The past month has been uneventful, except the Chicago Highland Games, which were wonderful. I met a lot of friends from X Marks the Scot.com and my friend Kelly came with me.
But more recently, I've been getting ready for my trip to Belfast through the Friends of St. Patrick. I was in Milwaukee last night for our last meeting before I head off on Sunday. We were hosted by the Irish Fest Center which gave us a great send off and lost of cool stuff! I love the jacket they gave me, and I'll definitely be wearing it around Northern Ireland (60 °F and raining, right now).
I got my itinerary. Tea with President McAleese, meeting with the First and Deputy Ministers at Stormont Castle, opening a Peace Garden, and a Gaelic documentary. Pretty standard, hah! I am SO EXCITED, and cannot wait to get over there. I wish I could stay more than three weeks, but I have stuff to do back here in the US after I get back. They're having us do panel discussions at the Irish Fest summer school and at Irish Fest itself. I'm also planning on going to the Minneapolis Irish Fest too. So now I have to get packing. I'll try to update this as often as possible.
