Getting used to Brussels (Kind of...)

I apologize for the lateness of my first post, but I have finally mastered this blog system.  Ill have pics to share next week.  The first week here in rainy Brussels was deceptively sunny and warm, it rains almost 230 days out of the year.  Also I learned that this guy does not get along well with public transportation.  I got lost at least once every day for the first week, and one of those nights I took the last Metro of the evening in the complete wrong direction and ended up in Molenbeek (Which I would later learn is a very bad Arab neighborhood).  But I was able to speak enough Arabic to meet Khalid, who didnt speak any english, but he was from Morocco.  Khalid walked me to an all night Kebeeb shop where his Turkish girlfriend Fatima was able to speak to me in english and get me on the last night bus back to my apartment.  I thought that was really interesting because in class we learned that the Arab and Turkish communities of Europe typically do not get along, and seeing Khalid and Fatima crossing that norm seemed like an interesting instance of experiencing the information from the classroom.