My New (temporary) Home

Well thank you everyone for your thoughts and prayers, all ten of us made it safely to Northern Ireland at 8:30 am my time (3:30 a.m. Ohio time). It was a very hectic travel experience as having one flight delayed left us literally running to get on our last plane before they closed it up for take-off.  Thankfully we made it as well as our luggage (another concern of mine).

We are now outside of Ballycastle at a Christian retreat center called Corrymeela. This is one of the largest Christian reconciliation centers in the UK. It is situated right on the coast of the Northern tip of NI, I could seriously fall off a cliff here--I'm going to try not to do this...Anyway it is a very pleasant place that will be our recuperation stop until Saturday. Then it is off to Londonderry (Derry) to move in with our host families.

We will be doing a lot of sight seeing and orientation these next few days and getting used to living in another culture. To answer a few questions, yes it is very green over here, yes they speak English but some accents are so thick it's hard to tell, and no I have not seen a leprechaun. Here is a pic of our group at Bluffton before we left: