POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER
The clothes and more specifically the business attire in Brussels takes a little while to notice. Well for me it did. Brussels isn’t known for high fashion, but the people living here definitely have a sense of style (as in other European cities). Everyone goes to work in business clothes. At the organization I work […]
Belgian is great for not only for its chocolates and waffles, but it also has hundreds of amazing desserts. All of them are colorful and fancy. It makes you want to try them all. Little cakes, many types of pastries, tarts, and some things I’ve never seen before. I really like to look at all […]
The patios in Europe are something that you just can’t mimic in Canada. The weather for one thing allows the patios to be open from about May to the end of October. Most patios are on the sidewalks. They have little square or round tables with chairs as light as a feather. They aren’t made […]
The cobblestones. Yes, they ruined three pairs of my expensive leather Canadian high heels. I trip over stones sticking out of ground pretty much everyday and sometimes more than once a day. There is a particular stone that sticks out on the sidewalk in front of my apartment, which I’ve tripped over many times. But […]
When I started to receive emails requests to join Facebook, after it was already semi-popularized, I just kept deleting them. I wasn’t too interested and then I finally caved in because it was growing and growing to the point where people were making social references in conversation to the network. So I signed up and […]