Making new friends

Ok, it's been a while since my last post on these pages. But as soon as I got into my new home, a hall of residence of LSE (ne peda in schoon dutch), everything shifted a couple of gears and I got into the fast lane.
But that doesn't mean I'm not gonna keep this blog updated, I'll keep on posting stuff on an irregular basis.
The main thing I've been doing the last couple of days is: meeting people, meeting people and once again meeting people. I just can't keep track of it anymore... And I thought an Erasmus year or living in Brussels was alreay quite international, well here it's even a lot more! The last 2 weeks I've litteraly met people from every continent.

And at the same time, things are starting to get on speed at university as well, it's quite different here from nice and easy 'leave-me-alone-for-the-first-couple-of-months' Leuven student life. People actually come here to learn something, can you imagine! So as from the first week the library is loaded. Ok, I thought well what can you do in between classes after your 5th coffee and when you finished your magazine. Indeed, you might as well go and check out the library.

It's a huge and modern library and they claim to be one of the biggest in social, economical and political sciences in the world, and as I'm studying here this year and thus kinda identify with LSE *ahum* I totally agree with them. There's about 1200 pc, over 200 laptop point and most of the campus is also wireless. And still you have to queue for a free pc... Ok, a lot of these people are just checking their mail, are on msn or write blogs like yours sincerely, but there's a lot of people already starting writing papers, searching for materials. The first week of the academic year, while the freshers forthnight is still going on! This is unseen in my academic career in Leuven, Madrid and Brussels until now. Jeeeeez!

So it's all about finding the right balance, that's what we've become good at in all these years, isn't it? I'll tell a bit more about the other side of the balance next time. (now I'm off preparing my seminar for tomorrow...)