Thursday, August, 25th 2011
This is the story of how 200+ Rotary members, inbound, rebound and host family's met up in Brussels for the day, and pretty much took over the city! :)
My host mom took me to the train station, where I thought I would be getting on the train for my first time since arriving in Belgium, but turns out we were just meeting other exchange students there. Instead we got in a car and drove into Belgium. Seeing all the old, and beautiful building was defiantly a highlight of my day!
We (me, and 3 other in-bounders) got dropped off in a park, in front of Palace Royal where the Royal family used to live. There we met up with the rest of the exchange students. I don't think I've ever seen so many blazers being worn at the same place at a given time before, I'm sure we should have called Guinness World Records. There we got split up into groups depending on our districts; 2170 for me. There we meet other inbound students who live near us from all over the world, including an amazing group of amazing Canadians rockin' the bright red blazers with me!
Then we toured the Royal families house, and walked to the Grand Palace, where we meet up with the two other districts for a HUGE picture of all the Rotary students. Then we went into the Town Hall for a flag ceremony with the Presidents of the Rotary districts. After that we walked to a restaurant that looked tiny from the outside for lunch, but we walked in and walked up 4 sets of stairs into a big dinning room. These Belgian are sneaky! :)For lunch we had Swedish meatballs...explain that one to me? and french fries, not Belgian frites but French fries... explain that too? After lunch we walked back to the park and then made our way to the Parliament Buildings. They were really cool, and reminded me of the one's in Victoria. (oh how I miss home!</3) We went into the house of commons and a lady told us about how the government works...but considering Belgium doesn't have a proper government I don't know if it still works the same way. And not once did the lady mention the fact that Belgium didn't have a proper government. After the lady told us about the government, the President either of Rotary or of the Country, but idk came and gave this way to long speech to us, and looking around about a 25% of the people looked like they were sleeping during it. After that we went into the entrance and got a drink, then we walked back to the park where another host parent came and pick us up and drove us back home.
It was a full day of busy and tiring activities, but a lot of fun! :)
Miss you all back home and love you too! <3
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