Parakeets

Today was very rainy and windy, which seems to be pretty common weather here. It didn't spoil my plans though. I went to Waterstone's, the English book store in Brussels, to buy my textbooks. For some reason they don't sell Vesalius textbooks at the VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Dutch counterpart to Vesalius whose buildings we use) bookstore. After that I picked up my quest for boots and I was right by shopping alley, there's a mall (I didn't know they had those in Europe) and a giant department stores plus lots of other shops down the street, many of them shoe stores having major blowout sales. (It's not actually called shopping alley, I just made that up.) I managed to find a pair! Originally 120€ on sale for 70% off...36€, heck yes! Then I wandered around for a bit before getting a cheap umbrella because mine broke, being chatted up by a girl against the Iranian fundamentalist government, and getting a gaufre (waffle) mmmm. My host family's granddaughter is over, she's 9 months old and ADORABLE. Also, Thea is sick :(

So, a few years ago, maybe more than a few I'm not sure, someone's cat got out (Marika says it was my host family's cat), snuck into a neighbor's house and freed a couple parakeets while maybe eating some as well. Turns out there was at least one male and one female because they've mass produced and now there are hundreds of lime green parakeets living in the park down the street. They sit in the same two trees every night. I'm not sure why they don't migrate somewhere warmer and I wonder what they eat. I'll try to take a picture where you can tell what kind of birds they are.

-Lauren :)