November 23, 2015
Hello everyone! Here I am again, with a lot of things to tell you because it has been, again, a busy 3 weeks...
Let's start with my birthday! On 12 November, I became 19 years old. It was an amazing day! I had to go to school of course but after class, I went to Mayana, the chocolate bar. Then I went to the IBM event, which was at Kantienberg. I couldn't stay long because I had to go to a friend to change clothes because I had reservations at 8 p.m. at Pané & Vino, an Italian restaurant in Ghent. I had a lot of fun at the restaurant (with 5 of my friends). The food was great and we talked and laughed a lot! After dinner, I went out to Overpoort to end my birthday. On friday evening, my family came over, for my birthday of course. We ate waffles and chocolate cake.
There are of course other things I did. I had dinner with friends on 7 November in Oudenaarde, again at an Italian restaurant. After that we went to a bar to grab a drink but I couldn't stay long because I had to work the day after but it was a great evening though! I met the same friends last weekend. This time we didn't go out but we went at a friends place. We ate spaghetti and watched a movie, it was again a lot of fun! A thing that wasn't fun at all was that I became sick last thursday... I didn't go to school on friday because I felt really bad. Saturday, it was even worse but on sunday, it was a little bit better and today, it is almost over.
On sunday (yesterday), I went to a play of one of my friends. By that I mean she did not play in it but she directed it. It was the first play that she directed and in my opinion, she did a great job! It was called 'Lolita' and the story was about a man and a girl who were respectively 38 and 14 and who were in a relationship.
Okay, maybe something about school...
We have had a trial exam for Accounting and Business Economics. I only did the one for Accounting because I didn't have time enough to study for Business Economics. The trial exam of Accounting was difficult... Maybe I didn't study enough for it but it were also not the kind of questions I was expecting.
We also had the third class of Talent already. I was the chairperson and the topic was 'student of today'. It was about distractions, learning environment and so on. It wasn't really good actually. We got some bad feedback unfortunately but it was, in my opinion, a hard topic to talk and teach about.
This it it for now, see you soon!
November 3, 2015
So here I am again, after almost a month... It has been so busy the last 3-4 week that I totally forgot to write my second blog post!
First of all, I am enjoying the student life to the fullest! As I said in the previous post, I am not the biggest party girl but, as I predicted, that has changed. Since I am a student in Ghent, I went out 4-5 times, which is a lot for me actually and I don't live in a dorm so I always have to find a place to stay but that hasn't been a problem so far. Of course I went out in Overpoort but I also went to the opening party of VEK, which was great! I am not a member of VEK, if you were wondering, but I know people who are so that's why I went.
This weekend, on Halloween, I also went out but this time not in Ghent but in Oudenaarde, that's where I live. If you went with some friends who dressed up, you got a free bottle of cava so my friends and I dressed up as the Black/White Swan. The downside of the Halloween party was that I had to wake up at 5 AM the next day to go to work. (I work at a bakery in Oudenaarde) So I went to work after just 3 hours of sleep, which was awfull...
I also often went to dinner with some friends. 3 weeks ago I went to a pizzeria with a friend, 2 weeks ago I went to Elli's with my mom and last thursday I want to Pampa's Rodizio with some other friends. I love to meet up with friends (or my mom) in Ghent and go out on a dinner but unfortunately, my wallet isn't so happy with that...
Alright, enough about the partying and eating, let's talk about school.
I knew that university college was going to be a lot of work, because I have a lot of friends in the second year and a sister who is in the third year so they all told me how difficult it was going to be and how much time I would have to put in it and they were right. We have a lot of task for International Business English (this is one of them actually). I have already forgotten to upload a task for IBE once... (I am so sorry Mrs. Van den Bergh, I really did make it...) We also had to do our first group presentation for IBE last week. I was in a group of 4 and in my opinion, we did it pretty well! I was stressing out to do the presentation because I hate standing in front of a group but I think I did it quit good (hopefully...)
I already had 2 classes of Talent also. The first time was about self-reflection and I then was just a participant. The second time was about planning and then I was the secretary. The session about planning was really interesting for me because I am terrible at planning! I do make a planning for exams but I am bad at following it...
There is also another thing I would like to tell you about myself, something I forgot to mention in my first blog post. I have had a lot of hobbies when I was younger, dancing, tennis, swimming... But I got bored with all of them but there is one hobby I am still doing which is theatre. I started doing it when I was 7-8 years old I think so in other words, this is the 11th year of theatre. The first 10 years, I did it in the urban academy in Oudenaarde but this year, we started to do something on ourselves. By "we" I mean my 3 friends and I. We all started at the same time with theatre. (Almost) every friday evening, we come together but at the moment, we still don't have much... We are still not sure which piece we are going to work with but I am sure we will figure it out soon! The intention is to be ready in 2 years from now so we can rent a place to perform our piece.
Alright, this was my second blog post and I'll see you again in a week or two (if I don't forget it again...) Bye!
