The first two days were for me to explore and settle in as it was the national holiday for Belgium, and I was shown the town by Reintje and her daughter who was friendly. I was nervous when it came to Wednesday as I had no idea where the workplace was, I got lost for a short while but then my sense of direction has always been appalling! I was shown my working area by Marcel and introduced to various colleagues. My first task was to learn how to operate Pro Engineer Wildfire, a computer aided drawing package. I had used other programs before but nothing as complex as this! So it took me the rest of the week to get used to it using online tutorials for tuition.

I was lucky that the Mannrock festival was on at the weekend and I met up with Bas (a colleague) and I was amazed at the atmosphere - I had never been to a festival before and I really liked it! It was late at night when I managed to force myself through to the front and I could feel my lungs resonating!! But what hadn’t occurred to me was that I had to get back out which took an hour!!