I will get to the exciting stuff later, well actually everything is exciting. I will start with going to Lille, France for the flea market. My suggestion is that if you can deal with millions of people you would enjoy it. I enjoy going to flea markets, concerts, etc, but when there is something like 2 million people it just isn’t my cup of tea. I am not a person to deal with lots of people which is why back home in the US I would do my best to avoid places like Walmart on the 1st and the 15th. One could barely walk around there were so many people. It took us seriously 15 minutes to walk a short block. We drove to a metro station on the outside of town and caught the metro into the center of crazy. Due to the fact that it was a very hot day and we could barely move outside we decided to go inside of a bookstore where we spent a lot of time and I left with 3 French cookbooks. After cookbooks we decided to find a place to eat and of course Oli wanted mussels which is a big part of the flea market because the restaurants compete to get the largest pile of empty shells outside. I enjoyed a steak and fries while Oli chowed down on mussels. After, we fought through the crazy crowd to get to the crowded metro. On the way home we were listening to the radio and the news flash said because a huge storm was coming they were evacuating the flea market, we had left just in time. The next morning I baked a beautiful cake for my mother-in-law since it was her birthday and I gave her one of the cookbooks that I bought in Lille.
One night early this week Oli and I had just settled into bed and we were both about to drift to sleep when Oli starts screaming and he turns on the light. There is a HUGE black spider in the bed with us. It apparently had fallen on Oli’s head. Oli tells me that the spider is now playing dead and that I should watch it so he could get paper towel. I saw a scenario playing in my mind of the spider moving while Oli was away so I immediately refused and decided that I would get the paper towel. I know if I had been in the room alone with it I would scream until everyone in our apartment building was awake. I went and got what we needed and when I got back the sucker then decides to get up and move, Oli killed it after I screamed, “Kill it! Kill it!” a few times.
So more good stuff, yesterday I went to Chievres Air Base to fill out paperwork for my new job as a Food Service Worker with AAFES. My HR rep took me to SHAPE for my first time there to get my United States ID card so I am allowed on the base. The only issue I have is because I applied for a Belgian ID as a foreign resident I cannot get a card to be allowed on SHAPE only Chievres…oh well. I then met my supervisor and got my work uniform. I officially start work on Tuesday. So far I am loving the benefits of my job that include shopping on base at the commissary which is cheaper because everything is apparently in US dollars and also I have a APO mailbox on base which means I can order things online from stores at home like Walmart and Target that don’t normally ship internationally, but will ship to APOs. Next week I will be making money! Oli and I have been talking about our finance plans with the fact that I will be working and things are looking good including the fact that I can save towards playing off my student loan. The countdown until Tuesday is on! Now Oli and I head out to get fries for dinner.
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