Brussels: The city that encourages its citizens to urinate on churches

This is my first update from the other side of the Atlantic. I flew out of Newark yesterday, at least I think it was yesterday, on a JetAirways flight to Brussels. JetAirways is an Indian airline and the plane was continuing on to Mumbai after Brussels, I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to stay on and go India haha. The flight was an interesting experience to say the least. When I first walked on I saw spacious seats, TVs, a Super Nintendo ripoff controller, and a pillow and blanket at each seat. Apparently American airline companies are cheap as hell because I've never seen a plane this nice, not to mention it was the cheapest ticket I found. The personal TV kept me occupied most of the flight. By the way Avatar was such a piece of shit, so glad I didn't see it in the theaters. The vast majority of the passangers were Indian, or of Indian descent, I only noticed one other American and a few Europeans. All of the signs and announcements were in Hindi first, English second if I was lucky. The meals were Indian too, I had some very spicy chicken and that was even the least spicy meal option hahaha. A side note: I don't know where they recruit the flight attendants but I need to go there. All of the women were goregous.

After touching down in Brussels and gettting out of the airport I got a taxi to my hostel. The taxi driver was really cool, and told me to get the hell out of Brussels. He also spoke perfect English and laughed at my French pronounciation, which in reality is laughable. The hostel's check in time is 4pm, I got there at 9am. Fortunately I was allowed to leave my luggage there, which later turned out to be hilarious. With nothing really to do and no room for many hours, I just started walking around. The map in pocket served no purpose until I tried to get back to the Hostel, I just wandered around. It was really fun actually, I stumbled upon some major tourist attractions like Grand Place/Grote Markt and Mannekin Pis. I also found the Royal Palace and some other slightly less known attractions, I found out later that the square in front of the Royal Palace at night becomes a haven for public gay sex! My favorite place I saw today though was the St. Katelijne church. It is clealy old, I'd guess early modern period but I don't really have any idea, and quite nice inside. However, on the outside wall there is a public urinal set up! The wall of the church is meant to be pissed on, I've never seen anything like that before. Yes, I did use it. When I finally checked into the Hostel I crashed for like 4 hours, I didn't get much sleep on the plane and was beat from walking all day. Just now I had dinner at a Belgian fast food place simply called "Quick". It was surprisingly good, and I managed to order without using English. Pointing is universal, and I somehow know how to count to 10 or so in French.

A few things I've learned about Brussels in just one day:
Most people speak French, but Flemish and Arabic believe it or not were also commonly heard by me.

Cars always have the right of way, I was nearly run over more times than I care to count.

Brussels is not a beautiful city, in fact much of the design looks like it was thrown together with no plan. It does have a certain charm though.

American culture is rather pervasive, Chi Chi's, Subway, and Mcdonalds are within 5 minutes walking from my hostel. Hollywood movies featured promintently in store fronts. American music was heard among the local stuff.

Tomorrow the plan is to go to Ghent, I have no idea what to expect.

P.S. I can't upload pictures on the Hostel's computers, but I'll get them up as soon as I can.