But I'm not going to think about that right now because I'll just be sad. Barbs left with Kiki and Jasper for Cali yesterday, and it's weirdly quiet around here. It should force me to study, but it's not working. Whoops. I just need to get through two more finals, and then I'll be off to ITALY! fjkdsjfkldfldskfjdslfds I just need to get through these exams--and now that I've decided to go to the University of Amsterdam for graduate school that requires a 3.8 for acceptance, I actually have to care about my academics! Merde!
But I'll worry about it in a segundo :)
On Thursday, with the help of some tequila, I had so much fun dancing until 4 am in a TD, which is basically a club just for students and cheap beer, so it was a bit grimy. But I was happy and in good company, so it was a good night. Goal completed!
I looked gross so I cut myself out, but from the left, clockwise: David, Etienne, moi, et Laura!On Saturday, the Pouw-Rolls and I celebrated Sinter Klaus, as known to the Dutch, or Saint Nicolas, as known to the French. Barbs and I had spent the day before shopping for the presents for the kids and devising a game for them to find out where the presents were hidden around the house. This holiday is so much more fun than Christmas! Sinter Klaus can come at any time of the day so there's an element of surprise, and he leaves like 20 gifts! And he leaves you a letter saying whether or not you've been good and why, and how you can improve. So pragmatic and sensible! And there are more presents. But Christmas music is definitely 10 hundred times better because Sinter Klaus music is always sung by children, and it's just not jolly really.
And then afterward, I went to the Christmas Market near Saint Catherine, and it's beautiful! It was snowing the first time I went with Jules, Paige, and Brendan, which was really romantic, but it was SO COLD. This time I went with David, and it wasn't in the negative degrees, so it was kind of warm! But it was beautiful.
There are stands and stands selling mulled wine, hot chocolate, homemade nutella spread, and etc. And there's an ice skating rink, a ferris wheel, and an ICE MONSTER! That's like a giant inflated monster that has a labyrinth on the inside, so you walk in and things jump out and you and scare you and things make noises and freak you out. David and I went in, and it was scary!! Belgians are so strange. Ice monster in a winter wonderland? Doesn't really seem fitting.
So pretty!Okay, so I really have to study now. BAH! Two more finals, and then off to Italy on Saturday! And then back in Brussels the Saturday after, and after two bittersweet days left in le Belgique, it is off to New Jersey I go! CRAP!
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