Well the song goes something like this, "I spent my last 10 dollars on birth-control and beer..." Well our take on it goes, "We spent our last 10 Euro on, well beer."

I had a meeting this afternoon and Eva had a meeting this evening. Mine was in Antwerp and her's was in Brussels. Since I needed to catch up on popcicles and Agnes's vacation stories, I dropped Eva off and headed over her house. Many hours later, as we couldn't forecast when Eva was going to arrive, we headed out to buy large-can beers. When we were just in front of the nacht winkel, there was Eva off in the distance heading our way...so we bought more big-can beers.

While drinking our beer and chatting it up about the rise and fall of feminism (always interesting table-talk) and projects we could do under its banner, Agnes's boyfriend came home...with a couple of beers. (Duval) After a lengthy discussion over the leaving of his band's singer (quite a bit of the conversation in Dutch, as that is the learning-language of both Agnes and I) we decided we wanted to get a couple more beers...hence the 10 Euro introduction.

We actually spent our last 10 Euro worth of meal vouchers...the boyfriend was kind enough to trade 10 for 10 spendable, and so we bought our next round at the same nacht winkel...and Eva and I, in cheap vacation mode, spent the night on their work-room futon, as there was no reason for us to hurry home or get up early the next day.

Now if we can only come up with a good name for our sit-in project...

IN THE NEWS:
The family of a Palestinian boy killed in an accident has helped save the lives of four Israeli children by donating his organs, a rare act after 34 months of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Eleven-year-old Qaher Aoude died when he fell off the roof of his home near Nablus in the West Bank. His family authorized the donation of his organs Tuesday over the objections of many of their neighbors angered by Israeli crackdowns on a Palestinian uprising for independence. "We want Israelis and Americans to know that while the Israeli army kills Palestinians we give life to Israeli children," Murad Aoude, one of Qaher's 17 siblings, said.