One Month!

Hi Everyone!

I know its been a pretty long time since I have last written a blog but I have been a bit stressed out with school and ALWAYS tired! I can't even believe how tired I am everyday! Yesterday I had a two hour nap after school and I think I probably could have used another 3. I think its just trying to understand everyone all day long and making your brain work really hard that makes you so tired. But yeah, so I have just basically been going to school lately! School is well...school. I actually like school in Canada

a lot more than in Belgium at the moment. We'll see if that changes in a few months but just right now I don't understand anything really that the teachers are saying and it can be very boring at times. It is also so hard without all my friends at school! I didn't think it would be as difficult as it is to make

friends here. Its just a really new experience for me I think because I have lived in Terrace my whole life and have never had to try to make new friends. Right now its especially difficult because I can't understand everything everyone says to me and I can't always say what I want to say because I don't know how to say it! I like a few of the girls in my grade and they are pretty nice so hopefully i'll be able to hang out with them more. Everyone here is so different than the people in Canada as well! Not a single girl in my entire grade plays a sport other than field hockey I think and thats only a couple. I was really hoping to be able to play soccer while I was here in Belgium and I think that would help me meet more girls who I can relate with better, but my host mom told me tonight that its not possible right now. She said I can't play because something like the club has to do a transfer with my "club" back in Canada. But its really different because I don't have a club in Canada its just with the school and used to be with TYSA. She said maybe it would be possible in January I think but i'm not entirely sure. Maybe I didn't understand everything she said. I've been running a little bi

t while i've been here though and I really like it. Getting exercise makes me f

eel a lot better! (and makes me feel better about eating all the belgian food!)

On the weekends I have been meeting up with some rotary friends and its a lot of fun hanging out with them! They are going through the same stuff I am so we always have a lot to talk about and we're all experiencing new things together so its really cool! A cool thing I did one Sunday was go to the Grand Place by myself and check out a beer festival that was going on. No, I didn't drink the beer I just looked around. Plus the line ups for the tickets were really really long! There were so many tourists there to taste the belgian beer, it was crazy! Th

e whole Grand Place was shut down in the center and had all different beer vendors giving people full glasses of beer to taste. They had some really funny banners that said things like "Beer doesn't make you fat" and " A Pint or two a day keeps the doctor away" After that I attempted to get home on the subway but that didn't turn out well and I got pretty lost! But I made it home so thats all that matters. Last weekend I had my rotary orientation date on Saturday with all the other exchange students in my district and we just had a bbq and learned all the rules and stuff. After that I met some other exchange students in the center of Brussels and then I went for a sleepover at my friends house in a different city called Mons. It was a lot of fun! But yeah, thats all for now I think! I will try to update sooner next time!

OH! and i've been here for one month already! so thats already 1/11 out of my trip

Au Revoir!