Campanile - Liege Luik Liège

... nice and made me feel good. Then, when I was cooking some dinner, she came up and gave me a blanket, sheet set, and some tea candles. She also has given Nil a wooden spoon, a strainer, and two dish towels for me. Isn't that sweet??? I thanked her tons and gave her a hug when she left. So now I have a few less items to buy to make my new place feel like home.

Well Nil just got home and she is going to eat a bit of food with Markus and ...

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4 THEN go to school and teach a class completely by myself about utopian society
5. then come back and look for a mattress
6. call Nil when I find a mattress so she can help me move it in
7. come back here and pack up my stuff and take some it to the new place.

sometime gotta find time to

1. get signed up for internet so I can write to you all at my new ...

After popping into and out of Germany, we were now back in Belgium. It was beginning to get a bit dark, and we still had at least 200 miles left to drive.

Gaz's motor was struggling, and threatening to overheat, so we stopped to let it cool down.

With the vehicles all decorated with stickers, we attracted a bit of attention, and a Belgian couple took our ...

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We stopped at one point, because the roadbook wasn't very clear, at which point Gaz and Charlotte came up behind us. They had been left behind by the V8s, as they were in a Series vehicle, so we said we'd stick with them.
At this point, Kieran noticed a strange noise from our engine, which was duly investigated by James. It was diagnosed as the fan belt tensioning pulley. But we didn't do anything about it at the time.

... then I will really not know anyone, but it will come soon enough (only my 12th day).

So now I am at school. Things are much different here. The teachers don’t have their own classrooms, they move around like the students do in the US. Sometimes you will see a teacher will a cart with all of her/his materials, or they will just be carrying them. I was supposed to see an English class, but they were taking a test ...

... for me!

Yesterday we had an amazing lunch! The neighbor lady cooked it. It was meat and onions wrapped in cabbage in a brown sauce. We had potatoes and cabbage to go with it. Either I was very hungry, or it was delicious. I also made zucchini bread to go with it, and they loved it! MMmmm it was so good.. Then after lunch I had to take like a 2 hour nap because I ate so much, haha.

Well thats all for now. More soon!

... longer I could pick up a difference in the accent people speak with. You are reminded you are not in France though when you hear announcements in Flemish and you remember that old divide that exists here in Belgium. I have never come across any actual trouble between the Flems and the Walloons. I have only ever heard it reported. I wonder where the dividing line between the two geographical areas is.

... the tradtional Belgian drink (think of it as Belgium's answer to vodka!), whilst we all had it as a fruit based mixer, they decided they where going to have shots of it...but these weren't normal shots, oh no, they came with flames on top! We also visited various monuments in Liège, and saw the outside of the royal ballet theatre and shopped in a very large famous bookshop whose name currently escapes me... We also went to the theatre one night (compulsory school ...

We 'trundled down past Maastricht towards Germany. The deviations were big ones but we still were able to make good time! The scenery was worth the deviations though. We past by some wonderful little towns and river gorges. Very nice bit of countryside. Will have to return there sometime, God willing!

... house but thought better and got the connecting train to Bruge. I got off at the central station and caught the 1 bus into the main square, where the Belgiums said they would meet me. I even checked at the bus info and checked that the stop they told me "belfort'" was on the way. So im on this bus still with my bloody posters. I get off at the main square and look ...