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Today we started off the day with a meal of "Lost Toast" aka Belgium's idea of french toast (they obviously don't want to give any credit to the french), and it was pretty tasty. I rushed off to the metro in my usal morning routine and pushed my way through all of the school children to get a spot on the train.

I had my first ART class this morning and my teacher described each of the trips we are to be going on, and explained the sylabus etc. It was a pretty good class and I think the trips are going to be alot of fun.

After class, Matt and I rushed off to meet up with Ryan, Els, and Iria who were working on Els' sons apartment in the middle of Brussels, in hopes to get it renovated for the spring. We spent about four hours hauling debris out of the apartment, taking apart furniture, and lugging the debris to Els' car. It felt good to help them out and do some physical labor to work off all of the waffles, beer, and chocolate! Iria and Els promised us that they were going to suprise us for the help, and sure enough when we got home there were three bottles of rare Belgian beer waiting for us in our apartment. They are too nice! Also, they said that once they finish it (3 or so weeks), that we can stay over there on the weekends if we miss the last metro home. This is sweet because the metros tend to close early, much earlier than the night is done, and a cab ride home costs a lot of money. Therefore, they are letting us use this as a place to sleep until the morning when we can get back on the metro!!!

After that we all had our French class together, where we were put into teams of five and given an assignment to cook a 3 course traditional Belgian meal. We haven't been told what we are making yet, but will be assigned it next week. It should be pretty fun.

For dinner we had spaghetti carbonara, a familiar food that I have made at home, and it was also very good.