This week in Holland...
Every week here tends to follow a similar pattern. Sunday, we do work because all the shops and places to eat are closed so there is literally nothing else to do. the only thing open is the library. Monday, it is back to the grind, and pretty hum-drum. Tuesday is party day. This Tuesday, I went to a MTB party with Dutch Mountains, which I will be joining officially shortly. I met up with Mo, Anton, Yicki, and made some new friends...all very cool folks and I had a great time. Although I did get somewhat lost trying to find the place. when i got there, anton awarded me a free beer so my troubles were forgotten. I only had the one though...i am trying to stick to my pledge of "no beer allowed in the country whose national beverage is beer". sad but true. too many calories, and i hate the heinekin hiney. anyway, i also met the lady who is interested in purchasing my beautiful bike, so it was nice to start a rapport with my would be buyer. hopefully that works out. if it doesn't, there is a bike for sale when I get home...
I also met Jolanda, who is very nice and another lady whose name I can't pronounce, let alone spell. She was a roadie though. Jolanda is a fellow mtb-er and she immediately signed me up for this crazy relay race happening in April. we have teams of 25 to run a very long way...three days straight. kind of like 24 hour races only longer and running isn't a sitting-down sport. at least the teams are big. anyway, i will be participating, and i think it is in eindhoven. at the end, there is the biggest dutch student party in all of holland, so that will be worth running for. There were all kinds of teams and stuff from UM at the thing, so i met some lacrosse players, tennis, --no rowing though. Saurus, the club here, seems quite set in their ways, and a month in, i am still not making any progress with them. another call due tomorrow. we'll see i guess.
After the beautifully smoke free environment of the university athletics party, i found myself at highlander with my fellow exchange students. I got a couple drinks past last call, which clearly shows i spend too much time there. hahaha. we four ladies got special glowy straws which we thought were fantastic enough to carry with us all night. After highlander, we went to Meta for some dancing and tomfoolery before calling it a night at 5:00. I love Tuesdays.
Wednesdays, i don't have school, so i slept until 2:40. The other big night is tonight, but I don't feel like going out tonight. I am currently at Mo's place where I am getting help using my new MP3 player whose instructions were partly in dutch. That's right, a NEW MP3 Player. I am very excited about my purchase. I came home today and my old one was still struggling to read a mini-disc. I guess it had been suffering all day. That settles it: it is definitely broken. i'll add it to the bone yard of small electronics that has been rotting in my closet because i can't bear to throw out what i spent so much on.
The new one was relatively cheap...only 130 Euro...and does a ton of stuff. it doens't need software, so i can use it anywhere, and it even has a radio. also, i can keep files and stuff on it as well like an external drive. pretty nifty. Creative made it.
Tomorrow, i am sleeping in until i wake up, alarm free, and then i am cleaning my bike. Then I might get a new computer for my bike ... only 14 euro here!!... and since a bike computer counts as small electronics, you know i already broke the one i came with. wow, i suck. CURSED!
a colleague of my mother's wrote to me today (Hi Crystal!). She blames the mp3 player on the fact that i put my shoes on my table for photographing. that's bad luck. she might have a point. i need to be constantly monitored for good karma. someone to stand over me and make sure i don't walk under ladders, and keep the black cats out of my path and whatnot. takers?
Saturday, we're going to Cologne to look around. Me, Cam, Erin and a new girl in mine and Erin's Advertising group, Valentina who comes from Florence and desperately wants to show me an Erin around in the spring. Can't wait for that!! Sunday Back to the books.
Lastly, I have found a passion for postcards, but only have a few addresses to unleash it on, so if you want postcards (and i have been known to send other silly things) from holland, please email me your mailing address. I promise to send you something. No address, no goodies.
Hope all is well in Canada, things are looking up in Holland :)
I also met Jolanda, who is very nice and another lady whose name I can't pronounce, let alone spell. She was a roadie though. Jolanda is a fellow mtb-er and she immediately signed me up for this crazy relay race happening in April. we have teams of 25 to run a very long way...three days straight. kind of like 24 hour races only longer and running isn't a sitting-down sport. at least the teams are big. anyway, i will be participating, and i think it is in eindhoven. at the end, there is the biggest dutch student party in all of holland, so that will be worth running for. There were all kinds of teams and stuff from UM at the thing, so i met some lacrosse players, tennis, --no rowing though. Saurus, the club here, seems quite set in their ways, and a month in, i am still not making any progress with them. another call due tomorrow. we'll see i guess.
After the beautifully smoke free environment of the university athletics party, i found myself at highlander with my fellow exchange students. I got a couple drinks past last call, which clearly shows i spend too much time there. hahaha. we four ladies got special glowy straws which we thought were fantastic enough to carry with us all night. After highlander, we went to Meta for some dancing and tomfoolery before calling it a night at 5:00. I love Tuesdays.
Wednesdays, i don't have school, so i slept until 2:40. The other big night is tonight, but I don't feel like going out tonight. I am currently at Mo's place where I am getting help using my new MP3 player whose instructions were partly in dutch. That's right, a NEW MP3 Player. I am very excited about my purchase. I came home today and my old one was still struggling to read a mini-disc. I guess it had been suffering all day. That settles it: it is definitely broken. i'll add it to the bone yard of small electronics that has been rotting in my closet because i can't bear to throw out what i spent so much on.
The new one was relatively cheap...only 130 Euro...and does a ton of stuff. it doens't need software, so i can use it anywhere, and it even has a radio. also, i can keep files and stuff on it as well like an external drive. pretty nifty. Creative made it.
Tomorrow, i am sleeping in until i wake up, alarm free, and then i am cleaning my bike. Then I might get a new computer for my bike ... only 14 euro here!!... and since a bike computer counts as small electronics, you know i already broke the one i came with. wow, i suck. CURSED!
a colleague of my mother's wrote to me today (Hi Crystal!). She blames the mp3 player on the fact that i put my shoes on my table for photographing. that's bad luck. she might have a point. i need to be constantly monitored for good karma. someone to stand over me and make sure i don't walk under ladders, and keep the black cats out of my path and whatnot. takers?
Saturday, we're going to Cologne to look around. Me, Cam, Erin and a new girl in mine and Erin's Advertising group, Valentina who comes from Florence and desperately wants to show me an Erin around in the spring. Can't wait for that!! Sunday Back to the books.
Lastly, I have found a passion for postcards, but only have a few addresses to unleash it on, so if you want postcards (and i have been known to send other silly things) from holland, please email me your mailing address. I promise to send you something. No address, no goodies.
Hope all is well in Canada, things are looking up in Holland :)
posted by Unknown at Thursday, February 24, 2005
4 Comments:
Wow, that was some random journalage. I got the 512 meg creative mp3 player (MuVo) for my birthday... I think yours is similar if not the same and let me tell you, it kicks ass! Those little earbuds it came with have the best sound quality ever! Anyhoo, I'm half dutch, so you'd better be sending me a postcard...
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jup, that is the same as mine. i LOVE it. your welcome Creative for the free plug. btw, Hello from Cologne! Cheers. KL
HI Kris,
Go to FLORENCE! one of my favourite cities. And while you're there go to Perche No, the second best gelato place I've ever been to (I've been to a lot!)...Your friend should know where it is, (for future reference, down a street from Orsanmichele, not far from Piazza Signoria). It's one thing not to miss there, with an added bonus that they give (or at least used to give) a 1 euro discount to students with the ISIC card (50% off a 2 euro ice cream! what more could you ask for??).
Marc
sorry for the double message forgot to sign my name
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