Room St. Bernard
Banneux, Belgium
When I decided to sit down and write something I thought that I have already organized in my mind what I am going to tell you. But maybe 5 minutes had already passed and still I have nothing to say.
Maybe I should begin by telling you about my room. In terms of size, my room is comfortable enough. All rooms here are named after saints – rooms for men are named after men saints, rooms for women are after women saints. My room is named St. Bernard. The walls and the ceiling are painted white, while the floor is between orange and brown. It has a soft bed, two wooden chairs, one study table, one two-door cabinet, four flourescent lamps, a sink with a mirror above it, a heater, a fire hydrant, and a window with a panoramic view of the western side of the Banneux landscape.
Yes, I said western side – that part of the horizon where the sun takes a daily bow. My room is on the highest floor of the house, and you can only imagine what kind of view my window affords me. As is my wont, last night I watched the sunset. And what a marvellieux sunset it was. By the way, sunset here in Belgium in this time of the year is around ten o’ clock in the evening, while the sunrise is about five in the morning. And the temperature averages a fresh 15-25 degrees Celsius throughout the day.
My day routinely passes this way: wake up at 6am then take a bath and put on new clothes, morning prayer and mass at 7am then breakfast after, classes from 8:30am til 12:10pm, lunch at 12:30pm then dishwashing, afternoon classes from 2:30 until 5:30. I usually spend the remainder of my afternoon washing and ironing my clothes, cleaning my room, or taking a walk around the immediate environs. Dinner follows immediately after the evening prayer which we say at 6:45pm. The rest of the evening is free and I usually spend it doing more walks or watching news on T.V. or writing my diary or reading a book or doing my homeworks. I usually sleep around ten to eleven in the evening.
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