Sorry for the recent lack of posts - After not updating my blog for about two weeks, the thought of relaying everything I had been doing in those weeks in one post seemed a daunting task. So I kept putting it off, and kept having more adventures, and as a result wasn't sure how to go about "re-starting" my blog.

Also, my camera broke. Writing posts without pictures really isn't as much fun. But new one is arriving today, so I will be able to take pictures of everything I do from now on to share with all of you!

Rather than trying to write a whole post about every thing I've done, here's a list of what I've been up to:
 - Had a successful Thanksgiving dinner. Everything turned out amazing in the end, despite the few setbacks I had at the outset.
 - Went to Amsterdam last weekend with Anais and Victoria. AMAZING city!
 - Dinant with Victoria a few weekends ago. Climbed up to the citadel, and up to some old ruins.
 - Antwerp for the day a few weeks ago. Did a lot of shopping, and walked around town. It's a really incredible place!
 - Went to a 24 hour party in Louvain-La-Neuve, a town just outside of Brussels (note I was not there the full 24 hours!). It is the biggest student party in Europe, with 40,000 students attending on average. It was crazy to say the least. Also quite disgusting, people pee everywhere, throw up where ever they feel like, and toss beer when they're done with it. Very fun though, definitely a memorable experience!
 - Celebrated Halloween in Brussels - apparently Halloween costumes here are actual "Halloween" costumes. A lot of blood on faces, pumpkins, witches, etc. Our group Rambo costumes were a bit hit however
 - Went to a puppet show in Brussels. It was one of the most bizarre, but wonderful experiences I have had yet. The theatre was in a tiny little house at the back of a small alley. The puppet room was a tiny wood-panelled room with wooden rafters on the top floor of the house. The walls were lined with puppets, and seats were long benches covered in multi-colored cushions. The puppet stage was about a metre and a half tall by two metres wide, and you could see the hands of the puppeteers as they were controlling the movements of the different characters in the play. We saw "Le Bossu", which is "The Hunchback" in English (apparently a classic tale..?), and although I had a very hard time understanding the french being spoken (I'm still not convinced that it was even in french most of the time!) it was very entertaining! Lots of sword fighting between the puppets, dramatic deaths, and puppet strings getting tangled with other puppets. Very wonderful experience!

I'm off to Berlin this week coming up. Very much looking forward to it. I promise I will write a proper post about my adventures there!

Bisous!
Sarah

Dinant

Ruins in Dinant

Victoria and I

Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Puppet stage

Puppet theatre benches