First Day

Bonjour!

Today was my first day in Belgium! I can't believe how much I have already seen. Today my host mom took me, my host brother louis, my host sister claire, and louis' friend florian to the Grand Place in the center of Brussels. It was amazing! I was so happy I got to go there especially today because right now there is a big event going on in the Grand Place. There is actually a huge carpet of flowers right in the middle of it. This only happens once every two years for three days so I am very lucky to go see it on its last day in the Grand Place. Claire and I also got to go onto the balcony of one of the buildings at the Grand Place. Like a typical tourist I was trying to take pictures inside the building but then some guy told me I wasn't allowed. I actually didn't see a sign though! Many other people were taking pictures as well. We got an excellent view from the balcony but it was very crowded. I also ate durum which is apparently a Turkish meal but it was something like a wrap with thinly sliced meet, lettuce, cucumber, and belgian frites(fries), and sauce. It was really good! I don't think eating those everyday would be very healthy though..

Back to yesterday- Yesterfday I arrived in Brussels at about 6:00. I travelled for a good 25 hours before arriving there. It was really hard tosay goodbye to everyone and I was crying a lot! I didn't think I would get so upset but it was really difficult. I know that this year will probably go by so quickly an I will also be sad to leave Belgium but at that moment I was pretty sad. When I got to Vancouver I had a ten hour layover so I used the instructions from my dad and went downtown on the Canadaline. It was really easy to use the train and I just walked around all day. Granville street was all shut down so I went down it and saw a lot of street performers. My favourite was this group of guys probably around my age who were in a Mariachi band. They were so good and people were dancing around to their music. It was very entertaining.

After that I heard sirens and as I was walking I saw where all the sirens were. It turned out that a city bus had actually crashed into a lamp post in Vancouver. It was up onto the sidewalk and it had also crashed into two other cars. It looked pretty funny and everyone was laughing.

Right now in Brussels it is raining. I hear that it is not uncommon for it to rain a lot here. That's okay beacause Terrace is quite rainy aswell. The language is kind of hard for me right now. I try to speak it but i'm kind of shy. I told my family who has been trying to speak english to me to speak french because I need to learn! But so far it has been amazing seeing all the sites of Brussels!

Au Revoir!