88!

hello everyone! day 88 here in belgium. it was overall a nice day, as long as you tune out the stupid rainy weather! the only notable thing about this morning was some leftover chinese and laughing about my father getting facebook..now both of my parents have facebook and they each only have me as a friend, so goofy! so yes, slept in theneventually went to the train station to meet my canadian exchange student friend brendan. from there we got on the bus and went to a shopping mall! yes, a real indoor mall..not just a shopping street, it was pretty cool! there were over 200 stores and even a big santa play going on for children..so sort of like the mall of america minus camp snoopy and half the stores. nonetheless it was sort of comforting to see a mall after almost three months being deprived of the good ol sioux empire. for some reason i was feeling quite anxious about the mall, annoyed of all the crying babies and busy feeling of the whole place so i did the trashiest thing i could think of and GOT A HAIRCUT! its always a curse to get your haircut in a mall, and i'm sure people back home will be ashamed, but it was a spur the moment decision and lately those seem to work in my favor. so now at least 3 inches are gone and there are a few layers, it hasn't been this short for a couple years now, crazy! heres a little before an after for you..hmmmm...interesting...

other than that i bought a hairdryer and thats all. i was reluctant to buy anything due to the fact that my birthday box from my mom is coming (hopefully!!) on monday and i think shesent a few things i will like..i am really excited for it! boxes from home have definitely helped me getthrough these past few months..i really appreciate them! anyways, after the mall we caught a bus home, and i made him take my picture because it was my first real belgian bus experience, yippee! but it didn't turn out that well so heres one of us at the bus stop..woo rain!then we walked home and had some kebab for dinner..my relationship with this particular food is about the same as mcdonalds, can't live with it, can't live without it. then we biked into town and listened to some quality karaoke at the irish pub and after that went to a really weird 70s-80s-90s party thing..also known as a bunch of drunks and bad music. but it was courtney from south africa's birthday so we were there to support her of course ;) after each of us getting a bit lost on the way home we rewarded ourselves with frituur..what a horrible decision. 60-year-old-high-colesteraled jamie will hate me for this year!!! but what can i say...when in belgium, eat fries..yes? so that was my day, it was pretty nice..and i should probably get to bed because it's almost 5am and it seems like a good idea...