first impressions of belgium

I am finally moved into my apartment and I am getting settled. I walked around downtown today to go to some museums and just get feel for the city. I thought you all might enjoy taking a peek of what this place is all about. First of all, everywhere you walk is usually covered in some variation of this:

Let me tell you this is a treat on the feet: ) Some of the fancy shmancy old buildings look like this:

I went to an art museum and saw the following painting. It gave me hope that one day the doodles on the side of my notebook will someday be worth hundreds of euros.

I live on the 4th floor of this:

And I sleep on this:

I went to a Music Museum and saw a pipe instrument that looked like this:

And I even had time left over for one of these amazing gifts from heaven:

Thank you so much through all your support through prayer. If you want specific requests here are a few:

* Language study!!!

* Opportunities to talk to my classmates about the Lord

* Relationships with other M’s here. That we would learn to love each other more deeply and work together in unity.