Saturday, January 21, 2012

Winter Vacation (pt.1) (:

For our winter break, we had two weeks off. (But, if I count working in the kindergarten also as vacation, I had about a month off straight.) We started with Christmas, obviously, but then the Christmasy feeling died down and everyone was just excited for the new year.

I went to a market place with Roeland, Kelly and Astrid. It was too bad the weather was awful and rainy. By the afternoon, there were too many people and it had started to rain harder. We ate burgers and left to go home. On the way, we stopped at a pet store just to look at some of the animals. There was one kitten that was so cute! Turns out she was a Maine Coon Cat! There were so many puppies as well, they were all so cute and nice!

A few nights later, I met with my AFS group and we all took a train to Brussels. It was so beautiful at night with all of the Christmas lights and a big tree in the market. First, we had some Starbucks, then went out to see the Christmas Winterland Festival. It was pretty big and there was a ferris wheel and skating rink there. We went and ate some burgers and  looked at all of the little stands selling things. It was so nice to see everyone again after such a long time.


On Friday, I went with Astrid (and her friend, and friends sister) to go ice skating. It was a really beautiful indoor place that luckily wasn't too cold! It was "disco night" so there was really nice music playing the whole time we were there. It's too bad there were so many people there.. and most of them were really good skaters. I'm just glad I didn't fall on my butt (:






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