First of all I finally got my bike so travelling in Ghent is 100 % easier<3
Two weeks ago we had an international dinner with 8 different nationalities including Finnish, Polish, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Guatemalan, Slovakian and Czech! The main idea was that everybody prepares a dish from their own country. In conclusion we had a lot of food and many new things to learn:)
A dish from Finland was not as easy I thought! Luckily there is another Finnish girl in our group so I was not alone on this one. Ingredients are different here so we had some trouble figuring out what to do. Karelian pie was the first thing that came to my mind, but good luck trying to find the right ingredients:( Next we thought about berries! Inpired by blueberry pie we made a fantastic raspberry pie.
Last weeks Saturday we visited Brugs and its famous bier festival. Little sightseeing in the beautiful city of romance, as they call it here in Belgium. After the normal lunch, meaning fries met mayonnaise, we entered the enormous festival. All in all we had a lot of fun tasting biers and enjoying each others company. The most unforgettable bier for me was the famous Westvleteren bier made by the monks of St. Sixtus Abbey . This bier is THE bier you need to taste, because it's so rear and hard to get anywhere else, cause it's not made for commercial purpose. If interested read more here: http://www.newser.com/story/159184/beer-lovers-rejoice-monks-export-rare-brew.html.
I also had my two orientation days, including a lot of activities and a huge amount of information. We had for example a photo rally in Ghent city. To keep it short it was a competition where we had to find certain places in Ghent and take pictures there to prove our presence:)
Graffiti walls
Bierhuis
This week was the first week of school. Same as in Finland, first lessons were mostly about the contents of all the courses and next week starts the "real thing". Mostly all of my courses are okey; a lot of marketing and management subjects as well as languages, so fine by me. I decided to continue Dutch in addition to my other studies so two times a week I have Dutch lessons from 18-21.15:/ The only thing I know I will have to work a lot are my French lessons. Even I have studied French before, the level is much higher here than back in Finland. That's because the Belgian people speak French as their second language. It's more like English to us.
Almost forgot the bad news already, but yes here it comes. Saturday we went out as usual and somebody stole my wallet from my jackets pocket. In 15 minutes! Come on! I had my whole life in there, because this Saturday I decided to leave my bag home and to put just everything in my wallet. Not going to do that mistake ever again, for sure;) Yes so I lost my bank card, driving license, cash, ESN card, and worst: keys to my room and to my bike. So I spend my night in the police station making a police report. After this believe me I had a lot of extra work and duties to take care but hey... what can you do, shit happens. Bad luck:( Definitely learned my lesson the hard way:)
Also got some bad news from Finland this week regarding to my pets, but just have to think positive and keep smiling. Everything happens for a reason right<3
This weekend I visited my family in Willebroek, a small town 45 minutes from Ghent. My parents came also from Finland so we were all together (except for my brother in army of course, greetings to you, if you're reading this;)). After various family visits, a lot of chatting, dinners, movies, games etc. etc. I'm finally back home in my little green house, as my roommates tend to call it;D
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