jan 19th

Today was my last day of classes for the week. I've already had to do lots of homework, mostly all for one class but we complained and hopefully he's cutting it back. I was so exhausted from the 3 days of clumped together classes that I came home and took a nice long nap. Also, today matt and I went out to get pizza (it was great to have some almost American food). We finished our meal and were waiting around for about 20 minutes and we started wondering where the bill was. It wasn't until then that I remembered from french class that they don't bring the bill until you ask for it. Oh well, you live and you learn. Also, for a glass of water it was 2 euros, the same price for a glass of wine. No water is free here. When I awoke from my nap the rest of the girls from my house and I went for a walk in the park that is near our house, at the end of the park is the most amazing church. I took some pictures. I think it is the fourth largest in the world? Anyways its massive. We wandered inside and its enough to make anyone want to fall to their knees, religious or not. Its called the Basilique de Koekelberg. Koekelberg is the name of the commune of Brussels that I live in. The communes are kind of like burros in NYC I guess. They have their own municipal buildings and even their own mayor. Tomorrow we have to go register with our commune and get a card saying that we actually have a place to live. It's kind of wierd but the Belgians are very beaurocratic.