Classes..

Had my first day of class today. Alot different then anything I've been doing in school. It's almost like I'm back in high school again. They have bells at the end of periods, uniformed lunches, breaks during the classes, pretty different.

In my Integrated Marketing Project I have to do research for our topic and later give a speech over stuff as it relates to the United States market, shouldn't be too bad. I thought it was a lot of work kind of...however, the rest of my group, Jimmy, Shana, and another Belgian student have to do the same thing only present it in German, French, Deutsch, and one other language...I can't believe how fluent & bilangual these people are while the average American can speak one shanty version of English haha, kind of makes us look lazy!

It's different being the "foriegn student", its like I'm Fez from That 70's Show haha...they'll be times when we just randomly break into conversation and do a culture comparison during class and its interesting to learn what they know and what we do not know. For instance I couldn't tell them one famous Belgian off the top of my head today! (Jean Claude van Damm ?) Also today we got into discussion of music, they thought I looked like a rock star since I was rockin' the beard! I found that commical. They really like old time music a.k.a Presidents of USA-Peaches; they'd never heard of Incubus or Jack Johnson; we did however share a common interest in The Beatles music.

Speakin go of television shows, we talked about their favorites a.ka. early 1990's shows like Full House, Step-by-Step, Family Matters, FRIENDS, etc. They would break out into theme songs of them all, you ever need a smile, just ask someone to sing one of those theme songs-classic!

Have yet to get to the traveling, however, either this weekend or the next I may go with Jamie and Belgian friend, Reuben, to either Paris or over to Germany. He's got a car and said he'd be willing to drive us anywhere within a couple hours of Hasselt, but also I have the train option.

Still a little rocky on the navigation part of things, still having to adjust to the new sleep scheduale..it's no fun having class when you're body thinks it is 1-4 am...all and all definately enjoying the time I've had!


Ciao.