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Blog: This week was fairly light. Our economics class was cancelled so we had only two. History was business as usual. We discussed constitutional development in the EU. The class has shifted from covering expansion to deepening the understanding of the mechanisms. The second half of our culture section is based solely on art. This week we made up the first lesson and discussed medieval manuscripts. We talked about the process of making them along with the context of their content, which was almost entirely religious. It was a rather dry class.

This weekend I stayed local. I went with my friend Ariel to Brussels on Saturday. We walked around, saw a few cathedrals, and went to the Palaise Justice which is pretty impressive. After some sightseeing we went to the Irish pub Celtica and watched some of the 6 nations rugby match between Scotland and England. Afterwards we met up with a friend and went to A la Mort Subite. It is a very historic Bruxelleois brew pub that specializes in Lambics, a type of sour wheat beer native to Belgium. The name of the place translates to Sudden Death, which came from a popular card game played there. We also ate Pain noir avec fromage blanche, a very traditional Belgian accompaniment to a Lambic. Afterwards we went to the fish market and got a tasty prix fixe. Sunday proved to be really fun as well. A friend and I were feeling a little stir crazy so we went to a pub to watch the France versus Italy rugby match. Afterwards we went to the pub in town with a pool table. We ended up striking up a conversation with the bartender and we had a lot in common and had quite a laugh. He ended up showing us around after his shift was over. It was really nice to get a taste of how Leuven locals do.