Yes I have made it to Belgium and I am alive. I have been too cheap to pay the 5 Euros for the faster Internet so I have let Melanie do the blogging for the few days. I think that I have done the best with jetlag since I slept the first night for 12 hours and then took a nap on Tuesday and went to bed after we got home from the da Prof, the local "Turf" for the college students, I'll talk about that more later. Monday, May 16: The first day was a long day! I...

This jetleg is brutal. I still cannot adjust to this time. I was up till about 2:30am Belgium time and woke up before my alarm on my phone went off at 7, I still cannot seem to set my alarm right, they use military time over here and I screw it up every time I try to set stuff on my cell phone I have here (Military time: One of the many differences about Belgium and America that is hard to get used to). Michelle sleeps for 12 hours at a time, its unbelievable a...

Today was our first full day here. We got a good night's sleep and were up and ready to go by 8am this morning. We had six hours of classroom class today which was long and tiresome but we did get a chance to go explore more of Belgium on our own later on. We had breakfast at the University Agora which is the equivalent to our Student Union. The food here is very good, a lot, a lot of bread (Michelle likes, Melanie not so much L) We had orientation and lectures...

We made it to Belgium! Finally!!!! After a few plane delays and one longgg 9 hour plane ride we landed in Brussels, Belgium at about 10:00am Belgium time (3am everyone elses time). Michelle and I were seated in the second to the back row which made for some interesting travels...but we landed and we got our luggage, made it through customs and took a bus to Antwerp. Had a few tours, moved into our apartments which are pretty nice and made it to lunch. No naps and...