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La vie parfaite
Right now I am seated in a cafe, surrounded by people speaking French, and drinking a particularly toasty hot chocolate. Outside it’s in the gentle minuses, with traces of overnight snow on the ground, and everybody is running around trying to avoid the freezing wind. I’ve just (finally!) completed registration at the Services des Etrangers, […]
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Taking awkward to new heights
Ohhhhh my. This afternoon’s lecture resulted in rather more misadventure than I really anticipated. It all started last week (was it only last week?!) when I had lunch with the head of the Australian Society here in Belgium. She mentioned the organisation ‘YPFP‘, Young Professionals in Foreign Policy, and suggested I sign up, saying that this would help […]
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Romantic Despair
It’s a fairly normal day here in Belgium. That is to say, my housemates are eating, it’s raining outside, and I’m catching up on uni readings (aka ‘procrastinating’). I was idly wondering to myself this morning whether such procrastinating would result in an official Valentine’s Day post—I’m (perhaps obviously) not a V-Day kind of girl, especially […]
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Herbie’s Big Adventure
Friday morning I managed 45 minutes of my French class before leaving sick. The only obvious cure was to spend the weekend going out in Brussels. Naturally, things didn’t go to plan. Friday evening started off well enough, taking a stroll through my suburb then heading to an Irish pub at around 22:00. One of the guys from uni […]
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Museum Night Fever
Every year, Belgium decides to do something a little crazy (for Belgium), and has an event where its major museums are open from 7pm until one in the morning. And then there’s an afterparty. Because what are museums without a party? After someone from uni asked me what the hell was going on, and did […]