Hello from Ghent!

I spent the day observing one of our new instructors teach his first vaginal breech training. It's been fun to listen to the Flemish. I can pick out certain words that are familiar from having taken Afrikaans back at university.

I didn't realize how heavily Flemish-speaking this part of Belgium would be. I was talking to people today and there's a sort of horizontal line running across Belgium, through Brussels. North of the line is Flemish and south of the line is French. I thought that everyone would be fully bilingual but that's not the case.

Ghent is such a pretty city. I was super busy today but even our short walk to lunch and to/from the hospital was lovely. I love the steep stepped roofs, the dormer windows, how the houses line up right to the canals, the cobblestone streets.

I'm going home tomorrow first thing in the morning. I had to miss Inga's birthday today, so I'm making it up by baking her a cake tomorrow. (Yes, they had a cake today...but you can never have too much cake!).