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in the middle of the street....

This morning around 8'o clock my seemingly crazy neighbour (I resent calling her crazy but she must have some sort of disorder) started her screaming. I heard something along the lines of "fucking lesbos" and "FUCK YOU" amongst other things, I was far to sleepy to make much sense of it.

At our housemeeting a few weeks back the subject came up with the dissapearing toilettpaper rolls (someone snatches them from the bathroom, it's highly annoying so now noone puts any new paper in they just bring a paper roll with them) and this woman (the only one not in the meeting even though it was her idea to begin with but she refused to leave her room at that point) seems to be the purpetrator (mind the spelling lol) the purp! So the subject of her yelling curses in english randomly happened to come up and it turns out that it's not uncommon at all. And she's not on the phone, she just suddenly starts screaming. My housemates said usually she screams "fuck you xxx" (xxx being her name). I find it interesting that it's all in english seeing as shes dutch.

Anyways..it's all very weird seeing as when you meet her in the hallway and talk to her shes calmity herself and speaks with a really soft voice and is very nice. (then again, that's what makesit scary too...)

I don't know what I did but suddenly the background is back on my blogg. Yay. A grey rainy day here in Deventer, I feel very much like staying inside the whole day but I have a few things I want to pickup downtown so I'm gonna get dressed and get moving. After that I'm spending the afternoon warm and dry inside reading a good book and sipping on my coffee.

Today I'm sending postcards (this windmill is in one of them. AND I have taken pictures of said windmill aswell. Past sunday I just hapened to walk right by it)

to make me feel better for spending so much money lately my erasmus schollarship just rolled into my account. The big part of it, there's still more to come.


I just noticed that my upper arms are bruised ...from carrying the magnetron I suppose, haha. I'm such a weakling. Today I'm having lasagna for dinner! I haven't had lasagna since sis and I cooked it months and months ago. Ofcourse I'm not cooking it myself because that would require me getting a shitload of kitchen equipment and stuff that I don't have. So the more advanced cooking will have to stand back a bit here in Holland. But I'm creative so I think I shall manage just fine.

Yeah I don't know what to say about the day, everyone seemed unhappy and unpleased with things. Or maybe that was jut my group who had an ego trip last week and then landed on our bellies this week. I don't feel hurt or offended, the rest of my group did though and that set the mood for the rest of the day.

We ended early so I took the train back to Deventer and went shopping! Got me a coat:



Now I'm sitting here in my new coat realising I could have gotten a blue one, haha. This will do, its quite cute. I'll just have to wear other colourfull things with it. Like pink mittens! And a mössa.

I was trying to find me pictures of the other things I bought but without success. Got two neautral tops and two really cute tuniks I guess they are. Longer top thingies.

Now I'm gonna try and get a little studying done and try and ignore my singing housemate.

Can't be posted enough times, a source to unlimited laughter.



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Whatever... or microwaved brinta! I has it!



The thing is huge and has bars (I dunno what you call the iron thingies lol) and plates (the black iron thingie) and...I could bake things if I wanted to. To put it in dutch, it has: Met draaitafel, hoog en laag rooster, vierkant rooster en bakplaat.

And on the picture you can also see my baby - the fridge. I have everything I need for a nice comfortable living now. So maybe, maybe I can allow myself to go look at that coat I saw today... just look. Cause I probably wont want it when I see it again, probably. Uncertain.

My left eye went nutty after I carried that giant up the stairs, I don't know if I scratched it or if it's the paint fumes from my sorta scary huisgenot who's spraypainting things...I should not have encouraged her painting. (common, she showed me a painting she made saying she got inspired by the colours on my walls...haha) and I don't dare to write anything bad about her incase she would somehow see it and then break into my room in the middle of the night and kill me by dropping my newely bought magnetron in my head.

All you gotta do is walk the way your nose is pointing. Today I walked across the raileway bridge, saw ponnies that lives under the bridge and look horrible (their tails are tangled in what I would guess is from laying in theirt own or in one of the many many large piles of cows shit)...I also approached the cow babies fearing for my life in case I managed to upset one of the adults, you know cows can be quite scary.





I got away with a long glare from one if the big ones and keept on walking away from the city untill I reached a sign with Deventer crossed over in red. Then I keept walking in pursuit of a sign saying where I was seeing as it was no longer Deventer but all I could see was corn and even more corn so I turned back.



Notice the corn!

I did eventually manage to spot a sign saying Welcome to Gelderland. But my theory is that Gelderland isn't really a city its a province or something like that, or a subprovince maybe. I'm not completely certain how it works around here. I know I live in Deventer in the province of Overijsel.

I found my way back into the city and took a lap through the rather empty and quiet streets. I stumbled over the oldest house in Holland:



It's from 1130. Dang it, I just realised I forgot to touch it. I never touched anything that old. Haha.


On another little street I found these colourfull lill houses, like something out of a movie.

Or confirmation of something I allready knew ... and really hoped would be true. It seems that for my 5th semester at JMG we are doing a whole semesters internship. A payed internship. That means that I "only" have to worry about financing the 4th and the last semester. Hopefully the 6th semester can be finansed through journalistic work... if I play my cards right at my internship. The last semester is also folded for a big last paper which includes reaseraching, interviewing but most importantly - you choose how to dispose your time. I had a little dip in faith yesterday thinking about what awaits me after Holland. Now I'm back to my positive self and life looks good.

If only the coughing would stop. It is getting to be annoying. IT's another sunny beautiful day and a little later on I'm heading out into the sun.

Happy sunday ♥

Fall is indeed closing in ....



Today it's been about 18 degrees and brightly sunny so I took a nice long walk and ended up leaving Deventer for Diepenveen.

In Diepenveen they are anti Zwolle apperantly:



I found a park - in Deventer - with all sorts of animals, this cute little thing was sleeping in the shadows:



It's been a lovely day and now I'm happilly sitting under my blanket enjoying doing absolutely nothing.

I just woke up about an hour ago and just finished eating breakfast. Batteries are charged and soon I'm heading out into the beautiful day outside armed with my camera. Today I'm going to explore my area a little closer. The plan is also to walk so far that I'll see a horse. That's today's game - spot a horse. Initially I was considering taking the train to Zwolle to look around a bit but I want to figure out what I want to see and do there before I do such a thing. And that is why I'm behind the computer still. The tourist in me has awaken and I bought me post-it's so that I can keep track of everything I want to see and do. It is time for a little structure here.

In october we have a week long autum break and after that a 2 week long exam period (we only have one exam though) so there will be plenty of time for fun things quite shortly. We are also going to be having wendsdays "off" which is super. My monday afternoons might be dedicated to Zwolle, I need to start gymming soon too. Since I'll probably be skipping the english lessons (not mandatory and gives 0 credits) monday afternoons are mine.

So now I'm gonna be nerdy and figure out what to see in Zwollw so I have an idea when it's time to go touristy there. Het Vligende Paard is apperantly something I need to see but thats for dinner with classmates.

After an interesting day at the uni I decided to do a little shopping and tripped over a brightly pink calendar for 2010. It was irresistable, to my defence I'm going to need one for 2010 in like well 3 months...



The picture doesn't do it justice, the cover is actually really soft and furry. Haha. I'Ofcourse the inside is also pinkish..






Anyways so yea.. I'm happy. Haha. I also bought a PILLOW! It better be comfy.


Happy weekend!

I don't know why or how but the mornings always comes to fast. After struggling a bit with myself I managed to drag myself out of bed, put the water boiler on fix me a sandwhich and here I sit with a cup of tea and the sun blinding me from through the window as it is slowly rising over the rooftops across the street.

It looks to be another beautiful day so enjoy it people. Fall is upon us.

After a very long day ... I can't even remember when the day started and I'm quite sure we wasted quite alot of time today. Hopefully we'll get more productive and use our time better as we go along.

Tomorrow we are going to watch Fitna and the documentary last years Media Production students made. I need to start studying soon.. like, the theory stuff since that will be on the first exam early november or so. But considering that the exam consists of multiple choise questions and the teacher will tell us what subjects he'll use in the exam beforehand... not going to be very hard. The open question part will be on the stuff we do in the lectures.


Yesterday I had my first encounter with a rude dutch person. Haha..not much to tell, I was calling a manege since I'd love to ride a bit during my stay here and the woman answering didn't speak any english. Sooo I did my best explaining what I wanted in dutch and tell her that I don't speak alot of dutch when she says ok and hangs up. Interesting..

Haha.. I saw a woman with a bucket of horsie treats at the trainstation and I was so close to go up to her and like "hello. sorry, spreek je engels? Where are the horsies" haha.

I just called the customers service at bol.com and the woman understood english she said but she keept speaking in dutch. I didn't get much wiser. Or well I did I suppose, in a way. Considering to call those maneges around here aswell while I'm at it. But maybe I should figure out what to say in dutch in case they don't speak english...

Everyone is coughing in my house. I can't find my ipod wire so I can't put new music on it or charge it...that's gonna have to be a project one of the coming days to locate it. I suspect it might be in one of the clothes drawers - don't ask me how it got in there.

In about 35 minutes or so I'm off to the train to Zwolle for a very short day at he Windesheim. This afternoon I get a fridge and then I'm gona go out and do loads of groceries. I'm also gonna finish the texts I promised I would write for the SUN newsletter and mail them in. Right now I'm just sitting here enjoying my cup of tea and feeling pretty good.

Gonna try and arrange to go riding sometime soon... the sooner the better if I have my way. The withdrawals are severe!

I've done something I never thought I would do ..or atleast not untill the day I buy a house and all that. I've bough a fridge. These past few weeks I've lived life without a fridge and I can say the thought of ever having to do that never really occured to me before I was faced with reality. I am spoiled, I have been living a quite protected life and I take alot of things for granted.

And now I have bought myself a fridge and I'm so happy! That's also something I never really expected... that a fridge would make me happy. Haha. I shall get better and not take things for granted from now on. Tomorrow afternoon my shiney new (2nd hand but it looks like a brand new one!) perfect sized little fridge will be delivered and they will even carry it up the stairs for me ♥

I'm sensing a turning point in my life here. Tomorrow the life with a fridge begins and I really can't wait!

The ability of turning the day to something really good even though it didn't start out very well is one I'm very pleased to be possessing. I woke up feeling not so human as I would like with a very nasty headache so I did what any sane person does in that situation and poped a very brightly pink pill, crawled back into bed and closed my eyes... for way to long. That was my morning class. After my additional sleep and the little colourfull pill did it's job I was back in action and headed for the train to Zwolle.

Uncertain about what time the afternoon class would actually start (the online schedule isn't very reliable) I sent a text to my teacher who didn't reply so upon arrival I went straight to the classroom where my classmates (we apperantly grew in numbers while I was away) was deeply focused on a video skype meeting with our client from Cairo. We have a little better idea of what's expected of us, even though it's still wide open and up to us what we want to do with it. By friday each 3 groups have to have come up with a concept that we're gonna pitch with the client in the next meeting. We're also gonna get to see the documentary last years student made but Vincent wants us to go into the project with fresh eyes so that will be after we've settled on a concept to work from.

What's really cool about the project is that we will be working together with students from Cairo. It's gonna be so cool. I also like it that 75% of my group (the dutchies haha) are thinking the same way that I do. The spanish guy and the belgian chick were both a bit overwhelmed talking about how much we have to do..I had to tell them off a bit because we have plenty of time. We will be 18 people working on this project and it will be a blast. Ofcourse we need to be realistic about the workload but there is no point starting off negative, if you're convinced it's gonna be hard and though it will be hard and tough. I for one am comvinced it's gonna be a great experience.


I'm so happy to be back in class again. Boho for sickness!

I'm really unhappy that I didn't bring my camera for my walk today... there was a big kite flying festival whatever thingie this weekend and they were flying loads of kites in different shapes and forms by the river. They couldn't have picked a better weekend for such an event considering the weather.

On another note I'm feeling reaally good right now. Took a nice half long walk and came back in desperate need of a shower and food. Today I learned that a few supermarkets are actually open on sundays...I also learned that such an event equals dutchies hanging on the lock of the door of said supermerket to get in right on the minute they open. Fascinating, first time I ever saw a large number waiting outside a supermarket in that manner.

Not that the one I had last night was very weird but it made me wake up with the weird feeling that I was going to Portugal. Don't ask me why because I haven't got a clue. There was a house that was almost falling appart where I was staying and it was raining constantly and suddenly I was told we were going to Portugal.

Tomorrow I'm going back to uni, I don't care if I sneeze constantly or cough my lounges out or if my ear is beeeeeeping because I tried to blow my nose (some weirdness there ..lol) I'm going back. And after reading my groupmates email about what they did with the assignment we had to make I think I can actually pull off a 2 minute videoclip that my teacher might approve of and produce said clip on my way to the uni tomorrow. It's worth a try atleast. Ofcourse I've allready missed the group aspect of it and that's hard to fix but I can atleast try and make the best out of it.

What moron decided that if the person you're delivering a package for is not home you leave it to their neighbour? Without asking my permission to do so? Nowhere did I read that that was what would happen if I did not spend the whole day inside waiting for the stupid TNT to arrive. Ofcourse now that I got back and knock on the neighbours door they are not home. So within the hour I was away TNT managed to time in to leave my books at my neighbours who I have no clue who they are and then mentioned neighbours decides to leave home and go who knows where. Idiotic!

I was in a good mood, although feeling like crap.. before I saw the note from TNT. I bet the neighbours doesn't even speak english either when they finally do get home.


Now I'm getting myself worked up, haha. Atleast I got my cough medicine... one to calm the cough down (even though the woman didn't want to give me that because the point of the other kind is to loosen the slime up so I can cough it up.. nice and cosy) and one to make the slime less slimey.

I also got to see my little swan friends having a little adventure. I know, I should be writing about more interesting things but anyways. I come walking in my own little bubble of the world, lids over both ears and head feeling funny while trying not to cough on people. I see the duckmum who once had 3 ducklings that later on turned into one and apperantly now that little buddy is also gone...I'm hoping hes just playing with his friends with the other duckbabies.



Very thirsty swans. So where was I...I was walking along thinking that the swans weren't in their usual space when I notice an old man walking across the road with 3 swans ahead of him, hearing them over the street. It seems my little winged buddies decided to check the trainstation out, nnot quite a swan friendly place if you ask me. The old man guided them all the way over the road while cars keept going (morons) and into the water. One of the grown ups (the one drinking is a baby swan) were a little clumsy and I regret not having my camera up because he or she... went into the water in a volt.. landed on the back before scribbling around right side up.




To top this post off, a picture of my street.