Yesterday I was becoming a mother... today I'm becoming a father!
Mood:  surprised
Tuesdays are more or less not soo difficult. (directly after lunch I have 2 hours of Gym, then an English class) Since I just changed families I didn't have time to unpack my gym clothes so I just figured I'd sit out this day. The teacher said, "well we're just running today, can't you do that in jeans?" ... uh... sure. Usually the gym class is ultra easy, hardly anyone does anything and it is nothing compared to the competative level back in America. So when she says "running" she means jogging slowly around the block, non?

...non.

I thought I was going to die... not to mention I was all sweaty in good school clothes! errr. There were two other girls who didn't have their things with them but guess what, they got to stay behind and do nothing. Not in my case (Adriana's either)... we are exchange students, le prof, elle a envie de nous tue!! pffff.

Before I continue, I have to explain my school. It has one part that is really ancient brick and then attached to it a really modern looking building made of all glass and concrete... beautiful, I know... Surrounding it is a 12 foot brick wall and at the entrence is a metal gate that opens electronically by the people inside. Therefore making it almost impossible to excape. (climbing over the gate isn't a wise decision because there are metal spikes at the top to keep the students from excaping.) And having a student on the loose in Jupille is just terrible... I wonder what they would do... there is nothing to do. Jupille is just a suburb of Liege, but not iiiinnn Liege.

I realllly wanted to excape and not have to go to English class and science because... well... eww. I was all sweaty! There is an entrance to the school by the back that leads into the gymnasium but usually it has an alarm set. When our class returned from running all over the d@maned country side, the teacher opened the back door and set off the alarm.

(I'm American so when I hear something like that, I think that one of two things is about to happen to me. I'm about to get bombed or the police are going to come and shoot me.)

Once that was deactivated, I had my chance at freedom. I grabbed my bag and made an almost clean get away. It would have been perfect, but as I was walking home I ran into Olga, the Russian girl who is in my Science class. She asked a whole bunch of questions about why I was skipping Science but I don't think she mentioned it to the teacher afterwards.

I got home before anyone else (both my host parents were still working and my host siblings were in school) My house has two different codes that you need to use to get safely into the house. The first is the Gate code and the second is the house alarm. When my family explained it all to me I thought the house alarm was only set on the main entrance door so I entered by a side door, thinking I could side step that minor hassle. 5 minutes into my relaxation time an ultra loud siren started going off. So for the second time that day I was on the verge of running for cover. It took me another 5 minutes to find my paper with the code to disarm the thing. The rest of the day I was worried that the police would show up and arrest me. Thankfully it only sent a message to my host dads cell phone and not to the police. *phew*

When my host family got home, I spent the rest of the afternoon playing house with my little host sister. I was the father, she was the mother, and we had 3 kids (all of which, I decided, could speak in English.) So yesterday I thought I was becoming a mother and today I am becoming a father! pff. lol!