I should have known that the cross-country skiing in Belgium wasn't going to be the skiing familiar to me. The first hint: When I told the kids in the school I attended as a foreign exchange student that I was a cross-country skier, they said I must not be very athletic. How could a non-soccer player be athletic? The second hint came when my host mom excitedly told me that four Belgian athletes would be competing at the Olympics in Torino. I pointed out that none of them could be very athletic because they weren't soccer players, and everyone seemed to agree. Still, whenever my host fami...more