Henry Alexander

19/4/2012 Today, as usual we have French course so as usual, we wandered around Verviers until 5:30 rolled around, and we went to French class. Last French class I was telling people about how awesome it was having my birthday in Madrid, but that one let-down was I didn’t get a cake. Well Lydia and Nicola took it upon themselves to go out of their way and make me a cake, complete with candels in the shape of the number ‘19’. I seriously was just so happy that they went to the effort to get me a caker, even though my birthday had long passed. So after hearing from a woman from Southern Italy, and eating some traditional food from her country, we ate my cake, which was amazing. So yeah, next Monday I have to ... read more

26/3/2012 Today is usually a lovely-lunch-but-otherwise-nothing-to-report kinda day, But tonight we had our eagerly awaited premiere performance of Gospel, starting at 8 (actually started at 8:20) and running for just over two hours. We also had French classes, so I had no time to go home in between my packed schedule, so having done 75% of the French course, I decided to go grab some dinner before I went to gospel that night. I thought about going to Maccas for the following reasons. Number 1) Simplicity. There is little to no variation in orders that they’ll ask you in super-fast belge-french for, which eases the ordering process. “Big Mac” is universally acceptable for “I’m Hungry, feed me”. Number 2) you knew exactly what the food was going to taste like, so there were no random surprises. ... read more

14/2/2012 Today, I was going with the drama students of class 5 and 6 to Malagne, A place where we were going to stay for the next 3 (school) day and practice our drama for the Spectacle during the Gospel show in a few weeks time. Alain very generously picked up the tab for this trip, and also drove me, Colin and two of her friends all the way down there right in the middle of a Wednesday. When we got there, the first thing I noticed was how freaking huge this building was. Seriously. It had 4 stories, 3 of which were underground, and it was all complete with huge dining rooms, 500 rooms and heaps of conference and random rooms. That night we did a few rotations (each rotation was an hour long), with ... read more

2/3/2012 Its March ! we’re so so busy with rotary activities this month, literally something that we gotta do rotary related on EVERY weekend. This weekend, its on Saturday at 9-12, at a local school hosting a carrers expo for the Vervies area. But tonight, myself, Chris, Eliza, Riley and Morgan decided to have a bit of a get-together so we could all journey there the next morning together. It started in Verviers, where we bought some supplies for the night, and went to a local bar called Beluga. We weren’t there long before we decided we could make better fun ourselves, so journeyed back to Morgans, to find an amazing meal of spag bolg and chocolate pudding her darling host mum made us…. 3/3/2012 An early start for us today, and we headed to the ... read more

13/2/2012 Today, there was no rotary meeting. It was cancelled for some reason I wasn’t notified about. This basically meant I DIDN’T get out of early Monday school classes, get to drive to the clubhouse, have an amazing 3 course Belge lunch, and hang out with Chris Riley and Eliza while the rest of school was in class, while we were savouring sweet Belge crepes. You can imagine my sadness. 14/2/2102 Not much to note from today, apart from the fact I was dragged into this kind of musical performance where I play guitar for a choir at some point this year. So that’s all good. Missing my Strat and Deluxe Reverb so much at this point, where I’m playing through and amp that’d you’d be likely to find one of similar quality as one at ... read more