One Week en Belgique

Hi!

So since yesterday I have been in Belgium for one week! Today is the start of week number two. This week has been good but also pretty hard. Of course I am getting a bit more homesick but once school starts and I become more busy I think it will get a lot better. It has been really nice here in Brussels for the last couple days but today it has kinda started raining again. I think its supposed to rain all week in Terrace as well though, so its okay. Yesterday we started off the day by eating the usual breakfast of bread and butter with nutella or jam or whatever you want. I felt pretty sick when I first woke up because I had a really sore throat and a runny nose, but I drank some tea and took this kind of spray for my throat and it made me feel a bit better. After breakfast my host mom, louis, and I went to a meat shop to pick up meat for Louis' goodbye BBQ. After we just came home and set up for the party. People started coming over at around 2:30 PM and the party lasted until around 2:00 AM. There was quite a lot of people and I got to meet Louis and Claire's grandparents and aunts and uncles along with a lot of Louis' friends. I tried to speak French to people but I didn't really know what to say a lot of the time. I did talk to quite a few people later on in the night and they were asking me a lot of questions about Canada and telling me about my school. A lady I was talking to told me that my school, College Saint-Hubert, is the best school in Brussels so I feel pretty lucky to be going there. Louis' friends were all telling me which teachers i'll be lucky to get and which ones i won't like so I hope i'm lucky! I start school on Sept. 3 and i'm pretty excited about it. I hope it will help me learn to speak French faster! Today we had a really good breakfast which was scrambled eggs, bacon(not the same as Canada), and chocolate croissants. And after that we went to My host mom's aunt and uncles house which was in a place I think is called Brabant or something. It was a really nice little house with really nice gardens and everything. They had an automatic lawn mower which looked kind of funny. And tonight, I don't know what we're doing yet!