Wednesday 24 February 1999

The European Parliament

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After making the morning trip from The Hague to Brussels, our class arrived at the European Parliament Building.

I was there, too.

In the actual Parliament meeting, where they discussed Kosovo, they had interpreters that would simultaneously interpret the discussion into all of the languages of the EC member countries.

After listening to a lot of nonproductivity (most of the MP's had left by the time it was over), we went back to the hotel. How many stars does this hotel have? Maybe if they would clean them, I could tell...

Over the next few nights, this beautiful courtyard (oohh; aahh) became a landmark — once we found it, we could knew we could from there find out way back to the hotel.

Since the jazz didn't start playing for a while at the club we discovered, we went to eat. As usual, everyone went separate ways for food. A few of us stopped next door and discovered an incredible little Moroccan restaurant. An excellent experience that everyone enjoyed.

Excellent food, friends, and a very nice waitress.

After-dinner music? We just stepped back next door and heard a good jazz band — composed of civil servants from the EC.