Today I had my final Belgium meeting. Ahhh! During the whole meeting I was so excited I could hardly focus, but I did my best. I made sure to pay attention when she was giving the details about our insurance and flight information. I kinda lost her at the instructions of how to activate our phones. Oh, yea, I was given a little cell phone! It feels like it is a toy, but it is still exciting. This phone is also pretty cool because I will have a UK number (why UK and not Belgian I do not know...) and I will also have a US number; so that way my family in America can call me easily and I can contact people abroad also. I believe it is a pay as you go phone which will be conveinent. I also received my international student card. But my favorite thing we received is a Belgium travel book. Of course Brussels is the main city focus of the book but it also features Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp. I have already started looking through it, getting ideas for what I want to see! When we first arrive in Belgium we will spend the first few days in Brussels and then head to Louvain-la-Neuve. While in Brussels we will do all the touristy stuff but we will also have a lot of free time, which I am most excited about. I want to venture around the city and just see what I stumble upon.
Anyhow... after we got all our goodies we had to fill out some paperwork. I am not quite sure what all of it was for but I know one form was about housing. This housing form gave us the option of living in normal campus housing or in a "Kot a projet" ( I am not sure how to make accents on here...). I chose the Kot a project option. Each little Kot flat has a different theme and we got to choose which Kot we would like to be involved in. I choose: Humanitaire, Culturel, Gastronomique, Accompagnement Social and Artistique et Musical. I think joining a Kot would be a great opportunity to get involved with fellow UCL students. It is not guaranteed that I will live in a Kot but I hope I do, I guess I'll just have to wait and see!
Oh, PS- Its snowing in Louvain...
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