Hondenpoep in dez bak! Day one

Day one
Today I said goodbye to the parents and went on a really long flight to Belgium. The flight was 8 hours and terribly uncomfortable, but very worth it! Nothing is in English and navigating around is kind of difficult but I ended up running into my friends at the airport! We got our luggage and then headed for the train station which was in the airport. We couldn't find our teacher and so decicded to just buy a ticket and meet at the next stop but as we were buyin them we ran into our teaher and the rest of the group! So we were off to Maastricht in the Netherlands. The train ride was awesome! Vineyards and olive trees and green fields with little cottages. It was beautiful! And the towns we passed had these narrow streets with huge apartments. It's like one big building with different fronts and roofs. Then about an hour later we got into Maastricht. We walked from the train station to our hostel which is right on the water of the river. From there we headed into town which has a ton of shopping and had lunch at a pizzeria. I chose a random thing off the menu because I can eat pizza anywhere! It kinda tasted like ravioli... It was delicious! Then we walked around the town and found some cool squares and chappels and streets. It's so beautiful here! I don't think I'm coming home! Sorry. We wandered into this church which turned out to be a place to keep historical stuff. Yes that is the technical term for it! Google it. Hahhah. Well when we were in their they had these giant rock slabs woh carvings on them presented on this glass and steel table... But while i was looking at that arleigh- another girl from CSU -was obsessed with this wall that looked like it had a revolving door. It did. It was so amazing! Some giy who worked there came in and just pushed one side and the whole wall turned! We got to go in! It was so awesome!!! We also found dinner for tomorrow (or today now) at this little meat and cheese shop! Smelled so good we had to go in! Everyone was exhausted from being up for 24 hours now so we headed back to out hostel and got some beers and went to our orientation hahah. It's going to be a good trip. We "BBQ-Ed" at the hostel which apparently consists of them handing us a platter of raw meat and us grilling it ourselves... It was interesting! After dinner we just walked around town some more and sat in a little square and drank a bottle of wine with friends! When we came back I really wanted to read my book but considering that I just woke up at 5:30 in the morning I'm guessing that didn't happen! Hahah. And now I am off to another day of adventure! Love you all! 
Ash
Oh and one last thing. Dutch is awesome! It is the most hilarious language I have ever read. It's like English with less spaces and more letters.... Hilarious!!! I can't even make it down one street without bursting out in laughter about a sign! Or trying to say one! I took a picture of the please pick up your dogs poop sign! I'll try to post the picture but no promises! But here is whAt it said, "Hondenpoep in deze bak" hahahha put the poop in the bag! Deze bak! Tooo funny. Don't worry I'll post more hilarious sayings. They are  entirely too funny to pass up!
Adios! ( beacause I still don't know how to say bye in Dutch! That's goal number one for today! Along with some other key phrases so we don't sound so stupid any more!)