Hello!
What a weekend! The 9/11 memorial put on by the Embassy was unlike anything I had ever experienced. For those of you who may not know, the U.S. Embassy in Belgium held "An Interfaith Celebration for Peace" in the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula on Sunday. This event was NOT open to the public. It was not, in fact, open to most American students studying here.
Well then Mindy, how did you get there? Is it that big of a deal?
My professor, Dr. Sheridan (Jerry) is on a first-name basis with the ambassador, who got us the tickets. As for it being a big deal, first of all of course it was! 9/11 memorials took place all over the world, and I was fortunate enough to see this exclusive one, in the presence of royalty no less! Prince Filip was there with his wife, as well as several other largely important people. The security staff was enormous, and they all had lists at the blocked off entrances. If you weren't on the list, you didn't get in. The whole experience was quite moving. I can't even describe it. For not being in America on the important day, this definitely made up for it!
Secondly, as I write, pictures are on their way up. I have a Flickr photo stream, but I am going to have to change soon to another site because Flickr can only hold 200 photos! A new site will be up soon, and I will edit THIS POST and put the link right where this paragraph is now. NOTE: the new site is up! It is still undergoing construction, and with the slow internet it will just have to wait. The rare good weather calls! Here is the new site! Leave comments there too, you'll notice there is an RSS feed to this blog on the front page!
Finally, I've had a couple questions about jet lag, overcoming it, was it hard, etc. So, let me give you my strategy that worked for both me and Jared as far as I know. The trick is to know the time at your destination when you take off. I took off from Atlanta at 5:35 PM local time. That was 11:35 here, and I knew I should have gotten to bed soon. After dinner was served, I did my best to fall asleep. As I'm certain many of you could have guessed, this was nearly impossible. That's okay, the second part of the plan was when I landed. I got anywhere between 2 and 4 hours of sleep on the plane. When I got to the hotel and eventually checked in, I did NOT take a nap. I only know of two people who didn't, and we both seemed totally fine the very next day! So, that's my tip for the jet lag problem. Deprive yourself of sleep so you can sleep when the normal people around you are.
As always, please feel free to comment or email me with your questions or comments at idontdoquiet22@gmail.com and have a beautiful day!
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