on the street where you live

I'm a bit more awake than I was last night, so let's give this another go.

PICTURE TIME!!!!!

This is where I go to school:

International House, Belfast is located at 109-111 University Street in the Queen's Quarter of Belfast. It is two row houses that have been combined, so it makes going up and down the stairs with a lot of people very interesting. And since this is the UK and no one believes in air conditioning, it can get a bit toasty in some of the rooms. Most of the rooms have windows, but a lot of them have been "painted", which means you can't open them any more. All of the rooms are named after places or things in Northern Ireland. For example, I have input in Goliath, which is one of the names of two massive cranes in the harbour of the Titanic Quarter. For GLP, we meet in Donaghedee, which is city in Northern Ireland. 

Why call this the Queen's Quarter? It is because this part of Belfast is where The Queen's University of Belfast is located. 

These are two of the buildings on the campus. The red building is the most famous (just Goggle the university and this is the main picture that shows up). It was built in the 1800s and is still used everyday for classes and meetings. 

Here are a few other sites that I have seen in Belfast City Centre:

The actual city centre isn't that large. I walked around it for a couple hours on Saturday and it was amazing that one turn around the corner was an immediate change to a seedy part of the centre. It is nice, but doesn't have the bubbly-ness that Edinburgh or Manchester have. 

There are other parts of Northern Ireland, however, that are just breathtaking:

From those pictures, you can see why it is called the Emerald Isle. Too bad I haven't met any leprechauns yet! But today is Orangefest, so I can hold out some hope (even though I have lesson planning to finish).