January Update!

First of all I would just like to apologize for my last blog. I didn't realize how emo it made me sound till after I posted it.

Monday- Maastricht, and Liege sale shoppingJ

Tuesday- Nothing J
Wednesday- First Wednesday in I don’t even remember how long not spent in Brussels… L

Thursday- Brussels and a sleepover

Friday- Bruges, a run and a dinner party

Saturday- Lille, France

Sunday- Brussels and a movie with my Oldie J

            I thought that breaks were supposed to be relaxing and you are supposed to come back well rested… That was defiantly not the case of my break. 6:30 Monday morning came far to early, and I have been counting down the weekend so I can sleep in and turn my alarm clock off since Monday afternoon.

             Christmas break was great! But after talking with others who went away during it, I wish I had too. There is so much of Europe that I want to see and so little time to do so. The next break is only 5 weeks away; a week long break at the end of February for Carnival time here in Belgium and I am hoping to spend it in Copenhagen, Denmark.

You see I’ve always had a strange love for Denmark, and it is where I wanted to go on my exchange, but unfortunately for me my district doesn’t exchange with Denmark. Every time I’ve done a project on a country for school up until I found out I was coming to Belgium on exchange it had always been done of Denmark. Maybe I have a weird liking for naked mermaid statuses( totally joking), or maybe I’m hoping I’ll meet the Prince’s well I’m there and we will fall in love, get married and I can finally become the Princess I’ve always known I should be( don’t worry, I’m really not that conceded) , but whatever it is Denmark has always captivated me.

 This year is going soooo fast, and I just want it to slow down!!!!!!!!!!! (I wish I had magical powers so I could make time freeze) and this feeling was only made stronger the other day when I got an email from my travel agent (nope not my momma; the wannabe travel agent, but from Hansi the travel agent for our Rotary district who organises all the exchange students flights) saying it’s time to start booking return tickets. I think I’ve decided when I am coming home, but I’ve decided to try to keep it a secret just so that I can either excite someone when they are having a bad day and need something to look forward to or so that I can walk into a family dinner or a party and surprise the crap out of everyone J (either way I win J ).
ps. Momma and daddy you two are the only two that will know when I’m coming home and if you tell anyone I will be greatly disappointed in you!

This week is pretty crazy for me. Not only am I getting back into a routine of waking up early, and going to school, but I am also mentally preparing myself (don’t laugh it’s a scary thing) to become and ‘Oldie’, on Saturday I will be saying ‘Au Revoir’ to my amazing and cool and so so helpful Austrailian ‘Oldie’ Alex and the rest of my ‘Oldie’ friends and leaving behind my ‘Newie’ title at the airport. Also I am busy packing  all the ‘stuff’ aka  shit that I have no idea how I will be getting it all back to Canada in July, because Saturday afternoon I change host families.

I’m going to miss my current family a lot, but my life with them has become too routine for my liking during my exchange and I am really excited for a new adventure with a new family. My next family lives only 10ish minutes from my current family, which is great because my Brazilian friend Marina is moving into my current family so I can do double duty visits!  J  My next family consistes of a host mom Nath, who is amazing and I am so excited to be living with herJ, a host dad who I have only met once but is also very nice J a 16 year old host brother a 12 year old host brother and a 18 year old host sister who is on exchange in the States right now. It’s going to be a HUGE change with this family, as I’ve never been the only girl before or the oldest (might only be a couple of months but I am still considering myself the oldest cause I’ve always want to be the oldest J ).

 Today is Thursday so I had a long day at school, with 8 classes and school ending at 4:10pm. After making it to the early train and getting home around 4:45 I’ve been working on some homework, packing and trying to get everyone on my ‘to do’ list finished. Hopefully I’ll make it to bed early tonight so that I am not super tired tomorrow afternoon when I go to the airport tomorrow and have a sad afternoon saying good bye to my Australian friends.  

Lastly, because the whole 'Newie' 'Oldie' thing can get really confusing, there is a diagram made by yours truly! :)

Outbound student----->

                                Inbound Student
                                -Newie(when you arrive in August)
                                -Oldie(when your 'Oldies' who came last January from the Southern hemisphere return to their countries in the current January)----->
                                                            Rebound Student