First Impressions

I am in Belgium! My adaptors don't work so I am using a Belgian keyboard which is totally confusing. Did not know they had different ones. So I better be quick, in hotel reception and guess what, SATELLITE IS ON THE RADIO!!

-Why do low value eurocoins look so expensive xD They have 1c eurocoins!
-The trains look very old and have tables
-The towns are small and look a bit grim when the sun is not out. But Leuven has some really old looking buildings that is such a novelty to me.
-It is FREEZING, I could not feel my hands. Scared I won't be able to handle this.
-The trees are bare of leaves, another novelty :P
-The hot chocolates we got were 2.30 euros, much cheaper than home. But they don't put froth in them :C
-It is SO weird how everything is dead on Sunday morning. Not even any joggers or anyone out.
-When I got on my Abu Dhabi to Brussels plane the lady in the seat next to me spoke to me in Dutch... everyone was Dutch there. I could pick up random words, it's a start.
-All the Europeans seem so stylish and stuff xD
-When the lady in the grocery store spoke in Dutch I freaked out and just handed her money, was too nervous to even attempt thank you in Dutch.
-There are students with suitcases everywhere.
-My hotel is 2 minutes from the train but it took me and Nicolas about an hour to find it, because he's such a good navigator :D
-So weird watching Suite Life on Deck dubbed in Dutch.
-They have no dual flush toilets or electrical power buttons!
-The lift in the hotel is tiny and the receptionist wouldn't use it.. me and Nicolas hardly fit inside, totally creepy.
-Everyone seems to speak English so far.

So I will blog more when I get my laptop to work, panicking about this.
So I am enjoying Belgium but also it's scary. :P

Ant pirmos žinutės

So.. I have been reluctant to start a blog because.. other people have really interesting and well written blogs, that I can't see myself achieving because I just write fluidly what comes into my head, nothing funny or witty or anything. And I have a complete lack of creativity, I spent about an hour pondering what the title should be for this blog. I eventually went with "Abu pasauliai", which is a Lithuanian cover of the Hannah Montana themesong "Best of Both Worlds" by Eglė Jurgaitytė. In Lithuanian it means simply "both worlds", which considering I spent the past year physically in Australia but with my head completely preoccupied by my upcoming exchange in Europe (the subject of this blog!), it seems very apt. And I'm quite taken with Lithuanian at the moment, thanks to the Lithuanian delegations enthusiam in the Junior Eurovision every year, I grew fond of the country, and now the language. Also I've lived in Oceania, North America now Europe, really experiencing both worlds. Not quite the 3rd world, one day? I'm completely keen to travel, hopefully I am able to document as much of Belgium as I can on here, and many other places in Europe!

I leave on exchange for Belgium on the 28th, so in 4 days. I'm being met at the airport by a friend, thank goodness :D And snow is now forecast for the day I arrive (after a 29 hour flight!), and as my complete and utter #1 dream is for it to snow, YAY :D

Another reason I was reluctant to make a blog is that I am just too lazy, I have a Junior Eurovision website also and I'm terrible at updating it, I could have done complete epic JESC 2011 coverage but I didn't.. I can just see this blog being abandoned too because I'm too lazy to update it. I've been "learning Dutch" for two years now and I've gotten nowhere because of this affliction! xD Maybe living out of home, having to just rely on myself will make me less lazy, let's call this exchange a character building experience. :P

Random sidenote of the day - I have grown a new appreciation for the song "Love in Rewind" by Dino Merlin after spending a lot of time analysing it recently.. I can really 'feel' it now. That's not intended to sound cheesy.

Anyway, I am now starting to combine nerves with my excitement of FINALLY leaving. And I haven't finshed packing. And my cat is now asleep in my suitcase :D

And it's 1am and I need to be up at 6am so more rambling soon. ;)