At long last there has been a minimum amount of legal work for the last two weeks!
Wandering the Christmas market was great (lots of Gluhwein and waffels were consumed) with the best part being able to go skating next to Het Steen and the Scheldt. Unfotunately I was silly and forgot my own skates and had to borrow some (which weren't at all comfortable) but otherwise it was great to be out on the ice practicing turns and spirals after a few months off. The fun weekend continued with the IELSP trip to Brussel - free train travel, free lunch, a tour of the European Parliament building, entry to the Parlamentarium and a lecture by the head of the European Commission's legal team negotiating EU accession to the ECHR and free dinner, dessert and wine. Fantastic!
Sadly the law kicked in again for my Children's Rights presentation, but a whizzy powerpoint and a nervous 7 minutes of speech later it was over and I was officially on holiday - woo!
A few days of frantic packing, present buying and stressing about the public sector strike the day before flying home later I landed in the UK after almost 4 months on Belgian soil - it was good to be home. After a whirl of family meals and a surprise trip to see The Snowman in Birmingham is was time to fly back to Antwerpen again with my best friend for our traditional New Year's celebrations.
Being the good students that we are (and worried about the impending exam season) we've been revising for a couple of hours each morning and then going to museums, eating waffels/chocolate/frieten, skating and visiting Brussel. Tonight we plan to see 2012 in from by Het Steen for a 20-minute fireworks display over the Schedlt - the perfect way to get in amongst the Antwerpen community and celebrate the beginning of another year.
Until next year!
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