After saving this photo about 4 millions times I finally was able to get it flipped correctly!  This is a picture from Giant Causeway.  The scenery was amazing! 

So we watched the movie last night.  If anyone were to watch it without knowing the story before hand you wouldn't have a clue what was going on in that movie.  There was virtually no dialogue throughout the entire movie.  Didn't really give me much more information past what I've already mentioned in my previous blog.  The only thing I learned from the movie is that before the hunger strike they had a "dirty protest" where they refused to clean themselves and smeared their feces all over the cell walls.  Also, they sorted the hunger strike out so that one person would start every two weeks (rather than everyone starting at once).  And when someone died another would start.  They had 75 IRA inmates to participate in this.  Morgan Thatcher (the Prime Minister at the time) changed the rules once the tenth man died.  In all reality this hunger strike did nothing as Northern Ireland is still divided to this day.

On a lighter note, there are a lot of differences here in Ireland!  Thought I'd mention a few.  

The roads here are much more efficient compared to home!  Instead of lights at every intersection they have roundabouts.  Talk about saving quite a bit of time!  If only people in America knew how to efficiently use roundabouts.  Gas here is ridiculously expensive.  It's about 1.30 pound for a liter (keep in mind there are 5 liters to a gallon).  To get a license here is a very long and expensive process.  I still haven't been able to pick up everything you must do to get a license.  I do know the tests are a lot harder and you have to pay to go to classes on your own time... no drivers ed during school!  While we have restrictions on the times you can drive, Ireland has restrictions on the speed limit you can go. 

Doors are always closed here!  Maybe it's just the household I grew up in, but every door in the house stays shut unless someone is walking through.

The tests students have to take over here to get into college are much more intense than the ACT or SAT.  From what I've gathered, you have to decide what you're going to major in at the age of 13/14.  You choose ten areas to study and two years later you take two exams in each subject.  From there you pick four subjects to study even farther.  During the next 2 years you take 6 exams on these four subjects which determine where you get into college.  If you change your mind about what you want to study in college you more or less have to start back from the start.  (we didn't get too much into the exceptions, this was all confusing enough for me, ha!)  I can not imagine having a clue what I wanted to do at that age... I'm now 22 and have just made a decision that may or may not be what I do for the rest of my life, ha! 

This is a picture of Helena (left), Amy (right) and myself at Giant Causeway.  The two girls who stayed with me during the Ulster Project who I've been visiting here in Ireland.

Hokay, that's all for now.  More to come!