gettin all cultured up over here

This is one of the three sculptures that was on exhibition Friday night


this is a similar sculpture to the one that was outside of Queen's...it's amazing and huge

Marc Didou has an exhibit at Queen's Univeristy.  We got the hook up and were all invited to a pre-opening showing...yeah...we're special.  It was incredible (small, but incredible).  The room had three sculptures that look like cut stones set on top of each other. When you look at it, it just looks like a tall sculpture, but at every sculpture there is some sort of mirror (somewhere close by, either hanging or on another pedestal close to the sculpture) and you look into the mirror and it shows what the sculpture is. All three of them at
the exhibit were skulls. It was so intense and morbid but totally awesome the way he did them.
We got dropped off on campus at 5 pm and Hadden was coming to pick us up at 7...so after about 30 minutes of looking at the three sculptures (i've used that word 8 times now) we got to hang out around Queen's. Some people went to meet up with a couple who just got married (Ben and Jolynn) from JBU and moved to Belfast so she could go to Queen's and they ate some dinner together. Other's went out to dinner, but i opted to just walk around. I went and got some coffee and talked to the people in the coffee shop for a bit, but then i walked around campus.  It was really peaceful, but it made me miss my friends. It would have been wonderful to have someone there to talk to.  Being here and the experiences and things i've been doing, i've noticed i'm really good (and quite enjoy) doing things on my own.  Loner. But last night would have been great to have a home friend, or even someone new to talk to.
The first few weeks we all were like, "we are going to go on Queen's campus and make new friends"... it's suprisingly harder to just make friends when you are in one class that is our study group and 35 people over the age of 70. So that's been a struggle, but there have been a few people i've met and hopefully get to hang out with again.
Did anyone know that Belfast is a 'happenin' place? Kanye West, Meatloaf, Rod Stewart, 50 Cent and Donny Osmond (what on earth could Donny be doing where he'd need the Odyssey Arena?) are all playin in Belfast. OH as well as "Starlight Express; the fastest show on earth"


After seeing some of the pictures of this Andrew Llyod Weber musical...i'm interested AND scared...they pretty much are clowns on skates.
So i've got an art paper due on monday, a few papers due next week AND i'm leaving for Italy on Wednesday night. I'll update y'all on that in a bit...i'm super excited! Pray that we find a place to stay...we're still working on that...but if we don't get anyone to keep us for a few nights through couchsurfing then we'll just do a hostel...but couchsurfing is free.