movienerd

Today I woke up somewhere around 8..feeling pretty good and decided I should go back to sleep. Thats when it started. The cough I had last night ripped a few holes in my chest but calmed down quickly. The cough of this morning just wouldn't stop. Pumped a few extra doses of astma meds in an attempt to ease the tickling of a breathing I had and now I'm sitting here wrapped in my blanket drinking tea.

As soon as I wake up properly I'm heading out in hunt for cough medicine... it looks to be a beautifull day and I really want to be able to enjoy it outside in the sun. I've had it with being sick :(

My uni email gave me a bit of a scare. It keept claiming that I entered the wrong password but it turns out the tech nerds in sweden are doing maintanance on the site so all login functions are down for the time being. Pfew. All contact I have with the uni here and in sweden goes through that email account.

After a shower and a short walk in a very sunny Deventer I'm actually feeling more human..Ofcourse long fast walks are still out of the question (the weather is taunting me I'm aching for a nice long walk ) so I just strawled and watched the baby swan jump into the water and swim around while his parents were grooming. Everyone else in a hurry somewhere, anywhere but there. Me I was not in any hurry and the sun was shining where I was standing and it felt good.

A small dose of D-vitamins was just what I needed. Now I'm curling up in my armchair again to watch the last mountainstage of the Vuelta and cheer for the dutchie that just might end up baging the whole thing. I'm watching more sports than ever right now.

uhhhm, swede in Deventer.


Uni started monday and it has been fun so far. Less great is that I find myself having to admitt to being sick. Today I missed our brainstorming/group meeting but I'm working on getting better - drinking loads of tea for one - so that hopefully I'll feel good enough to go tomorrow atlest.

The school is profiliing itself as a college, very much towards young people that just moved out of home and just want to have fun and party lots basically. And the administration and the students network people all seem to assume that exchange students are like lost sheeps in need to be herded around (or having their hands held). I guess its not a bad thing if you indeed do feel lost and lonely and need help with things but it's a bit riduculous when you're fully capable of taking care of yourself. I was told I can go by train from Deventer to Zwolle after I let them know where I would be staying... like I hadn't checked transportation possibilities before saying yes to the room.

We have to write a journal..diary for school, every day and evaluate our own work/effort and so on... right back to drama class in highschool where we had to do exactly the same. Our teacher is cool though and the course will be demanding but fun.

Anyways.. now I'm starting to feel crappier again so enough blogging for now!

That likes to sleep on my feet...



Theres nothing that'll warm cold feet than a furry, sleepy catbody sprawled all over them...

And my feet are cold. Really cold just like that, like ice. But they'll soon be warm again I'm sure. Today I've entertained myself with ordering books, it's one of my favourite things to do I think.. besides reading them I guess, but the picking the books out and ordering them and then wait for the package to arrive is almost as giving. In a weird way.. but I like the thought of new books. Not knowing what to expect. And if the book is good, if it can manage to sweep you away out of reality for a bit... love that feeling. Not that reality is bad in any way, I love the reality I'm in. Today I'm in a fairly cloud Deventer with a bit of rain. Perfect sunday weather. Next to my computer is a big cup of steaming hot tea and I can hear the wind pull at the branches and the leaves of the tree outside...I myself is sitting in my armchair.. fleeceblankie wrapped around my legs.

Life is good!

Or well. I was. Or so it felt, but the moment passed quickly. Am still a bit poor though. Poor enough to allow myself to order pizza for dinner so I wont have to cook. Plus I'm really curious to try out this whole order-pizza-online thing. I mean I'll have to try it eventually, what better time than now!

Just got an invitation to go to Groningen and visit izzy from my EILC class, the ESN is arranging excursions that might be interesting to join in on. Giethoorn excursion (I have no idea what that is haha) and Dutch Manscape excursion. I'll look into the details and see if I'll go with her on one of them.

Happy weekend and thank you ♥

I'm not sure what I thought I'd have to write here at the time being... I'm sitting here with heavy eyes wishing that I'd stayed in bed just a little bit longer. But I sleep to much, generally, so I got out of bed in an attempt to be a good girl and here I sit. I think I'm gonna make me a big steaming cup of tea and maybe flip a page or two in one of the dutch chick-lit books I bought yesterday..or maybe in Kafka on the shore, I'm curious to begin with that one.

In my new though old armchair:



On my new but old tv:




And thats all for today!

Again...

I'm waiting for my TV and my armchair that, according to the lady at the kringloopwinkel.. should arrive before 15.00 this afternoon. Churchbells are ringing outside, the wind is pulling at the branches of the huge tree on the other side of the street and the sky is grey.

This afternoon I'm going to Zwolle for my first class in dutch language.. After that I'm a watch footie on my new tv!

And a dutch phonenumber. And...organic cotton sweatpants. Haha. That plus two pink candle thingies is the result of todays shopping.

It's a definite minus not knowing the city you wanna go shopping in very well. Tho I am starting to get the hanf of Deventer I think. It's hard to say, I might have missed half of the city or something ... the center is filled with cute little shopping streets and gourgeous buildings... I love the buildings and the ancient doors and house decorations and everything. All very cosy. I regret that I forgot to bring my camera today when the sun was shining ... there is plenty of things that I want to get pictures of.

Tomorrow I get my armchair (and to figure out how to get it up the stairs, haha) and my TV!

I hope.. the dutch weather has not been at it's best past week but now the sun is shining against a bright blue sky. I hope this weather is gonna last for some time to come now.. but in order not to get caught and soaked in the rain again I'm gonna go shopping for a rainsuit today. What better day to do that on than a sunny day?

The room is rather cosy now... the vloerbedekking is not at all so bad after I went over it with a vaccumecleaner. I got an armchair and a tv arriving tomorrow, thats gonna add to making it even cosier. I've been sitting in my bed since I moved in thursday about time that changes.

I don't have much interesting to say so ..I'll get back when I do. Now I'm gonna read a bit before it's shopping time.

Now i just need to make the rest of the room less of a mess and  a bit cosier...

The after picture doesn't make our hard work justice...but here goes:



A work in progress:



And the result:

I'm moving to Deventer... yay.

Hopefully we can get me a fridge then, cause it's gonna suck not having one even if it's only for a few days. I'm gonna be poking around the ikea site today and see what I can get there for a reasonable price .. a madress for certain, pillows... maybe a comp desk or such. We're gonna pay a visit to the kringloopswinkel in Deventer aswell and hope that they have some of the things that I'll be needing. The room is gonna turn out great, the paint made it look all warm and cosy... It was raining in Deventer yesterday and it was all grey and dull outside but it still looked as if a nice warm lamp was on inside the room (while there is no lamp in there at all yet). I'm hapy with the colour choises and the paint wasn't very expensive either so I'd say it was well worth it!

Sore muscles and a very nicely painted room.

Frouk has nibbled on fish, yesterday.. the remains are still laying in a plastic thingie on the desk...Its smoked fish she said, that doesnt rotten that fast. Riight.

Today we've been up and awake since I cant remember how early, yawns. We didnt get back untill past 10 tonight, covered with paint and dirt.. after Deventer we went out for dinner in Utrecht, I got pizza and a beer which was just what I needed after painting the whole day. I'm gonna be sore absolutely everywhere tomorrow I can just feel it.

Gonna cuddle up in bed in a few and sleep half of the day tomorrow atleast! On thursday we are gonna get furniture for my room so that I can actually move there for real then. That's gonna be great! But first sleep.... 

I got the room!

Renovation project starts tomorrow then it's furnituers.... Pfew. Gonna be a fun week! I'll make sure to get before and after pictures. So I'm moving to Deventer, interesting.

Come tomorrow I need to be out of this room and will spend a few nights on froukjes couch... If I get the room in Deventer I'll be in Zeist longer than if I end up in the one in Zwolle. That's ok thought. Miss messys room is actually quite decent since her monther visited last week, I think I shall be able to bear it. I'm not the roomie kinda person really.

Today is a grey day, I guess it's a perfect day for packing and cleaning. I need to try and remember where I pack everything, usually my "smart" solutions are only smart in the moment beause then I forget the logic behind it and without the logic I wont get very far. Momentary logic? Or something like that or just no logic at all to begin with.

Tomorrow, tomorrow ... doomsday. Haha. If I don't get the room in Deventer I do have a kijkavond in zwolle on tuesday. Just in case. But I should'nt think to much. Gonna read a little bit now before it's time for a late lunch. And then pack the rest of my little things, those are the worst because they are, well, little.. and theres alot of them.

Lets hope I get it. With a bit of paint and decent furniture it will be a cosy room after all.

Today I'm packing and doing laundry, tomorrow I need to clean in here... vaccume the stupid vloerbedekking ...(why oh why do they put thick furry carpet on the floor?!) and whipe of the desk and the window sill. The plan was to go shopping in Utrecht but 1/3 of the way of biking there it started to rain so I turned around and went to Albert Hein for groceries and then back home. Ofcourse now the sun is shining ... I'll do my shopping monday or so instead. The weather is very unstabile today and I allready got soaked once this week (yes I'm a wuss and I'm eehhh not so proud of it but I stand for what I am!).

I like repacking... I keep finding clothes and thinking "ohhh I brought this", since I packed everything ages ago I can't really remember what I did bring and what I left so I get positively surprised rumaging through my bags. I'm gonna finish packing what I can pack now and see if everything fits...

Today I was up early and went to the stable with Frouk and her mother, it was nice. I'd prefered to skip it with the trip to Deventer and all but it was still nice. Afterwards I went into Utrecht to get my trainticket and get on the train towards Amelsfoort just to switch there to a train towards Aapeldoorn (that train actually said Berlin so I got weird thoughts about falling asleep and waking up in Berlin..) I got to Deventer well in time, a bit to early even... lucky for me I found these little fellas out walking with their mum:



They keept me entertained for a bit being all cute..



Then I went to look at the room... which was a great disapointment... to start with. The house is old, the room had old vloerbetekning...the walls were quite shabby and the radiator looked like its seen better days. Theres one shower on 8 people...

In the train I got a little more positive and complied a list with pros n cons in my head.

Pros:

• 15m2 for 275€/month all incl.
• Corner room with two windows
• Really close to the station so travelling to uni will be easy
• 7 dutch housemates ought to be good for my dutch
• Only one shower = motivation to go to the gym in Zwolle and shower there instead after working out
• Could get really cosy with a little effort
• It's not for a lifetime

Cons:

• the vloerbetekking
• 1 shower on 8 people
• Shabbyness
• i'll need a fridge
• Needs painting

Hm, I was sure that the list of cons were longer... Frouk offered paint and help to paint so that would be done easilly and fast. Preferably on monday allready (if I do get it...) and then start hunting down second hand bed, a drawer atleast (need something to put my clothes in) and a low table + an armchair. Oh and a fridge, but according to my dutch teacher you can find those really cheap, just need to make sure that they work....