Rotary

Bonjour!

These last couple of days have been a bit more

eventful! They have basically consisted of meeting people from all over the world, sitting in the Belgian senate, and figuring out how to use the public transportation! Two days ago I went with my host mom for a tour of my school in the morning. My school is called Collège Saint-Hubert and it's really nice! It's in a really forested area and

there is a really old building in the back which looks like it was build in the 17 or 1800's maybe? Its all crumbling apart and everything. I had a meeting with a councellor at the school and I chose all my courses. Well I actually didn't really choose them she just asked me what I liked and then put me in a class. So I will have 4 hours of Art a week, 4 hours of Math, 4 hours of French, 4 hours of Dutch, 2 hours of English,

2 of Geography, 2 of History, 2 of Religion, and 2 of Science. I'm kind of looking forward to the Art because I never have a chance to take any electives back home in Canada because of all the academic courses I have to take. Hopefully they won't expect me to be a really really good artist though! School starts this Friday coming up on the 3rd but its only for half a day like it is in Canada. Apparently there's just something like an assembly and they will introduce me and there are 3 other exchange students in the school too. I don't think they are with Rotary though The first day of real classes are on Monday. I w

ill be in sixieme which is equivalent to Gr.12 in Canada. My host brother told me I would be really lucky if they put me in sixieme because its the best year. You get to go on a class trip and you get a prom and other fun stuff. I don't think

i'll be able to go on the school trip though because i'm going to Italy with rotary the same time they usually go. Last year my host brothers class

went to Egypt though!

Anyways, the next day was my orientation with Rotary. All the exchange students in Belgium came together in Brussels which was close to 200 students from all over the world and we got to have a tour of the Grand Palace,the Grand Place, ate lunch in a restaurant near the Grand Place, A tour of the Belgian parliament, and we also got to sit in the Senate and listen to the president of the house speak. It was really cool to meet so many different people and I exchanged pins and business cards with a lot of people. My blazer is looking more like an rotary exchange student's now! Hopefully i'll be able to fill up the whole thing by the end of my year. The only bad thing about yesterday was that (like usual) it was raining and a lot of people didn't have umbrellas. We did a lot of walking so today my feet are pretty sore but i'm sure they'll feel better by tomorrow. I hung out with a few other Canadians and made plans with a few people for the upcoming week.Right After the day with Rotary I had a meeting with my host Rotary club. It was a dinner and I didn't really like the food but I ate most of it anyways. After that whole day I was very very tired and came home and slept. Today my host mom bought me a bus/tram/subway pass for Brussels so I can get around which I was really happy about. My host sister and her two friends who slept over last night showed me how to get to a good shopping street in Brussels and then they had to go to dance class so I had to find my way home on my own. It was fine though. They just told me which number of the tram I would need to take and then just get off at the same place I got on and then take a bus home. It was pretty simple and i'm hoping i'll be able to use that a lot. I went to Avenue Louise which is the shopping street in Brussels and went in a couple stores and bought one shirt from H&M but I was mostly just looking around, seeing where I would like to come again. Tonight I'm just staying at home with my host sister and i'll probably go to bed early cause i'm pretty tired!