so this week has been a biiiggie ..

Soo.. this week brought around the end of exams.. don't know how well they went but we shall see...!
On thursday i went with some of the girls from my class to Brussels. We looked arounf the Christmas market (so cool) and at the big christmas tree in the Grand Place. We were going to go ice skating.. but it was raining and we didn't much like the thought of falling on soaking ice.. so we went and drank hot chocolat instead. :) After we did a spot of shopping and had a wee munch of Quick. It then started snoooowwing :) So we decided instead of drinking in Brussels we'd buy a bit of alcohol to take back home :) it was very exciting. we drank and ate chips in front of a woodstock video :)
on Friday i went to see harry potter (finally) and it was A W E S O M E. but not long enough!!
On saturday. . . some AFS people and my counsellor came over to our house so we could all 'talk'. It was a little awkward. but basically both my family and I are not so happy with the way things are with each other and.. it's just not really working out.. Thus I am changing family. However, this poses the question as to what I am doing over Christmas... i'm currently a little homeless. AFS is  trying to find someone.. and have asked me to ask friends, but that's a little difficult to do.. people already have plans and.. yeah. but we'll see how that goes. In the meantime i'm just hanging out with the family.. it's a little awkward now, but at least it won't last long :) i'll keep you all updated on that..
It snowed majorly the past day, at least 15cm i'd say, it's insane !! but so pretty :)

exams

this week on monday morning i had my english exam. it was ok, but kinda annoying how i had to write half of it in french. hopefully that doesn't mean i end up with an embarrassing result!
hmmm... we haven't really had more snow, and on thursday it stated to rain meaning that it's byebye to most of the snow for now :( but winter hasn't even started yet (it starts the 21st Dec) so we have a loooong time for snow just yet :)
hmmm my week has been average really, studying for exams :) - although i got a free coffee. a lady ordered wrong so they gave it to me :) aaand... i sent a few christmas cards too, still a couple to send though. also .... hmm... on friday i did a little christmas shopping,; so that's sorted :) although i forgot to get something to wrap it in... :p
Next week i'm on holiday on wednesday afternoon, so i might try to go see the christmas market in brussels, and perhaps another town in belgium, who knows? should be fun :) :) and i'll see who else in my class is keen too :)
I'm terribly sorry, this post is fairly dull - my mind has turned to slosh after all my studying, but i'll try to make the next one a little bit mmore fiery :)

salut snow :)

well now... this week has been fairly cold! i can tell you that! On monday evening it started snowing :) it was super exciting. Then it pretty much continued to snow the rest of the week. This means that it's very dangerous walking outside during the breaks at school. not only because you risk both embarrassment and death from slipping  over, but also because there seems to be a constant snowball war. they appear from nowhere!!
On thursday i had my first exam, science. It went pretty well i think, i was only unsure about one question, seeing as we hadn't convered it in class. Luckily i didn't choose to do the science exam so i had a bit of free time :)
On friday some of the girls from my class and i went luging in the snow! it was excellent fun! although i think my technique needs a little work cause i ended up covered in snow from head to toe!! took a while for my jeans to dry off... haha. That evening i went home with a girl from school (who's mum happens to be my english teacher - but we only spoke french!) They have six children. SIX! but the family is really nice. they play board games and sing st nicolas carols in front all the fire, and all things good :) :) On saturday we took the donkey for a walk in the snow (it was more of a snowstorm really), then on the way back, St Nicolas appeared!he came home with us and gave us all speculoos and mandarins. it was magical!! :) :).
So yeah, christmas is coming, and its snowing! crazy crazy crazy... :)
anyway.. that'ss allll really, so salut!!
xox

st nicolas!

Soo.. It's not actually time for St Nicolas (he comes the 6th December), but it was our AFS St Nicolas day today :) So i have learnt some things about him - he used to some and give things to poor children (or people - obviously children aren't people..) but now he comes and gives bonbons to children. The children leave their shoes by the chimney and he puts them in there overnight. Gutted if you haven't put your Gran's Remedy in them for a while!! When the idea was brought from Europe to America, they couldn't quite wrap their heads around him, so they turned him into Father Christmas (Santa). Then Santa travelled back to Europe, meaning those lucky Europeans now get the both! (they just want more presents...). We learnt a little about other country's special holidays or special ways of celebrating christmas etc. It was cool :) We learnt the song that the children sing to make St Nicolas come, and (wow) he came!! he handed out speculoos and mandarins (yum yum yum) and then we each got a little gift. We'd all brought something and did a little out of the hat pick and choosing :) I got a fondue set - not gunna complain!! :) Afterwards Eliza, Valentina and I sat in the park and had a little beer and took (awesome) photos. Mmmm at home we had another raclette for dinner - sooo goood :) :)
This week it snowed!!!! Already! I was like OMG it's November, and it's snowing! But it was also very cool :) I was sitting in french class when it appeared. I'm expecting to see a lot more of that! especially seeing as I was told last year in winter it was -15° here. That's a NEGATIVE 15° my friends. none of this wishy washy -1° i'm used to...!
hmmm so not much happened at school this week, but next week exams start. I have one next week, one the week after and then two the week after (Physics, English, Maths and Geo), and in the third week if i don't have an exam, i don't have to go to school! So that's not bad :) :)

hmmm.. i think that's all i can think of for now, sooo bye bye :)
Don't forget to write and email and all things awesome :)

Soo.. one more week. Yesterday i hit the 3month mark! that's pretty exciting i guess! ummm... soo whaat's been the haps?
well.. i went to school, just the usual.. umm on Wednesday after school i sent my care package back home :) full of beer and chocolate and speculoos and other great stuff!! woohoo, 4.5kg for 50€! that's all you're getting.. haha. I'm also very excited because mum is sending me some converse (yay!) seeing as it's cheaper to do it that way than to actually buy them here.
On Monday i bought some new skinny jeans, seeing as i made a small hole in my old ones. The new ones are super comfy, and more importantly, super stretchy! So i'm fairly glad with that purchase. I was COLD this week! haha and it's Autumn.. All everyone said to be was "welcome to Belgium!" lol that's their response to everything!! So I decided i should probably buy a coat, so that's now done :) it seems to be lovely and warm.. so hopefully thats enough to last what could be the coldest winter of my life!!!! :)
Yesterday the weather was pretty nice! and I actually went for a walk/run. It was nice :)
Today I talked to Simon and Nicole on Skype, seeing as it's Mole's big 18th!! It was nice to hear from them, although i felt a little bad because they both have a chem exam tomorrow... and i don't think much study has been done!!
I myself have school exams in a couple of weeks. Luckily I only have to do four, one of which will be english :), so it means i get some time off school :) :). But I will at least try to do ok.. so I may try to get some study done today.. :)
ummm... That's all i have to report for now I think, Bye bye lovelies, don't forget to write!! xoxo

another week in belgium

So the biggest part of this week has definitely been the rain. It rained and rained and was cold, then rained :) excellent. I'm told it should be like this all of November, so that's awesome. So school went along as usual.. there's not really much to report. We had another test in maths. This time it definitely sucked haha.
On wednesday afternoon Eliza came home with me - well, actually we took the bus to Wavre with Julie from my science class, and went to see her mum in her mum's shop. They have a parrot! it was pretty cool. We bought some hair dye, looked around a little, then Jackie came to take us home.
So, at home... seeing as we'd bought hair dye, i guess you'll assume we used it? well done!! Eliza seems to be quite the hairdresser, so she kindly cut and coulered my hair. It was very tame, a slight trim and a now mocha chocolate colour :) So that was cool. Umm.. we had two games of monopoly (it was still raining), and in the first she ended up winning more money than was actually in the bank!
Thursday night i went with the family and family friends to see a musical (where my host dad's son was singing in it) - it was pretty cool, it had like dancers and singers and actors. I guess that's what most musicals have.. But yeah, it was good.
On friday we had a day off too (thursday was a congé). So we all (not the parents) just hung at home. The two little ones were insane though, i just can't handle too much of them!!
Saturday i slept in :) :) and was pretty much home alone until about 4, me and coca. I was so brave though, the phone kept ringing and i've always been too scared to answer it, but finally i did! It ended up being my host brother's friend, but i managed to understand what was going on :) That night we went to the LMV (my school) Cabaret, a concert for the last year of the school - it was really good, it had singing and dancing and sketches. It was funny and i liked it.
Today i got up at 9, and it seemed like an awfully early hour!! But i wanted to skype mum and dad, which i did. unfortunately i got a little EMOTIONAL haha. I don't even know why, but i guess it's about time, i am kinda a cry-baby lol. But no, it was still good to talk to them :) But yeah, i think i'm a little tired and maybe a little sad. Maybe today is going to be a harry potter day haha.
Oh yeah, one of the things i was telling them started me off! On tuesday my class went on an excursion, and to get back we had to have our own means. I went to take the bus. I saw one with a girl i know on it, and saw the place i wanted to go in abbreviation on the front. So i got on and asked the driver if that's where it was going. So it turns out the driver was a penisface. He and his friend were like "ohh it's written on the front where i'm going, i'm not going to tell you. If you can't read you shouldn't be here, if you want to come on, do it but i'm not telling you where i'm going." so yeah. Penisface. So i assumed it was going where i wanted to go when i asked for a ticket to where i wanted to stop. he's like ok it's 1€40. Just my luck, i only have 40cents change. So i take out a 20 (usually they accept up to 20). He looks at me as if i'm a shit on the ground and says, that's no good here, give me the right change or get off the bus. Great. So with my 40cents i'm just magically supposed to turn it into 1€40. So by now i'm a little annoyed and freaked, because i have to get back. LUCKILY a boy from my class had come on behind me and heard a little of the conversation, he came up to me and realised i didn't have the right change. Most people in belgium are nice. This boy is one of them, the driver was not. So, the boy paid for me. I was so happy. Then for the rest of the trip i sat in the back and bitched about him. Made me feel a little better. So yeah, that was pretty exciting :) :)

Have a good day!! xx

First day back

So today was my first day back at school - i guess i should fill you in on what's been happening!!
So I was staying with Poon (the other AFS girl) and we watched season 1 of prisonbreak :) :) ahhh love it.. One day for lunch we ate sardines and cream cheese on toast - it was OK! cause i could hardly taste the sardines lol. We also went to Walibi (the amusement park) on tuesday evening - it was fun!!
On thursday i came back home. Most of the day there were people downstairs practising for a concert - so we heard quite a bit of music! On Friday Shanel and i did some drawing, then painted each others nails then played scrabble in english (luckily i won! haha). Oh yeah, thursday night wwe went to the cinema. I saw "the social network" - it was pretty good, not great, but not how i expected it to be.. On saturday afternoon Shanel and i went shopping in LLN (she wanted to find some boots). I bought a scarf. We ate dinner there together (pasta) and then met the family to go to the cinema. Shanel and I saw "the man who wanted to live his life" - a french film about a man who accidentally killed his wifes lover, then stole his identity and career. I thought it was quite good, but Shanel got pretty bored. I also bought some things to send in a package to my friends, i hope they like it!! =i can't see how they wouldn't though.. :)
Annnd Sunday i did a little work and just kinda chilled. It was nice.
Today was back to school - the hardest part was waking up in the morning!! Luckily it's only a three day week then a four day weekend.
Oh yeah, sunday i also cut myself a fringe - it looks ok. I'm thinking of getting Eliza to maybe dye my hair and cut it a little - just for fun. Nothing too extreme, just a little change.
THAT'S ALL :) :)