At 8:30am we started our second full day in Belgium with breakfast at the Leuven Irish College. Following breakfast we attended a finance lecture with Prof. Piet Sercu of KU Leuven.   Since there are many of us who are Ag-Finance or Finance majors we found the lecture to be very beneficial. Prof. Sercu talked about topics including speculation, minimizing bid-ask spreads, futures and forward rates, and comparing spreads across currency.

Today we went to Lindemans Brewery for a quick tour where we learned about Belgium's traditional Lambic beer. Our tour guide Nestor, which roughly translates to the oldest and wisest in the group, began the tour of Linddemans Brewery outside, where we learned of the traditional square farm layout.  In the 19th century there were over 300 farms that brewed Lambic beer; however, there are now only 9 and Lindemans Brewery is the second largest! We next saw the room in which the Lambic beer is brewed .

May 14th - The day we've all been waiting for, through the semester, and definitely through finals, finally arrived. Some of us met at the ACES library, said goodbye to friends who kindly sent us off on the trip, and set off for Chicago O'hare International Airport. There we met with the rest of the class. After the boarding process and two hours of airport delay, we finally took off and began our eight-hour flight to Brussels, Belgium.