We had our first storm 2 days ago, an ice-storm. The first thought we had was: "Ow this is cool!" 'cause school closed for -at that moment- a day. Then the next day we had the same freezing temperatures and ice was staking up the trees, which resulted that the trees and branches snapped... And school closed for the whole week! Some parts of Richmond ran out of power which resulted that we hadn't any internet!

To make a long story short: we got bored just sitting in Brockton so we decided to make a road-trip to Tennessee. Friends Sven and Chris of us are also studying here in the USA at TTU. So said so done: we went to enterprise (the local car-rental company) and hired a car, the cheapest they said. In my opinion the worst car they could offer ahahah! We took a drive of 4 hours to Tennesse, Cookville met up with our friends.

We're know in the Best Western Motel in Cookeville, room 104 Whooohoo. The woman behind the desk over-priced us for three days :o, she charged us 210$ for the weekend but after I complained to here we got a discount of 70$ haha in your face you *****!

I'll upload some pictures after the weekend!

Our school is closed today due to bad weather, check the pictures here or some movies here.

Some equipment I ordered arrived, 2 PTZ (Pan, Tile & Zoom) camera's and a PTZ controller. It's for my internship.

For our internship we have our own Office in the Business & Technology Center

See more pictures here.

Well after 2 weeks we're doing pretty good: we cook our meals ourself, doing our washes and also iron them - and they are looking pretty good, we doing our own shopping... Doing the housekeeping isn't so hard as they say, it's just enoying (laughing).

Life in USA is easy actually, what doesn't happen today MAYBE will happen day after tomorrow :D. Almost everynight we hear a firetruck, they are just big trucks with christmas lights on them, or a policecar... A lot of crime in Richmond I supose? It's cheap here in Richmond, well... The healthy stuff is quite expensive, but it's worth buying ;-)! We bought 24 cans of Coca-Cola (the cans are bigger then in Belgium -335 ml) for about 8$ that's 6,03 €!

And the people? Eumh like a normal American, 80% has overweight and from the other 20% there is 6% goodlooking (in my opinion..) you can fill in the other 14% of the population. Last night we met some people from the international program, Nadja Barz she is german and is here in acting school. She's also in the tennis team with some friends from Paris and Spain. And the dutchman is everywhere, even in Richmond! There is Ruud De Jong: He's scouted for a the basketball team. He stays here for 4 Years! You also got Martijn, Daan and ... ? I don't know what they're doing.

Wednesday we start with our internship program, we have our own office. You can find me, and also Dimitri every weekday except tuesday and thursday in the BCT building ,room 249.

On tuesday and thursday we are taking some classes, most of them are not to hard so it shouldn't be a problem to get good grades.

That's about it I think? I'll keep you guys updated now and then, thanks for visiting!

I finished the movie system, you can now watch movies in the movie section by clicking on 'Movies' or just click here.

Added some new photos in 'USA Week 1', 'EKU surroundings' and some photo's of our fight. Go to my photo album or just click here.

Today we talked with our internship counsellor and talked about 2 projects we will be working on the next 4 months.

The first is a kind of security camera system, which will be used to record guest presentations. Those recordings will be published on some kind of website. The second project is a system that shows a building map on a computer that is situated at the entrance of a building, a user can choose where he needs to go or who he will be meeting, the computer should print a map how to go to the correct place.

Also we registered for all our classes so we are ready for next week when our classes will start. Monday, Wednesday and Friday we will do internship and Tuesday & Thursday we will take some classes.

We just went to a basketball game in the EKU Coliseum, it's a huge building. It was the Kentucky Colonels against Jacksonville Gamecocks. EKU won with 69-59. It was a very nice game. You can watch some footage of the game in my photo album or just click here.

Now I'm gonna take a shower, watch a movie and go to sleep, see you tomorrow!

I finished the photo album, you can now watch some pictures of Dimitri and Me. Just click on 'Photos' or click here

Tomorrow I'll finish the movie section and upload some more pictures and movies

January the 5th, Dr Neil Wright picked us up at our motel. The first night we went to Subway, it was a 20min walk.

Once arrived at EKU we did some paperwork, normally we could claim our keys immediately but apparently they lost our keys so we had to wait from 11.00AM till 04.00PM. When we could enter our room we went together with Neil to Wall Mart to buy some personal stuff: bed sheets, food, beverages, etc..

Back on campus we unpacked our stuff, took a hot shower and went lunching with Neil. He took us to a Mexican restaurant. There're still some things we need to do: get a student-card and do an TB-test.

Now we are alone in our building, the students will arrive monday when all classes start. Every evening we watch a movie, Band Of Brothers. Check out the picture and movie section I'll upload some!

I just noticed that my commentssystem didn't worked, I just fixed the problem.

I'm sorry for this inconvenience

Today we left Belgium behind us and departed to the USA. We took off in Brussels at 9:50am so it was an early morning for Dimitri and me. It was my first flight ever but it wasn't so bad. In the plane we got Chicken and Cheese for diner. It was a bumpy flight so I couldn't sleep, that's why I'm so tired right now.

After an 8 hour during flight we arrived at New York in Newark Airport. In New York we had to pass 3 customs. Then we had to wait 2 hours before we could leave to Kentucky.

The last plane was very small, good we only had to sit in it for 1 hour and 40 minutes.

When we arrived in Lexington Kentucky a person from Easthern Kentucky University picked us up and took us to a motel where we are staying at this moment.

We just went to Subway to eat something, now I'm gonna take a shower and go to sleep because it was a hard day and I'm tired

I'll upload some photo's and video's tomorrow. Bye.