Day 283: Band Practice and Pot Luck for Turkey!

Every Sunday Frank and I go to the place called Novanois. It's across town, but luckily there is a Tram that is two blocks away from our house and it's just one long tram ride there. It's a nice place that allows anyone who plays anything to play as loud as they want in a sound proof room. It's great! That means Frank can play as loud as he wants. Just recently we had two of our friends join us for a jam session. It didn't go too well cause none of use practiced and don't know each others songs. But still fun. And when we're done there is a great tasty pastry shop a block away or we can have durums if we want.

Since we were away from Thanksgiving and we don't own an oven we didn't have turkey. But what we did do was get together with our friends and everyone brought a plate to eat and we stuffed outselves. We didn't plan it too well cause we had a lot of meat dishes and no veggies and stuff. But it was really good food, and everyone did a great job. Frank made Flan for the first time and it came out great! I know Frank will make more of it.

I also found the perfect pair of boots for myself. Now I can walk around Belgium and take any type of random weather it can throw at me. My pants and toes won't get wet. Although my shoes aren't impenetrable. Frank was kicking snow and it got in my shoe. So, I can take anything except snow kicking!

Also we bought a new tv. Twice as big as the old one from the store across the street. My French came in handy. The guy said,"quatre-vingt" [4-20] which means 80. So I knew what the price was without him writing it down! And he asked where was our car in French, and I said, "No car, we live, and pointed across the street" So it's not perfect yet, but I have been getting better. I can hear certain words better, and I'm trying to expand my vocabulary.

Great times are had by all! I hope everyone had a great T-day, and I can't wait to see everyone around X-mas time!