"The Relax Cafe"
Mood:  silly
Ok... The relax cafe isn't really a cafe...its a gay bar, and yes, that is where I spent the better portion of my Saturday. LOL!!!! Ok, its difficult to explain... but they have great coffee!

I was going to go to a movie with Adriana and Annie, but we got the times mixed up and I missed it, but spent the afternoon with Roman and Selina. Then when I caught up with Annie and Adriana, we went with Pierre and some other guys back to Pierre's house to grab something to eat before we went to the concert that Generic was playing at. Generic is a band that some guys from my school are in.

Scrapbooking supplies, birthday parties, and Engish exchange students; Oh My!
Mood:  silly
I finally got my package...It was my scrapbooking supplies that mom sent me...not my videocamera. So my VC is still among the missing. :-( ....*sigh*

Last weekend I went with Adriana to Laurianne's birthday party. It was a lot of fun!! We played congo drums, drank ...stuff...Eline played the guitar and everyone sand American and Belgian songs to the best of our ability. Adriana tried teaching us the "take your shirt off and spin it around your head like a hellicopter" song in Portugese. it goes kinda like this: tira a camisa, tira a camisa levanta pro alto e comeca a rodar, and around 1 in the morning, Laurianne's mom took us all to the Fair in Liege center. That night I stayed at Adriana's house and on Sunday my host family planned a big lunch and invited my two future host families to come so I could get to know them. I had already met my second host family, but that was the fist time I had ever seen my third. They are both really nice and I like them a lot!

Monday the exchange student from England arrived. Turns out she isn't an exchange student, just someone visiting for a week...:-( Her name is Anna and she's really nice. We are trying to convince her to come back often if she can get permission from her ultra strict Hitler resembling principle (heil Hit- I mean, may I please go back to Belgium?!)

-Chow

*crosses fingers*
Mood:  energetic
Yesterday my host family got a little flier from the postoffice saying something has arrived for me! I'm going today to pick it up along with my cd of pictures at the Carrefour. I hope the package is my video camera!! It has gone among the missing for almost a month now and I have reealy been stressing over it. But it could be my scrapbooking supplies that mom sent last week... Won't know 'till later today!!!!! Then once I get my CD of photos, I can put more pictures on here because this site is looking a little pathetic right now...:-( It needs some sprucing up a bit.

Last night Aurelie called home. (She is the girl whose place I'm taking while she spends a year in Pennsylvania) Well she is veeery unhappy because her family doesn't spend any time with her and are very religious so lately all they have been doing is going to their Jewish ceremonies in Hebrew! (How is she expected to learn English when all they talk is Hebrew!?) Well I guess its getting pretty stressful for her (I can imgaine) and she is seriously thinking about coming home...which would put me... yeah I don't know either. That would prove for a problem.

In school I have heard a rumor that an exchange student from England is coming. Well no, actually I know an exchange student from England is coming, but the rumors are of when. One person said in a month and the other said in a few days. Adriana is worried that I won't hang out with her any more, LOL! So far we are the only two exchange students in the school (our own small happy family) :-) I'm worried that this girl might be snotty...because she's English...isn't that the worst stereotype? Bad tRACY! Bad! We'll see...

Yesterday there was a Yep meeting for all the exchange students in Belgium and we went to the Blegny Mine which is right near my house (so I didn't have to take the train) It was pretty funny *ahem* I mean interesting. No, but seriously, it was cool because we got to go into the mine and see how everything worked and we had to put on hardhats and big jackets before we went...so I can just imagine what the pictures are going to look like! LOL!!

-Chow!

EuroDisney , Belgian Waffles, and Belgian chocolate; what more could a girl ask for?!
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Trip to Euro-Disney

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^This is supposed to be the entrance of Disneyland. Just tell me if it doesn't come up.

In the first week of October, I left the Dor family to go visit the Fauqueniot family. (Laurie's family back in Belgium) Oh they are sooo great!Pascal and Crystal took me and their two sons to Disneyland in Paris on Saturday and we spent the entire day there, going on all the really cooooool rides and watching the parade at 4 to celebrate the coming of Halloween! I got lots of pictures but I havne't had time to load them yet because it is hard finding an open computer in the "mediatheque" that has a CD rom drive or whatever! Frustrating! But anyways... Then on Sunday morning Pascal took me to a "small" WWI monument in the town of Ploegsteert. I call it small because even though it wasnt, It was much smaller than the one we visited later in the town of Ypres. In Ploegsteert there are two big statues of lions infront of the monument and someday I will upload the pictures of me with them and everything. When we went to Ypres I saw the grand cathedral in the center of the "town" and the really really really big WWI memorial sight. There we took some photos and went then went for breakfast. I finally got to try the Belgian waffles. Yes, they are everything I hoped they would be!! :-D!!! I've never tasted anything better in my entire life!!!!!

"It made me think about how love makes us crazy and that we would do anything just to stay together." (9-15-04 Cliff Gardner)
Mood:  crushed out
On Saturday night I got a phonecall from Cliff! "Hello?" "Hey babe." *faints* <-- yeah it was almost like that. I smiled so much my cheek muscles hurt after I hung up the phone!! Oh he loves me he loves me he loves me! I'm sooo happy! Next week, and probably the week after that, he is going to have to call his family, but maybe in 3 weeks or so I will recieve another phone call! Wow that really made my weekend! And if I wasn't dancing on clouds already, when monday rolled around, I got his letters! YIPPIE!! Monday was a holiday for my school so I was home when the mail was delivered and Noemie came running into the kitchen: "Its from Cleeford" in that funny french accent she has when she speaks english. I was half expecting her to hand me the phone, but then I realized that it wasn't possible for me to recieve two phone calls so soon. :-( <-- But I was only like that for like .02 seconds, cuz then she handed me the letters and I was like this again--> :-D HEHE! SO HAPPY!! "bonheur" <-- French for HAPPINESS. He thinks...maybe...just maybe, he will be able to come visit for Christmas!! Oh that would be the GREATEST prestent in the world! Everyone here is dying to meet him, I've showed them all the pictures I have of him and they all say, "hez beautiful!" Oh yeah everyone here says Beautiful, not hansom, or gorgeous, or anything, but its cool.
Well I'm off for now, going to go study some French, ok probably not. I'll probably end up writing a letter to Cliff! Oh and by the way if you're a friend of Cliff's and you don't have his address in bootcamp, e-mail me and I'll give it to you.