Whata weekend!

My life has started to become routine; same thing err'day.

only the coolest sticker ever!

so we didn't quiet find the museum, but we did find some other cool things:The Polish Embassy,

poptarts! and an international store :)

and the European commission !

One of my classes at school, is called History of Art, and it is possibly the coolest class I have ever taken! We get to look at art all class, go on field trips and the teacher is a total hippy :) Last weekend in Brussels, not only did they shut down the streets to cars, but they also opened up all the museums to the public for free. So as an assignment for the class we were supposed to go with a couple other students and go check out a museum.
On Saturday afternoon me and Tasha ( another Rotary exchange student from the states, who goes to my school, and is in my history of art class!) got on the train in La Hulpe and started heading to The Royal Army Museum of Belgium. My host parents had  printed me off a map, and attempted to explain how to get from the train station to the museum, but thinking we were smart enough, and knew our way around Brussels after only being there a couple of times, we decided to not get off our at stop, but first continue on to the Grand Place and explore there for a bit before going to the Army museum...
 Well lets just say that we barely made it out of the train station at Brussels center before realizing we had no idea where we were going, and got back on the train to go to the stop that we were supposed to get off to go to the Army museum. But we did get to see a cool band of Ballerina's playing in the train station! :) After getting off the train at the correct stop, we pulled out our handy dandy map, and started walking, but you see the problem with having a map is that you have to know how to read it... which I don't know!  Maybe I should have stayed at horse camp, or listened to man tracker?, because then maybe we wouldn't have gotten lost. Kay well really we didn't get lost because we knew where we were, we just didn't know where the museum was... But we did find a international store that sold cake mix, and pop tarts! (two rarities here in Belgium!)

And then on Sunday they shut down the city of Brussels, Genval and La Hulpe to cars, so a group of 10 exchange students, and our hosties (host parents) got on our bikes and biked about 15km through the city, and went to the Grand Place, Manneken Pis; which I have to say was kind of a disappointment. Like I knew it was small, but holy cow I almost had to put on my glasses to be able to see it!!!

Manneken Pis

checking out one of many sight scenes from the day

Brussels! <3


btw; only 36 days until Paris! :)