GOING TO PARIS. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

being an exchange student

- is fantastic
- is meeting hundreds of wonderful people
 - is giving speeches and writing letters
 - is getting fat and, at times, being poor
 - is seeing a new country and experiencing new things
 - is being homesick and, at times, miserable
 - is getting tired
 - is being an ambassador
 - is personal growth

From my Florida outbound student handbook. Reading this now feels so different then when I read it before I left because I'm living it all.

7 weeks

Holy crap. I've been in Belgium for 7 weeks. My mind is blown.

Since my last post I have been to Antwerp which was really pretty and I bought a big Belgian flag :) and I went kayaking with other exchange students which was a blast! My arms are really sore though haha.

French is getting better at least my understanding is. I think I can say that I understand much of what is going on around me and the conversations...most of the time haha.

I got my Belgian identification card so I feel pretty legit.

I love Belgium.

I don't do a lot in school but I try. It's hard to understand the teachers and sometime I just can't do some of the work cause I don't understand at all. But I have french class with like 12 year olds and I love it cause it's so much easier than with my class and the teacher is a sweetie. So I actually can do work and learn it that class.

I'm happy.

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.