and down to only TWENTY nine days til I'm home and out of the 20s and down to only NINETEEN days til my parents get here!!!

Success!

I always worry about starting to study too late for the types of tests like I took today. Essay tests that you already know what the question is going to be...the only way I know how to prepare for one is to just completely memorize an essay I've prepared. I can't trust myself to just learn a lot about the subject and then just make it up as I go the day of the test. But, it's always a struggle to decide when to start preparing. If I prepare it too early I'll have troubles keeping the thing memorized..but if I do it too late and can't get it fully ready that's bad too! It went perfectly! I remembered everything I wanted to say and now I can push it out of my mind! Feels good!

Now...I have those three essays for politics, a politics test in a week, and a final for sociology and I'm done! After my class and test today I pretty much spent the rest of it being suuuper lazy because it's kinda my last day to do that til I'm done with the semester. Tomorrow is when my sociology is giving me my questions that will make up my essay questions for my final in two weeks and I'm gonna need to start figuring that out. AND...I haven't even received the topics I have to write on for the three politics essays yet so I'm gonna have my hands full these next couple weeks. AND I only have weekdays to do that stuff because these next two weekends in between are Paris and Scotland! Ah!!! It's ok...I'm a pro at school and travelling by this point...I'll make it. :)

Sooo..back at the Belfast IFSA weekend I had mentioned that we went to the Belfast Christmas market as it was the opening night. However, I didn't take any pictures to show you! My friend Meghan was there and she kindly allowed me to have some of her pictures to share with you. They are from the opening night so you'll get to see how huge the crowds were, the first time the Christmas lights were turned on in the city and also some pictures of Victoria Square which is a mall in Belfast all decorated for Christmas too!

Love this time of year...everything is so pretty and just puts you in a good mood. :) Only 3 days til Paris, 11 days til Scotland, 20 days til my parents get here, 27 days til Christmas (28 days til Boxing Day...I'm living in the UK...gotta celebrate their holidays!) and 30 days til I'm home. :)

Ready for my test!! :)

I thought I was proud of myself yesterday but I'm even more proud today! I was in remission from my senioritis for a few hours today and got my essays memorized! I'm going to skype Stephanie when she gets back to Pullman from her Thanksgiving break in Wenatchee at around 11ish maybe later tonight and so my goal was to be done memorizing and be all prepared by then and I WAS DONE BY 3!!!! I figured it would take me most of the day to force myself to start preparing and I got myself started at noon! I didn't have to go to the library either which was nice...I realized that I could probably get myself to work in our flat's kitchen and I did. It was actually probably better than the library since I don't get internet in there.

After I got done studying I did a MAJOR cleaning on my room. Not that it was messy really...well a little bit. My shelves were kind of just stacked with stuff, there was waaay too much stuff out on my desk and I needed to take my garbage out. So...I organized my shelves with what was up there, threw some of the stuff away that I didn't need, and also organized it with the stuff that had been out on my desk. There are three shelves. The bottom shelf now has my textbooks, fun books, dvds, drugs and most of my souvenirs. The middle shelf has my paper towels, water bottles and folders with all the stuff I'm keeping like ticket stubs and brochures that I will probably never be able to force myself to scrapbook (although I do have a friend who is very handy in the scrap booking department...*cough*KAY*cough*). The top shelf...it's empty...I'm not tall enough... After I got my shelfs and desk top all clean I took out my trash and even vacuumed!!! There is a vacuum in our kitchen that we can use and I finally did!

So I'm all ready for my test tomorrow...which means I'm that much closer to being finished with this semester, I've got a clean room and that always feels good, and I went to the little convenience store today and got the stuff to make mashed potatoes and garlic bread and I've turned my day of gross productiveness into a happy day!

I did start watching another Disney movie today because it popped up as a suggestion on the side when I was watching Fox and the Hound last night so I was intrigued. I didn't know there was a Fox and the Hound 2 that was made in 2006!!! So...pretty much I watched the first 20 min and realized that I'm not going to spend some time trying to forget that there is a Fox and the Hound 2. Terrible. Yes I love you Reba....but you really aren't allowed to mess with my Fox and the Hound.

Go Cougs!

On the right track to being ready for my exam on Monday! I did get myself to the library today and busted out my two essays so now all I need to do is rewrite them a bagillion times tomorrow so I can get them memorized. Shouldn't be too bad. It only took writing them out about 5 times I would say to get them memorized last time so I'm hoping for about the same.

I skyped Kay for a long time today which was really nice. I've been pretty homesick for the past couple days and it helps a lot to skype people back home. I only have 3 more weeks until my parents get here which is crazy exciting!!!!!

Today is the Apple Cup back home and Kay was getting ready in her bathroom, doing her hair while we were skyping and we talked about how weird it was for me to not physically be there. Most of the time when she's in her bathroom doing her hair and I'm there I'm sitting there playing with her lotion and we're singing loudly to music (usually Taylor Swift) and it was just so strange to be skyping...

Not much more to say about today...studied, skyped, watched Fox and the Hound (cried) and Aristocats. Getting to the point where I'm tired of these Disney movies but this weekend is probably the last of most of my movie watching. Week days I'm really going to need to buckle down these last couple of weeks to make it through and then weekends I'm away. Paris then Scotland then PARENTS!!!!

Senioritis is kicking in! Uh oh...

You would think that since this weekend I'm the one of my group that is actually on campus I could manage to get some studying done. :P I thought that high school senioritis was tough...no way! I've got three weeks of classes left and I've got it BAD. I just can't find any motivation to make myself do anything! Well...I was able to get myself to go into Belfast for a couple hours today to do some shopping. I got souvenirs for a couple people and I'm practically done having to worry about that part!

It's the day after Thanksgiving and you can just tell the world knows it. The air was just that much more crisp today it felt like winter and that it's getting closer to Christmas time! :) Victoria Square is where I went shopping and it's soooo pretty! There are christmas trees everywhere and lights everywhere and everything is just so pretty.

I was able to make myself do a bit of studying. I've got the start of my two essays for my test on Monday. Tomorrow I'm going to force myself to go to the library and bust out the finished essays so that I can spend Sunday memorizing them so I'm good and ready when Monday rolls around.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!

Last day of classes for the week so that means I only have three weeks left! That sounds amazing...except I have soooo much left to do before the end of the term so it's a little daunting. I know I can make it through though. I've got a test this coming Monday for sociology, the next Monday another test for Politics and then the next Tuesday a final for sociology and somewhere in these next three weeks I have to write three essays for Politics and do a final edit on my research paper for my management class.

Sounds like a lot (because it is a lot) but it will all be worth it when I can say I'm done with college. Today is Thanksgiving and I'm giving thanks alone in my room. I'm not completely alone though..Kay's been texting me all evening so it's practically like she's here! And I've also been messaging Fatim on Facebook! My Thanksgiving dinner is pepperoni pizza thanks to Four Star Pizza's delivery service. :)

I was sad yesterday about not having anyone to be with for Thanksgiving but I've rethought it and it's really not that bad. No matter if I had a Thanksgiving here or not still wouldn't make up for the fact that I can't be home with my family so it doesn't really matter either way. Also, the real point of Thanksgiving is to give thanks and I think it makes you so much more thankful for your family and friends when you miss them all as much as I do.

This weekend is going to be study time. I need to get all prepared for my Sociology test on monday which won't be hard it will just be time consuming. Miss everyone back home so much, love you all so much and I'm so thankful for each and every one of you who has supported me through my whole time abroad! :)

Blah day...

The plan for Thanksgiving was to go over to my friend Brea's house in Belfast and show her and her roommates what Thanksgiving is since they don't have it here in Ireland but that isn't happening anymore. Brea texted me today to let me know that she wrecked her car and that we were going to need to cancel our plans. I completely understand and it's really not a big deal but at the same time it is. Has nothing to do with them and everything to do with me...it just going to make it harder to be away from home for Thanksgiving to have no Thanksgiving plans. I'll live though. I came here knowing that I was not going to be home for Thanksgiving and there will be another one next year and all the years to come. (I can tell myself that as many times as I want and it still doesn't make me feel better...).

I'm starting to get to the point where I know I'm getting a lot closer to being able to go home and see everyone, yet it is still about a month away. I find myself wishing it could just be my last week and that my parents would be here this coming weekend but I've got a couple more weeks left and a LOT of school work left. Don't get me wrong...I'm so glad that I chose to do this and I've had lots of fun and made some amazing memories AND I'm still really excited to go to Paris and Scotland in a couple weekends but I can't help but be most excited for my parents to get here and then get to go home.

Anyways...done with the sad stuff and onto my day. I only have one class on Wednesday's and it's just an hour long lecture for Sociology. I didn't pay great attention because I'm down to the point where I pretty much know already which subjects I'm going to choose to discuss on my final and we've already gone over them. I'm still going to keep going to class...but the last couple weeks of lecture are a little pointless for me. I also went into Belfast for a little bit. I needed shampoo and I also got a new thing of tea because I had run out. I have a few more people that I need to find souvenirs for so after I got the things I needed I headed over to Victoria Square to look and see if I could find anything. Apparently today wasn't the day cause I didn't see anything that would work.

I've been listening to an artist I just recently came across and downloaded her album from itunes and have enjoyed listening to it most of my day. If you like christian music check out Jamie Grace...she's pretty amazing.

Today's been a little sucky and I've just been in a yucky funk so I'm just going to go to bed. It's only 11pm...think this is about the earliest I've gone to bed this whole semester.

Death by Politics

It kills me to have two incredibly boring blogs right next to each other but it's gonna happen. Today was kinda a nothing day. I went to class which was really sucky cause it's Tuesday. Tuesdays are 3 hours straight of politics and it just about takes everything in me to make myself go. Haven't missed a class yet so I'm doing really well! After class I just came back to my room and relaxed. Jessi and Rachel got back from their trip to Amsterdam last night so we talked a bit about how it went and they brought me back a little bag of stroop waffles!!! Good thing too...when I went I bought two bags, one for me and one for my parents to try. I've definitely already opened their bag...hopefully there will still be some left haha. ONLY 25 MORE DAYS!! :D Since mom took this week off I'm taking advantage of it and we skyped for a whole 3 hours today! That was really nice since this is a tough week for all of us Americans here. We're all a lot more homesick this week than normal because of the holidays. I was able to introduce both Ally and Jessi to my mom which was fun. :)

Tomorrow I think I'm going to take a trip into Belfast. I need to buy shampoo and I also have a 20 pound gift card to the Victoria Centre so I might just need to go look around a bit. :)

Oh Monday...

Just another Monday... Woke up, went to class, went to lecture, acted like I was going to be productive and wasn't. BUT my mom is taking this week off since her, my dad and aunt and uncle are leaving Wednesday for some holiday time and she has vacation days to spare so I got to skype at a normal time of day for me which was really nice! :) I'm beyond excited for her and my dad to get here! I miss them soooo much! 26 days!!!! :D

Tomorrow is Tuesday so I don't have class until 1pm so I'm going to skype Robert tonight which I'm excited about. I don't think we've skyped since at least last Wednesday and we might not even have that night...that's just the last night I was in my dorm and not in Belfast for my IFSA weekend. Sorry for the super short blog...goodnight!

IFSA Belfast Weekend!

Thursday, November 17th

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Today was another "get ready for my weekend away" day....but it was a bit different feeling because I was getting ready to be gone the whole weekend, but only about 8 miles away from where I normally am. This weekend is my Belfast Weekend with my program and I'm soooooo excited! I get to do the things that are in my area that I've really been wanted to do (and could have done with friends that already went) but I've been waiting for this weekend so I wouldn't do them multiple times. Well, I will be doing them twice as they are things I'm taking my parents on, but I figured I didn't need to do them three different times. We will be going to the Giant's Causeway, some castle in Bushmills and the rope ladder tomorrow and then Saturday is a black taxi tour! I'm so happy, Jess still didn't decide to come (sad) but Catherine did and we are getting to room together!!! :)

I headed for Belfast on the train about 6pm so that I could get to the hotel by 6:30pm. Everyone else got here at 5:30, but I had a later meeting I had already set up with my Politics teacher to talk about my Politics final, WHICH I GOT GREAT NEWS!!!!! I now don't have to take my exam in class! It's usually a 2 hour in class exam in which you have 10 essay questions to choose from and write essays on the 3 of your choice. I was really stressing because the whole idea of learning a new form of Politics has been hard for me, especially since I'm not really that interested in Politics I'm used to in the U.S. So, my professor met with me and gave me some options and now I will just be writing some essays from home. I gave him 5 topics to write up questions on and I get to pick 3 of them and write those three essays each about 1,200 words. MUCH happier about this!

Anyways, back to the weekend! Got here (Jurys Inn Hotel...same hotel my parents and I are staying at in Belfast in December) and had a quick dinner and then Catherine, Geoff, Arlene (a newer IFSA staff member) and I went right next door to the Grand Opera House to see the Beauty and the Beast Musical! It was very good! It was my night out since I couldn't go with the other Northern Irelanders to the rugby game since I'm gone travelling every weekend. Really...I'm glad it worked out this way! I would much rather go to a fantastic play than sit and freeze through a game I don't understand. :P

After the play we went out with some other IFSA students. First, we went to a club called The Stiff Kitten. Got a drink and danced a bit, but then most of the group decided they really didn't like the club so we headed on. We ended up at Filthy McNasty's for a little bit but then it was already midnight and we have to be up early tomorrow so Catherine and I headed back. Doesn't mean we went to bed though. We decided we were hungry and it just so happens that the Subway across the street from our hotel was open. This is AMAZING for Belfast...you can't ever seem to find food after 9 or 10 any night of the week and this Subway is open until 2am!!! It was funny though...at night you order through a window! Then, we came back to our hotel room and we have been up talking and now it's after 2am so we're ready to get some sleep!

Friday, November 18th

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This was the main day of the trip for our IFSA weekend and the day I was most excited for! We got to go see everything that my friends at Jordanstown have mostly all gone to that I've been waiting for. Didn't want to spend the money on transportation and everything if I was getting to go this weekend without having to pay (although it was already paid for through my whole program fee...but who's looking at those details?!).

We started our day early with breakfast at 8am and on the road by 8:30. It's about an hour and a half drive to where we were getting to and we wanted to be able to do everything still in the day light (it's getting dark around 5pm!). First we stopped off at the Carrick-a-rede bridge to take pictures and get to walk across the bridge. It was a smaller bride than I was expecting but I ended up being really glad about that. There is something about being on a bridge that swings more than I would like really high above the rocks and water that puts me a little on edge haha. It was still very cool and I'm glad I got to go! Especially since I am taking my parents to the Giant's Causeway but this bride is something I doubt my mom would want to do so I'm glad I did it this weekend!

Next, we stopped for lunch in Port Rush and had some salmon and mashed potatoes and apple pie (dessert at lunch?! YAY!). Next, we took a quick stop at the Dunluce Castle. Funny thing about this castle is that in Irish Dun means Fort but Luce in Irish also means Fort...se we went to a fort fort. It's a castle in ruins but it's one of the more intact ones with a very dramatic location being right on the edge of a cliff. I'm going to skip ahead to tonight for a second and then go back because there is something really cool about this castle. So...tonight when we were just wasting time in the hotel room cause we had nothing better to do I decided to look through all the pictures on my computer from starting when I got it up til now. As I'm looking through I have a picture that I put on here back on January 30th of this year and IT IS OF DUNLUCE CASTLE!!! I could not for the life of me remember why I put that on there so I decided to look back on my facebook to see what posts I had done on January 30th cause I couldn't think of any other way to possibly figure it out and on January 30th I was doing my 60 day picture challenge thing and I posted that picture for a place I would like to travel!!! I didn't at the time know what castle that was I just knew I was planning on hopefully studying abroad in Ireland and so I found a random picture and posted it. Didn't expect to ever actually go to that exact castle!!! I was amazed and still kind of am!!!

This is the picture that I took on January 30th and posted to my facebook as a place I'd like to travel.

Here is me at the Dunluce Castle...the same exact castle as in the picture above! Can life get any better?

Back to earlier. Our last stop was our longest stop of the day and the coolest part, the Giant's Causeway. It was incredible to see and we got to have a tour guide which was very fun. He told us all the "boring truths" about the causeway and how it was formed by what geologists have told them and then the "real truths" of the Irish folklore of an Irish Giant who built the causeway to get to his Scottish giant friend and when something went wrong with their friendship he came back to Ireland breaking away the causeway and the ability for the other giant to follow on his way.

When we got back to the hotel we were on our own for dinner so I took Catherine to an Italian restuarant I've been meaning to try here in Victoria Square and we STUFFED ourselves...but we decided it wasn't enough so we got cake and brought it back to our hotel haha. After we finished our desserts I took advantage of the fact that our hotel isn't just a stand up shower and TOOK A BATH!!

So, our day is done and we get to sleep in tomorrow so that's nice! We have our black taxi tour at 11am and then we have a tour of where the Titanic was built here in Belfast around 2pm. Also, the Christmas Market opens up tomorrow so we will definitely be checking that out!

Saturday, November 19th

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Today was a big history lesson and for those of you who know me well know that I'm NOT a history fan. But today was amazing and soooo interesting. We did a black taxi tour and learned so much. The men that give these tours are so knowledgeable on the subject of the troubles that have gone on here in Belfast because they lived the troubles and are very good at explaining things and keeping it interesting.

The troubles happened because of the division of Northern Ireland into the Protestants and the Catholics. The Protestants live in an area of Belfast called Shankill and the Catholics in the Falls. What we learned today is that the division of these two groups runs deeper than even their faith, it also has to do with the country. The Protestants see themselves as part of the UK and therefore are loyal to the queen and do not see themselves as Irish in anyway. The Catholics are the Irish part of Northern Ireland and follow the Pope as opposed to the queen of England.

To be able to drive from Shankill to the Falls took us about 10 minutes but what we learned today is that to drive from one to the other during the night used to take you around 6 hours. There were alls and gates that closed off these parts of town between 7pm-7am. There are STILL some walls and gates that are closed betwee those times to this day that are the main gateways to Shankill and the Falls. There is a wall that blocks the area of the Falls where Bombay Street is (the street where it is said to have all started) and runs about 3.5 miles  and is 45 feet tall. our taxi driver explained to us that itis looked at by some as another example of the Berlin Wall but he then explained how it is very different.  The Berlin Wall was placed to keep people from getting out and was against the wishes of the people. The wall here in Belfast was built to kep people out and was put up because the people asked for it. This also means that it will not be taken down until the people ask for it to be taken down. The construction started in 69 and was finished in 71 and our taxi driver believes it will be another 20 years before the idea is put in place for it to be taken down. He said the hope is for the next generation who did not grow up with the daily bombings, daily riots, and daily shootings to make a change for Belfast. He told us that he has three childrin, his oldest daughter being 10 years old and she knows absolutely nothing of the troubles or that they even happened. And that is this mans job to take people on these tours. 

Here are some of the murals we were shown and the information we learned about them:

No matter where you go the gun is always pointing straight at you...it's really creepy.

This is the portrait of a man who murdered 14 Catholics. There were 59 gates closed off between Shankill and the Falls and for awhile they only closed 58. This man found the one open, went through and murdered those Catholics for no good reason, just because they were Catholic. Underneath his portrait it is hard to see but there are brand new flowers hanging...he is still praised as a good man by the Protestants of Shankill...unbelieveable.

The wall is covered in graffiti...but graffiti that is accepted here as to give people a place to express their art without placing it on companies buildings. Many people have written their names on the wall including Bill Clinton, Justin Beiber and Lady Gaga as the taxi driver told us. It was so nice of them to bring markers to let all of us write our names on the wall too!

The wall is 45 feet tall and there are Catholic homes right on the opposite side of it. Those rocks and glass are there because people still attempt to throw things over hoping to hurt someone.

Bobby Sands, probably the most famous Belfast mural. He was a prisoner who was a part of the Hunger Strike and died participating.

Our black taxi group...the girl next to Matt is also from the Seattle are and her and the girl to the left of the taxi driver both go to college in Tacoma!

After we went on our black taxi tours we went and got a quick lunch of sandwiches, chips and a soda. We were on our own for lunch so we just went to the little convenienve store acoss from our hotel. It was amazing...for 2.50 pouds you can get chips and a soda in addition to your sandwich. However, if you only want a sandwich it costs 2.70 pounds. So pretty much they pay you 20 pence to take a bag of chips and soda with your sandwich? Sounds good to me!

Next, it was time for what they had told us was a titanic tour but that's not really what it was. We did go to see the dry dock where the titanic was build but that's about all that had to do with the titanic but was still cool to see.

After we went to the titanic dry dock we droce to Stormont, which is the Northern Ireland Praliament Building and it is very impressive looking. We went and took pictures there and then headed back. I was glad I went on this tour because being in a UK politics class we have talked about Stormont a lot and it was nice to see what we've been talking about.

Today was the grand opening of the Continental Market which is a Christmas Market in from of Belfast's city hall. We went and it was pretty cool except for the fact that since it was the opening night everyone and their dog was there! We got in, got some treats and got out haha. Now we're back in our room just hanging out. Catherine and I are just taking time to hang out together because they head back to Dublin tomorrow morning at 9:15am and then I won't be seeing her again. :( This weekend has been great and I'm so glad she decided to come here instead of go to Galway! I also talked with my whole family tonight on skype because they are all in different places on Thanksgiving so they're doing theirs today. So weird not being there...

Sunday, November 20th
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This morning everyone headed out at 9:15am. I looked up the train schedule to get me home but it was going to be another hour and a half until the next train and I didn't want to wait that long so I just got a taxi. When I got home it took me lots of time to go through all my pictures and edit them and about the time I finished editing mine Catherine had gotten home and sent me hers so I had a lot more editting to do. Then, I uploaded them on facebook and on here and that really was about my entire day. With the addition of watching Disney's Cinderella of course. :)

It is getting so close to the end of being here and it is completely bittersweet. As much as I am going to miss this I am beyond excited to know that my parents will be here in 28 days and then 10 days later I'll be flying into SeaTac where Robert is picking me up!!!! :D I had an amazing weekend and I believe that is the last time I will be seeing the IFSA group this trip so thanks for everything!!!!!!!!

P.S. there are a few pictures on Arlene's camera that I will add to this later once she posts them on facebook....one of Catherine and me at the Opera House and one of the group that went to Stormont and I don't know...there may be more but that's what I can think of. I'll post on whatever blog I do the day I add them to this so you can see. :)