Exploring

While we weren't learning about all of the international courts in the Netherlands, we had a lot of time to explore the country!
I think my favorite thing we did was ride bikes to the beach. A lot of people rode bikes while I was in Brussels, and I was sad that maybe I wouldn't get a chance to do it! But one day, Matt and I decided to go. We left around 6:30 in the evening, which is totally fine because it doesn't get dark there until like 11:30. Anyway, we rented two bikes from our hostel, and just hopped on and headed toward the beach! It was seriously sooooo much fun. It felt good to work out, and to have the wind blowing in my face, haha! I needed to take a break from thinking about genocide and all of the other horrible things we have talked about for six weeks. Everything about it was amazing, except when we literally (literally!!!!) almost got run over at least eight times, by about every form of transportation you can find in the Hague (including trains).
After about half an hour bikeride, we made it to the beach. We just walked in the sand with our feet in the freezing cold water and talked about life, while we ate ice cream (of course)! We pretty much talked about everything, like how we miss our families and friends, but how we have become so close to the people in our group. We talked about how the experience of being in Rwanda has changed our lives, but also about how we will probably never truly understand how much this trip has affected us. It was so nice to just hang out and kind of decompress. And Matt is awesome, yay!
My other favorite thing that we did in the Hague was play frisbee! We've played frisbee a couple of times in Rwanda, which was so fun. But this time, it was even more amazing because we actually played ultimate frisbee in this random park near our hostel. It was so incredibly awesome. I was on a team with Thomas, who is insanely good at frisbee, and we were playing against David, Matt, and Kate. It was sooooooooo AWESOME, and intense! We were playing to seven and you have to win by two, and the game was so close. But yipppeeee, me and Thomas eventually won, and we are now the frisbee champions. We will be playing frisbee in the quad when school starts again, for sure!