Good Grief (part one)

GUESS WHO'S BACK

(In Delhi.)

Originally I was going to do a rundown of the last six months in one post, but Sofie (one of my two loyal readers) pointed out that that was not a good idea.

Because.

Well.

No one has the patience for that.

So. Fine. 


I think I left off somewhere after the Maldives, when I was going to return back to Belgium.

Have to admit. I was not happy about returning.

I liked my little Delhi bubble. My bubble was nice. Nice little bubble.

Luckily, these two were there upon my return.

And then these two were there.

And because, I of course can't stay longer than two weeks in one place, about three days after I returned I booked flights to Berlin. 

Because. 

Why not. 

And because I can, I convinced Riana and Karyna to come as well.

No. 

We didn't have any work to do for class.

No. 

Shush. 

I can sum up Berlin in about 3 words. 

1. Shots.

2. Barman.

3. Free walking tour. 

(Yes. I know. That's technically 6.) 

GUYS

I mean don't get me wrong, we saw tourist stuff. 

You know. 

Like that square. 

And that thing in that place with those people. 

Oh and that other thing!**

Anyway. We returned. 

And then these guys were there! 

Cause a little BSB reunion can't hurt (even if its three Fridays in a row.) 

Well. And then I went back to Delhi. 

To see my old squishy beard face. 

(You'd think I'd go for my parents. But. Dog.)

(No, I'm joking.)

(Really, I went for the food.)***

To be honest, I needed to be back in Delhi those two weeks. Delhi may be one of the most chaotic places I've been to, but it's a calming chaos. That no matter what happens everything somehow seems to work out here  (I should be a motivational speaker). 

When I went back to Belgium someone came to visit. 

Someone whose joke book I'm still waiting for. 

Someone. Whose name is. 

Fabby!

I think we had a good weekend no? Watching ridiculously horrible movies but those noodles. Wow. Noodles. Yes. Noodles.  

Thanks for coming! I'll be in your neck of the woods around September. So. Just you know. Be ready. 

And then. Then we went to a ball organized by my faculty, of which the one picture they took was quite horrendous.

And subsequently I do not have permission to post it. 

I mean it's really not that bad guys. Can I really not post it here?

Fine. I won't. 

The weeks following were pretty standard actually.

What did we do.

Well. We had a barbecue. 

It's a dog wearing sunglasses.

She's WEARING sunglasses. Also, her name is Cat. 

We went swimming in a lake. (No catfish present)

Had another barbecue. 

(Imagine bbq picture here)

Okay to be honest, those barbecues mostly happened because Riana and I wanted to see the dogs. 

Don't get me wrong, people are nice, but. Dogs.  

Anyway. At this point we're at exams. And we've come full circle. 

It was wonderful. Exams are great. They're the best. 

Especially that horrendous Dutch exam. It was that type of exam where the teacher would explicitly say "no this won't be on the exam" and then proceed to put exactly that one thing on the exam. 

And I mean explicitly. 

Anywho. 

My family came down from India, San Fransisco as well as Tervuren and we spent two weeks at the beach. 

And now we wait till Christmas to be together again. Family far away you guys better come. I'm don't want to wait a year to see you guys again. 

Please.

Pretty please. 

I'll make mac and cheese. 

I went to Antwerp a few times. I forgot how nice Antwerp is. I like Antwerp. 57 more days till I can see Antwerp again. 

I had another visitor, from a teeny tiny state called Delaware. 

PIA!

What didn't we do when you were here. 

Well, sleep. We didn't sleep.

Tuesday: Babysit a munchkin 

Wednesday: Bruges.

(Did you guys know Bruges was that nice?! I didn't know it was that nice?! I finally feel like a proper Belgian for having visited Bruges. I'm one of you guys now!) 

Thursday: Rock Werchter

First time going to Werchter to see Imagine Dragons, Arcade Fire, Chainsmokers and Kings of Leon. Only. As I left Arcade Fire to go to Chainsmokers (I know I know scandalous) I couldn't get into the room so I got stuck outside with about 200+ people trying to fight their way in. FUN.

(It was actually a fun day).

Crew.

Friday: Nope.

Just.

Nope. Today was nope.

Oh actually thats not true. Somehow we ended up out again.


Saturday: This day was nope.

Nope.

Just. No.

Dead.

Sunday + Monday: PARIS.

Riana, Pia and I went to Paris for a night! Because we plan amazingly! And completely didn't suffer walking 30km in 1.5 days!

Tuesday: Brussels and Antwerp. Again, because of my amazing scheduling I made Pia walk 10km+ that day. But hey. Can you really call it getting to know a country if you don't rush from place to place and only allow for about an hour in each city?

Exactly. 

It's fine.

Wednesday: 

Bittersweet. 

Bagels.

Bars.

Sushi.

Byes. 

Thursday: Delhi. 

And that's where I'll leave you for today because I've been trying to write this post for about a month but no. I. No. 

I'll post about Sikkim in a few days because I don't want Sofie to be disappointed, even though she went with me. 

Later gators. 

** We did actually see stuff. No, we're not being "millennials". 

***I'm just joking. Mama, Papa, love you!