From Leuven With Love

Dear friends,
I know it has been quite a long time since I posted my last contribution. It was just before I left our beautiful country for Belgium.
Since the moment I entered this state I have been catched. Catched by work, by all formalities, by everything. I dedicated myself to finding myself a nice accomodation (have a look there), to find out how ICRI works (web pages there), to dive into my project (www.serenity-project.org), to start a good course of Dutch language and to find out where the best parties take place :-)


Although I wanted to express there my passion for the life I am living there, I have not found a while until now.
First days of me being there were full of surprise. I woke up every day very early with epinephrinaemia. The most exciting part has been meeting new people and new ways of living life. So there is a list of things that fascinated me:

lockers for bicycles are more expensive than bicycles themselves

dancing on discos there is like penguin dancing (holding a beer and moving from side to side, possibly moving only your head... however, music is then more quality as you need to enjoy a party at least somehow)

very often you cannot use international bank cards in shops

in my lease contract there is written that I have to have white curtains on my windows

promotion of ecological way of life (e.g. Posters on elevators: Save energy, burn calories. You win two times.)

And concerning my work, I have to admit they take really good care about us... On a first day I got a notebook and my personal blanket not to feel cold as I sit next to a big window. In our kitchen there is a great supply of coffee. But what surpised me the most is a big amount of candles in the kitchen... Like for romantic moments in the office? Or? I have not found the answer yet.
Or mayby tonight I will find an answer, as we have a party there in Babblebox (a room for seminars) with my colleagues called Coupling Night :-D