Saturday night I went to dinner with my friend, Yoann, his dad, and his dads girlfriend in Liege, Belgium. However, true to French and also Belgian culture we ate late. And I don't mean late as in 9...we were eating dinner at 10:30 at night and finished around 11:30! Of course I knew we'd eat late, so I had a snack of a baguette and Nutella at around 5, but I didn't think we'd be eating that late! After dinner, Yoann and I went to the "October fair" in Liege, which is a fair plopped down in a park in the middle of the city. We walked around and finally decided on a ride which cost 14€ but it was worth it! It's basically a vertical metal piece with two cars on the end where people sit and our feet are dangling, and the cars go in a vertical oval while the cars are spinning too...if that makes any sense. Here's a picture of the actual ride in Liege!
Anyways, since it was late we were the only two people in the one car and we got sent up to the top while the other car was being loaded...and we were 210 feet in the air, taller than the buildings. Instead of just leaving us stationary, staring at the sake view, the ride operators decided to spin us slowly around so we could see the whole city. To most people, this would he great. To me, it was awful. I'm not a big fan of heights, and seeing all the buildings we were above just scared me more. And then I kept remembering all my dads cautionary tales of fair rides breaking down and I kept imagining it just crashing to the ground (I have a wild imagination when I'm scared). However, as soon as the ride started it was so much fun! I laughed the whole time and loved it. The next day, coming back on the train, I had to stand the whole time because all the seats were taken. And then my second train from cologne to Bonn was cancelled, so I had to find another one, which was pretty easy. However, it was one of the older ones and the doors are really heavy and I couldn't get it open. The train was almost leaving, and I ran up to someone and asked them to help me, and of course they did but I got on the train just as it started to pull away!
Then comes school. It's getting a lot easier and I have a French exam tomorrow and that's about it.
Lacrosse is great, I'm excited for my game and on the way to lacrosse yesterday since I take the train to Colgone with two friends, we met a French guy Marlene (one of my friends) had talked to before! He asked me if I knee French, and when I responded a little he started talking to me, and then he found out it's more than a little so we talked the whole train ride! When we were getting off, he said I love meeting Americans who actually can speak French! And he also told me I have a great accent, there's barely an American one, and my grammar and vocab is very good! Then he asked why I didn't go to France...which makes a lot of sense but I told him I want to learn German. Then walking to lacrosse my friends asked yeah why didn't you go to France?
But my German is getting better every day and I can almost understand a whole class!
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