Jan 27th

Well I don't have all that much to write but I figured I'd give a quick update.....

This week I only had two days of classes because my professor had to pick his family up at the airport on thursday and since he teaches two of my classes, I had no class on thursday. That means 5 day weekend. Which sounds nice but I've actually been really busy with school work. I have to give a 15 minute oral presentation next weekend on Medieval women and the church. It's really hard to do research here because even though there are books in english the search engine is mainly in dutch. It's kind of frustrating but I'm wading through it.

Tomorrow (Saturday) my art class is going to Gent, which is in Belgium. The trips sounded really fun until I realized that were getting tested on the stuff we see and the stuff she talks about. It will be cool to get to see the city but my teacher likes to talk and talk and talk and she jumps around a lot, so we'll see how it goes. Me and a few other people made reservations at a hostel in Gent so we can stay the night and return the next day (its about a 30 minute train ride). It will be cool to be able to site-see on our own on Sunday. Hopefully I'll take lots of pictures and be able to update on the trip either Sunday or Monday.

The other night me and the girls from my house went to Chi Chi's....yes the American Mexican chain restaurant. I think it got closed in the US if I remember correctly but its still open here. It was really wierd to be in an American chain restaurant. Belgium is certainly not famous for its mexican food. Our host parents were given some tortillas from their neighbor so they asked us if we would like burritos but they had no idea how to make them or what to put in them. They had never even heard of salsa. Our host father refused to eat burritos but I think our host mother liked them. It was kind of funny.

That's all for now...have a good weekend everyone


OH yes and also, please put your name when you post because otherwise it just says anonymous and that's really annoying because I like to know who I'm talking to.


-Bailey