~Kristin Armstrong, Author and runner
SATURDAY-TUESDAY 7/16-19/2011
After going to Oostende on Friday, we decided to go to Ghent on Saturday. Brian and I were the only people that wound up going, and since it rained all day long, we just shopped most of the day… Yeah. Nothing wrong with that, but it would have been nice to do other things as well. Sunday I went to Lillois to go to meeting and ended up staying the whole day because there was a gospel meeting that afternoon. As I had brought all of my homework along, this wasn’t a problem.
Though I still had to stay up quite late to finish my paper. Class was Monday and Tuesday, and was just as tiring as the week before. We did, however, have time to go look for food in the midst of our busy week and found a chocolate bar during a late night waffle hunt! SO GOOD. I totally wish I could bring it back with me. WEDNESDAY 7/20/2011
Poop. Literally. All day Wednesday.
We toured manure treatment facilities last Wednesday, and because these were a ways away from each other and Leuven, I started to catch up on sleep and was able to get everyones homework graded before the trip was over. On the downside, however, we didn't get back to Leuven till after 6 and all of us smelled like poo. Woo.
So I was hoping to get to convention before the first meeting but didn't get there until 9:30 that night. I'm not going to post pictures of this lovely excursion. The restaurant that we ate at in the middle of the day was BEAUTIFUL though! Tanzia and I had to special order when we got there - everyone else had the special. Good food too!THURSDAY-SUNDAY 7/21-24/2011
Had a wonderful convention!!! However, because it was so wonderful, I opted out of doing that thing called STUDYING FOR MIDTERMS.
Oh well, We got those back already and it's alright! I met a lot of wonderful Europeans from all over! Obviously many were from France and Belgium, but there were quite a few from the UK (they would tell you EXACTLY where in the UK, and it would matter to them - I'm just lumping them together as "those people from over the water" because I don't actually know the difference). 
The ladies up at the top are from Ireland - they slept across the aisle from me and were wonderful. The younger girls are Dutch, the one on the left being also able to speak English. We went on many walks together (SO CUTE). The other girls are Maria and Gabriela, who are originally from Ecuador who have since moved to Belgium. They took care of me the entire time! (Even though they are fluent in Spanish and French but not so much English. Though Maria speaks some haha.)MONDAY-THURSDAY 7/25-28/2011
Monday was spent attempting to write the manure field trip report... wooo. It took me a ridiculously long time to write it for some reason. Tuesday and Wednesday were our midterms, but there was no break in homework. It's been a wonderful week. And by that I mean awful. 
Thursday, things started looking up, when we took a field trip to look at groundwater! Yes. Look at groundwater. And its effects. We saw a sinkhole after going through an adventure hike worthy of my dad's planning ( I didn't fall once in the mud!) and a cave, as well as going down to look at where the water comes in at. The water table regenerates so fast in Wallonia that if they stop pumping out of it for three hours the surrounding homes get flooded.
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