October 15 – Goodbye Europe, preparation for USA
Crazy morning! I had to finish packing and around 9AM we had to be in facility to start our day. During day we mostly had some educational workshops and feedback on Europe and US preparation. Plan was to stay in facility until 2AM next day when we had to take bus for Brussels airport but that facility was just too freezing so fire department offer one room to stay with them until that hour.
Gaby, our technical manager tried to entertain us and he showed us some fire shows what he used to do in past. It was basically blowing the fire from mouth and similar stuff. After that we had short cast meeting and after that we just waited 2AM to come so we can load the bus and go finally to Brussels.
October 14 – Belgium show day
Belgium Show day was really crazy. We had 2 shows and whole day was crazy.
Our super set up team went to set up stage at 6AM and I and my roomy Johan had to come around 9AM. We started rehearsal immediately as we had a lot of things to think about and our Belgium show was a little bit changed from other shows.
First show was set up to be at 17.30 and it was crazy as we had only 10 minutes between rehearsal and green room for the show. Audience was great and show was successful.
Second show was just one hour after the end of the first one and we also had dinner between 2 shows. This show was even crazier and they loved it. Whole audience was full and everyone enjoyed the show very much.
Our strike was finished around 1AM and I went to sleep finally around 2AM as I tried to pack my luggage a little bit also.
October 13 – Host family day spent in Brussels
I spend my host family day in Brussels. Around 10AM Johan, Joy and me took train to Brussels and we spend whole day there. We saw a lot of old monuments and I can only say that Brussels is really nice and I love it. We ate a lot of Belgium and Brussels waffles, a lot of Belgium chocolate and we tried Belgium beer.
We took tour sightseeing bus as it is not so expensive and it took us around the city to the most popular places. It was really nice. We went to visit EU parliament, but as it was Saturday it was closed for visitors. We also went to visit Atomium and it was really nice to see Brussels view from top sphere.
At the end of the day, as our last stop, we went to visit pub where you can find 2000 different kind of beers. It was such a cool place and I went to see if they have some Croatian beer and they have it. I couldn’t believe. They even have African beer from some African countries. Crazy. Place is really beery decorated and I just love it.
October 12 - Bare foot walk and football stadium party
I still cannot believe what I did today. It was crazy. We had regional learning day but full of different activities and it was just crazy.
In the morning we went for bare foot walk in woods and I’m completely serious when I’m writing about that as it was really pushing my comfort zone to the edges. Outside temperature was around 5-10 Celsius and it was freezing to the bones. My feet were completely frizzed even before I took my socks and shoes off. It was one of the “Oh well” moments when you thing about situation how crazy it is but in the other hand you just want to adopt and you just do it. So, I took my socks off and we started our little bare foot walk in woods. My feet were freezing even more but feeling of dirt was comfortable. As we were walking we passed mud all the way to stones, wood, water and much much more. As we were so freezing, it stared to feel comfortable walking bare foot and I started enjoying it a lot. You really have to do that in close future. I’m serious.
Worst part was “huge lake” where water was ice clod freezing and water went all the way to our knees. It was 2m long and pretty soft inside and as much as I enjoy comfort, it was so freezing that I wanted to pass it ASAP.
After bare foot walk and washing our feet in cold water and wearing shoes it was really strange. In the way I felt that I just want to take them off and continue walking barefoot but in the other hand it felt nice. My feet started to burn from heat in only few minutes when I started to wear them.
We had lunch in Turkish restaurant and they were really excited to have us there so we had to perform one little part of our show to all guests in restaurant. Food was very good and there I met lady from Croatia and she was really nice.
After lunch we had scheduled interview with football player who is playing in KRC Genk. He was really nice Brazilian player and he talked about how it is to be foreigner in Belgium and Europe general and how it is to play in multinational football team as all players come from different countries. After interview we had scheduled tour of whole stadium and it was interesting as we were sitting at some VIP seats and seasonal ticket for those seats cost more than 3000 EUR.
After the tour we had Orientation walk game and we were split in out home teams and we got map and we had to find all the spots. It was really nice as we were walking in the nature and we had some nice home team time within our home team.
After that we had dinner at football stadium and little “party” until 11PM.
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