My place in a couple of pix.

The entrance.

The main room or sitting room whatever you would call it. The room in the back is actually my bedroom the smallest of the three but I guess I don't have much to put in it so it's fine.

My bedroom.
I just have space for a bed and a wardrobe, I wish I could have a little more space for a desk but well ...

The Kitchen.

The Bathroom

Back of the house you'll find a little outside place with BBQ seats and a staircase leading to probably to coolest place of the house...

... The roof.
I didn't really used it yet because we are just middle of the winter (even if since I am here the weather is faaaaabolous, feels like spring.

Downtown Denver from the roof

Pre-school time very summerized résumé

... Other than going to gym and try to put myself into it well I've not been doing much the 3 first weeks.
Tried to read a little didn't go that well (always some good stuff on tv :-D).
I did walk quite alot around downtown guetting all paperwork done (phone, bank account etc...)
Been out a couple of times, cool going-away-on-a-mormon-mission-party, movies, guetting drunk with Phil and Sean, two guys that are coming quite (try very) often at our place, etc...

And I guess trying to fit into a new town.
For example, I am only guetting used to speak and hear English 100% of the time wich, I didn't know before leaving Belgium, is very tiring, translate all information from english to french then thinking of a response from french to english >>Brain damages :-)
Wich I don't really do anymore... cool.


Anyway, has a conclusion to a very summarized 3 first story; it has probably not been a very exciting 3 first weeks. Felt a little bit lonely and lost in this new place but I guess it is normal.
Not to worry, things changed about a week ago with my 1st day of school...

Gym time

I've been putting my blog on the side for a while... well that's because I am not really a big writter or photograph but I guess I have to take one for the team.

I've just finished my 1st week at school but I guess that will come later.

First things first, I apologize for being a lame blogger to everyone that is following me through this blog.

(Couple of houses around my block... looks like the ghetto :-P)

Tomorrow, will actually be the 1st month anniversary of my young but fulfilling trip to Denver.

What have I been doing all that time (pre-school time)?

Well that's a good question.
I mostly tried to put myself into my working out again (I guess last month in Brussels wasn't my best gym time)

So the following day of my arrival into Denver I went straight downtown to find myself a new gym ... wich I did.


Forza gym, located Downtown includes steamroom, pool, hot tub, Basketball court etc...
I love that place but well it has a price... $125 my first month (I did find cheaper but I loved the ambiance and it's probably the nearest gym to my place (well I found a couple of other gym around).
Probably the worst $125 I've spend, not for the place but for what happened;
After 1 month of non-training period, I started to hard (got excited and wanted a new start) conclusion, small but annoying injuries during the whole month (I am working on them)

But otherwise I've been working out with a couple of NBA player, that is COOL

The big Shaq on my first dumbell pressing on the bench next to me was
definitely the highlight (btw this is not a picture taken at the gym).

A couple of LA Clippers player another day!

That's about it.
Stay tuned new post coming in a couple of min.

...

(Downtown Denver from my block)

Well I've done 4 complete days in Denver now and what can I say... well the least of it is that living in the States is so different than in Europe.
I am just starting to get use the Denver time zone (-8 hours compared to Brussels) so I am actually awake very early and feeling tired in the late afternoon.

Anyway...,

(My place)

(Random Picture taken downtown)

The 1st thing I can say is that I feel kind of lost here; new town, new people, new language. I need to build up everything around me.
Guetting used to speak only english is kind of hard for the moment, I didn't had problems in Brussels where I spoke english maybe 5% of the time but once it's 100% english... well my brain gets very tired. I do have time to practice and get use to that.

(Random Pix)

More to come.

NPTI

For those who would be interested in what NPTI is and what it has to offer you, you have all info on www.nptitrainer.com !


Stay tuned

Preface

In the start, I didn't want to create a blog but we are day 3 of my trip and I am already tired of telling the same stories over and over again. :-)

I'll be doing the blog in english 'cuz ...well I need to perform my writting and so everybody will understand (alright maybe not the french speaking people ;-) ).
My english is probably not the best so I will thank my father in advance for not correcting me every two sentences and all other people wanting to fuck around :-D.

My story for those who didn't follow;

Well my name's Alexander and I am 22.

Why am I in the States, well ... it' s a long story but to make it short, I am here because I want to be a personal trainer and because studies doesn't suits me very well.
About one year ago I just told myself that I had to start doing the things I wanted to and started to search for an education specialized in Fitness and that's when I found out NPTI (National personal training institute)...
NPTI offers a 6 months program with intensive courses. Well 6 months is a long time but I guess it's better than most of the things I found.
Between only reading a book and take an online test, two weeks formation or even a week-end formation, 6 months seems very good!
Only America has that type of program in my knowledge and well English IS IMPORTANT... and yeah who doesn't want to try the American Dream?!!?

Anyway...

Next question:
Why Denver? Who the hell would, as the tourist, go to Denver?

Well, I didn't had the choice, as a none US citizen I could either choose Denver or Colorado springs. Colorado springs doesn't have any NFL, NHL, NBA, (soccer or MLB for that matter) team...
So Denver it is.


So here we are the morning of my departure, the 7th of January 2010... the day I've been talking about for a bit more then 1 year (well I didn't know that it would be that particular day. I just knew the D-day would come). In that one year, nobody believed in me, somehow I felt like the kid that screamed after the wolf!

Anyway stay tuned more to come.

Alex.

PS: I am awesome (pour toi West)