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| Meet me at the Bench, mom! |
Don’t worry though, I’ve been filling my days with very important official business, such as a day trip in Brugge. I know, another trip but someone has to do it ;).
If it makes you feel any better, Brugge didn’t blow my mind. We did take an exciting boat ride through the canals.
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| Not us, but you get the picture. |
Did you know that Brugge is known as the Venice of the North? It only made me more excited to see the real Venice. Only 7 more months till then. But to real, I’m sure Brugge would have been more exciting if I was in tip top shape. I literally could not eat single thing without feeling as if my insides had just been tackled by a four hundred pound line backer. Although eating was painful, I obviously couldn’t shy away from these amazing homemade lollipops . I was only in Brugge once, so I did what my grandfather would have told any true Harris, "Shake it off.” I ate the lollipop(s) and it was worth the grueling hour and half train back to Leuven.
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| Pretending to be happy for the sake of the blog... |
So anyways, besides the fact that I now safely eat solid foods, I’ve also been learning my way around Leuven. It’s not that large of a city and is basically encircled by what is known as the Ring Road.
The road once was an actual wall used for defensive purposes, but now is one giant concrete circle that only crazy people, such as myself, run for fun. I don’t think I’ve mentioned here on the blog, but I’m an avid runner. It’s a fun way to get to know places and I’ve found it especially helpful in learning my way around Leuven. Even though running on the streets isn't technically normal here, my only other option would be the track and I would rather eat canned Alpo dog food before I would resort to that. I've (successfully) navigated two routes. And when I say navigated, I literally ran with a piece of paper with turn by turn by turn directions written on it. I must of looked ridiculous, but when I would get lost I would simply show my scribbled map to a random person and they would point me the right way.
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| Thr route I've been running. |
When I wasn’t too busy getting lost on my runs, I discovered a laundry mat, several grocery stores ,a shop that specializes in chicken-just chicken, and a beautiful park. In Baltimore we have the Tulip Garden, but this park makes the Tulip Garden look like York Road. No offensive or anything, but Abdij Park is gorgeous and I cant wait to
From my trusty friend wikipedia, I've learned that this park, Abbey of the Park is actually a Norbertine abbey.It was founded in 1129 by Godfrey I the Bearded.The buildings are beautiful and after some reseach I found that they are bulit in the styles of Romanesque, Gothic , Renaissance and Baroque. Its so inetresting to have some much history around me and how buildings bulit hundreds of years ago, are literally a 2 mile jog from my house. I really don't know of many places like this near Pittsburgh.
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| So pretty!!! |
Other than running, shopping, getting lost and eating frites, not much else is new. I did get my Dutch midterm back and I am happy to report that I did quite well. Only 40 more hours of Dutch to go, nothing I can’t handle….
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| Just a normal day in Dutch class |
Im excited for my classes to all begin because I’ve only had one so far. I’ll be sure to recap them all for you in my next post. Until then though, ill share this little tidbit with you : What do a monk , an Australian man older than my mom(sorry mom-you're not old) and me have in common? This may or may not describe my 9 A.M. theology class, but ill guess you have to wait until next week to get the deets!
Tot Ziens,
Shayne
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