(the day of too much chocolate)
yes im blogging on christmas. what of it?
im in victorine (my french exchange student)'s house with her lovely family. they picked me up from the brussels airport on tuesday, and we drove to bruges which is called the venice of the north. it was here that chocolate was ruined for me forever, or hopefully just for a while.
we walked around, ate lunch, its so adorable, then her mom bought us all chocolate lolli's and nutella covered waffels and hot chocolate. sounds lovely right? well it mostly was but the thing is im a super slow eater, and french people are pretty fast eaters, so i kinda had to choke down the nutella waffel concoction, not an easy task.
so i get a little nervous everytime im staying with an unfamiliar family, or just when im traveling in genreal, and kinda tend to loose my appetite. so that night i tried to finish my dinner so as not to offend and not keep them waiting while i tried to keep up. everything seemed fine and dandy until i woke up in the middle of night with a stomache ache that would not subside. i threw up, and the next morning had a slight fever and had to sleep the entire day. i dont exactly know what caused it, but im pretty sure it had something to do with not sleeping well for weeks, what with leaving prague and packing and finals and going to venice and staying in cheap hostels and hauling my luggage up and down flights of stairs. i guess it was bound to catch up with me eventually.
christmas in the family was basically last night, it was vraiment formidable. we dressed up a little and drank lots of champagne, opened presents, and then ate dinner of raw meats which u cooked for yourself on your own little skillet. a good way to catch salminella if you ask me, also quite dangerous after everyone has been drinking. it was very nice nevertheless. i tried frog legs, not bad actually.
then we had chocolate ice cream and i got another stomache ache (this just simple cannot be) and we watched love actually in french, just as i suspected i dont even need to understand the language to love that movie.
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