I haven't even been here a week but it feels like much longer! Already I'm learning much more French and I can understand way more than when I first got here.
In the past couple of days we've gone grocery shopping (so much meat! It's a good thing I'm not a vegetarian...), gone to the mall, where I ate Belgian fast food. It's not much different from American, it's the first food I've eaten here that didn't make me say "Oh my gosh this is so good". Shopping was fun though! I also tried my first Belgian waffle "les gaufres" it's an understatement to say that I just like them :).
Today I went to Oostend (a beach city in the north) with Perrine, her boyfriend Sevan, and my friend Jordann who is also an exchange student. She's from Pennsylvania. It was really great to hang out with another exchange student! I really like everyone I've met here, but because I can't completely express myself fully in French it was really nice to hang out with someone that I can really connect to (through being an exchange student and English). We did try to speak French with each other, and we succeeded pretty well! We did speak a lot of French today anyways because we were with Perrine and Sevan.
We went to the beach (it was way too cold and windy to go swimming though), we walked around the city, ate lunch, got candy, it was a good day! I especially liked taking the train there, the trains here are really nice.
Tomorrow we're going to visit my school, I'm really excited to see it! (It reminds me of Hogwarts... haha)
In the past couple of days we've gone grocery shopping (so much meat! It's a good thing I'm not a vegetarian...), gone to the mall, where I ate Belgian fast food. It's not much different from American, it's the first food I've eaten here that didn't make me say "Oh my gosh this is so good". Shopping was fun though! I also tried my first Belgian waffle "les gaufres" it's an understatement to say that I just like them :).
Today I went to Oostend (a beach city in the north) with Perrine, her boyfriend Sevan, and my friend Jordann who is also an exchange student. She's from Pennsylvania. It was really great to hang out with another exchange student! I really like everyone I've met here, but because I can't completely express myself fully in French it was really nice to hang out with someone that I can really connect to (through being an exchange student and English). We did try to speak French with each other, and we succeeded pretty well! We did speak a lot of French today anyways because we were with Perrine and Sevan.
We went to the beach (it was way too cold and windy to go swimming though), we walked around the city, ate lunch, got candy, it was a good day! I especially liked taking the train there, the trains here are really nice.
Tomorrow we're going to visit my school, I'm really excited to see it! (It reminds me of Hogwarts... haha)
Braine-l'Alleud!
An old, very beautiful church we went to in Oostende.
La mer :)
Oostende town
Me, Perrine, Sevan, and Jordann