Remembrance Day

Hi!

So yeah i'll just fill everyone in on what i've been doing with my life for the past few weeks since I haven't updated in a little while. So two weeks ago I had a four day weekend which was nice because after coming back froma week off of school I only had to go to school for two and a half days. On Wednesday my friend slept over at my house and in the morning we went to a town called Ypres for Remembrance Day. Ypres is the site where there was a big battle in the war and its the place where the Germans first used gas on Canadian soldiers. It was very very cool to be there for the Remembrance Day ceremony. The weather was very bad and it was raining so hard but I couldn't even use my umbrella because it was way too windy. That day we had plans to meet up with 3 other Canadian exchange students but on the train we also met 4 other Canadians who were also going to Ypres, so that was pretty cool. They were all on exchange as well but they were with University Programs. When we got to Ypres we were able to see the ceremony and a bunch of army marching bands and then we went to see the Arc with all the names of the soldiers who had been killed. There were so many Canadians on the wall it was actually surtprising to see how many there were. There is a war museum there called In Flanders Fields museum but I will have to go back there another day to see it because we didn't get the chance that day. When I got back to Brussels from Ypres I had been invited to two girls birthday parties from my school so I packed my stuff and went to that. It was fun and it was also very nice of them to invite me. I have also been going to Rotary Meetings twice a month. Last week I went to a meeting and there was a presentation given by a really young doctor about Polio and research he has done about incurable diseases and the importance of still vaccinating people who have polio. I was very interesting even if I didn't understand everything he said.

Also last week I met up with Brodie Lamarche from Terrace who had been touring around Europe with a home base out of Munich in Germany so that was really nice to see someone from home! We went to a couple different cities and hung out with some of my other friends here. It was a lot of fun! Tonight I have another Rotary meeting but I think its the meeting where its just a dinner. Hopefully the food will be good tonight..haha.