right now as I type

Due to the location of the Youth Hostel I am staying at in Brussels, I am in a heavily Muslim area, I think I have mentioned that. There is a massive crowd in the street right now as someone has died in the building, I believe upstairs in the apartment above the internet place. Women are yelling and crying and people are EVEYWHERE. It alternatively reminds me of Morocco and some thing I have seen on TV after a car bomb has gone off. But this is the seat of the EU and not Iraq.

And I am the only caucasion girl on the whole block, typing away while this all goes on just outside the door. There are police and ambulances and the sounds are something else. I wouldn't dare take out my camera for this, as it seems my presence may be unrespectful at best. The police have come into the internet cafe and there are sirens and general commotion. I feel like I am a war correspondent filing a news report. The yelling and noise and commotion is crazy, but sounds of grief not anger.

I think I'll get out and get back safely to the hostel before the tide turns.