With my class 3 OMBV I went on a school trip to Burg Reuland, a place in the East Cantons of Belgium. We attended some lectures over there and we also had to make a presentation about some of those lectures. We could sleep in a little school over there. What was quite special was surprisingly enough the food, that is to say, the large portions of it. Everyone over there also speaks German (you hardly hear a word of French on the streets). I think that those people feel more German than Belgian because of the history of the little place of course. We also went to Trier during the trip. People are more polite than here in Belgium (they name each other with Herr und Frau not with their name). The idea that Germans are more reserved than Belgians for example is not true in my opinion. On the contrary, there quite open and friendly towards us, students. In Trier we also saw the market, it was almost the period of Christmas, and there was a lot of kitschy stuff over there, Christmas is quiet important over there, just like in Belgium (it is also a christian nation, you can't say catholic because there are also a lot of protestants in Germany and of course some other religions like Islam, Buddhism, Judaism etc.)
