...and therefore already a quarter of the way through the year abroad (not including Christmas and the gap between semesters). Scary stuff.
I realised this when I said goodbye to my grandparents today and told them I'd be home in 6 weeks tomorrow, 6 weeks actually sounds like a short amount of time to me now, I've been out here for nearly 9 weeks I think and that has flown by like you wouldn't believe. I remember booking all these trips and things to give me something to look forward to and I've been back from the first for nearly 2 weeks and going on the next one (Luxembourg) this weekend! I've got into quite a little habit of crossing the days off on my D.I.Y calendar now too. Call me sad if you want, I'm used to the abuse, I'm hardening to it...
I was hoping to do another video (yes I know the music has been removed from my first one, no worries I have a cunning plan to get round Mr Copyright Police next time) but lets face it, time is not on my side at the moment! I'll try at some point but there are no promises! There'd be no point at the moment anyway, it wouldn't be pleasant to listen to, my lovely germ infested, sore throat and bunged up nose have seen to that one...
In other news I've got myself an interview for volunteering at the Olympics, not doing anything exciting, in fact I'd be on the wrong side of the gate taking tickets and not seeing anything at all, but hey, it's something. I might not get it anyhoo.
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Wednesday, 9 November 2011
Sunday, 18 September 2011
1 week, three museums and a day "sans voitures"
I have reached the end of my first week in Brussels and it feels like I have been here so much longer than that now. My parents only left on Friday and that feels like an age ago too. I've had a bit of a geeky weekend, you might have gathered that I'm not exactly the usual "party-animal" Erasmus student!
On Saturday I went to the Musical Instruments Museum, it was good but not quite what I was expecting- but I don't know what I was expecting really. All in all an ok way of passing some time though. After that I decided to take a wander and try and find myself some lunch, I eventually found a shop a bought a salad that was labelled "Ready to eat", perfect I thought, except for the lack of fork... After making a mess of eating my lunch I was fed up and decided to come back to the flat where I spent the afternoon watching French TV that I didn't really understand and doing some cleaning. I did manage to fit in a quick Skype session with the parents whilst I was eating my healthy dinner, it had fish AND vegetables!
I decided that today was to be a better day than yesterday and decided to go to a couple more museums. Today is "Dimanche sans voitures" in Brussels which means that cars are not allowed in the city from 9am until 7pm. All public transport is free for the day and there is lots going on. My first geeky visit of the day was to the BELvue museum which is all about the history of Belgium. It was interesting and I might have learned something-hopefully! After that I went and found my self a bench to eat my (2nd geeky thing) packed lunch-seriously, you would if you saw the prices of things round here. I then decided to take a walk around but went quite a distance so decided to get the tram back to where I started! So that Luke can't tell me off for not going I thought I'd get it over and done with and so I went to the Royal Museum of the Military, after some slight navigational issues that is! I was actually very impressed by it, it was huge! I wasn't paying too much attention though I must admit but as entrance is free a return visit will be on the cards. The museum is in Parc du Cinquantenaire and today, along with the lack of cars, there was an Olympics event, London came to Brussels for the day apparently, there were even a group of police officers, I thought they were Belgians dressed up but they weren't, they were there as part of some Home Office thing promoting safety at the olympics...?
I have also decidedthat I need to stop being nice when people ask directions, this time I had no clue but showed them my map, it took them a while to find where they wanted and by the time they had the torrential rain appeared...typical. If I hadn't helped I'd have been pretty much home and dry before it started! Never mind!
First day of classes at ISTI tomorrow and my very first class is a non-erasmus class doing French to English translation so it is a bit scary that I'll be going totally on my own, I hope there are more Erasmus students there, but there are lots of groups so they might not be. Wish me luck!
On Saturday I went to the Musical Instruments Museum, it was good but not quite what I was expecting- but I don't know what I was expecting really. All in all an ok way of passing some time though. After that I decided to take a wander and try and find myself some lunch, I eventually found a shop a bought a salad that was labelled "Ready to eat", perfect I thought, except for the lack of fork... After making a mess of eating my lunch I was fed up and decided to come back to the flat where I spent the afternoon watching French TV that I didn't really understand and doing some cleaning. I did manage to fit in a quick Skype session with the parents whilst I was eating my healthy dinner, it had fish AND vegetables!
I decided that today was to be a better day than yesterday and decided to go to a couple more museums. Today is "Dimanche sans voitures" in Brussels which means that cars are not allowed in the city from 9am until 7pm. All public transport is free for the day and there is lots going on. My first geeky visit of the day was to the BELvue museum which is all about the history of Belgium. It was interesting and I might have learned something-hopefully! After that I went and found my self a bench to eat my (2nd geeky thing) packed lunch-seriously, you would if you saw the prices of things round here. I then decided to take a walk around but went quite a distance so decided to get the tram back to where I started! So that Luke can't tell me off for not going I thought I'd get it over and done with and so I went to the Royal Museum of the Military, after some slight navigational issues that is! I was actually very impressed by it, it was huge! I wasn't paying too much attention though I must admit but as entrance is free a return visit will be on the cards. The museum is in Parc du Cinquantenaire and today, along with the lack of cars, there was an Olympics event, London came to Brussels for the day apparently, there were even a group of police officers, I thought they were Belgians dressed up but they weren't, they were there as part of some Home Office thing promoting safety at the olympics...?
I have also decidedthat I need to stop being nice when people ask directions, this time I had no clue but showed them my map, it took them a while to find where they wanted and by the time they had the torrential rain appeared...typical. If I hadn't helped I'd have been pretty much home and dry before it started! Never mind!
First day of classes at ISTI tomorrow and my very first class is a non-erasmus class doing French to English translation so it is a bit scary that I'll be going totally on my own, I hope there are more Erasmus students there, but there are lots of groups so they might not be. Wish me luck!
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