in my first blog i mentioned that i would once write about Holland's biggest idiot ever.
And i think now the time has come to show you a whole other side of that small and quiet country between Belgium and Germany...
The man i'm talking about is called Geert Wilders.
He's in politics and a few years ago he started his own party called "Party for the Freedom" (=PVV).
When you see him, you already start thinking "HE'S A CREEP!!"
And when you get to know his ideas that thought only gets confirmed.
He actually IS a creep. What are his ideas??
He's against the islam and muslims. He thinks the Coran is a fascistic book and he wants it to be forbidden. In 2008 he made a movie and got worldfamous with it. In that movie he showed how bad and violent the islam was and that we should be warned.
In Holland lives quite a big group of people from Turkey and Marocco, and other muslims. He says the Maroc youth is making problems by being criminal and he wants to send them back to Marocco, although most of them were born in Holland. All islamic fugitives he want to go back to their dangerous islamic countries and he wants no fugitives ever come in.
They should talk perfectly Dutch, join everything in Dutch culture and he thinks Holland will be an islamic country in a few years. Now i learned with English the perfect word for this: Xenophobia, which means you hate "strangers" and strangers are people from other countries.
And no, he's not against Belgians, Germans, Finnish, Spanish, Hungarians whatever. They are "Western-immigrants" and not muslims. His girlfriend is from Hungaria or somewhere overthere. All muslims are violent and suppress people, following his opinion.
What is the problem?? No, this fool is not in a psychiatric centrum. He is not in jail for discrimination and racism. He's still walking around and in the European Elections there was only one party bigger than his.
PEOPLE ARE AGREEING WITH HIM!!
He's popular here and that's what scares me. 4 Parties have already said they will not go in government with him, and he's upset about that. He calls it undemocratic, but he has said he would never go in government with one of them. So is that weird or is it weird?
His only argument is the so-called "freedom of expression". But what is freedom of expression called by a man that wants the Coran to be forbidden? What is freedom of expression when muslims are discriminated?? Yes, exactly, it's freedom of expression for "real" Dutch. A person like me. But i don't want to be that Dutch. I don't want to be Dutch if it means i have to live in a country where muslims aren't welcome. I don't want to live in a country where so many people agree with this argument. Where stops freedom of expression and where begins freedom of religion?? He doesn't know.
Looking forward from now, it seems he will be one of the biggest parties in the next national elections. It means they have to make a government with him in it, but the three biggest would have no majority and others don't want to be with him. I see a problem coming. And what if he's going to be the biggest??
I really hope it won't happen because i have friends here, i grew up here, i go to school here, but at the same moment that he will become prime-minister, i will leave this country.
I don't know where to go. I have three possibilities.
I love France, i speak the language a little and i just love it. But i have no beginning of new life there. Then we have Spain and Sweden, that i also love, and where i know people. I know some Spanish either, and i have kind of friends there. In Sweden i will just learn the language and i even have my two of my dearest friends there!
So watch out. When i'm one day knocking on your door, and it's not holiday, you know what has happened...
I don't want to live in a country where so many people share his opinion, but i hope they get there minds back and see that his ideas don't make any sense. Then i can at least finish my school here...
Isn't it funny that your freedom ends where the freedom of the other begins?
/ Marloes
zondag 7 juni 2009
maandag 1 juni 2009
Swedish Fika in Holland
Eva with snor!
<-- moose with snor (if you look very well you can see it xD) 
My beautiful extensions ;)
Mask with snor (Eva: THE mask!)
Eva with extensions in her hair xD
Oh yes, even the lady in the movie got a wonderful Swedish moustache!!
Noor met snor! (no translation, we don't want to insult anybody!)
One moustache, one beard, two girls!!
Viking Eva! Aargh!!
OMG!! I have the Viking-gen too!!
We were really watching your movie!!
Our fika :D
Snow no. 1
Snor no. 2
Eva and i watched a big part of the movie "Så som i Himmelen" this afternoon. We really liked it and we loved the language haha :)
When we had a break for getting something to drink i got the idea to have a fika with the Swedish candies which i got for my birthday and i also had Daim, so we made a big fika of it.. Especially the Goddis Gula Snören were really funny. When i got them i translated them as "Goddelijke Gele Snorren" which means "Divine Yellow Moustaches" (especially Divine is really funny).
So in this blog when i use the word "Snor" i mean that candy.
Of course that funny thing turned into very funny pictures!! The pictures up here are pictures of our fika :D
Conclusion of the day: Sweden is cool!!
<3 Marloes
I'm walking on sunshine and doesn't it feel good??
This weekend was so cool!!
We were with 200 people, members of my scoutinggroup, leaders, people that are still with the group but aren't leaders (often scoutingfamilies), parents of members....
The sun has been with us the whole weekend and everybody was happy.
There were small children (who aren't members yet because they're too young) who i knew because of the helping-team weekends i join because my parents belong to that group and of course the other explorers.
It was very fun and this weekend i have found out that Lisette is still kind of my buddy.
When we were going to sail she asked me if i wanted to do her back with sunmilk and together we made a tower of the boxes in which the beer goes and climbed on it (this is such a bad explanation, but i will show some pictures).
My group of explorers isn't always so much fun, because there are so many people. There are groups in the group and most of them are quite different to me and my friend Bobby.
They are yelling all time and in the night they keep everybody awake.
So this weekend was also a bit embarassing.
Saturday it went better. We could find a bit a place in the group, although sometimes we just were like "Yeah, whatever, we will just do what we want and not act like them..."
And this weekend i've been very healthy. We cycled to the place of the camp, which was 1,5 hour cycling, saturday we cycled to the place of sailing and of course the wind worked against us. And sunday we cycled home.
So never tell me again that "The youth of today doesn't have enough movement" because scouts have!!!!!
Scouting isn't just a hobby but a way of living!!
xxxx Marloes
We were with 200 people, members of my scoutinggroup, leaders, people that are still with the group but aren't leaders (often scoutingfamilies), parents of members....
The sun has been with us the whole weekend and everybody was happy.
There were small children (who aren't members yet because they're too young) who i knew because of the helping-team weekends i join because my parents belong to that group and of course the other explorers.
It was very fun and this weekend i have found out that Lisette is still kind of my buddy.
When we were going to sail she asked me if i wanted to do her back with sunmilk and together we made a tower of the boxes in which the beer goes and climbed on it (this is such a bad explanation, but i will show some pictures).
My group of explorers isn't always so much fun, because there are so many people. There are groups in the group and most of them are quite different to me and my friend Bobby.
They are yelling all time and in the night they keep everybody awake.
So this weekend was also a bit embarassing.
Saturday it went better. We could find a bit a place in the group, although sometimes we just were like "Yeah, whatever, we will just do what we want and not act like them..."
And this weekend i've been very healthy. We cycled to the place of the camp, which was 1,5 hour cycling, saturday we cycled to the place of sailing and of course the wind worked against us. And sunday we cycled home.
So never tell me again that "The youth of today doesn't have enough movement" because scouts have!!!!!
Scouting isn't just a hobby but a way of living!!
xxxx Marloes
dinsdag 26 mei 2009
School's killing me
How many tests can somebody have in one week??
Yes, of course we have testweek with only tests, but those are max 2 or 3 a day.
In a testweek i have 9 tests.
This week i have 7, but lessons too!!
Thursday i have history, English (listening so i don't have to learn for that) and maths.
Maths is so hard!!! They have made 25 ways of giving you the same excercise. Now i'm wondering why... they make it so hard for us!!!
With history we did the last paragraph monday, but i guess you know what history is.
That paragraph was 6 pages and all others are somewhere far away in my memory.
And then we have the fact that this is the most interesting subject of all... Not.
Renaissance. Humanism, problems in church, Luther, Calvijn, Columbus, 80 years war against Spain which resulted in the country of Holland.
I love it....
It's so boring!! A whole paragraph about Calvijn!!! And that man was negative!! He really made me nervous, and he lived 500 years ago!
"If you are very lucky you can be "Chosen" by God for going to heaven. If you only wear black and get out all fun out of your life and only read the Bible three times a day, you might be one of those. Maybe. All the others go to hell and you can't change that. It was all meant to be"
That's him. I really got sick. There was not so much information about what Luther exactly wanted, but it can't be worse than this. So i decided that i would rather agree with Luther than with Calvijn. Bah.
And then we have the problems with Spain. So interesting. Luckily this book is more objective, and i like that much more. The book we had in the first 3 years hated Spain. And that's not nice if you do like Spain yourself.
Spanish were bad. Spain was bad. They only fought and they suppressed the Dutch. And then we haven't talked about how they did in America!
Oh yes, my book loved Spain...
And then there came the brave Dutch that fought for freedom of religion and expression, which turned out that it was forbidden to be catholic in stead of calvinist.
Great!
This book is better, more obvious, but it's also quite hard to learn. History you have to know in one, and not only the years. The situations and not the facts.
And for friday i have a test in English (yes, again and the lesson English after that again!), and i have to learn 10 pages of words that are not interesting and that everybody, except for English themselves, with whom i talk don't know. Useful!
We also have the problem with Spanish. Although, i'm not having a problem but the other V4 class has, Eva's class. Their teacher is very bad and doesn't even speak well Spanish. And her teacher and my teacher gave different explanations about a tense. Result, they are very confused because i had to tell them that the explanation i got was right. I asked it a Spanish boy, and he should know it, shouldn't he?? He was sure that their explanation wasn't right, but mine was. And now they don't know what to do because they have a test tomorrow and they practised and studied it the wrong way. All because of a teacher that is also stewardess!!! That says something...
Now i'm going to start learning.. There isn't anything else to start later :(
Question after your final exams:
What will you miss about school?? Right.... ehhh....
<3 Marloes
Yes, of course we have testweek with only tests, but those are max 2 or 3 a day.
In a testweek i have 9 tests.
This week i have 7, but lessons too!!
Thursday i have history, English (listening so i don't have to learn for that) and maths.
Maths is so hard!!! They have made 25 ways of giving you the same excercise. Now i'm wondering why... they make it so hard for us!!!
With history we did the last paragraph monday, but i guess you know what history is.
That paragraph was 6 pages and all others are somewhere far away in my memory.
And then we have the fact that this is the most interesting subject of all... Not.
Renaissance. Humanism, problems in church, Luther, Calvijn, Columbus, 80 years war against Spain which resulted in the country of Holland.
I love it....
It's so boring!! A whole paragraph about Calvijn!!! And that man was negative!! He really made me nervous, and he lived 500 years ago!
"If you are very lucky you can be "Chosen" by God for going to heaven. If you only wear black and get out all fun out of your life and only read the Bible three times a day, you might be one of those. Maybe. All the others go to hell and you can't change that. It was all meant to be"
That's him. I really got sick. There was not so much information about what Luther exactly wanted, but it can't be worse than this. So i decided that i would rather agree with Luther than with Calvijn. Bah.
And then we have the problems with Spain. So interesting. Luckily this book is more objective, and i like that much more. The book we had in the first 3 years hated Spain. And that's not nice if you do like Spain yourself.
Spanish were bad. Spain was bad. They only fought and they suppressed the Dutch. And then we haven't talked about how they did in America!
Oh yes, my book loved Spain...
And then there came the brave Dutch that fought for freedom of religion and expression, which turned out that it was forbidden to be catholic in stead of calvinist.
Great!
This book is better, more obvious, but it's also quite hard to learn. History you have to know in one, and not only the years. The situations and not the facts.
And for friday i have a test in English (yes, again and the lesson English after that again!), and i have to learn 10 pages of words that are not interesting and that everybody, except for English themselves, with whom i talk don't know. Useful!
We also have the problem with Spanish. Although, i'm not having a problem but the other V4 class has, Eva's class. Their teacher is very bad and doesn't even speak well Spanish. And her teacher and my teacher gave different explanations about a tense. Result, they are very confused because i had to tell them that the explanation i got was right. I asked it a Spanish boy, and he should know it, shouldn't he?? He was sure that their explanation wasn't right, but mine was. And now they don't know what to do because they have a test tomorrow and they practised and studied it the wrong way. All because of a teacher that is also stewardess!!! That says something...
Now i'm going to start learning.. There isn't anything else to start later :(
Question after your final exams:
What will you miss about school?? Right.... ehhh....
<3 Marloes
donderdag 21 mei 2009
Some pic's
hey i found out how to put pictures on this blog!!! So cool!
They are from Eva and me, two times, my grandma and me at the family day, my dad and me with two small baby goats and a little pig that was at the farmer's too at the family day :D
Hop you like them :D
xxxx
woensdag 20 mei 2009
Broken, more broken, most broken
Right now i'm sitting behind my computer and i'm feeling terrible.
Today we had triathlon with school. An event for which i wasn't looking forward. Honestly, since august i have been scared for this day. But time goes on and finally 20th may arrived.
Unfortunately.
I had to be there at 11.10, that wasn't so bad because i could sleep something longer. 11.40 i started in the canoe. It was 4 km's they said. For canoeing i wasn't so scared. I had done it before, although that wasn't the best thing i've ever done, but because of that i knew how to do canoeing and i could only hope that i wouldn't fall in the water. I did very well. 30 minutes.
The sun was shining and there where almost no clouds (where was Sweden's bad weather???).
Then cycling. 3 courses of 6,5 km's. One course was more than i expected, but i'm used to cycle and i didn't bad i believed. I had made a good map with up-tempo songs so i could follow their rythm a bit. I needed something more than an hour, and they took 90 minutes for it.
Then the worst thing of the day. Running, 5 km's. I was very calm because i knew i had more than 1 hour for it, because i did the other things faster. Those 40 minutes were horrible, but the feeling i got when i laid down in the grass was great. Finally i could eat something, because i had one biscuit for my breakfast because i was so nervous. I waited for Eva, who had even a more horrible day than me. Everything went wrong with her. But she did it too and i'm very happy it's all over.
Right now i'm totally broken and i'm not so much looking forward to a party tonight. I'm far too tired, but Eva and i will go and then she stays sleeping in my house.
I really don't want to know how i feel tomorrow.... <3 Marloes
Today we had triathlon with school. An event for which i wasn't looking forward. Honestly, since august i have been scared for this day. But time goes on and finally 20th may arrived.
Unfortunately.
I had to be there at 11.10, that wasn't so bad because i could sleep something longer. 11.40 i started in the canoe. It was 4 km's they said. For canoeing i wasn't so scared. I had done it before, although that wasn't the best thing i've ever done, but because of that i knew how to do canoeing and i could only hope that i wouldn't fall in the water. I did very well. 30 minutes.
The sun was shining and there where almost no clouds (where was Sweden's bad weather???).
Then cycling. 3 courses of 6,5 km's. One course was more than i expected, but i'm used to cycle and i didn't bad i believed. I had made a good map with up-tempo songs so i could follow their rythm a bit. I needed something more than an hour, and they took 90 minutes for it.
Then the worst thing of the day. Running, 5 km's. I was very calm because i knew i had more than 1 hour for it, because i did the other things faster. Those 40 minutes were horrible, but the feeling i got when i laid down in the grass was great. Finally i could eat something, because i had one biscuit for my breakfast because i was so nervous. I waited for Eva, who had even a more horrible day than me. Everything went wrong with her. But she did it too and i'm very happy it's all over.
Right now i'm totally broken and i'm not so much looking forward to a party tonight. I'm far too tired, but Eva and i will go and then she stays sleeping in my house.
I really don't want to know how i feel tomorrow.... <3 Marloes
vrijdag 15 mei 2009
Blog in het Nederlands
Zo, Anne..
hier is je blog in het Nederlands :D
Dat is vast makkelijker voor je dan Engels hahahaha
Tja.. ik was de blog eigenlijk begonnen voor Ida en Sofia, zodat ze wat van me konden horen als ze daar tijd voor hadden, maar ja.. nu lees jij het af en toe ook dus schrijf ik maar een keertje in het Nederlands :)
Daar blijf ik meteen maar bij, bij Nederlands. Dat vind ik echt het stomste vak ever maar dat wist je al (en anders moet je maar één van die Engelse blogs lezen, die gaat daarover ;) ).
Nederlands is stom, klinkt stom en is ook nog eens hartstikke moeilijk. Voor mij niet meer, want ik spreek het al, maar ik heb serieus medelijden met buitenlanders die het moeten leren. Arme mensen. Als je erover nadenkt, zit er echt geen enkele logica in. Geen regels, alleen uitzonderingen op de regels die toch maar bedacht zijn... Echt waar, als je erover nadenkt wordt het steeds erger. Lees dit gedicht maar eens over de werkwoorden:
Nederlands moeilijk te leren?
Men spreekt van één lot, en verschillende loten,
maar 't meervoud van pot is natuurlijk geen poten.
Laatst ging ik vliegen, dus zeg ik “ik vloog”.
Maar zeg nou bij wiegen beslist niet: ik woog,
want woog is nog altijd afkomstig van wegen,
maar is dan 'ik voog' een vervoeging van vegen?
Wat hoort er bij zoeken'? Jazeker, ik zocht,
en zegt u bij vloeken dus logisch: ik vlocht?
Welnee, beste mensen, want vlocht komt van vlechten.
En toch is ik 'hocht' niet afkomstig van hechten.
En bij lopen hoort liep, maar bij kopen geen kiep.
En evenmin zegt men bij slopen 'ik sliep'.
Want sliep moet u weten, dat komt weer van slapen.
Maar fout is natuurlijk 'ik riep' bij het rapen.
Want riep komt van roepen. Ik hoop dat u 't weet
en dat u die kronkels beslist niet vergeet.
Dus: kwam ik u roepen, dan zeg ik 'ik riep'.
Nu denkt u: van snoepen, dat wordt dan 'ik sniep'?
Alweer mis, m'n beste. Maar u weet beslist,
dat ried komt van raden, ik denk dat u 't wist.
Komt bied dan van baden? Welnee, dat wordt bood.
En toch volgt na wieden beslist niet 'ik wood'.'
Ik gaf' hoort bij geven, maar 'ik laf' niet bij leven.
Dat is bijna zo dom als 'ik waf' hoort bij weven.
Zo zegt men: wij drinken en hebben gedronken.
Maar echt niet: wij hinken en hebben gehonken.
’t Is moeilijk, maar weet u: van weten komt wist,
maar hoort bij vergeten nou logisch vergist?
Juist niet, zult u zeggen, dat komt van vergissen.
En wat is nu goed? U moet zelf maar beslissen:
hoort bij slaan nu: ik sloeg, ik slig, of ik slond?
Want bij gaan hoort: ik ging, niet ik goeg of ik gond.
En noemt u een mannetjesrat nu een rater?
Dat geldt toch alleen bij een kat en een kater.
U ziet, onze taal beste dames en heren,
is, net als ik zei, best moeilijk te leren!
En hier ben ik het dus helemaal mee eens.
Geen idee of het voor Ida en Sofia nou interessant was, maar dan moeten ze maar even weer google translate gebruiken.
Zo, als ze dat niet uit het Nederlands weten te halen, weet ik het ook niet meer.
Mijn Zweeds is toch ook hartstikke goed??
Wat is het verschil tussen onwetendheid en onverschilligheid??
- Ik weet het niet en het kan me niet schelen ook!!
xxxxx Marloes<3
hier is je blog in het Nederlands :D
Dat is vast makkelijker voor je dan Engels hahahaha
Tja.. ik was de blog eigenlijk begonnen voor Ida en Sofia, zodat ze wat van me konden horen als ze daar tijd voor hadden, maar ja.. nu lees jij het af en toe ook dus schrijf ik maar een keertje in het Nederlands :)
Daar blijf ik meteen maar bij, bij Nederlands. Dat vind ik echt het stomste vak ever maar dat wist je al (en anders moet je maar één van die Engelse blogs lezen, die gaat daarover ;) ).
Nederlands is stom, klinkt stom en is ook nog eens hartstikke moeilijk. Voor mij niet meer, want ik spreek het al, maar ik heb serieus medelijden met buitenlanders die het moeten leren. Arme mensen. Als je erover nadenkt, zit er echt geen enkele logica in. Geen regels, alleen uitzonderingen op de regels die toch maar bedacht zijn... Echt waar, als je erover nadenkt wordt het steeds erger. Lees dit gedicht maar eens over de werkwoorden:
Nederlands moeilijk te leren?
Men spreekt van één lot, en verschillende loten,
maar 't meervoud van pot is natuurlijk geen poten.
Laatst ging ik vliegen, dus zeg ik “ik vloog”.
Maar zeg nou bij wiegen beslist niet: ik woog,
want woog is nog altijd afkomstig van wegen,
maar is dan 'ik voog' een vervoeging van vegen?
Wat hoort er bij zoeken'? Jazeker, ik zocht,
en zegt u bij vloeken dus logisch: ik vlocht?
Welnee, beste mensen, want vlocht komt van vlechten.
En toch is ik 'hocht' niet afkomstig van hechten.
En bij lopen hoort liep, maar bij kopen geen kiep.
En evenmin zegt men bij slopen 'ik sliep'.
Want sliep moet u weten, dat komt weer van slapen.
Maar fout is natuurlijk 'ik riep' bij het rapen.
Want riep komt van roepen. Ik hoop dat u 't weet
en dat u die kronkels beslist niet vergeet.
Dus: kwam ik u roepen, dan zeg ik 'ik riep'.
Nu denkt u: van snoepen, dat wordt dan 'ik sniep'?
Alweer mis, m'n beste. Maar u weet beslist,
dat ried komt van raden, ik denk dat u 't wist.
Komt bied dan van baden? Welnee, dat wordt bood.
En toch volgt na wieden beslist niet 'ik wood'.'
Ik gaf' hoort bij geven, maar 'ik laf' niet bij leven.
Dat is bijna zo dom als 'ik waf' hoort bij weven.
Zo zegt men: wij drinken en hebben gedronken.
Maar echt niet: wij hinken en hebben gehonken.
’t Is moeilijk, maar weet u: van weten komt wist,
maar hoort bij vergeten nou logisch vergist?
Juist niet, zult u zeggen, dat komt van vergissen.
En wat is nu goed? U moet zelf maar beslissen:
hoort bij slaan nu: ik sloeg, ik slig, of ik slond?
Want bij gaan hoort: ik ging, niet ik goeg of ik gond.
En noemt u een mannetjesrat nu een rater?
Dat geldt toch alleen bij een kat en een kater.
U ziet, onze taal beste dames en heren,
is, net als ik zei, best moeilijk te leren!
En hier ben ik het dus helemaal mee eens.
Geen idee of het voor Ida en Sofia nou interessant was, maar dan moeten ze maar even weer google translate gebruiken.
Zo, als ze dat niet uit het Nederlands weten te halen, weet ik het ook niet meer.
Mijn Zweeds is toch ook hartstikke goed??
Wat is het verschil tussen onwetendheid en onverschilligheid??
- Ik weet het niet en het kan me niet schelen ook!!
xxxxx Marloes<3
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