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The site is more fun, the possibilities far more than here. So, lets give it a try and see if it is any better.

Sorta. In a way. Not officially but. Next week we have portfolio deadline monday at 9 am and exam on friday. We had last week off but I allready need time off again. I'm gonna try and not be so annoyed and critisising and ... its starting to get a bit ridiculous by now.

I'm a bit edgy today again I guess. My housemates threw a smaller party last night and keept at it way past 4 am even though I asked them to keep it down. I'm not sure if its worth causing a fuss about it or if I should just ignore it. Its not like I'll have to live with it for years. Ah, I guess I'll bring it up during the next housemeeting or something, there should be a time on weeknights when you dont make alot of noice. A little bit of consideration atleast. Just because those two seems to have fridays off rather often it does not mean that the other 6 in this house do.

Ok, pfew. That was it for today, haha. Today I held a presentation and got to say "By combining the interfaces of youtube and facebook - videobook was born" - how geeky is that? Now I'm gonna watch vampire diaries and just relax. Oh, I wore my hair out today - first time at school since I started at Windesheim and all the girls in the class was just looking at it amazed its so long telling me its so nice (and apperantly I should keep it down - but its too long! I just keep getting stuck in things and getting it in my face and stuff haha)... just a bit funny..

a little more action in the street...

Elvis said it. 6 weeks into Media Production and all we do is talk talk talk talk. I'm getting really sick and tired of it. It's media production shouldn't we be producing? It feels like we are standing on the same spot threading water. We're not getting anywhere. And oh great joy, after the exam period we will be discussing even more. We have 7 weeks left then, will we be down to 5 by the time we start filming? When will we do the editing then? When are we supposed to actually make this documentary when all we do is talk?

When 7 or 8 or I'm not sure how many we are people are trying to plan 4 or 5 or more activities through groupmessages, haha. Gotta ♥ it. Certainly seems like I'm going to have atleast a few things to do with my freetime comming weeks. We are also going to Brussels later in November, just one night saturday-sunday but it will be fun! Looking forard to it alot.

I have been so productive today that I want to give myself a big pat on the shoulder. I started with sleeping way to late but that was really nice and I think I deserved it.

After that I finished that assignment I missed due to being sick the first week, I know but as they say better late than never. If you want to see the result you have to promise not to laugh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6310FO7irI

It is not very great but I'm rather proud of it and it has inspired me to want to try and make a better one. Because it was fun and easy to make this one!

I have also worked on my personal website/portfolio and I must say its pretty awesome. Booked another ride out for next sunday, yay! And talked with the huurbas (I had an interpritator haha) about the messy kitchen. You see the schoenmakenschema says that I need to clean the kitchen this week and he had noticed it was not yet cleaned and came knocking on my door and I explained that I don't mind doing my part of the cleaning but I don't want to have to clean up other peoples mess. There is old dryed in food on the bench next to the sink...

I hardly ever use the kitchen, only the gasstove if I want to boil or fry something but that is very, very rarely. The huurbas understood the issue and said that there are people in this house that does not want to keep order and that we need to let him know who does not clean because if it continues he will ask them to leave. He has two other houses down the street where there is students living and those are being keept spotlessly clean. I'm begining to see now that he just wants to keep his tenants happy and he understands that we do not want to have to keep cleaning after people that missbehave and don't clean their own shit up.

I said that I would clean the kitchen tomorrow but he thought I should not need to do that. It seems we are going to have to hold another housemeeting soon to talk about things. How hard can it be to swipe the dishbench of a quickie if you spilled food? Or do your dishes and put your pans away instead of leaving them out with old food in them. Theres no wonder we have pets here and as the huurbas said - if it doesn't change the muizen will soon turn into rats. Cosy.

It's quite beautifull. Even though it does mean that it gets dark sooner and its colder outside, or grey and rainy.

Yes! Me on a horse again, about time. Unfortunately no picture proof other than that of the horse himself.



Jelmer, not very happy looking horse when the camera comes out.




A much happier horse when we entered the forrest however!






after riding.



Jelmer is 3/4 frisian so now I've almost fullfilled my wish to ride a frisian here in Holland.

I was just scrolling when suddenly the forum started shrinking...so I rolled the mouse the other way and it got bigger and then I did it as small as possible and it got stuck!





Its broken, kaputt!

Yesterday I felt highly unmotivated, today I'm feeling quite agitated (working on my portfolio haha). As always theres a natural excuse for everything so nothing to worry much about. My teacher is gonna regret asking for analyses and reflexion, hes getting more than he asked for. By miles.

But this past week or so I have been thinking closer about things. I am feeling a bit out of place at this school. The methods of teaching and the whole set up is just wrong. It would probably have felt much better if I had been here 7 years ago before any University studies. Because lets face it... it is completely wrong, not at all as I expected it. But its not the whole course, just elements of it. I guess it is a bit complicated to try and explain. I'm gonna drop it now. Its friday and the weekend only just begun, happy weekend!

area of Deventer...



They had surprisingly little of value to have so much things. But I came out of there with a helmet a pair of riding shoes and mittens. I guess thats good enough.

Its mildley grey outside ... the rain stopped however, but I dont feel like doing anything right now. That will probably change soon enough but for the moment I'm content with sitting in my armchair enjoying my nicely warm room because someone defied the huurbas and turned the termostat up. He will probably turn it off soon enough, but for now and the past few hours its been pumping out lovely heat in this house.

Yesterday I spent a couple of hours in Natuur Park Ossenwaald, walking around the whole thing and made aquaintances with a little cat that was out taking a walk. It was the cutest little thing because it thought that it was there all alone out hunting in the protection of the high grass and the bushes so I started following it for a little. Of course I am not as quiet and good at sneaking on things like a cat is and I was soon discovered so I started talking and the kitty replied by miauuing and then coming up to me purring loudly as I stroke the furr. I don't care if he might have had fleas or whatever (Froukje almost ruined a moment I had with a stray cat in Zeist saying it might have fleas..lol) it was a very social little creature and after we had both cuddled enough I got up and left and when I looked back the kitty was on his way in the direction he was going when I interrupted.





I think this is my favourite place around here.

I visited Geraldine and her boyfriend Jonas in Rotterdam. They had on an earlier occasion payed an architect student (sounds like they payed him off haha, but the guy worked giving tours of the city) to show them around so lucky me got the full view of about anything and everything.

The city was much different than Amsterdam and the other cities I've been to here in Holland. It was interesting to see the contrast between preserving the old and the new. For anyone that missed it Rotterdam was bombed during WW II and instead of rebuilding what was they decided to build up the city in a more modern fashion. There are quite a few ugly buildings some weird ones and some that work fairly well right next to the old ones.



It was quite high (2 meters, I'm a wuss) and scary to walk around up there...



We walked over the bridge and had appeltaart at the Hotel New York then we went on back into the city to the walk of fame and look what I found:



Ofcourse neither Geraldine or Jonas knew who Anky was and there I had to explain alot about horses and riding (like why do you need to train dressage can't you just jump and why does horses need massage sometimes? )... pictures will be on my pixbox in november, I've used up all my space....

The little old city I'm living in.



it was a beautifull day yesterday I thought it would rain but instead I got a really lovely walk in a warming sun. It is still rather green everywhere even though some treas are loosing their colourfull leaves.



I like fall.. but time is moving to fast. I have almost been in Holland for 3 months allready, imagine that! In a not to distant future it is time to start thinking about life after Holland...but not yet, I'm not ready for that quite yet. I love it here and I want to live in the now just a bit longer.

In the now I'm on a holiday ♥ but it's not all play. I need to think about the concept for the documentary, how to excecute what we got. And ofcourse I need to work on that damned website of mine. I have the basic structure and parts of it done, I just need to put stuff where it needs to be and edit things a bit. Link - our teacher wants analysis and links, so I'll analyse and link.

Happy holidays to me, I plan on enjoying it to the fullest!

I've seen him from the train now and then, at first I thought I was imagining the little white pony living in a little shed in a little tiny rectangle of stomped down grass right by the traintracks. He was hard to spot because of the bushes next to the traintrack but since the spot was so close to home I had to go see for myself.



The cutest little thing... his ears pricked when I called for him and anticipating food (which I did not bring any of) he quickly came to check out who I was .. and to try and bite my hand when I wanted to scratch him.



The barbwire to the left on the picture is apperantly excellent to scratch yourself against according to this little fellow.

Next sunday I'm going riding! Looking forward to it greatly and hope the weather will be as nice as it is today!

Something seriously wrong with my crazy housemate. If you had not figured that out allready. This morning she was cursing to herself when I entered the kitchen kicking a lighter, haha. Then when I was in the safety of my room she burst up the stairs (slamming the door downstairs realy hard) screaming in dutch for once. Of course slamming her own door violently and then the screaming has just been going on and on ad on. I'm curious what would happen if I start screaming in the same manner ... but shes a bit scary so I think I'll skip that.

I've been in the holiday spirit all week I think, confused about what day it is (I think wedsday felt more like a saturday for some reason) and yesterdays trip to Amsterdam didn't make it much better. I said a little earlier that I was going to work on my personal website untill it got boring... well. It did not take long before it got boring, haha. I changed the background colour a bit, did a header of the touristbuss in amsterdam...

I have been a little productive today though, I did laundry and wrote postcards. My hopes that the morons upstairs were going to go home over the holidays seems to be crushed. Currently they are playing very heavy bass music so my head is just buzzing. The crazy woman is verbally abusing her boyfriend again it has gone from midly entertaining to very annoying. I feel like screaming myself. The fact that her door has a 1 decimeter missing at the bottom (uhm theres a decimeter of air between the floor and her door) does not make the situation any better. Luckilly my door fits the doorframe but the house is very ...noisy overall. If the girl in the room belows me has people over and they are talking and laughing it sounds like they are in my room.

Anyways, I wasn't going to be complaining in this post... the screaming woman just sort of made me type all those things because she just wont stop. I'm gonna spend today inside I think, it started raining now so I might aswell. Listen to the music, well the base pumping, from upstairs... drink my tea and try and be a little bit creative atleast. I still have a bunch of books to read (somehow its more fun buying them than reading them) and some activities to plan in and such.

On tuesday I'm going to Rotterdam over the day to see Geraline and the city. That's 3 new cities in two weeks. I should make it one new city a week. Den Haah is on the list, Haarlem aswell. Maybe Amersfoort and Appeldorn since they are both close by.. oh and the monkeys are close to Amserfoort I think unless its Appeldorn. I'm gonna add more cities to the list as I go. Back to Amsterdam for sure, Utrecht aswell. Maybe see if Philipa wants a visit all the way down there in Maastricht.

Theres no end to the possibilities! But right now I'm supposed to do a little something.

I googled amsterdam olifant yesterday and got quite a few hits about this artsy project where they put out 100 painted olifants all over amsterdam. The profits from the exhibition, if you can call it that, will go to the preservation of the Asian olifant. A nice cause if you ask me.



Ofcorse now I'm very tempted to try and locate all 100 of them... I saw alot of them yesterday but knowing theres more...

Its time for me to be a good girl and work a little on the personal website we have to make for uni...

♥ Amsterdam



This picture is just for lillsis, haha:

And I managed to snatch the shower this morning! Not the easiest since everyone seems to be doing morning showers here. I probably ruined someones morning routine by occupying the shower for a good half an hour (I tried to be fast!) and then I couldn't decide what to wear but I think I ended up with the best choice considering its cold outside.

Now I'm just gonna finish my tea and then leave for the train in good time - AND take the right one this morning.