Lila's Birthday

Thursday, April 5 was my friend Lila’s 21^st birthday. To celebrate we went to Chi Chi’s to have dinner and some drinks. They offered pitchers of margaritas so we had a couple of those. After dinner we sang Happy Birthday and the waiter gave her a sombrero to keep. We paid the bill and then went to the ritzy area of Antwerp called SOHO. Apparently this is where Belgian celebrities hang out but we didn’t see any, not that we would recognize them anyway. After the bar is SOHO we went to a club called Local. We had never been there before because it is generally really hard to get it but one of the people we were with knew a guy that managed the place so we got in right away. It was pretty fun but we didn’t stay long because our midterm was the next day. Even though we had to go back early it was still a fun night and she had a great birthday!

Local

National Bank of Belgium and such

So finals are finally over and now we have started our marketing “blitz course”, which is a class crammed into 2 weeks. Monday, April 3, we had 6 hours of one class. It was a long day! Since then we have only had 3 hours which isn’t too bad. I’ve gotten used to 3 hours of class at a time. Tomorrow we have our first midterm for marketing. It seems a little crazy to have a midterm after only 4 days of classes but we have learned a lot already and it shouldn’t be too hard. Yesterday, Wednesday, we went to the National Bank of Belgium to listen to an economist give a speech about banking and the European Union and stuff like that. I was a nice speech but not really the most interesting speech ever. The Bank is really pretty though!

 This weekend I am heading to Paris and meeting up with my dad and Kathy. I’m excited to have a break and travel! I’ll let you all know how it went when I get back. Until then I’ll talk to you later.