My Weekend Thus Far

Yesterday (Friday), I went to my first Rotary meeting. It was pretty cool. I mean, the French was a little over my head, but still cool. I'm pretty sure we ate dinner (for the meeting) at a hotel in Luxembourg. I wondered why we were having a meeting in Luxembourg when everyone there lived in Belgium, but anywho, that's how it was. The food was -eh- okay, but the dessert was delicious. Below are some pictures from that night. By the way, the sugar cubes were awesome. We were all half asleep, so they really helped.

Today, I woke up around 11 after having a good night's rest. I read some of Midnight Sun by Stephanie Meyer. Took a shower. Looked around on facebook for a bit. Checked by email. I thought I was leaving at 1:30 to go to my neighbor's house because we were doing something together that day. (At the time I had no idea what. And my host parents went to a wedding.) Then, I was informed around 1 ish that I needed to leave at that moment because the bus we were taking to the city was leaving in 3 minutes. (We were planning on going to see a movie at the cinema) So, my hair being wet, having just taken a shower, I got my things together, grabbed my hairbrush, and ran out the door. Once I made it to the neighbor's house, we ran through the field, went through a fence, and finally made it to the bus stop. We sat there for about 10 minutes and then decided mutually that we had missed the bus. So then there were two options: one, walk to the next village and catch the bus there, or two, go to the cinema tomorrow. And of course they all leave it up to me to decide, so I said tomorrow and we walked back home. They were all secretly happy that they were not in fact going to have to walk to the next village. I'm sure of it.

At the house, we watched a movie whose name I do not know, ate lasagna, and watched some more shows in French. All the while we were talking about everything. Somehow we got on the topic of Twilight and I learned that she has the Twilight books in French. So of course, I am now attempting to read New Moon in French. And it's not easy, but extremely gratifying when I understand something. I know I now have hours of good reading to do in my free time, which is something I love. And I'm learning French, too! It's just awesome. After reading for about an hour, we watched some more shows in French, and then ate this Asian food, whose name I do not know, and some fries. Actually it was pretty good. The fries weren't true Belgian fries, just ones we found in the freezer and put in the oven.

After a while, I decided I should walk back to my actual host home and get some sleep as it was late, and I knew I was doing something tomorrow. (Like going to the cinema, and NOT missing the bus.)