We arrived yesterday to Cambridge and i absolutely love it here. Words can not describe the feelings of happiness that this little college town gives me. Our last few days in Belfast were pretty good. On saturday we had an all day excurison out to the north coast of the country. it was sooo beautiful. it was so picturesque and exactly what i imagined ireland to be in my head. all i wanted to see was the coast and that was exactly what i wanted. We first went to the town of Derry where most of "the troubles" first started. Then we went to these old castle ruins right on a cliff. words can not describe how beautiful it was. We then went up the road to Giant's Causeway which is an area of these really spectacular rock formation. we had to treck down the cliff and of course it started to rain pretty good while we were walking down these really slippery steps and i got all muddy. it was worth it though because once you got down it was goregeous. i'm so glad we got to go there because it fulfilled all my dreams about what i expected ireland to be. our last day most of our group went to church where we dominated the congretation. the local people were incredibly friendly and i wound up staying about 30 minutes after the services just talking with some families. then some of the girls and i had a nice leasurily lunch at a little cafe near queens univesity. the rest of my afternoon was definitely frustrating though. all i wanted to do was to have some me time at a little coffee shop i passed by the day before but it was closed along with almost every other store. a note to anyone who may be traveling over seas...most things will be closed on sunday afternoons so don't get your heart set on going to somewhere that you really wanted to. Sunday night was pretty great though. We had vespers as a group as we do every sunday night. it was really refreshing. it was great just to come together as a group and to support one another as everyone is beginning to feel homesick. The night really solidified how great this group is. Even though belfast was a great experience and i learned so much i was definitly ready to leave and i'm so happy to be here in cambridge.
We are staying at Clare College and it is incredible. it is a lot like trinity collge that we stayed in in Dublin. i would love to be a student here. everything is so green and the landscape is beautiful. there are flowers everywhere and the streets are all cobble stone. it looks like this town is out of a jane austin novel. the people here are so friendly-we met 3 local girls about my age who gave us the low down on all the places to go and the places to avoid. `our time so far has been pretty mellow. last night we went to a tapas place which was soo delicious and then today we had class in the morning and then went on a walking tour of the city. i got lunch at an open air market and then went to a pub for dinner where supposedly the two men who discovered DNA made the announcement of their discovery. Tomorrow in the afternoon i am planning on going punting down the river cam (punting looks like a gondola ride in venice but you can do it yourself). Tomorrow is our last day here and i wish we could stay longer.
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