Had to walk to the city hall yesterday to register as a Belgian citizen (long story). I had "I have Confidence" from The Sound of Music stuck in my head the entire time. I'm not sure why...maybe because I was thinking of all the European escapades in that movie? Haha. I was afraid they would only speak French at the commune and that it would be really frustrating to get registered...but it wasn't. They spoke English, thankfully.
Later in the day I took the metro into the city center to visit some of the sites, and what should be playing while we were waiting for the train but "Take a Chance on Me" by ABBA. Any day when you hear ABBA in the metro is a good day. On top of that, I got to visit a chocolate museum, try warm wine (which is sort of like apple cider, except not) and visit Mannekin Pis (an extremely famous Brussels landmark--it's a statue of a little boy peeing). Apparently the Belgians love dressing him up in various outfits, his most recent get-up being a Santa Claus suit over the Christmas holidays.
Also got to hear lots of lovely accordion music while walking through the metro station. All the street performers love love love their accordions...and they're usually pretty good! I told Dave (who also lives with my host family) that we should hire one of the guys to follow us around with his accordion and provide a soundtrack for our lives...or at least for our day (jokingly of course. Although it would be funny).
After going to Waterstone (the English bookstore in Brussels and a store Julie Morro would love) I came back on the metro and had "Don't Feed the Plants" from Little Shop of Horrors stuck in my head. For those of you familiar with the show, you know that it is the last song of the show and also completely ridiculous and not relevant to anything from my day. So it was a bit annoying really. Although I still love that show! =)
A group of us were trying to organize a trip to Luxembourg this weekend, but it was too last minute and sort of fell through-- I think instead I might try a day-trip to somewhere closer this weekend. I'll keep you posted!
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I wish people would play ABBA in public in America!!
ReplyDeleteI hope you have a picture of that statue. It sort of reminds me of a statue I would pass on my way to school when I took the bus...it was a duck that this woman would dress up, haha.