Belgium, in my opinion, is not the nicest place to live in (nothing compares to Malta anyway). For example, there are three spoken languages, so it could be that you go and talk to your next door neighbour in one language, and his reply would be in some other sort of language. Unless you switch to his language, you're doomed to live next to an non-understandable guy. In Malta, measuring a few kilometres wide, we have our own ONE language. And if you want to piss off or tell off you next door neighbour, you can easily do it in one plain simple language (with a wide vocabulary available at hand as well).
Secondly, plumbing over here is hopeless. I still have to understand why two people cannot use two different showers at the same time, or why you can't wash your clothes while brushing your teeth, or even, why upstairs you have to get to smell what someone filled up the drains with a couple of hours before, downstairs!! Oh, and is it so difficult to put up a curtain on a circular window?! And is it so difficult to put up a curtain on a rectangular window, without it falling off every now and then?! Yes, welcome to Belgium!
Weather... I think over here the word "sun" is hardly found in any vocabulary dictionary. I don't think they actually teach the meaning of the word in primary school... (it's useless anyway). I have been told that Summer over here starts in April, and ends in April. Rain and gloomy grey weather is common in August, a month which in Malta is commonly referred to as Summer!!
Anyway at least over the past two days, I had some "cool" weather experience. It snowed!! Yes, obviously not the nicest of snow (it's Belgium remember) but at least it was something "different". It snowed most on Friday evening. The car was covered in snow, so being Maltese, we took some time to throw a few snowballs at each other. Below are some photos I took yesterday.
Secondly, plumbing over here is hopeless. I still have to understand why two people cannot use two different showers at the same time, or why you can't wash your clothes while brushing your teeth, or even, why upstairs you have to get to smell what someone filled up the drains with a couple of hours before, downstairs!! Oh, and is it so difficult to put up a curtain on a circular window?! And is it so difficult to put up a curtain on a rectangular window, without it falling off every now and then?! Yes, welcome to Belgium!
Weather... I think over here the word "sun" is hardly found in any vocabulary dictionary. I don't think they actually teach the meaning of the word in primary school... (it's useless anyway). I have been told that Summer over here starts in April, and ends in April. Rain and gloomy grey weather is common in August, a month which in Malta is commonly referred to as Summer!!
Anyway at least over the past two days, I had some "cool" weather experience. It snowed!! Yes, obviously not the nicest of snow (it's Belgium remember) but at least it was something "different". It snowed most on Friday evening. The car was covered in snow, so being Maltese, we took some time to throw a few snowballs at each other. Below are some photos I took yesterday.
Anyway, snow was probably the only good thing which happened last week. I also had the progress test of Radio Navigation and I did great. Next Friday I have another progress test, Basic Radio. So I have things to work on again this week.
I also would like to say a "Happy Easter to all"... miss you all...
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