First night in Europe

Surprisingly, I wasn't tired at all until around 11 pm this time. First let me just say that Anna's house is nothing like I pictured jt. It reminds me of a house in San francisco if you can picture that. Her house is kind of hippyish and small, but it's so cute cause her family doesn't mind it cause they're so close. The weirdest thing was when I first met her mom and little siblings I hugged them, and no one does that. So when I met her older brother, Sam, they told me to kiss him and I was super weird and awkward about it. By the end of the night, I got used to it. Later we ate a very interesting dinner. Her mom said we would be having a barbecue, and by that I guess they meant a variety of sausage and potato. Chibolats, boulet, et pomme de terre. Plus salad, which was really good. All of the water was served in these fancy bottles, opposed to just drinking it from the tap. The funniest thing is when everyone was saying all of the English words they knew, which mainly consisted of swear words. So at one point we were just eating a nice family dinner while her little siblings were singing someone like you mixed with loca people (LOL for those who know that song). The whole city and suburb area is so different than any American city. Like there aren't any separate houses at all, so everything looks really packed tight. The actual city of Liège is twenty minutes away and is exactly how one would imagine a European city. There are cobblestone roads and everything is so cute. Theres a cathedral in the middle of the city surrounded by gardens and fountains. Last night, there was a big festival type thing for adults to get together and listen to music and drink. Anna, Sam and I went shopping and I wanted to buy everything. Then we ran into her cousin, Max, and went to this bar called Far West. Anna thought I'd love it cause it was American themed, but really it was just weird cause it was like I was having a drink in an American bar. We ended up just walking around the city with Max for a bit and taking the bus home later. It was a good night, but I'm still pretty tired. Here are some pictures.

Bonjour belgique!

It smells bad and it's constantly raining and I can't understand half of what people say, but I couldn't be happier right now.

Le premier poste. 09 juillet.

I don't really blog. So this will be an interesting test for me; either it will go really well or it won't work at all. I'm planning on doing most of my posts from my phone so pardon any typos or weird autocorrects, capitalizations, etc. Right now this folder (in the picture) is all I have of my trip to Europe. In it is less than one would expect, a plane ticket and a round trip train ticket from Paris to Brussels. I'm going into this experience with an open mind and pretty much no plan. While trying to work things out with Anna over Facebook this is how the conversation went:
Anna: we don't need an exact plan, it's not fun.
Me: I've never traveled like this before, but sounds good to me!
Anna: well you have to change your way of traveling then :) its gonna be awesome.

Only four more days and I haven't even thought about what to pack! It's starting to hit me that I'll be gone, alone, for such a long time. I also am realizing that I am much less proficient in French than any AP or college test thinks I am. Hopefully that first year vocab will come back.

Bon courage à moi.