Why it's good to eat noir.noir chocolate paste for dinner

1. It's delicious.
2. It's delicious.
3. Dark chocolate is healthy.
4. Minimal dishwashing aka just a spoon/fork/spork!! (/chopsticks?/knife?)
5. Chocolate makes you happy.
6. It's smooth.
7. It's super delicious!!!!

So happy/sad I want to cry

I just found a Dutch to English dictionary site. It is the best online dictionary I have ever encountered for any language. It's so good. I love it after looking up like 2 words. I can't believe I just found it, and there is only one more day of class left. Our time together is going to be so brief, mijnwoordenboek. Let me clarify, I had never before been able to find any online Dutch/English dictionaries because I had only been searching for them in English and the idea never occurred to me that I should search for it in Dutch. Duh!!! All things good are not necessarily in English >.<

In other news, today as a warm-up for the Bicky Burgers I have eaten 1.5 100g chocolate bars as my mid-afternoon snack, one of the Japanese biscuit type and another of the pistachio chunk type (that's pushing 900 calories yall. no wonder my pants are about to stop fitting!).

[Oh my god! There's even a "Zojuist vertaald" section!!! I can look up popular words that other people just looked up..this is the best thing EVER]

Creepers in Belgium

This Sunday I was accosted by not one but two freaky people. It was my friend's birthday and we were at the Irish Pub. I went up to the bar to order a drink for birthday boy and as I was heading back over I saw a short strange man with a round face (think of Sam from the classic Guess Who-but not as benign looking) trotting towards me and before I knew it he had stopped abruptly before me. He said: "Hello you have such a beautiful face, I hope that we'll see each other again" to which I, bewildered, was like ah ok yeah thanks uhh bye..and thankfully my friend saw this weirdo come up to me and had sent someone to save me so I had a good reason to get away, phew!

A few hours later after a stop at Ali Baba which is a gyro/fries/fried stuff place where we saw some random dudes run away with a chair which was shortly brought back, I decided it was time to head back. My dorm is less than 5 minutes away from this place and Leuven is extremely safe, so I wasn't alarmed when I saw a station wagon pull up next to me. There was a dude inside who wanted to know where some place was:

lost Dude: Do you know where blablastrangename is?
Me: No, sorry! Bye! (but he just kept talking)
stupid Dude: Well can you take me there?
Me: Uh no I can't I don't know where it is
inquisitive Dude: Where are you going?
Me: Home.
helpful Dude: I'll take you there
Me: It's okay like really it's right there, ok byeee..

At this point I decided it was useless to try to convince him to stop trying to convince me to get into his stupid station wagon so I just started walking and he just kept talking to me but thankfully he didn't start backing up or something oh my goddd longest 100 m ever! Never have I been so happy for all the locks in our dorm haha.

In other news, every single class of mine (except Dutch) has been canceled once in the past two weeks..and they only meet once a week anyway (except Dutch). So...yay!

And Dutch is ending this week. :) 12 hours a week is too much! Here's a demonstration of how much Dutch I've learned. Tonight for dinner I'm going to eat a Bicky Burger:

Here's a description in Dutch: (http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicky_Burger)

De Bicky Burger is een hamburger die verkocht wordt in vrijwel alle Belgische snackbars, in een aantal Nederlandse en in sommigehorecagelegenheden. Ze wordt geproduceerd door Beckers, en bestaat in verschillende variëteiten.

De Bicky Burger wordt opgediend tussen een broodje (al dan niet opgewarmd of gegrild), besprenkeld met sesamzaad. Aan de gefrituurde gehaktschijf wordt een gele saus, rode saus en bruine saus toegevoegd, alsook komkommer en gefrituurde of verse ui. Het geheel wordt in een speciaal zakje of doosje verpakt.

And my translation for you in English:

The Bicky Burger is a hamburger that is sold in virtually all Belgian snack bars, in a number of Dutch ones, and in someotherthingidkthis. The are produced by Beckers, and they exist a few varieties.
The Bicky Burger is served between bread that is neither warmed nor grilled that is sprinkled with sesame seeds. On the burger you get some yellow, red and brown sauce, and cucumber and fried or fresh pickle. It is then placed in a special box type thing.

Cool huh??!

Sharing is caring!

The thing I really like about here is..people are very sharing with food. Like just grab a spoon, take a bite. And I don't mean the actual sharing of food because I'm perfectly happy with my own food too, but as in, nope they don't mind about the germs! Not that I have anything against people who are very careful about this, (love youuu) but it's so easy this way!!! I absolutely cannot think of any person Belgian or other international who has ever been like uhh here why don't we separate this, please or anything like that. So exciting! Maybe it just hasn't occurred to them haha. Yay :)

YAY!!!

Thats going to be me!!! ^_^

Passengers enjoy free Wi-Fi for the holidays
November 20, 2010 through January 2, 2011

This holiday season, Google Chrome has teamed up with AirTran Airways, Delta, and Virgin America to offer free Gogo Inflight Wi-Fi on every domestic flight from November 20, 2010 through January 2, 2011. These participating airlines have outfitted their entire domestic fleet with Gogo Inflight Wi-Fi, and we expect more connected passengers this holiday season than ever before!

Just bring a Wi-Fi enabled laptop or mobile device and stay connected to family and friends while you travel.

If you haven’t tried Chrome yet, you can download Chrome before you take to the skies.

Happy Holidays!

I still don't know

I'm supposed to pick classes by Sunday and I'm not sure exactly what I want to do for my major!

Everyone here with a backpack has an Eastpak backpack.

Travel Insights

Through traveling, I've learned a lot and thrown away a lot of money. But here are a few insights:

1. The train does not run all night. If you get back after 10 and live 2 hrs from the airport, you will not get home without utilizing a cab.
2. Always always always double check, triple check, the date of your bookings. Look at the mini pop-up calendar, look at the numbers, look at the days of the week.
3. Write down your internet access code number because you will lose the little card that tells you what it is (and find it when you get home).
4. If taking public transport: leave at least one cycle before the last time that you want to get there because if you don't, every single step of the way, the train/bus/shuttle/whatever will be delayed.
5. Bring snacks!! :D Okay I knew that already. Duh that's important for anything you do.