Anyway, I've only got a little time before I have to figure out what I'm eating for dinner (living without a dining hall and set eating hours is - I'm stealing an album title here - 100% oi!), but I thought that I'd take a minute to describe the city center for you guys. Here's a picture of city hall, with the Belfast Eye next to it.
Basically, city hall is kind of the heart of Belfast; everything seems to branch out from there. City hall and the eye take up an entire square block and are certainly very impressive, particularly at night. Hopefully, I'll get a night picture sometime to show you what that's like!
Anyway, in and around the city center are Belfast's major shopping streets. There are several variety shops, which are all very interesting, and a couple of malls, which are basically the same as malls in the US. Rather boring, those. I'm hoping to go back to one particular variety shop tomorrow, though - it's a sort of army surplus stores (plenty of old Soviet Union-era military hats and Che Guevara-style berets for everyone!). I might pick up a rucksack there; it seems like both of my backpacks are a little big to haul around the wee bit of stuff that I need for my few-and-far-between classes. Anyway...
I actually interrupted the writing of this post about 3 hours ago to walk over to the movie theater (or should I say "theatre?") to see Sweeney Todd. Ahhh, yes. Give me some good old American blood and gore. Well... I guess the original musical was written by an American and a Brit, so we'll say the credit goes half and half. Johnny Depp was brilliant, of course, but really the movie best serves as a huge example of how Stephen Sondheim must have some serious issues...
I'm a little tired now, so perhaps I'll get around to discussing some more stuff later.
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You, my friend are in need of a beret!
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