As Days go on..

Hi!

Its been a couple of days since my last post, so I have a few things to fill you in on. But before that i'd just like to say that i've been having a really good time here in Belgium! The weather hasn't been great but i'm kind of used to that living in Terrace. I might have found a place that rains more believe it or not!! Oh well I will get used to it. Today is looking a little bit nicer though, I can see a few patches of blue sky! But anyways I haven't been super super busy these last couple days, but I have seen and done a few interesting things. So two days ago I started dance class with my host sister, Claire. Before I got to Brussels I thought that I would just be going for a workshop for one or two days, but it turns out that if I wanted to dance this entire year I think I could. But they also told me that whenever I feel like I don't want to go anymore thats fine as well and I can stop. As you all probably know, I am not a dancer. Much more of a soccer player than a dancer as I soon found out.. When we got there I was a bit nervous but I thought it wouldn't be too bad since most of these girls were two years younger than me. When it started we just stretched and did that kind of stuff, but then right away we went into a routine. It was very difficult and very fast! Right at that moment I thought to myself, oh no i'm way out of my league here. And it was true, I was! The rest of the day I struggled along and felt good about maybe one of the 4 dances we had been doing. The dance teacher was nice though, and was always yelling at me GOOD and Ca Va! whenever I did something right. After the first day I kind of felt like saying I wouldn't go anymore but I decided to give it one more day to show that I was at least trying. THe second day didn't go much better and after that I decided that I wouldn't go to dance anymore. It was an interesting experience and now I know that I really am not a dancer! Hopefully I will be able to be on a soccer team here in Belgium though. Yesterday we went and watched My host mom's boyfriend's son Blaze play and they were pretty good. They all play on turf though, which I don't really like but thats okay. They have to have turf here because it rains too much to have grass fields. The grass just turns into mud! Some of the other things I have been doing is after the first day of dance, we went out for lunch with my host mom's aunt and uncle. While we were eating the power actually went off! It was very surprising but it only lasted probably 30 seconds. That would be pretty crazy if the power went off in Brussels. At the restaurant I had some kind of Macaroni in a breaded shell thing. My host brother had a Belgian dish which was something like raw hamburger like Beef. He offered me a bite and I was a bit hesitant but it was actually okay. It was cold and everything and I actually didn't know you could eat beef like that. That same day my host mom, my host sister, and I went Step Up 3D in theatres. I was expecting a theatre nicer than in Terrace but this movie theatre was crazy!! It could've been an opera house! There were wood carvings on the walls and cool lighting and the screen was huge. I bet there was probably room for 500 people in that theatre..maybe. My host mom and host sister had never been there before either and they were very shocked at how nice it was too. Another new thing that I have done in Belgium is grocery shopped. When we were going to pay we didn't go through a check out with a teller, we went to a self check out where we scanned our own stuff and payed. And at another grocery store it was even weirder! We took this wireless scanner thing around and everything we put in our cart we scanned and then at the end you just take this little card out of the scanner and put it in a check out machine and pay and then you're good to go! I guess this is a new thing here too, but it was really cool.

Thats all for now though! Au Revoir :)