Invading Belgium

Hey everyone! Im here sefe snd sound, the flight went well, but I couldnt sleep. My town is sooo beautiful, all old buildings, and everything is brick. My host family has been wonderful, for future reference; my host mom is Fabienne, my host Dad is Fabrice, and my host brother is Damien. Ill get some pics up asap, but Ive already been on here for a while, it takes forever to type anyhting, because the keyboard is very different, and the interent connection it quite a bit slower than in Canada. But here's an account of what Ive been up to this week...

Ive been so incredibly busy, my host family must think Im superwoman with the amount of things they arrnged for me! Monday, I played TENNIS with my host parents and thier friends, Tuesday, Damien and I took the bus 'in to town' to see the school and his dad's work.

Wednesday, I went wimming with Damien abd his grandfather, whiwh was quite fun, despite the fact that his grand-pere has a very thick accent and I cant really undersand him. Oh, and I got lost in the change rooms, everyone goes into this one room, and then you go into a smaller change room, and get changed, then go out the other side of the small room and there is a room with lockers, then you go into the swimming part. They didnt tell me about going in one side and out the other though, so after a few minuts of looking like a stupid tourist, Damien came looking for me.

Thursday, Damien and I took the train to Antwerpen to go to the zoo, which had all these crazy animals that I had never heard of, and I had my first waffle!!!!!!!! SO GOOD, all warm and sugar coated....yum. We were on the train home and we were practicing 'Avoir' and 'Etre', because my host dad tests me every night, and wwe almost missed the stop! After we got off the trian, and after we thought it was the wrong stop, then realised it was the right stop, Damien was like "at least if we had gotten lost we could have practiced 'je suis perdu, tu es perdu....." It was great.

And today, I had my first rotary meeting, there was lots of wine and lots of cutlery! Then I spent a few hours with Virginie, who was in Canmore for her exchnange last year. She took me shopping in her city, where my rotary meets (Charleroi), but we had a guy from brasil with us, so we didnt shop very long. we looked at a few churches, and got my new cell phone fixed, it needed a new SIM card, it was the cell of the last exchange student in my club, so I dont know why it wasnt working, but oh well, its good now.

And voilà, thats my first full week! until next time!
Love,
Melissa

posted by Lissa @ 12:38 PM