School is great. I'm making a lot of friends. I don't understand what the teachers say but that's okay. 

A girl told me that everyone knows I'm the american and some ways that makes me feel really cool but then I feel so much pressure cause everyone's is always looking at me.

I've been invited to hang out after school with some girls and then another group of people invited me to go to the Fête de Wallonie which was so amazing and I had the best time ever.

French is still hard but I'm improving. I had my first dream in french and I understood most of it. :)

Belgium amazes me. My life amazes me. I amaze myself on how I'm doing this all without crumbling. 

Some days are amazing and some days I just want to scream but I just take things day by day.

As my host mom says "petit à petit"

School is great. I'm making a lot of friends. I don't understand what the teachers say but that's okay. 

A girl told me that everyone knows I'm the american and some ways that makes me feel really cool but then I feel so much pressure cause everyone's is always looking at me.

I've been invited to hang out after school with some girls and then another group of people invited me to go to the Fête de Wallonie which was so amazing and I had the best time ever.

French is still hard but I'm improving. I had my first dream in french and I understood most of it. :)

Belgium amazes me. My life amazes me. I amaze myself on how I'm doing this all without crumbling. 

Some days are amazing and some days I just want to scream but I just take things day by day.

As my host mom says "petit à petit"

shopping is so much better here. I'm going to develop a shopping addiction which is not good cause i'm broke ahhhh

Belgium weather is so bipolar.

bumps in the road

Lately I have been experiencing my first bumps in the road. I know I'm going to experience so much more of them during my exchange year. Exchange is seriously the hardest thing I've ever done and it's only been about a month. But i'm not going to give up no matter how much I just want to break down and cry and cry and cry.




But on a happier note, I got my bus pass for the year! I feel like a real resident now :)

first day of school in Belgium!

Today was my first day of school! I was sooooo nervous but it went very well! In my first class this group of girls automatically took me under their wing! They showed me what classes to go to and invited me to eat lunch with them! It was so great! They were all really funny and tried their best to include me. I was really surprised because I was told that usually you had to go up to people and make conversation and they wouldn't come to you but they did! I had no idea what my teachers were saying most of the time but I understood a bit of what my bio teacher wrote on the board because I've already learned about it. One thing I hate though is that they all write in cursive so it's really difficult to read because in the states no one really uses cursive. I'm taking math, french, english, bio, chemistry, physics, geography, history, religion and I think that's it. I do love how short the classes are because I'm used to two hour classes and they take forever.

why is being an exchange student so emotional?