Last Days in Belgium

Sunday 3-3-13

Emma and I didn’t have anything specific planned today so we were able to sleep in until around 11:30.  We got up and got ready a little bit and then sat around the house for a while.  We didn’t know what we were going to do because it was Sunday and all of the shops were closed.  We decided that we should go try to see a movie because Emma knew of a couple that played movies in their original form, meaning English!  We looked up some times and realized that one was playing at 3:15 in Liege.  We didn’t have enough time to take the bus because it was already 2:30 and the bus took an hour to get to the city.  We asked her host dad and he dropped us off. 

When we got to the theater, we found out that it was a different theater that played it so we got directions and it would’ve taken us too long to take a bus or walk so we decided to see the later showing of the movie at 7:45.  As I said before, nothing was open except for a fast food restaurant that is everywhere around Belgium.  We ended up sitting in there, talking and playing on our ipods for 3 hours and then left to go find the right bus to take us to the theater. 

We walked around for about an hour trying to find the right bus because we kept going the wrong way.  Emma asked the information center and that’s when we finally found it 6 minutes before it arrived.  We still didn’t know the stop to get off at so Emma asked the bus driver where to get off and we made it to the theater. It was a really sketchy neighborhood though. 

We had to wait in the theater for another 45 minutes or so and then the movie started.  The theater was surprisingly nice.  There were French and Flemish subtitles but the voices were in English so that’s all that matters. 

When the movie finished, Regine and her husband, the parents of the girl who is on exchange in my city and being hosted by my dad, picked us up and we went to a little Belgian diner.  They didn’t know English very well so Emma was the translator.  We were at the restaurant until 12 and then they drove us home.  

We were up for about an hour later and then we went to bed.

Monday 3-4-13

Emma had to go to school today and I wasn’t allowed to go so I slept until 11:30.  Even then, it was hard to get up.  I got ready, and then Emma’s host dad took me out to lunch with him.  It was nice because we got to talk in Italian.  I got back home at 1:30 and he had to go back to work.  I started working on my Rotary reflection and I skyped with Janie because she just got back to Italy from America. 

Emma got home at 4 and she had a meeting at 5 so we couldn’t go and do anything.  I skyped with Rachel, who is on her exchange in Sicily and then Emma left for an hour and I finished up my reflection.  When she got back home, we invited Greg over (another exchange student) and our plan was to watch movies but it got late really fast because we were watching youtube videos and talking.  Greg was showing us all of his favorite French songs.  Greg had to go to school the next day so he went downstairs to sleep around 1.  Emma and I went to bed shortly after because I decided I was going to pack in the morning.