Emma's alarm went off at 9:30 this morning and she turned the lights on, so of course I woke up. We were supposed to get up then, but she decided we would change our plans so that we could sleep for an extra hour. I don't know why, but I wasn't able to fall back asleep. I listened to music while she slept. When we finally got up, we had to get ready really fast and leave the house to catch the bus. I got to walk through her neighborhood a little bit and it was pretty nice. Definitely way different than anything in Italy. The architecture is totally different. The bus ride to the train station was probably about 45 minutes and then we met up with Emma's exchange student friends there. We caught the train and it was an hour to Liege (the main town). I've never taken so much public transportation in my life.
When we got there, we walked to a place where there were a bunch of other exchange students hanging out. We talked with all of them for about 2 hours and then left to go to another place where I guess exchange students hang out as well. There weren't many people there, so we just went and ate at a fast food restaurant and then took an hour long bus ride home.
I was exhausted, so we got ready for bed and went up to Emma's room to go to sleep, even though it's not as early as I would have liked to get to bed right now.
It was a good first (full) day in Belgium. I feel like I'm experiencing a whole new aspect of exchange when I get to spend time with other exchange students from around the world. Even though everything was in English and I can understand how it could be a set back to learning the language.
Buonanotte!
~Devon
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