OK next week Tuesday sounds great! I’ll make sure there is coffee and fresh crossaints in the morning … not!! 😀 😀 I can’t promise you the best evening of your life though, leuven will be pretty dull without students (me and a couple of other morons who started earlier or have a resit), but there’s enough beer and a place to sleep! Let’s ask frank too.

arthur i invite you this week to come and have a couple of beers at my place in leuven and sleep in the couch of my “kot” (which is O.K. :!!!); and tell me all about the pixies. I’ll be sitting there alone, trying to figure out what i’ll do with my thesis so you might give me a hand!

Well, I’m just back from a 14-day trip in the kalahari-desert so forget my late response. The international help only shows us Americans are people as well who can die too, and they should be looked after as well. The all-powerfull US Gov’t was not able to overwhelm Mother nature. Two lessons we have learned now:

1. unlike what many like to believe, the whole world is not anti-american. hence the aid.
2. The rest of the world does not have to threat americans differently than S-E-Asians or Africans. I was in South Africa, where millions of people are still dirt poor, however, they managed to get some aid for new Orleans.

This, Rob, could not have been done by a nation which closed its fences. God thank the US accepted foreign help!!! Only totalitarian states like North Korea let their people starve on the streets.

Well, I’m back (if someone missed me). Had a great trip.

If someone is really seeking an affordable and interresting way of exploring the desert the Gembsbok Park on the SA/Namibian border is the best!

Those are all resits?????

Well, good job. Had to take resits 2 years ago, during that incredible hot summer. This year, I passed, even with a distinction! 😀

I find it weird so many people have bad points for History in the UK. In Belgium it’s actually very easy, most students have good points. I did notice however it’s a lot more difficult in the UK and people have a better knowledge of history. In Belgium, most people are not very interrested, leave alone young pupils.

Actually the members of the Fire Dept of the town Sint-Truiden where the animals were found all signed the petition. They accidently found the animals when they came to destroy a hornet’s nest. They immediatelly warned the police and took the animals to a local shelter. A brave thing, because the justice dept finds it an illegal action.

And it were 24 dogs!!! How can one single guy keep 24 dogs!??? The poor animals had to live in their own dirt.

Actually there’s no such thing as a real “Belgian Bar”, there are just bars which sell Belgian beer. Belgians normally stick to “pintjes”, especially after working days. The heavy beers are too expensive, too fat and after a while your bottom starts itching. This last detail may sound disgusting, but it may cause a lot of unpleasantness the day after. 😀

Also what frustrates me about the British is that they stick to one beer for like an hour. Belgians drink aprox 4 pints an hour. Normally that means if you enter a bar at 11 o’clock in the evening, apart from the bartender and some new-age alcohol-haters you won’t meet anyone sober. If you stick to one beer for an hour, every beer tastes like urine!!! Ohh, and another big mistake. Tourist usually order half a liter of beer. Don’t. Order small beers, they are much tastier. Especially this time of the year your beer will became warm and bugs will be swimming in it. I like my beers ice cold, even the ones which should not be put in the fridge like Duvel or Westmalle. I always put them in the freezer for a while. That’s my humble opinion ofcourse, most beer-specialist will think I’m nuts however warm beer is disgusting.