Belfast Nightlife and New Friends

Belfast is literally nothing like anything I've ever seen before. It has this sense of small town charm, and it is small in these sense that I can walk the entire town with only few complaints. But it's too big to be small, if that makes sense, it's populated, and it has shops and busses everywhere. Traffic is a biggie for me, its hard to know when to walk, and cars do not stop for you. 

My first day here was mostly a tired confusion, but after taking a short walk, I came back and started talking to everyone staying here. It started innocently enough, just talking while playing pool, but as it got later, my friend from New Zealand convicted me to go buy some beer with him since its legal, and its something I haven't done before. Since I'm not a big beer fan, I found a pear ale made in Switzerland that was really good. A couple hours later and a beer gone everyone was outside singing and talking. By 11pm we headed out to a local pub where it was open mic night, and many things happened. It started off with Darragh, a (very skeptical) friend from Ireland who was already well into the night bought Yeager bombs and tried to force everyone to drink them, luckily New Zealand showed up and took mine, and I shared one with a friend from Canada. I proceeded to drink water the rest of the night despite people trying to buy me drinks. While in the pub though, I ran into some short Filipino man that was living in Britain who grabbed me and told me that he was going to marry me, thinking that I was Irish. When I told him I was American, I about never got away, not because he liked Americans, but apparently because he dislikes Obama, our economy, and everything about us. He continued to attack me verbally until New Zealand saw and came over to help, it was near impossible to get away but we eventually did. After  the pub closed around 1am we came back and just hung out until we eventually got tired. Here are some pictures of the town as well as my new friend Darragh.

Today has been similar with wondering around in the rain, hanging out and just relaxing. I had to buy a USB power adapter to get my phone to charge because the adaptor I had didn't work. I had a strange salad for lunch that instead of veggies mix in with the lettuce had beans, and a creamy dressing. 

I'm working on planning my next destination, and I'm thinking Dublin, but to be honest, I really don't know.  I think that's the most exciting part of this trip, it's spontaneous and unplanned and I'm just letting it take me where it may. 

Much love from me to you,

-Kenzie xxoo