Welcome to room 215

I've been living here at the castle for about five months now. When I came here I got the keys to room 215 where I have been living since then. I live on my own as most of the students here. There are a few double rooms at the castle for those who wish to share, otherwise you get a quite big room for yourself. We are a couple under 40 students, from the different schools at the campus, living at the boarding. I live on the second floor as all older students and most of the IB students do.
    The rooms were already furnished with all the essentials and some extra stuff varying from room to room. All rooms have a little sink area, but bathrooms and showers are shared. Not all rooms here look the same, there are different shapes and sizes of rooms and the ceiling of the rooms on the first floor is much higher than the ceiling on the second floor.
   Here is a tour of room 215:

Boarding weekends

Last week passed by extremely quickly, but I managed to do a lot of things. This Friday, some of us at the boarding planned to have a campfire and grill marshmallows and sausages. Me and Olivia were in charge of the shopping, and went all out. We ate smores, sang songs around the grill and talked about current events and politics.
      On Saturday I went out to Brussels with Frida, to check out the sale they have at the moment. We also happened to stumble upon Jeanneke Pis which is the girl version of Mannequin Pis. Brussels was packed with people as in Belgium shops are only allowed to have a sale twice a year.
    Sunday at the boarding was quiet as it usually is. Me, Lisa, Olivia and Alina had a perfect ending to the week watching Monsters Inc. and eating popcorn.
  Today I woke up to a new week with snow outside my window.

La Hulpe

Today when I woke up there was no electricity at the boarding. During the night a tree had fallen on the power lines and cut off all electricity to the Chateau and school. Me, Alina and Olivia then decided to bike to another castle close by, the La Hulpe Chateau. It was extremely rainy and windy while we were biking from Waterloo to La Hulpe, but it wasn't that cold and I would compare the winter in Belgium to mid autumn in Finland.
   The La Hulpe Chateau is located in a park and is open for people to visit. There is a cafe in the castle but today it was closed. The castle is from the early 19th century and is surrounded by 400 hectares of land, fields, lakes, stables and forests. It took us much longer to get to the castle than we thought and we were out and about from 13.45 to 18.15, so almost all day. When we came back the electricity was back too.