"Hui is a pretty city"..."Yeah, except for that huge nuclear pwr plant over there!"
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: My Party Scene
On Saturday afternoon I bee-bopped my way into Liege to meet Adriana at 2 at Fnac (a big store sort of like Borders, with books, calenders, music and things of that general clasification) I was on a mission to find a DVD player, card for my cellphone and a watch. "2 outta 3 ain't bad" ... but I figured that since I already had a cellphone then I didn't need to get a watch. I need a DVD player because I have started a rather large collection of French DVDs only to find out that they don't work in American DVD players because of different zones or something?!?! So instead of trying to sell them all off and return them I just figured I'd get a DVD player that they would work in! Pretty good thinking, huh? We first went to Media Markt because everything in all of Europe (I think) is on sale from January 3rd to the 31st. (When we went to London and visited cathedrals they even had things in the Church gift shops on sale!) I found a "lecteur DVD" for 45 Euros (which is pretty damned good seeing my dinky little cellphone cost more than that)

DVD players in hand, Adriana and I dragged ourselves to Mobistar (the cellphone company) so I could buy a card. It just so happened that "le plus beau garcon dans tout le monde, il travail la" and so I decided to stay and ask him to put the money on my phone for me and then had him hook up other random things to my phone just so I had an excuse to talk to him. He even spoke English with me, so I'm happy! I love my cellphone :D!!! LOL

Around 6 we went to Romain (Charlie's) house ;) because that is going to be Adriana's second host family so we wanted to get aquainted. They are so nice!!! ... I can see her having a difficult time with his little sister, but no worries...*zen* ... :P Then his mom took us, Adriana, Romain, and me to the "Gare"- train station to catch our train to Hui. When we got there Emma (Australian) Hugo and Mariana (Brazilian)and Hugos host brother were already there waiting for us. We waited another 10 minutes for Finn to show up then headed out for the Centre of Hui. The first bar we went to wasn't bad. Expensive, but that wasn't an important facter for me because I just had other people buy my drinks! :) But there was a lot of smoke and no one was dancing...or stripping... wow it was nothing like Liege Wednesdays! We all stayed there for about 2 hours, at some point Adriana and Hugo's host brother left to pick up another Austrailain and "Stoner" (a Brazilian) I forget what his real name is but that is what some of the people were calling him so I'll stick with that. Humm and Marcelo, Patricia, her boyfriend, and another Brazilin whose name excapes me at the moment showed up not long after we got to the first bar too... When he first saw me he leaned over the table and asked if Romain (who was standing dangerously close to me ;)) was my boyfriend. LOL, I can understand where he might have gotten that idea, but nope, not exactly the case! So after I assured him that he wasn't then Marcelo came over and put his arm around me and bought me a couple drinks. Soo great! He told me that he's backing to Brazil in a month, after only being here for 5 months, instead of staying for the whole 12 months. I can't understand why!? He says he likes Belgium but he just doesn't want to be here anymore. This is so sad! :( I really care about that kid!

Hugo was my designated boyfriend for the night, but Adriana tried explaining Brazilin phychology to me... its difficult. In Brazil they are very up front with you if they want to kiss you, they kiss you, and if you want to kiss another person later that same night, ok thats fine. Hmm... And one time when we were outside we met up with 2 people from...humm was it Spain or Mexico. Well I doubt they are going to read this and correct me or be offended if I get it wrong, so I'm gonna go with Mexico. They are with Rotary and both from Liege (and go to Liege Wednesdays all of the time) but honestly I have never seen them before in my life! Oh well, I'm sure I will be seeing them a lot more now if they do the Wednesday scene. :D

We changed bars but the scene was pretty much the same... there were more people dancing in the second bar we went in but I think they were drugged or something...it was bizzar... Once when I was going out to get some fresh air some guy tried hitting on me and while I was trying to understand what he was saying (he talked really fast French) I almost fell out the door (when I wasn't even drunk... buzzing maybe, but deffenitally not drunk) So...quite a way for me to make a nice impression... oh well :P!

After that everyone pretty much split up and most of the Brazilians (aside from Adriana and Hugo) went to O'Malley's pub to eat spaghettie (at midnight.) I went to the Big Ben with Adriana, Hugo, his hst brother and his hst brother's friend, where they had some really good exotic drinks but I forget what they were called. Adriana really liked Hugo's host brother and he seemed interested in her too but everytime they started talking his friend would jump in and make it completely impossible for them to get anywheres! Ahck! After a little while Romain and Finn joined us from wherever they had been and we all shared a couple of exotic drinks. Hugos host brother and friend left around 1 because they have exams tomorrow, and so we finished our drinks and decided to switch bars.

Rounded ervy' body up and located a pita store (which I still can't understand why was open at 1 in the morning, but whatever!) When Adriana was trying to get chairs for everyone, she took one from a table that no one was using and the guy called her a "Salope"- which means bitch. We didn't think that was too overly impressive but no one knows French well enough to tell them off properly so we just dropped it.

Then all of a sudden it was 2h dans le matin and we had to pick a taxi to Hugo's house because obviously there were no running buses. We all had to be really quiet so not to wake his family, and it seemed like forever before they figured out where everyone was going to sleep. The house was pretty much a mansion and I think that everyone could have gotten their own room if we had thought it out better, but we ended up with with like 4 people in each room. "Crammed" is an understatement!LOL I don't know about everybody else, but I fell asleep around 3.

Then this morning we woke up around 10 and got ready to leave really quickly because we didn't want to impose on Hugo's host family. HAPPY BIRTHDAY HUGO!!!! Today is his birthday and his family put out a couple of little presents for him this morning at breakfast, it was so cute!

He doesn't exactly live IN Hui, he lives about a 10 minute drive from it, which is like an hours walk. He says "Hitchhike to Hui, its not difficult, there are plenty of cars" LOL yes!! So we split up (the 8 people who were left, everyone else left earlier in the morning and took a taxi I think) and 3 of them caught a ride after only walking for 5 minutes or so. Lucky bast***s! LOL :P We continued walking for another 10 minutes with absolutely no luck before finally Hugo's family came and picked us up and took us to the Gare so we didn't miss our train.

Reeeeeeeeeally smart me had to make the comment about how beautiful the small city of Hui is. About that time our boxcar train passes by these 2 HUGE funnels that make up one of the largest nuclear pwr plants in the country! ...Ok, that was a little intimidating... but besiiiiides from that, it is really a pretty city! :D