This morning started off with a great tour of Queen’s University, only a few short blocks from our guesthouse. We met our guide in the Queen’s Welcome Centre inside the beautiful Lanyon Building, designed by Sir Charles Lanyon and opened by Queen Victoria. It was built in 1849 in Tudor Gothic style with red brick and Giffnock sandstone dressings. We saw the Great Hall, the Canada Room, the Council Chamber and the quadrangle, and a fabulous exhibit in the Naughton Gallery – Out of the Ordinary: Contemporary Visions of the Avant-Garde.

From the site –

The Naughton Gallery at Queen’s welcomes eight local contemporary artists for the first time through a collective re-thinking of works by female artists of the Spanish and Latin American avant-garde. Surrealism began as a cultural movement in Paris in the 1920s, which experimented with ways of unleashing the subconscious imagination…

The Ulster Museum in Belfast, a gorgeous place…

I am beyond excited to share with you an opportunity that has been made available to me for my post-grad life. I have the privilege to participate in an internship program in Belfast, Northern Ireland, for a year, from August 2014 – August 2015. This internship will be at Christian Fellowship Church in downtown Belfast and will include ministry and media experience.

The main structure of the internship will be producing video and social media campaigns for the church and their various ministry outreaches. The church will also meet with the interns once a week for a weekly mentoring and discipleship day to make sure we are growing and reaching our personal goals. During the year, I will be able to not only grow in my field of study, but I will also be able to reach out to the Belfast community and form relationships with the people I am…