Ahoy!

Belfast pretty much gets a handful of awesome points for the weather this past week – beautifulll!  It’s starting to look a bit dreary outside though, so perhaps I speak a bit too soon….

Anywho, this past weekend, I went to a Christian music festival up in Ballymena, called FUEL, which I quite thoroughly enjoyed! Matt & Sarah, from the church I’ve been going to here in Belfast, live in Ballymena, and Sarah was lovely enough to allow me to stay with here for the weekend. I’d say the highlights were Starfield, DC*B, and of course, Jeremy Camp.  Though, all of the bands were fantastic, and I may be a bit biased…   Anyway, it was a swell weekend of music and cool people and worship – here are a few photos:

Starfield & Jeremy Camp followed by DC*B!

Between bands, we made awesome paper-plate-people. Brilliant, I know.

We also played a giant game of Snakes & Ladders.  When I get married, this is what I want as a wedding gift; I’m not even joking, make note of it!

I was strangely fascinated by the big-blue-reminiscent-of-Narnia-tents. Also: epic clouds!

In other news, I was part of a design/advertising workshop/competition here.  It was co-sponsored by the University of Ulster and PANI (Publicity Association of Northern Ireland).  Basically, groups were assigned to various advertising and design agencies within Belfast, and we had to come up with a marketing campaign and associated visuals for the brief they set.  We were placed with Fire, IMC, and actually ended up winning, hurrah!  Even though I missed a bit of the experience being home last month, it was still good fun and I feel like I learned a lot!  Also, we got iPhones for winning, which was a nice bonus.

In other news, the family will be here in 10 days, hurrah! Still no news re: plans for the rest of summer.  Hmmmmmm.