February?

Well, yeah, I guess it is February, and already half over. Many things have happened, and I'm not sure what's to come, but I'm sure there are many things yet to happen in February.

Yesterday, I went to Bastogne, Belgium to visit the American War Memorial and museum. It's technically American territory, too, so I went to the USA yesterday!!! Woo! haha. It was actually really great. Wars don't seem to interest me that much. But the film we watched was interesting and the giant memorial outside was too. All the uniforms and bullets and knives and such wasn't so interesting to me, but yes, that memorial was awesome. It's a star with all the states listed around the border. On the inside pillars is written what happened in the Battle of the Bulge. It's really made me feel quite patriotic.

 










The Olympics have also made me feel vary patriotic, of course. I'm rooting for team USA, but with discovering so much more about other countries of the world this year, I can't help but cheer on the others as well, especially if it's Canada. And for anyone who wants to know, I have the official Olympic gloves!!! The ones all the torch bearers had. :) Awesomeness! I have some wonderful Canadian friends.

Speaking of Canadians, I had Brenna and Brianne over at my house the past few days because they wanted to see the south of Belgium and Luxembourg, because they've never been here. So, on Sunday we chilled at the house. On Monday, we went to Luxembourg city, and miraculously caught the bus. We literally ran to the bus stop and waved at the driver to keep him from driving away as we continued to run up. Oh my, yeah we burned off those pancakes we ate for breakfast! haha. So then we tried on insane dresses at H&M before going to the most awesomest ice cream place EVER!

Sadly I don't have a picture of the ice cream, but if it means anything, it was called Mexico, and it had fruity flavoured ice creams and a banana with eyes a nose and mouth with a pineapple ring sombrero. Yeah, we're that cool! I will definitely be taking my family there when the visit. We then found the tourism office that just happened to be playing epic movie music outside so we made a video that is just so completely hilarious that I can't believe it actually happened. You get theatre people together and you just never know what'll happen.

OnTuesday, we went to Arlon so I could show them my school and where we go in the city everyday and such. That was fun. I never knew how much fun that mini park could be until I had my Canadians. Wow, that's all I have to say.

Here's a picture of my host family: