De Koning van Spanje
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... to head back to the hostel. I walked to the nearest tram line (my feet were too sore to walk that far again) and after passing another old, smaller, but more beautiful on the inside church, I got the tram right back to the hostel. Here I watched some more tv, did more blogging, reheated last nights leftovers and had another early night (to attempt to stop this cough from turning into a cold :S ).
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Conflict Diamonds
... just be the last ones home, no chance of getting a good night’s sleep anyway. However finding somewhere good to have a drink seemed to be quite difficult. We used our trusty use-it.be map which I highly recommend for anyone travelling to Belgium, they have one for each city and they’re written by locals for young travellers. We stopped off in a student square but there were only strange families. Two young kids were ...
Because You're Drunk?
Both Erwin and Valentine are out the door early, leaving me with a few minutes to myself before I'm down by the water. Checking out the excavation site myself from behind the fence, I realise there is a hole and walk straight through, pretending like I know what I'm doing. So effective is this that one of the council workers comes up, makes small talk, then asks which of the trenches we should be filling in today, and how deep with what sort of packing. We both stand there dumbfounded for ...
Chocolate Crawl
Thursday (May 20th) was a long day. We had 3 classes that took up most of the day. We had another Flemish class, Dr. Wright lectured on global marketing, and Dr. Paul Roosens (from the University of Antwerp) lectured on the European Union.
We also had to dress up in our nice outfits to take a formal group picture at the University of Antwerp. In the evening we had a little grilling party over at the JMU residence. It was fun. ...
I'm sufficating and in need of ventilation
... see the fam and friends, watch some good television and induldge myself with red meat. Also spending time with my new roommates, Deb, Jim, Chrisitie oh and scaramouche. Beer B Que will be coming as will Dave and of course the fun job with the Phillies. Nothing better than some day drinking and sundresses. Favorite past times of mine.
I wonder why so much of the bad out shines the good. So many more things in life that are grand. hmm. Definitley feeling better ...