I'm in McDonald's again browsing the web and researching for my presentation which is on the Northern Ireland civil rights movement. It's actually really fascinating, as are most things I have learned here. Tomorrow we get to meet John Hume which I am really excited about. He is suffering from a disease much like Alzheimer's so he won't be giving us a lecture but we get to meet him and talk to him for a while. It's going to be so cool! We walked around Derry a bit today and it's a cute little town... but it's also the home of Bloody Sunday so I guess cute may not be the most appropriate word for it.
Want to look up some of the stuff I'm learning about/researching about? (You know you do!) Google The Troubles, Bloody Sunday, NICRA, John Hume, or Bernadette Devlin McAliskey. You'll find some interesting stuff, I promise.
Okay that's all for now! I don't know if I'm going to have internet much from now until Wednesday so I wanted to give a quick update. I'll leave you with a quote from Bernadette Devlin McAlisky: "One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!"
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