When I was in elementary school, we used to walk over to the globe in the corner of the classroom, spin it as fast as we could, close our eyes, and trace our fingers along the world as it spun. When it would stop spinning, our fingers had landed on a place and that we believed we were destined to be. I don't remember any of the places my finger stopped on so long ago, but now, traveling from South America, to Hawaii, to California, Colorado, Boston, New York, and now Europe, this is how my life feels. I spin around and choose a place on the map. So for now, I am one little point on the map, with so many places still to go, but my "battered suitcases are piled on the sidewalk again, I have a longer way to go. but no matter the road is life." My path seems a little arbitrary, there is a lot of back and forth, here and there, this place and that place, sometimes I don't even know where I am going until I get there, and although at times the journey is exhausting, I know in retrospect it will be all the more worthwhile. I have seen a small slice of culture from the places I have traveled, and the longer I here the easier it gets to leave and explore.
I just got back from Belfast with some of my friends that go to University College Dublin. It was a great trip. Belfast is very different from Dublin, it is a victorian city so the architecture and lay out of the city is very different from the Georgian style of Dublin. It is a small compact city and was really easy to get around. We did a walking tour which was very interesting, its hard to believe that not long ago there was a lot of fighting going on there. It is also where the Titanic was built and there is an interesting memorial for the people from Belfast who never made it home. It was good weather all weekend, a bit colder than dublin, but no rain!!! The Giants cause way (pictured) was an amazing site to see. The old celtic myth goes that there was a Giant, Finn MacCool living here but his love lived in Scotland to the north east, so Finn used these rocks to build a way to reach her. 
Geologically the rocks formed after the ice age. As the continents were splitting in Pangea volcanos were erupting causing a lava over flow. When the Lava was slowly cooled by the climate change of the ice age the rocks were able to form in perfect hexagonal shapes. It is pretty wild looking! We did a cliff walk that took us above the coast and we saw some amazing views. I could even see Donegal, were I was a month ago, which put into perspective how small this island really is. It is a beautiful countryside, like most of Ireland, and 
Nor Iron, as they call it, was definitely a cool place to visit. We took a train there and back along the coast which was spectacular, and when we got off, it felt like we were in a totally new place, different from anywhere else in Ireland. 
