The week that was…
Classes are in full gear now with all the necessary evils
that comes with it. Vesalius, I will admit, has challenged me much more than
Tech. All of my classes are limited to less than 20 students per class, and all
the lectures include all students participating in the discussion. So before
class I must be up to date on the days topic and the current events in the
world. My Corporate Strategy professor, a former Harvard MBA professor, gives
us case studies of actual companies after each class. In preparation for the
next class we must have a list of strategic plans the company should follow to
be successful. It’s incredibly enlightening to truly be a participant in a
class rather than a listener like many of my classes at Tech.
Battle of Waterloo Memorial
Battle of Waterloo Memorial
Little Napoleon
This week I tried to keep it as cheap as possible in
preparation for my travels and exploits with Alex, my good friend who is coming
to stay with me for several days. The common nightly dish includes spaghetti,
bolagnese sauce and a light salad (livin the lavish life!). I rode another 200 miles this week previewing
the course that the Brussels Cycling Classic course. Once again, I am shocked
at how many tough hills that Belgium has to offer, over 10000 feet of climbing
this week. I made several ventures as well on my bike. I checked out the
impressive city of Wavre (one of the major Wallonian hubs) and the Battle of
Waterloo museum and battlefield(just for you Mr. Bradham). Waterloo was
incredibly humbling. Home to one of the most historic battles in world history
where Napolean was defeated in______ War. Just imagine had Napoleon won the
battle….we might all be speaking French right now.
Andre Greipel and I
Andre Greipel and I
Friday night the Knudsen’s graciously took me to dinner at
an exquisite Italian restaurant in downtown Brussels. Everything tasted
incredible. You can just taste the authenticity of the food. During our 3 hour
dinner (a restaurant would never let that happen in the States) we were
surprised with entertainment. Hundreds of well-lit roller skaters and cyclists
partied down the streets of Brussels blasting dance music and drinking beer. It
was quite a scene. Saturday, Hans and I woke up bright and early to watch the
start of the Brussels Cycling Classic, a professional bike race with many of
the top racers in the world. Because we arrived so early we got to mingle with
the racers, take pictures, autographs, and ask them all kinds of questions. I
even got to take a picture with my favorite pro cyclists Andre Greipel (one of
his legs was like three of mine, they were huge!!!). As they took off, Hans and
I had 4 hours to kill until they came back to finish. We knew that the Grand
Place was having a huge beer festival with over 80 breweries offering tastings
of their beer. So of course we took full advantage of this. After drinking a
“few” we headed to a small café that was well known for fresh, organic
sandwiches. I had_________. We then headed to finish line, many of the team
buses were already parked there, and were passing out free team bottles to the
fans. Quickly, the racers were approaching the finish line , we got front row
seats right at the line. It was a photo-finish and to no surprise Andre Greipel
won the race by half a wheel!
Once again we had amazing weather all week, hopefully it
will stay nice this week. I’m super excited for my friend Alex to get here so I
can show him all around. We plan on traveling all over the place, possibly
Cologne, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris, Copenhagen, just too many choices!!!
Can’t to share more of my stories next week. GO COWBOYS
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