here i am in leuven, struggling to find the right keys because keyboards are crazy over here!!! who knows how i will manage my thesis! the flights were good - had a row to myself flying over to sydney. once there the airport went crazy about security - making people take their shoes off... a businessman who had the profile of bad richard off coronation street ( not that i've studied richard's profile of course!!!) sat in my row from sydney to bangkok, and gave me the famous quote: 'i've always wanted to be an archaeologist'. the flight from bangkok to franfurt was fine and again i had lots of space because i was at the very back of the plane. franfurt airport is HUGE!!! but i arrived in plenty of time at my gate.

and so here i am. and benn is next to me. i love leuven already - awesome cobbled streets and old buildings. i stayed in a youth hostel last night and might have to do that again tonight; because finding a place to live is proving more difficult than i had hoped. we've decided it is like the amazing race - me and benn against all other foreign students - trying to find a place to live. there seems to be a circular problem in that you can't do one thing until you have done another. but all is good.

i am sitting in the registry building and have been searching for flats online. this building used to be an old church and has some very cool statues and pillars. there are a lot of people here, getting their photos taken and enrolling...

i will leave it at that for now. flat hunting comes first at the moment!!! thanks to those that have already emailed me. once i have all of the paperwork out of the way i will be able to reply to you all and give you more details.

until next time...