Day 1 - the sequel!

Day 1 is slowly coming to an end... Nothing much has happened, but it's worth a blog entry :) We spent the entire day looking for an apartment. Our search wasn't very succesful, but we already saw a whole heap of the city centre! Unfortunately the weather is not too good: rain, rain, rain. Luckily being Belgian it doesn't bother me too much. We better get used to it, because it won't really get any better! Tomorrow we are going to do some sightseeing and on Monday we are going to look at 2 apartments in the centre. Fingers crossed! Orientation week starts on Tuesday and the shedule is pretty busy. Hopefully the group of exchange students will be great...

What have we already learnt during our short stay in Latvia:

• McDonalds is way cheaper here. A medium Big Mac Menu costs around 3EUR.
• Older people don't speak English. We got spoken to in Russian on the bus. Maybe we should take some Russian lessons, so we could at least say we don't speak Russian :)
• Being dumb is no longer a privilege for blondes! Brunette Saskia has her moments too! We decided to make a 'dumb-list'. Saskia already possesses places 1 and 2 :D

Our hostel is not the most interesting place ever... it is situated in a rather boring area. So we really want to move closer to the centre of Riga. The rooms are quite small. Saskia and I share a room of 11m² and we also have to share our bathroom with 2 other persons we haven't met yet. I will add some pics soon, so you can judge for yourself!

Finally I will introduce the 'dumb-list' top 3 which will probably be updated very often :D
1. Saskia: I was standing in 'de Aldi' with messed-up make-up and clothes. Ellen: People must have been looking to you in a very strange way? Saskia turns around to a group of people passing by: where they looking at me? Sure Saskia :D
2. Saskia who drops her basket of goodies in the supermarket... Doesn't sound funny, but it looked very funny to me :)
3. To be announced!

That's it for today! Bye for now... !!!