Bon Jour!

For anyone out there who doesn't know...we traveled to Belgium this week to start working on a new documentary project about the country of Rwanda in Africa. We made it to Brussels at about 8:30am on Wednesday. To us it felt like the middle of the night, but we stayed up and completed a full day's work. We rented a car and scouted locations, picked up equipment, and even got to shoot footage of the subject of our film as he was being interviewed in a TV studio by Al-Jazeera. By sheer coincidence Rwanda was big news here yesterday because its government issued a statement accusing France of participating in the 1994 genocide. So that's why he was being interviewed.

We got room service last night and slept from 9pm to 7am. I cannot remember the last time I've gotten so much sleep. It was great. We've been interviewing Paul this morning, and we're about to drive to Antwerp for another interview. This one is with one of the world's experts on Rwanda and the genocide.

Mat is planning to keep track of our work-related progress on our company blog here. I will try to post here on the family blog about some of the fun parts of the trip. So far the most fun :-) and challenging thing has been driving! Actually I got the hang of driving fairly quickly even though our rental car is a manual transmission and everyone here just cuts in front of each other and crams into any space in the road they can fit. It's the finding our way around that's challenging. It sure makes you realize how easy we have it in the US where everything is clearly labeled with big green signs.

The weather was extremely sunny and warm yesterday. Today it's rainy and cooler. Everyone has been really nice. I've only had a couple of times when the language barrier has been a problem. Most people here speak at least some English. I loved this phrase that's on our room service menu "meusli of choco pops." That one cracked me up.

I will post some pics tonight if I get a chance to download the camera.

Au revoir!