It's story time! 

Everyone that knows me back home, knows that I am a bit of a germ freak, and boy oh boy is Europe getting to me.
                               First of all, no where I have been yet have I seen hand sanitizer. Back home you find it everywhere, at school, in the change room, at the grocery store, the movie theater, and heck I've even found it at rest stops on the highway, but I've been in Belgium for almost 3 weeks(wow times sure goes by fast!) and I haven't found it anywhere expect for in my purse.
Second; so I don't know if it's just because my school is old and small or if that's how all bathrooms at schools in Belgium are but... The bathroom is multi-gender, nothing like fixing your hair in the mirror, with a group of guys waiting to go to the bathroom standing behind you watching or, walking to an empty stall and seeing a guy standing with their back towards you peeing, because they didn't close the door when they went into the stall. And before you go into a stall you have to remember to bring in toilet paper from a huge roll on the wall by the sink, because there is not toilet paper rolls in the stalls. My question for this is "what happens if you forget to bring it with you?, then what do you do?" Also the bathroom NEVER has soap in the dispenser, or paper towel in the holder so no one even attempts to wash there hands...GROSS;thank goodness I brought hand sanitizer with me :) Another things is that the bathroom door is always left open, so as soon as you come out of the stall people in the hallway can see you.
Note to self- always make sure your fly is done up, and you don't have anything stuck to your shoe before you leave the stall.

Now after sitting in class all morning, tiring myself from translating, and not understanding any of what is going on, I was really looking forward to having double blocks of gym class this afternoon. While looks like my slights were set a tad bit to high... You see my school doesn't have a gym, so I didn't quite no where I was going to be having my gym class at, so when the bell went for gym class to start, I followed another girl who is in my class and she started walking towards the gate, leaving the school grounds, and onto a public bus...
Turns out that you have to get on the bus, that the school hires, and drive for about 8 minutes to a HUGE sport complex, and that is where gym class is held. The complex has an outdoor soccer field, an outdoor running track, a high jump and long jump set up, at least 2 squash courts, a gymnastics area, 3 fields that you could play indoor soccer, floor hockey, or basketball on, a restaurant, a climbing wall, 4 or 5 rooms for yoga or zumba and about 10 change rooms! The only things it's missing is a hockey rink :(  
While after following a group of girls around looking for our change room, and almost getting lost in the maze of the place, going up 2 sets of stairs, across a covered walkway which is overhead a road, and then down 3 sets of stairs, we finally found our change room. For gym class we have to wear these 'lovely' mandatory school designed baseball shirts, running shoes and some form of bottoms; either shorts, leggings or pants.
I'm hoping that as time goes on gym class will become more competitive,and energetic. Today we spent more time getting changed,and waiting for the teacher to start the class, then actually doing anything gym class related, finally we stretched for a good 5 minutes, and that was gym class for the day. Then we went and got changed again, and got back on the bus to go back to school. 

Tomorrow I have Inbound Orientation for my district, so I'll be writing all about that shortly after, and there will be new pictures on facebook too! On Sunday morning my host family has asked me to make them a 'Canadian Breakfast', don't know what that will entail yet, but I'm hopeful it will be successful!