Brussels

Thursday 3 Aug 06:
0900 – get up for class

0930 – class session 3 in Classroom A (EU)

12:30 – frantic packing & lunch =9

1330 – got on tour buses to Brussels

1600 – finished teaching Aaron cards to get off at hostel in Brussels

1630 – drop off stuff in hostel room (stinky bathroom >.<)

1700 – sightseeing around Grand Place – chocolates!

1900 – joint dinner with Brussels UW students in Fr. Restaurant

2200 – ran back to Grand Place for light show

2230 – light show

So beautiful especially since I love this violin concerto (my sistem plays this at home, so it kinda made me homesick, but the chocolates and waffles quickly took care of that ^_^) We just got there at the nick of time, but unfortunately, so did the rain, so we watched under our umbrellas. I actually saw the 10:30 and 11:00 shows!

2300 – found Galeries Royales St. Hubert

2400 – went back to hostel to shower/sleep

Friday 4 Aug 06:
0730 – got up
0800 – free breakfast at hostel – meager bread, but I stole some condiments!
0830 – (+ Aaron/Kathy) saw St. Michael’s Cathedral, multiple parks

This was so worth getting up early to see it and the best part was that it was FREE! ^_^V Inside had many beautiful panels of meticulously painted glass. Also, you can go down to the crypts to learn that churches during WWII were also used a barracks and strongholds during times of war.

1030 – took metro with Clifford/QT to EU parliament (not Belgium one!)
1100 – EU Parliament tour

Did anybody think that this looks really similar to where our own Congress sits or the arrangement of the UN? That would have been cool if they were in session though.

1300 – EU Commissions tour (Clifford found lunch…thx ^.^)
1600 – bus to ULB
1630 – Class session 4 on lobbying at EU
1800 – dinner with Clifford/QT/Kathy/Lacy/Aaron to have bowl of mussels!

A 600g bowl was so worth my 10 Euros. And I got full off of them too. I also mooched some of Clifford's though. They were good too! =9

1930 – last minute shopping at Grand Place
2130 – bus back to Amsterdam