Update....

Katie: is out of the hospital (!!) and is back here in Boitsfort for the next week or so, at which point she will be heading back to the States for a full recovery. She'll be back in Belgium in January if she gets medical clearance... it's going to be weird to lose a member of the Rue du Concours intern branch, but obviously living in Belgium, land of narrow twisting stairs, cobblestones and public transportation, is not a good idea for a person with a broken toe and wrist and a bad back! (Handicap accessibility is not such a big thing over here....)
Leuven is now the city outside of Brussels I have visited the most! Cassidy and I were there four times in the past week, though we didn't see much of the town. the University Hospital pretty much could be its own town - it is HUGE! (at least a five-minute walk from the parking lot to the Green Wing - rumor has it that they made all the signs for the color-coded wings without the names of the colors on them, just simply an arrow on a colored background, and then realized that they hadn't considered those people who might be colorblind, so they had to go back and add the names of the colors! we also learned some Flemish words, as that part of the country is Flemish.... uitgang means "outgoing" for people, but uitrit is "out" for cars..... the parking poo is the parking garage...)

School is pretty hectic this week, so I am holding on for dear life and flying by the seat of my pants a lot (can i do both those things at once? or would i just be grabing onto my own pants???) regardless, it's all just part of the fun!!
this weekend i'm going to a big conference run by the European Council of International Schools (ECIS), kind of a last-minute thing; it's for the day on Saturday and there's some interesting-sounding sessions... and it's in the Hague, so I can say I've been to the Netherlands even if everyhting I see is from a bus window!!

Another pretty short post, but nothing too exciting has happened lately... for those of you that are wondering, none of the violence from Paris has spread here, though there have been rumors of planned riots, nothing every came of it....

That's all for now!