Today was rather uneventful, since all we did as a group was take a train from Antwerp back to Amsterdam, so I'm going to follow Jimmy's advice and do a little reflecting on the things we did in Antwerp. To start off with, I'm suprised with the sheer amount of activities we managed to get into two days of Antwerp. My favorite event out of anything (maybe even througout this entire trip) was meeting with the Muslim youth yesterday. Wissam and Tissam far surpassed my expectations of Muslim women (I had originally thought they would be more conservative and reserved thant they really were) and thier friends Mouni and Abraham were so fun! It surprised me that with all the differences we had in our cultural backgrounds, how well we got along and how similar some of our interests were, and I can't help but wonder what their reactions to me and the rest of my GIEU collegues were. One activity that stood out the most to me was how I first began communicating with Mouni, who didn't speak English but understood it. Between the two of us, we exchanged German (me), Dutch (him), and English (me) words in order to communicate. It ended up turning into a game to see which words were similar in which language. It was jolly good fun and very interculture... Ok, well, that didn't turn out to be as reflective as I meant it to be, but yea, today was a pretty uneventful day. I just wanted to fill in more about yesterday's activities, since yesterday's activities (for me and a few other people from GIEU) *did* extend into early morning of today.

- Jacqui