Randomness #1

List of Belgium beers at Cafe Belgie in Utrecht.

I had the dark Delirium called Nocturum.

 Cafe Belgie is a chill bar to go too, especially if you like to try Belgium beers, hence the name.  The Delirium beer that I tried was quite good and tasted very different from any beer I had before.  It is a dark beer with an alcohol percentage of 8,5%. There was another beer also by Delirium which was a blonde beer, which I shall have the next time I go. Delirium lives true to its name as after consuming 2 or more one can get quite...well um delirious! At first was I drinking the beer I was really confused as to why I felt so tipsy so quickly, but a kind Dutch lady explained to me when she sat down and sat what I was drinking. Of course my Irish classmate, Matt, had 3 Deliriums and looked totally fine...while I quietly nursed my single beer at this bar. Here is the Wikipedia link if you would like to read more, especially if you are really into Belgian beers!

Mushrooms galore, Liza you could go crazy!

McFlurry with both peanut and regular M&Ms mixed.

 I was craving for soft serve ice so, went to the McDonalds in Utrecht. They surprised me both with this McFlurry containing peanuts (note: I am not a fan of peanuts in my ice cream! Chocolate is the max I can go) as well as handing me a free burger. I thought Europe was not into freebies, including the McDonalds, but I guess I was wrong!

The bike path from Utrecht University to Zeist.

 I really am enjoying the bike path to and from the university campus. There are also birds and trees and farm animals around. Today I also noticed a small stand by a fruit farm that contained apples you could by...next time I am going to stop and look more closely, I thought I saw a sign for fresh eggs, but I could be wrong. Anyways, it is always lovely to see the horses, sheep and cows on the way to school. I am also improving my bike time closer to 15 minutes to get to school instead of 25 minutes, yay!

Typical Dutch street with bikes parked wherever and bike and road paths side by side.

Last night I went into Utrecht for my first Dutch lesson, which a friend found through Couchsurfing. A group of people get together every Tuesday night to teach anyone that wants to learn and speak Dutch. The best part is...it is for FREE! They put together an entire course manual, so I am very excited to be learning! Knowing German does help, but sometimes it messes me up because when I see a word, I want to pronounce the German way, but it needs to be pronounced something entirely different. At least the grammar is very similar so far.



Speaking of learning languages, I will also being taking a Spanish 1 Course starting mid-November with the James Boswell Institute. I am definitely excited to being learning it, especially after hearing so much from working at Papa Razzi 24/7 last year. Plus I would love to go to Latin America for fun or for work/research!  The institute also offers German 3-5...so I will probably try and take a German language course in mid-November as well to get back into it.  In the spring I hope to take Dutch courses with them, as I missed out on all the times good for me in the fall and anything left conflicts with my class times.