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Post by cleglaw on Aug 5, 2008 14:51:45 GMT
So, it turn hout you live close to Holland!
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Post by Hildor on Aug 5, 2008 15:31:47 GMT
Well to be exact, I live in Beerse, which is one of the towns next to Turnhout. But because no one knows all the small towns in tiny Belgium I usually say that I live in Turnhout, which is a little more known (although not much).
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Post by cleglaw on Aug 5, 2008 18:24:04 GMT
Well, I don't really live in Austin. I am closer to Dripping Springs, but I don't live there either. I like to tell people I live in Dripping (as the locals call it), because nobody who is not from around here has heard of it.
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Post by Alrik on Aug 6, 2008 18:56:10 GMT
Hello.
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Post by Hildor on Aug 7, 2008 10:07:07 GMT
O hai.
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Post by Hildor on Aug 19, 2008 8:18:58 GMT
Yeeha just found myself a "kot" in Antwerp yesterday. I don't really know how it's called in English, but it's a room on which you spend the year in a city while studying at highschool or university.
And within two hours I'm off to subscribe myself at a highschool for the studies Industrial Engineer in Chemistry. I find it a little sad that I'm not going to a university, but Industrial Engineer is the better choice.
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Post by Elliot Kane on Aug 19, 2008 8:58:18 GMT
Congrats and good luck (Pretty sure the room would be a 'bedsit' in English
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Post by Midday on Aug 19, 2008 11:37:53 GMT
Congratz ;D I just tried a translation site, but it gives me 'den' or 'hovel' as suggestions. xD
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Post by Elliot Kane on Aug 19, 2008 13:54:34 GMT
Well, considering the financial state of many students, 'hovel' is often right, I guess... ;D
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Post by Galadriel on Aug 19, 2008 15:32:37 GMT
Yeeha just found myself a "kot" in Antwerp yesterday. I don't really know how it's called in English, but it's a room on which you spend the year in a city while studying at highschool or university. And within two hours I'm off to subscribe myself at a highschool for the studies Industrial Engineer in Chemistry. I find it a little sad that I'm not going to a university, but Industrial Engineer is the better choice. Congrats with that Hildor! Since it's in Antwerp, you need to visit the Irish pub "The Irish times" one day, it's close to the Brabo statue or i'll have to come over to take you there! Have a great year and don't study too hard ;D
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Post by Hand-E-Food on Aug 20, 2008 0:13:59 GMT
Good job, Hildor! Is this the first time you're out of home? How many drunken friends can you fit in your room? All the best to you!
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Post by LaFille on Aug 20, 2008 0:56:03 GMT
Cool... Have fun and good luck there! A bunch of of engineers together can be lots of fun and turn out in memorable ways. ;D
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Post by cleglaw on Aug 20, 2008 18:21:48 GMT
I never heard of a bedsit. It sounds like it might be a dorm (short for dormitory) room.
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Post by Hand-E-Food on Aug 20, 2008 23:58:55 GMT
I think it's where you rent a bedroom in an otherwise occupied house. You share their kitchen and bathroom, or if you're lucky have some of those facilities in your room. Either that or like a dormitory where there are several bedrooms and a common kitchen and bathroom.
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Post by Hildor on Aug 21, 2008 8:07:28 GMT
I'm renting a room in an old dentist's house. The house owner lives with her children on the 1st floor. And on the 2nd and the 3rd floor are the student rooms with a bathroom and a kitchen on each floor. The habbit there is that the students cook their meal together, but I'll see how everything works once I get there ofcourse. Oh I know where that is. That's a deal ;D And studying too hard...who? me? Yup it's the first time I'm out of home for a longer time (holiday camps and skiing trips with friends excluded). Hmm I do think, with some mathematical insight, there will fit three drunken friends in the room. You have to sleep on the floor and there's also the confrontation with the house owner in the morning ofcourse ;D By the way, tomorrow I'm off for a two week holiday in America!! I have the general feeling that it will be amazing, and also the general confidence that it will be amazing. So I do think it will be quite amazing. ;D Enjoy the two weeks of Chaos without my posts, but don't get used to it because I'm coming back. See you all the 7th september
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Post by Elliot Kane on Aug 21, 2008 11:40:08 GMT
Enjoy your holiday and have fun getting through US customs! Apparently the most paranoid in the world ;D
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Post by cleglaw on Aug 21, 2008 11:55:49 GMT
Enjoy your holiday and have fun getting through US customs! Apparently the most paranoid in the world ;D I would have to say that Dubai is or was worse, much worse. It is the only Arab country I ever entered; I don't know about the others. Oh I know where that is. That's a deal ;D And studying too hard...who? me? Study as hard as you can. Make it your first priority. Forget about your drunken friends who seek to lead you astray!
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Post by LaFille on Aug 21, 2008 23:41:54 GMT
Hmmm... Welcome back in advance? Hope that you intend to make up for that 2 weeks without posting too once back, eh?
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Post by Hildor on Aug 30, 2008 3:09:15 GMT
Nah, I couldn't stay away for two weeks without posting ;D I'm in a hotel with internet connection ánd I have time to spend a little more time on the laptop, so I decided to keep lovely Chaos up to date with my adventures ^^ We (me and my dad; mom and sis stayed at home for their own reasons) departed at Brussels on friday, way too early in the morning. Yes, 7 o' clock is WAY too early in the morning for me. The first flight to Chicago took about 8 hours. 8 hours that didn't really last long because I was eager to go back to America again. In Chicago we had a dull wait of about 3 hours and then took our second flight to Salt Lake City. When we arrived there after another 2-3 hours we picked up the rental car and drove straight away to the hotel where I immediately jumped into bed to sleep the jetlag away. The next day we went to see the Mormon "headquarters" in Salt Lake City and then drove off in the direction of Yellowstone National Park. In the afternoon we visited the salt flats of Bonneville where the last day of the Bonneville Speed Week was going on. Very cool to see those speed-record-breaking cars in action. It was also great to cruise through the American desert with myself at the wheel for the first time. At the end of the day we stopped in a town called Snowville that practically lives of the freeway next to it (truckers who stop there etc). We slept in a "selfservice motel", the owner of the motel wasn't present, so you had to leave your name, visa information and money in an envelope and it was okay. "Thank you for your honesty " it said ^^. The next day (which is sunday) we drove to Yellowstone National Park. Really, I have no words for the beauty of that park. Also, the geological features of that park are FREAKING INTERESTING. The earth's crust under the park is very thin in comparison to the rest of the world. That makes that magma is coming very close to the ground water. This in turn makes that water heat up so it rises to the surfice, resulting in geysers, hot water pools, bubbling mud puddles and fumaroles. North America really offers astonishing nature to see. Also quite scary to know that the Park is in fact a huge volcano that can have very bad consequences when it erupts... We spent another one and a half day in Yellowstone and then drove off towards Moab, near the Arches National Park. Tuesday and Wednesday provided only a very long drive through the desert. But when we came near Moab on Wednesday evening we saw a ghost town called Cisco. Unfortunately we realised it was a ghost town when we had passed it, so we didn't stop to take a look. Then on thursday started the big fun. The country near Moab (which includes the National Parks Arches and Canyonlands) is full of four wheel drive trails. And that's what we did ;D We've been driving around with THIS (click) beauty for two days now. My dad has a Jeep at home so we do know something about 4WD, which makes us enjoy it even more. The country you drive through is just breathtaking. Just google images of Canyonlands, Arches National Park and Moab; and you'll know what I'm feeling Tomorrow will have another day with the Jeep in here and then we'll be off to...we don't know yet ;D We have a flight back to Belgium from New Orleans so that's where we are heading within a large week. But for the rest we still have to find out what we want to see and visit. Maybe we'll take a look in Dallas, Houston and across the Mexican Border. But anyways, we'll have fun ^^ I'll see you all within a week or so, if don't post a second update in the meanwhile. P.S.: Forgot to give you my Official Greetings from the US of A...So there they are ;D
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Post by Elliot Kane on Aug 30, 2008 3:10:28 GMT
Glad you're having such a great time, Hildor
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