Where to begin?

First I would like to apologize if this entry is not in the best writing that I can offer. Tonight was "Bar Hopping Night" and I am writing this after a tour of some of Brussels best bars. Bear with me.

Today was filled with stuff. This morning we woke up pretty early and had a breakfast of bread and tea, not exactly filling but it was sufficient for me. After breakfast, we had to travel to get to our school. It took in all about 40 minutes (ten minutes of walking and thirty minutes of metro). The trip was not all too bad, it went by fairly quick. When we got off the the metro we took a wrong turn and ended up walking about half of a mile in the wrong direction. After speaking in the best french I could to ask for help, we ended up turning around and walking about a mile and a half in the other direction, finally reaching the school.

At first I was in awe, that my school was in the middle of Brussels. I did not know what to expect. We went to a place called the KultuureKafe for check-in. I imagined this place being organized, but boy I was wrong. After being shuffled around for a few minutes, we finally were assigned a tour group and sat down for a brief introduction to the university. The dean was a very nice man, kind of looked like the european version of Conan O'Brien. He explained to us the expectations of the faculty of Vesalius college, and introduced the various personnel that are to help us with our stay.

Our next speaker was the head of the Vesalius Student Government, a man by the name of Tony who is from Nigeria (and has a striking resembelance to Big Papi David Ortiz), who explained to us the various things that Vesalius students do while not studying. He explained to us the various parties that are thrown by the VSG, and the different organizations we can become involved with. It was pretty interesting to learn about the different programs, and I am planning on joining the soccer club team that plays throughout the area.

After these introductions, we were broken up into groups for a tour of Vesalius College and the VUB campus. Vesalius college is home to about 300 hundred students, 85 being study abroad students and the rest being full time students. The VUB is a large school which we are apart of with thousands of students. Our tour guide was from Southern France, and lets just say that the tour was pointless. He pointed out many buildings, but stated that he "did no know" what went on in them. After our highly un-informative tour, we had a complimentary lunch in the VUB cafeteria. I had some version of chicken pot pie, a waffle and pudding for dessert, and a sprite for a drink. I also tried some of the potato soup which turned out to be pretty good. After lunch we had another meeting to explain to us the various criteria, processes, and options presented to us by Vesalius College. This segment was much more informative than the rest of orientation, thank god!

We finished up with todays orientation at around 3:00pm. I came back to Jette, helped Ryan get his cell phone set up, then took a nap until dinner. For dinner tonight we had roast hen with a mushroom sauce over some sort of baked pastry. For dessert we had a fruit salad. It again was pretty tasty.

After dinner, me, matt, and ryan headed back to the KultuurKafe to meet with the rest of the study abroad students for a night of bar hopping. We were shown many different bars and had a very good time.

Tommorow I have more of the orientation, I will write about that then.

Goodnight!