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
donderdag 14 mei 2009
One day of my life
At her blog, Ida told something about her normal life.. And that inspired me, because, while reading that, i realized that i really don't know anything about normal life in Sweden, and probably you don't know anything about my normal day...
So i decided to write down a whole day for me. And because it's thursday, i will write down my thursday, also the subjects at school.
6.30 My alarm rings... It's a radio and because i'm like a dead body in the morning i stay listening to the music until 7.
7.00 Then i go out of my bed and get dressed. I walk down the stairs with my bag for school and, while reading the interesting things in the newspaper, i eat my breakfast. After breakfast i brush my teeth, get on jewels and make-up.
7.35 Again i walk downstairs, put my lunch in my bag and put on my shoes and jacket.
7.40 I leave my home and cycle to school. I wait near a supermarket for Sanne and Sophie. With us three we cycle along to school. There are 3 others, Laura, Jeroen (a boy) and Renske, but they don't cycle with us because they didn't have lesson the first hour.
8.00 - 8.05 We arrive at school, put our bikes with the other bikes and walk inside. We walk to the lockers and put our coats in it. Then we wait there a while and walk to the first classroom.
8.15 Spanish... Thursday is a special day in the week. Normally our lessons take 50 minutes, but at thursday they take only 45 minutes because then there's more time for the teachers to have meetings about everything with each other. With Spanish we just do the lesson. Do some excercises, sometimes we talk and she asks things in Spanish, so that's fun. This week we have done a song too, i really liked it. But today she wasn't there, and we didn't know. So we went sitting somewhere and just talk...
9.00 English. English always is a bit boring... Although Eva is next to me, the lessons are boring. We just do excercises or correct excercises we made as homework... Eva is the one that makes it nice...
9.45 Geography. The lessons themselves are quite boring, because the teacher looks a bit shy and talks not so loud and interesting, but I'm always having so much fun with Eva!! And that can be a bit hard, because everybody is silent... We're having a small class there and almost everybody is a bit sleeping, except for us. Geography can be so weird sometimes!!! And there's enough to laugh about!
10.30 BREAK!!!!! We are sitting on the first floor and eat something, drink something and talk a lot. With some people, i never have lessons so it's extra nice to see them :)
10.50 History. It's one of my favourite subjects because i have a very funny teacher. He makes me thinking that the way the people thought that time are very logical and you can really laugh with him. He can explain the things in history with things that are happening now, or just people in my class. History can be hard, but most of the times i like to go to the lessons.
11.35 Maths.... one of the subjects i hate. But my teacher is nice (she's my class teacher too) and she's very good too so the lessons are no problem. My teacher is quite young and sometimes she doesn't want either. Today some boys were allowed to go and buy chips for her, unless they paid, and we ate it with the whole class!
12.20 BREAK again!! This is what we call "grote pauze" which means "big break" (the first is kleine pauze = small break). In this break i have lunch and we do the same things as in the small break.
12.55 Dutch. I have already written down what i think about this... My teacher can be kind, but she's strict too. What i use to do with Dutch? Wonder why the things are made so hard, and wonder what i'm doing there....
13. 40 Class-teach lesson. I don't know how to call it else... It's a lesson from my class teacher, but it's not always there. Sometimes there are extra lessons for which you can enter yourself. Today we had that lesson and she gave some information about next year and that kind of stuff. And we picked a date for having a dinner with the class. We were allowed to leave 10 minutes earlier :)
14.25 Leaving school :D Today Eva cycled more, so she could talk longer with me :):) And the other part i cycled with Sanne and Jeroen, because the others had already left.
14.50 I arrive home :D I got something to drink and talk with my mum and brother, until he decided to start his homework. Then i only talked with my mum hahaha.
15.30 I went upstairs and started my computer. And after a long enough time i started with my homework. I didn't have so much....
16.30 So after it i started msn and talked with Anne and a boy i got to know in Spain, and i started writing this blog. First i talked in Spanish with the boy, but three languages at the same time is quite hard. After a while he asked if i wanted to talk in English or French, so we went on in English. His English is so good!!!
17.19 Now i'm still writing this blog haha. Anne and the boy, Jorge, have left and i'm listening music while writing the blog. And i'm thinking about the reasons i'm writing it in English. It's almost 2 years ago i went to England, so more than 2,5 years ago that i first "met" Ida. And what did we get close friends, all over internet!!!! I really must say you two improved my English so much! When i'm looking in my class, i really think my English is better than others, just because i use it. I got a lot more comfortable in talking it, writing it and of course listening and reading it too. Although listening with a Swedish accent and reading with Swedish mistakes. But does that mind??
I don't think so. Other people who are learning English, are much easier to talk with and the faults only can make me laugh. But maybe you think the same about me? I bet my English teacher could see so many mistakes, but i'm not learning English for speaking it perfectly and having a conversation with the English queen. No, i'm learning it to have communication with people from all over the world, people who are learning it too. I'm learning English to understand them and to get them understanding me. And as long as you two, do understand me and i understand you, although we are both making mistakes, i agree with my English.
kram och kyss & klem og kos Marloes
So i decided to write down a whole day for me. And because it's thursday, i will write down my thursday, also the subjects at school.
6.30 My alarm rings... It's a radio and because i'm like a dead body in the morning i stay listening to the music until 7.
7.00 Then i go out of my bed and get dressed. I walk down the stairs with my bag for school and, while reading the interesting things in the newspaper, i eat my breakfast. After breakfast i brush my teeth, get on jewels and make-up.
7.35 Again i walk downstairs, put my lunch in my bag and put on my shoes and jacket.
7.40 I leave my home and cycle to school. I wait near a supermarket for Sanne and Sophie. With us three we cycle along to school. There are 3 others, Laura, Jeroen (a boy) and Renske, but they don't cycle with us because they didn't have lesson the first hour.
8.00 - 8.05 We arrive at school, put our bikes with the other bikes and walk inside. We walk to the lockers and put our coats in it. Then we wait there a while and walk to the first classroom.
8.15 Spanish... Thursday is a special day in the week. Normally our lessons take 50 minutes, but at thursday they take only 45 minutes because then there's more time for the teachers to have meetings about everything with each other. With Spanish we just do the lesson. Do some excercises, sometimes we talk and she asks things in Spanish, so that's fun. This week we have done a song too, i really liked it. But today she wasn't there, and we didn't know. So we went sitting somewhere and just talk...
9.00 English. English always is a bit boring... Although Eva is next to me, the lessons are boring. We just do excercises or correct excercises we made as homework... Eva is the one that makes it nice...
9.45 Geography. The lessons themselves are quite boring, because the teacher looks a bit shy and talks not so loud and interesting, but I'm always having so much fun with Eva!! And that can be a bit hard, because everybody is silent... We're having a small class there and almost everybody is a bit sleeping, except for us. Geography can be so weird sometimes!!! And there's enough to laugh about!
10.30 BREAK!!!!! We are sitting on the first floor and eat something, drink something and talk a lot. With some people, i never have lessons so it's extra nice to see them :)
10.50 History. It's one of my favourite subjects because i have a very funny teacher. He makes me thinking that the way the people thought that time are very logical and you can really laugh with him. He can explain the things in history with things that are happening now, or just people in my class. History can be hard, but most of the times i like to go to the lessons.
11.35 Maths.... one of the subjects i hate. But my teacher is nice (she's my class teacher too) and she's very good too so the lessons are no problem. My teacher is quite young and sometimes she doesn't want either. Today some boys were allowed to go and buy chips for her, unless they paid, and we ate it with the whole class!
12.20 BREAK again!! This is what we call "grote pauze" which means "big break" (the first is kleine pauze = small break). In this break i have lunch and we do the same things as in the small break.
12.55 Dutch. I have already written down what i think about this... My teacher can be kind, but she's strict too. What i use to do with Dutch? Wonder why the things are made so hard, and wonder what i'm doing there....
13. 40 Class-teach lesson. I don't know how to call it else... It's a lesson from my class teacher, but it's not always there. Sometimes there are extra lessons for which you can enter yourself. Today we had that lesson and she gave some information about next year and that kind of stuff. And we picked a date for having a dinner with the class. We were allowed to leave 10 minutes earlier :)
14.25 Leaving school :D Today Eva cycled more, so she could talk longer with me :):) And the other part i cycled with Sanne and Jeroen, because the others had already left.
14.50 I arrive home :D I got something to drink and talk with my mum and brother, until he decided to start his homework. Then i only talked with my mum hahaha.
15.30 I went upstairs and started my computer. And after a long enough time i started with my homework. I didn't have so much....
16.30 So after it i started msn and talked with Anne and a boy i got to know in Spain, and i started writing this blog. First i talked in Spanish with the boy, but three languages at the same time is quite hard. After a while he asked if i wanted to talk in English or French, so we went on in English. His English is so good!!!
17.19 Now i'm still writing this blog haha. Anne and the boy, Jorge, have left and i'm listening music while writing the blog. And i'm thinking about the reasons i'm writing it in English. It's almost 2 years ago i went to England, so more than 2,5 years ago that i first "met" Ida. And what did we get close friends, all over internet!!!! I really must say you two improved my English so much! When i'm looking in my class, i really think my English is better than others, just because i use it. I got a lot more comfortable in talking it, writing it and of course listening and reading it too. Although listening with a Swedish accent and reading with Swedish mistakes. But does that mind??
I don't think so. Other people who are learning English, are much easier to talk with and the faults only can make me laugh. But maybe you think the same about me? I bet my English teacher could see so many mistakes, but i'm not learning English for speaking it perfectly and having a conversation with the English queen. No, i'm learning it to have communication with people from all over the world, people who are learning it too. I'm learning English to understand them and to get them understanding me. And as long as you two, do understand me and i understand you, although we are both making mistakes, i agree with my English.
kram och kyss & klem og kos Marloes
dinsdag 12 mei 2009
What the hell are we learning Dutch for?
This is something i'm really wondering...
For subjects i have now, i can imagine, for most of all of them, that i need to learn them.
- French, for my holidays to France, because the people like it there and it's useful to understand some of the things written on the street and because i think it's just rude when you don't try to talk something of the language of the country you're spending your time
- Spanish, same reasons
- Germany, i never go to Germany... but Holland has great import - export things with Germany
- English, the whole WORLD speaks English, so me too
- History, the history has made the present...
- Geography, mmm harder... maybe getting more to know about how the world is doing? What human did to the earth and how small we are comparing to the nature...
- CKV, yeah.. there just need to be a subject in which you can DO something. Dancing, theatre, just relaxing a bit...
And now subjects of which i really don't understand why i'm having them
- Maths, maybe it's useful to know what is 2 + 2, but the things we are learning now is really nonsense....
- Gymnastics, as if it's useful to run 3 kilometers and have pain for the rest of the week. And by the time the pain is over, your next lesson is there again!
- Dutch
I really hate Dutch. Why am i learning what everybody is doing wrong? Why do i have to doubt about writing words, about which everybody's doubting? Why is the language i speak that damned hard???!!! Nothing is logical. There are rules, but not even one verb is going like the rule says. We have to learn words you never see again, or words that are so easy that everybody knows them and therefore you don't have to learn them. Why do i have to read books from 1500?? Books in a Dutch i don't understand... Why do i have to read books which HAVE to be written by Dutch authors? Are translations not good enough? Are writers from other countries not good enough? It's rubbish!
I've been reading books by authors from England, America, Sweden, Norway, Germany and Holland and i can tell you that those other books were sometimes even nicer to read than these books i'm doing now... It's so boring!
My book now is about a man studying something geographical and therefore he goes to Norway. I'm over 25 % i think, and still nothing interesting happened. He arrived in Oslo, flew to Trondheim, from there he flew to Tromsø and finally to Alta and now they are walking. And he's having so much pain because his bag is so heavy. Oh yes, and in Tromsø / Alta (i don't even remember!) he walked over a bridge and went with an elevator on a mountain. In Oslo he talked with a professor who didn't have the pictures he needed and in Trondheim he couldn't find them either. More? Yes, there are many musquitos which he hate and the sun is not going down which he finds extremely annoying because he can't sleep..... Cool book!
Oh i love Dutch! - Marloes
For subjects i have now, i can imagine, for most of all of them, that i need to learn them.
- French, for my holidays to France, because the people like it there and it's useful to understand some of the things written on the street and because i think it's just rude when you don't try to talk something of the language of the country you're spending your time
- Spanish, same reasons
- Germany, i never go to Germany... but Holland has great import - export things with Germany
- English, the whole WORLD speaks English, so me too
- History, the history has made the present...
- Geography, mmm harder... maybe getting more to know about how the world is doing? What human did to the earth and how small we are comparing to the nature...
- CKV, yeah.. there just need to be a subject in which you can DO something. Dancing, theatre, just relaxing a bit...
And now subjects of which i really don't understand why i'm having them
- Maths, maybe it's useful to know what is 2 + 2, but the things we are learning now is really nonsense....
- Gymnastics, as if it's useful to run 3 kilometers and have pain for the rest of the week. And by the time the pain is over, your next lesson is there again!
- Dutch
I really hate Dutch. Why am i learning what everybody is doing wrong? Why do i have to doubt about writing words, about which everybody's doubting? Why is the language i speak that damned hard???!!! Nothing is logical. There are rules, but not even one verb is going like the rule says. We have to learn words you never see again, or words that are so easy that everybody knows them and therefore you don't have to learn them. Why do i have to read books from 1500?? Books in a Dutch i don't understand... Why do i have to read books which HAVE to be written by Dutch authors? Are translations not good enough? Are writers from other countries not good enough? It's rubbish!
I've been reading books by authors from England, America, Sweden, Norway, Germany and Holland and i can tell you that those other books were sometimes even nicer to read than these books i'm doing now... It's so boring!
My book now is about a man studying something geographical and therefore he goes to Norway. I'm over 25 % i think, and still nothing interesting happened. He arrived in Oslo, flew to Trondheim, from there he flew to Tromsø and finally to Alta and now they are walking. And he's having so much pain because his bag is so heavy. Oh yes, and in Tromsø / Alta (i don't even remember!) he walked over a bridge and went with an elevator on a mountain. In Oslo he talked with a professor who didn't have the pictures he needed and in Trondheim he couldn't find them either. More? Yes, there are many musquitos which he hate and the sun is not going down which he finds extremely annoying because he can't sleep..... Cool book!
Oh i love Dutch! - Marloes
zondag 10 mei 2009
Eurovision Songcontest 2009
This week it's coming again..
Eurovision Songcontest.
I always like watching it, because there's just a lot of music and it's funny to see a program that so many people in whole Europe (and not Europe) are watching.
But this year....
Holland is pissed.
Every year again the country doesn't make it to the final and the people really don't like it. Every year again they start saying "It's only friend politics between countries", "It's all about the show and not about the song" and "Maybe next year we shouldn't join"
I don't see which problem they are making.
What if it really was friends politics?? Let's say there's friends politics in Scandinavia (what is quite obvious). But what kind of effect has it, when there are 2, 3, 4 countries that vote for one because they are friends?? Nothing, because if Denmark only gets Finland's and Sweden's points it still doesn't win. What did we see next year?? Norway came very high, but it also got 12 points from countries like Georgia and Armenia. Only friend's points don't make a country win..
Only Eastern Europe's countries are making a chance. And again it's not true. Last year Russia, the year before Serbia, Eastern Europe, but before that?? Finland, Greece, Turkey. And look in the history. Countries that won most times: Ireland (7), France (4), Holland (4), Sweden (4). Not so much Eastern, is it?
It's all about the show. Look at Serbia and Russia, their shows weren't like Lordi or the drama queen from Ukrain. And the Irish turkey didn't make it to the final, even as the Danish drama queen in 2007.
And the fact that France, Spain, Germany and the UK are allowed to be in final directly would be unfair. So what?? Yes they are in final every year, but they are fighting for the last 4 places, so what's the problem?? It's only negative for themselves. Nobody votes for one of them, because they will be in final next year, even if the song is good and in English (as was the case of France last year.)
So... Maybe Holland should send a good song and just hope.. Last year i wouldn't have minded if she came in final because she was good. But this year there are 3 old men going (seriously, you're going crazy seeing them, and i will be embarassed) and there clothes are from America with LED-lights. How ugly?? Their song is horrible and gay (that doesn't mind so much). And the whole country is hoping they come in final. Well, i'm hoping that they are not going to final because in that case Europe is freaking out.
Good news for me: more and more people are saying they are having no chance for final. Last days was in the newspaper a message from a bettingmaker in Malta which said: Holland NOT, Norway HOT.
So let's hope that comes true.... Marloes
Eurovision Songcontest.
I always like watching it, because there's just a lot of music and it's funny to see a program that so many people in whole Europe (and not Europe) are watching.
But this year....
Holland is pissed.
Every year again the country doesn't make it to the final and the people really don't like it. Every year again they start saying "It's only friend politics between countries", "It's all about the show and not about the song" and "Maybe next year we shouldn't join"
I don't see which problem they are making.
What if it really was friends politics?? Let's say there's friends politics in Scandinavia (what is quite obvious). But what kind of effect has it, when there are 2, 3, 4 countries that vote for one because they are friends?? Nothing, because if Denmark only gets Finland's and Sweden's points it still doesn't win. What did we see next year?? Norway came very high, but it also got 12 points from countries like Georgia and Armenia. Only friend's points don't make a country win..
Only Eastern Europe's countries are making a chance. And again it's not true. Last year Russia, the year before Serbia, Eastern Europe, but before that?? Finland, Greece, Turkey. And look in the history. Countries that won most times: Ireland (7), France (4), Holland (4), Sweden (4). Not so much Eastern, is it?
It's all about the show. Look at Serbia and Russia, their shows weren't like Lordi or the drama queen from Ukrain. And the Irish turkey didn't make it to the final, even as the Danish drama queen in 2007.
And the fact that France, Spain, Germany and the UK are allowed to be in final directly would be unfair. So what?? Yes they are in final every year, but they are fighting for the last 4 places, so what's the problem?? It's only negative for themselves. Nobody votes for one of them, because they will be in final next year, even if the song is good and in English (as was the case of France last year.)
So... Maybe Holland should send a good song and just hope.. Last year i wouldn't have minded if she came in final because she was good. But this year there are 3 old men going (seriously, you're going crazy seeing them, and i will be embarassed) and there clothes are from America with LED-lights. How ugly?? Their song is horrible and gay (that doesn't mind so much). And the whole country is hoping they come in final. Well, i'm hoping that they are not going to final because in that case Europe is freaking out.
Good news for me: more and more people are saying they are having no chance for final. Last days was in the newspaper a message from a bettingmaker in Malta which said: Holland NOT, Norway HOT.
So let's hope that comes true.... Marloes
donderdag 7 mei 2009
I, me and myself
No, please don't think i'm arrogant, but this is one of things for my homework for today.
With psychology we have looked at personalities and so we did some tests to find out things of our personality.
And... of course we had to make a kind of essay about that. About ourselves.
"Write down the results of the tests and whether you think they were right or not. Write too about the things you think are hard about tests for personality and why. Why is one test better than another?"
This was kind of the excercise. It was very funny to do the tests and see that some of them are right!! I also found out which part of my brains was developed best (i'm a balance between the left and right side), if i was more male or more female (i was "very female") and what kind of "person" i was in an "enneagram" (i was a "mediator" and "helper" and i wasn't a "leader" at all). All very interesting.. Haha, no that was not sarcastic, because in the things they wrote about helpers, male/female and the left or right side of your brains really looked like me sometimes.
So, i turned out to be:
friendly, a bit silent, good in listening, that friends are very important to me, good in imagining how others feel, not very stressful but not very calm either, faithful, filled with new ideas etc.
We did tests for each other too. In one test we had to complete phrases like: I wished... I'd like... I'm afraid... I want... I don't like to... Never i want... Other people say... I dream about... Finally... At school... and so on. The girl who tried to find out something about me by this test wrote down this:
"I think you love Sweden and hate Geert Wilders. More, your friends are very important to you and you would like to discover new things (especially cultures and languages)"
Geert Wilders is the craziest man of Holland and unfortunately he's in politics and even more unfortunately he's popular. I will write one time about him.... These were some of my answers:
- I'd like to go to Sweden
- At school i have a lot of fun with Eva
- I'm afraid for Wilders
- Finally i will see my friends from Sweden again
- I want to see my friends in Sweden
- I don't hope that Wilders comes with a second anti-islam movie
- I have always thought all people are equal
- I hate Wilders
- Basically i should have started with reading for Dutch yet
- I don't like to learn science
So..... this is something about me... What do you think??
Who am i?? How am i?? What is specially me?? How would you describe me??
<3 Marloes
With psychology we have looked at personalities and so we did some tests to find out things of our personality.
And... of course we had to make a kind of essay about that. About ourselves.
"Write down the results of the tests and whether you think they were right or not. Write too about the things you think are hard about tests for personality and why. Why is one test better than another?"
This was kind of the excercise. It was very funny to do the tests and see that some of them are right!! I also found out which part of my brains was developed best (i'm a balance between the left and right side), if i was more male or more female (i was "very female") and what kind of "person" i was in an "enneagram" (i was a "mediator" and "helper" and i wasn't a "leader" at all). All very interesting.. Haha, no that was not sarcastic, because in the things they wrote about helpers, male/female and the left or right side of your brains really looked like me sometimes.
So, i turned out to be:
friendly, a bit silent, good in listening, that friends are very important to me, good in imagining how others feel, not very stressful but not very calm either, faithful, filled with new ideas etc.
We did tests for each other too. In one test we had to complete phrases like: I wished... I'd like... I'm afraid... I want... I don't like to... Never i want... Other people say... I dream about... Finally... At school... and so on. The girl who tried to find out something about me by this test wrote down this:
"I think you love Sweden and hate Geert Wilders. More, your friends are very important to you and you would like to discover new things (especially cultures and languages)"
Geert Wilders is the craziest man of Holland and unfortunately he's in politics and even more unfortunately he's popular. I will write one time about him.... These were some of my answers:
- I'd like to go to Sweden
- At school i have a lot of fun with Eva
- I'm afraid for Wilders
- Finally i will see my friends from Sweden again
- I want to see my friends in Sweden
- I don't hope that Wilders comes with a second anti-islam movie
- I have always thought all people are equal
- I hate Wilders
- Basically i should have started with reading for Dutch yet
- I don't like to learn science
So..... this is something about me... What do you think??
Who am i?? How am i?? What is specially me?? How would you describe me??
<3 Marloes
zondag 3 mei 2009
How to treat with Dutch 3
Today is, probably as you know, my birthday :D
None of the things i asked at my list on this blog came true, not yet..
But still i'm very happy and i like all the presents i got!!
I will write them down, or some of them, in a later blog because first i have to finish the "How-To-Treat-With-Dutch" course. Here the last points you should remember:
21. Don't bother to rend a car. There's not only the fact that you can steal more bikes than you can use, but the traffic of cars in Holland isn't something you can really enjoy. In other parts of the world they tell the traffic jams in kilometers, in Holland they use a note of weeks. To be quite honest, the harder jams are nice to visit as a tourist. The sight of hungry people in their expensive Mercedes can make your mood better, if you like to think about life and the world. It's good to take some bread and throw them through the windows. The following fights are very spectacular.
22. Are you a christian, muslim, jew or admirer of Urrrgl, the God of all honest politicians, in Holland you can find easily the church, mosque, temple or tree as you want. Dutch are known as very tolerant to other beliefs, faiths or religions.
That is not true. The only reason that there are so many churches and sects in Holland is the fact that Dutch have an other opinion about..... everything. A Dutch is always right, and anybody that doesn't have exactly the same opinion as him can buzz off and start his own church.
23. Holland is a kingdom. But it doesn't have a king, no it has a queen. And her husband is called a prince, and not a king. She's not really in the government, well.. not so much, but she's very good in cutting ribbons and visiting other countries. She's very decorative at state banquets too. Her son, the crown prince, will do her job when she stops queening. But... his wife will be called a queen, to complete the confusion. And in that case Holland will have a queen ánd a king. The 30th of april is called Queen's Day, but this is not the birthday of the queen. It's the birthday of princess Juliana, who was the previous queen. Isn't this confusing?? Besides, Queen's Day is the excuse of the Dutch to drink liters of beer and sell his old rubbish on the street.
24. It might be useful to learn how to swim before you come to Holland. No, the dikes won't break, that's not the problem. But the great number of canals, rivers and other things with water can bring you to painful errors. The glimming new road of asphalt where you want to drive at during some rain, could also be something else...
25. If one of your Dutch friends invites you for a birthday, prepare for a unique experience. More than 1 foreigner was made completely mad at a Dutch birthday. A normal Dutch birthday is, most of the times, sitting at a chair and talking about your work, your car, politics, the weather and foreigners. When you are invited at day: they expect you to leave before dinner. When you are invited in the evening: they expect you to leave before 11, and you will be grateful you can. And remember: you only get one cookie with the coffee.
26. Holland has more cities than only Amsterdam. For example there is..... eh.... and.... Anyway, there are more cities.
27. The Dutch beer has a good reputation. Some people are even drinking it!! Brewing is one of the things a Dutch does well. Holland has never been a country where you could do something more interesting than brewing beer and painting little landscapes. This made the beer industry very popular. People are sure that, once you have drunk real Dutch beer like Heineken, Amstel or Grolsch, all the other kinds of beer taste like the drinking water in a hotel in Rotterdam.
28. The Dutch drinking water is safe to drink when it comes out of the crane. That is quite special when you know that most of the water comes out of dirty rivers like the Rijn. Plans for making the quality of the Rijn water that better that fishes are coming back to have their babies are not popular between the Dutch. They don't like the idea that animals are having sex in their drinking water.
29. There are more pigs than people in Holland. That is astonishing when you realize that there are 16 million people in Holland and that they mean the animal "pig" with pig, not the human kind. Well, take now one pig and feed it. Wait a little. Wait a little more. Now you see happening two things. The pig is getting a little fatter, that's good. And there comes some rubbish out of his backside. It stinks. It stinks a lot! Now take that smell 16 million times. The Dutch don't seem to have problems with it. This doesn't only prove that "Money doesn't stink", but also that it's able to hide this horrible smell! Oh, and you get used to the smell... after a few weeks.
30. Dutch political debates are as much exciting as a three day during reading about Lithuanian sportheroes between 1762 and 1809. No shouting like "Hear, hear!", no fights, not even a few politicians calling each other incompetent (and between the Dutch politicians, there are quite a lot of that!). No, telling your opponent that you are doubting about his politics is something like the worst thing you can say. The result is that the interest in politics in Holland has decreased dramatically. At the last elections there only came 2 people. The first was lost on his way to the toilet and the second was an illegal refugee that thought this was the right place for getting a visa.
My God, i live in such an interesting country.... Marloes
None of the things i asked at my list on this blog came true, not yet..
But still i'm very happy and i like all the presents i got!!
I will write them down, or some of them, in a later blog because first i have to finish the "How-To-Treat-With-Dutch" course. Here the last points you should remember:
21. Don't bother to rend a car. There's not only the fact that you can steal more bikes than you can use, but the traffic of cars in Holland isn't something you can really enjoy. In other parts of the world they tell the traffic jams in kilometers, in Holland they use a note of weeks. To be quite honest, the harder jams are nice to visit as a tourist. The sight of hungry people in their expensive Mercedes can make your mood better, if you like to think about life and the world. It's good to take some bread and throw them through the windows. The following fights are very spectacular.
22. Are you a christian, muslim, jew or admirer of Urrrgl, the God of all honest politicians, in Holland you can find easily the church, mosque, temple or tree as you want. Dutch are known as very tolerant to other beliefs, faiths or religions.
That is not true. The only reason that there are so many churches and sects in Holland is the fact that Dutch have an other opinion about..... everything. A Dutch is always right, and anybody that doesn't have exactly the same opinion as him can buzz off and start his own church.
23. Holland is a kingdom. But it doesn't have a king, no it has a queen. And her husband is called a prince, and not a king. She's not really in the government, well.. not so much, but she's very good in cutting ribbons and visiting other countries. She's very decorative at state banquets too. Her son, the crown prince, will do her job when she stops queening. But... his wife will be called a queen, to complete the confusion. And in that case Holland will have a queen ánd a king. The 30th of april is called Queen's Day, but this is not the birthday of the queen. It's the birthday of princess Juliana, who was the previous queen. Isn't this confusing?? Besides, Queen's Day is the excuse of the Dutch to drink liters of beer and sell his old rubbish on the street.
24. It might be useful to learn how to swim before you come to Holland. No, the dikes won't break, that's not the problem. But the great number of canals, rivers and other things with water can bring you to painful errors. The glimming new road of asphalt where you want to drive at during some rain, could also be something else...
25. If one of your Dutch friends invites you for a birthday, prepare for a unique experience. More than 1 foreigner was made completely mad at a Dutch birthday. A normal Dutch birthday is, most of the times, sitting at a chair and talking about your work, your car, politics, the weather and foreigners. When you are invited at day: they expect you to leave before dinner. When you are invited in the evening: they expect you to leave before 11, and you will be grateful you can. And remember: you only get one cookie with the coffee.
26. Holland has more cities than only Amsterdam. For example there is..... eh.... and.... Anyway, there are more cities.
27. The Dutch beer has a good reputation. Some people are even drinking it!! Brewing is one of the things a Dutch does well. Holland has never been a country where you could do something more interesting than brewing beer and painting little landscapes. This made the beer industry very popular. People are sure that, once you have drunk real Dutch beer like Heineken, Amstel or Grolsch, all the other kinds of beer taste like the drinking water in a hotel in Rotterdam.
28. The Dutch drinking water is safe to drink when it comes out of the crane. That is quite special when you know that most of the water comes out of dirty rivers like the Rijn. Plans for making the quality of the Rijn water that better that fishes are coming back to have their babies are not popular between the Dutch. They don't like the idea that animals are having sex in their drinking water.
29. There are more pigs than people in Holland. That is astonishing when you realize that there are 16 million people in Holland and that they mean the animal "pig" with pig, not the human kind. Well, take now one pig and feed it. Wait a little. Wait a little more. Now you see happening two things. The pig is getting a little fatter, that's good. And there comes some rubbish out of his backside. It stinks. It stinks a lot! Now take that smell 16 million times. The Dutch don't seem to have problems with it. This doesn't only prove that "Money doesn't stink", but also that it's able to hide this horrible smell! Oh, and you get used to the smell... after a few weeks.
30. Dutch political debates are as much exciting as a three day during reading about Lithuanian sportheroes between 1762 and 1809. No shouting like "Hear, hear!", no fights, not even a few politicians calling each other incompetent (and between the Dutch politicians, there are quite a lot of that!). No, telling your opponent that you are doubting about his politics is something like the worst thing you can say. The result is that the interest in politics in Holland has decreased dramatically. At the last elections there only came 2 people. The first was lost on his way to the toilet and the second was an illegal refugee that thought this was the right place for getting a visa.
My God, i live in such an interesting country.... Marloes
maandag 27 april 2009
How to treat with Dutch 2
So... it's holiday but i'm bored to death and that's why i'm writing a new blog that soon after the last one..
The only things i can do have to do with school and are not the good options hahaha
Here's the following of the "How to treat with Dutch"-course. Good luck!!! ;)
11) Dutch do not like to spend money, they prefer to cut off an ear. This makes a Dutch your friend for life if you give him something for free. And it might explain the great success of McDonald's in Holland. The story that copper-wire was invented by two Dutch who were fighting for a cent, is totally true.
12) Holland is small. The story goes that it's that small that they put it inside when it's raining. This is not true, but more because it rains 365 days a year in Holland. And that explains the wooden-shoes: they are floating. Yesyes, Holland is small and Dutch are very proud of that. They will take every chance to tell you that Holland has reached for such great things although it's so small. A good answer for this is referring to a history filled with cruelty in colonies. That brings us to point 13.
13) If you want to insult a Dutch, and sooner or later you'll want that, you can tell him that you don't think he's a pacifist. And now start immediately running for your life. He won't stop telling you he's the most peaceful person in the world until your guts are on the street. As said before, referring to a history filled with cruelty in colonies like in Surinam and Indonesia will make that same Dutch change into a crying child that begs for forgiving.
14) Dutch have the name of being tolerant. Rubbish. They just make too much money with selling soft- and harddrugs and Maleisian women, for letting that great opportunity for making profit pass by.
15) The main way of transport in Holland is the bike. Feel free to take every bike of which you can crack the lock. However, don't expect your bike to be at the same place as you put it 3 minutes ago. The hunting-season of bikes is opened 365 days a year. Good luck!
16) With every meal with bread in Holland you will find a mean-looking knife with a big groove in it. This is called a "kaasschaaf" (cheeseslicer) and is meant to cut off very thin slices of the cheese (Yes, it is a Dutch invention). Never cut the cheese with a normal knife, the Dutch will think you are very foolish. Another Dutch invention for eating is the "flessenlikker" (bottle scraper). Be aware! Never use it for scratching your back! It was made for getting the last small traces out of a bottle of sauce or something else. A Dutch uses every millimeter of a product he bought. He payed for it, then he will eat it too.
17) Dutch are used to drown chips in liters of mayonnaise and putting it in paperbags. This is called "patatje met" (chips with). One of these bags is able to give you an immortal life (because it's so fat!). They are only not sure if this life is worth living it. Anyway, there are really seen foreigners that seemed to like it.
18) Holland has a unique service for tourists. At the moment they are crossing the border they are welcomed by young men in fast cars. They have the wish to bring the tourists to the many interesting attractions Holland has. One way or another, the tourists always end up in a coffeshop or other drugsbuilding (see point 19)
19) There is a very fast way of making yourself foolish in Holland. Walk into a coffeeshop and ask for a cappuccino with a cookie. Coffeeshops, remember this, do not sell coffee. But you can find there lots of drugs for low prices. Because of an unknown reason, coffeeshops are very popular between the tourists.
20) A Frisian is a kind of Dutch living in the north of the country with a whole province for himself. He loves frozen water, Beerenburg (a kind of euthanasia with alcohol) and continiously telling that the other Dutch are just not-Frisians. The other Dutch are seeing this attitude with the eyes like parents to a rebellious child.
Next time until 30!
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx from a very bored Marloes
The only things i can do have to do with school and are not the good options hahaha
Here's the following of the "How to treat with Dutch"-course. Good luck!!! ;)
11) Dutch do not like to spend money, they prefer to cut off an ear. This makes a Dutch your friend for life if you give him something for free. And it might explain the great success of McDonald's in Holland. The story that copper-wire was invented by two Dutch who were fighting for a cent, is totally true.
12) Holland is small. The story goes that it's that small that they put it inside when it's raining. This is not true, but more because it rains 365 days a year in Holland. And that explains the wooden-shoes: they are floating. Yesyes, Holland is small and Dutch are very proud of that. They will take every chance to tell you that Holland has reached for such great things although it's so small. A good answer for this is referring to a history filled with cruelty in colonies. That brings us to point 13.
13) If you want to insult a Dutch, and sooner or later you'll want that, you can tell him that you don't think he's a pacifist. And now start immediately running for your life. He won't stop telling you he's the most peaceful person in the world until your guts are on the street. As said before, referring to a history filled with cruelty in colonies like in Surinam and Indonesia will make that same Dutch change into a crying child that begs for forgiving.
14) Dutch have the name of being tolerant. Rubbish. They just make too much money with selling soft- and harddrugs and Maleisian women, for letting that great opportunity for making profit pass by.
15) The main way of transport in Holland is the bike. Feel free to take every bike of which you can crack the lock. However, don't expect your bike to be at the same place as you put it 3 minutes ago. The hunting-season of bikes is opened 365 days a year. Good luck!
16) With every meal with bread in Holland you will find a mean-looking knife with a big groove in it. This is called a "kaasschaaf" (cheeseslicer) and is meant to cut off very thin slices of the cheese (Yes, it is a Dutch invention). Never cut the cheese with a normal knife, the Dutch will think you are very foolish. Another Dutch invention for eating is the "flessenlikker" (bottle scraper). Be aware! Never use it for scratching your back! It was made for getting the last small traces out of a bottle of sauce or something else. A Dutch uses every millimeter of a product he bought. He payed for it, then he will eat it too.
17) Dutch are used to drown chips in liters of mayonnaise and putting it in paperbags. This is called "patatje met" (chips with). One of these bags is able to give you an immortal life (because it's so fat!). They are only not sure if this life is worth living it. Anyway, there are really seen foreigners that seemed to like it.
18) Holland has a unique service for tourists. At the moment they are crossing the border they are welcomed by young men in fast cars. They have the wish to bring the tourists to the many interesting attractions Holland has. One way or another, the tourists always end up in a coffeshop or other drugsbuilding (see point 19)
19) There is a very fast way of making yourself foolish in Holland. Walk into a coffeeshop and ask for a cappuccino with a cookie. Coffeeshops, remember this, do not sell coffee. But you can find there lots of drugs for low prices. Because of an unknown reason, coffeeshops are very popular between the tourists.
20) A Frisian is a kind of Dutch living in the north of the country with a whole province for himself. He loves frozen water, Beerenburg (a kind of euthanasia with alcohol) and continiously telling that the other Dutch are just not-Frisians. The other Dutch are seeing this attitude with the eyes like parents to a rebellious child.
Next time until 30!
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx from a very bored Marloes
zondag 26 april 2009
How to treat with Dutch 1
This blog is a good one for everybody who is having the plan to come to Holland.
I found it at Internet and it's telling some very funny things about Holland, seeing from the eyes of a foreigner.
I translated it into English, hoping it will prepare you a bit ;)
And remember, i'm not like that, it's about some standard-Dutch or something, you are doing very good hahahaha because i like you!! Most of it doesn't really matter to the most Dutch i think, or i hope, but it's very funny to read for getting to know that weird, small country where, one way or another, are living 16 million people!
1) Most foreigners (foreigners in this blog means people who are from other countries than Holland) call everything that is from Holland Dutch. Don't do that. Dutch reminds the people to "Duits" (= German) what is used for Germans and other things they hate.
2) When you are a foreigner, never try to speak Dutch. You won't only get a huge headache of it, the Dutch won't even understand you. Foreigners have to speak English or gibberish. In the last case they are an easy goal for pickpockets, because they are not able to go to the police.
3) Never try to eat liqourice. It is a candy that only Dutch can eat. You can recognise it by the colour: black. The taste is a mix of earwax and ink. Dutch are really mad of it and eat kilos a person every year. There is a plot between all the people to look at the faces of foreigners who got to believe you can eat it.
4) Don't buy wooden shoes. They will look ridiculous to you. And that is the reason they try to sell it to you. A Dutch himself would never want to be found dead in those things (he actually would never want to be found dead...)
5) Don't make wholes in the dikes. The people don't like that at all, and in the worst case you end up being thrown dead by wooden shoes. But feel free to put your finger in them, when you just need to do that. In that worst case you only get a lot of laughters from the natives.
6) A Dutch is always right, and he knows that. When you are remembering this, it's very easy to treat with the most Dutch. Whenever you get a fight with a Dutch, just tell him that he's totally right and that you now see you're not right. Now he will totally become crazy: Because you are a forgeigner, you can't be right. You agree with him. That's why he can't be right. Impossible! He's Dutch. But... Then... He... Now it's time to watch from a small distance how he tries to strangle himself with a tulip.
7) Mills are inevitable.
8) You don't need to act like you are interested in tulips, mills, wooden shoes or cheese. Every Dutch knows you've come for the drugs or the red-light-districts. Both are there in huge quantities and easy to find. Just ask every Dutch older than 6.
9) Always avoid footballfans. Football in Holland is just an excuse for hitting every other's brains, inclusive yours. Most of the times it happens when one's team has lost, or had the same score as the other team, or when it has won. It's very foolish to stand with a policeman, during these situations (see point 10). And remember never to mention the final or 1974 nearby a Dutch. He will immediately give you a long story about how good the Dutch team was that match and how unbelievebly good...... blablabla
10) Policemen in Holland are most of the times used to throw things to. If you feel like hitting someone, take a policeman. Not a single Dutch will pay attention when you hit a policeman or kick him in his nuts. Policemen represent authority and not a single Dutch recognizes a higher authority than himself. It will strike on you that most of the policemen are foreigners who they attracted in this job.
Next time point 11 to 20!!!
xxxxxxx Marloes <3
I found it at Internet and it's telling some very funny things about Holland, seeing from the eyes of a foreigner.
I translated it into English, hoping it will prepare you a bit ;)
And remember, i'm not like that, it's about some standard-Dutch or something, you are doing very good hahahaha because i like you!! Most of it doesn't really matter to the most Dutch i think, or i hope, but it's very funny to read for getting to know that weird, small country where, one way or another, are living 16 million people!
1) Most foreigners (foreigners in this blog means people who are from other countries than Holland) call everything that is from Holland Dutch. Don't do that. Dutch reminds the people to "Duits" (= German) what is used for Germans and other things they hate.
2) When you are a foreigner, never try to speak Dutch. You won't only get a huge headache of it, the Dutch won't even understand you. Foreigners have to speak English or gibberish. In the last case they are an easy goal for pickpockets, because they are not able to go to the police.
3) Never try to eat liqourice. It is a candy that only Dutch can eat. You can recognise it by the colour: black. The taste is a mix of earwax and ink. Dutch are really mad of it and eat kilos a person every year. There is a plot between all the people to look at the faces of foreigners who got to believe you can eat it.
4) Don't buy wooden shoes. They will look ridiculous to you. And that is the reason they try to sell it to you. A Dutch himself would never want to be found dead in those things (he actually would never want to be found dead...)
5) Don't make wholes in the dikes. The people don't like that at all, and in the worst case you end up being thrown dead by wooden shoes. But feel free to put your finger in them, when you just need to do that. In that worst case you only get a lot of laughters from the natives.
6) A Dutch is always right, and he knows that. When you are remembering this, it's very easy to treat with the most Dutch. Whenever you get a fight with a Dutch, just tell him that he's totally right and that you now see you're not right. Now he will totally become crazy: Because you are a forgeigner, you can't be right. You agree with him. That's why he can't be right. Impossible! He's Dutch. But... Then... He... Now it's time to watch from a small distance how he tries to strangle himself with a tulip.
7) Mills are inevitable.
8) You don't need to act like you are interested in tulips, mills, wooden shoes or cheese. Every Dutch knows you've come for the drugs or the red-light-districts. Both are there in huge quantities and easy to find. Just ask every Dutch older than 6.
9) Always avoid footballfans. Football in Holland is just an excuse for hitting every other's brains, inclusive yours. Most of the times it happens when one's team has lost, or had the same score as the other team, or when it has won. It's very foolish to stand with a policeman, during these situations (see point 10). And remember never to mention the final or 1974 nearby a Dutch. He will immediately give you a long story about how good the Dutch team was that match and how unbelievebly good...... blablabla
10) Policemen in Holland are most of the times used to throw things to. If you feel like hitting someone, take a policeman. Not a single Dutch will pay attention when you hit a policeman or kick him in his nuts. Policemen represent authority and not a single Dutch recognizes a higher authority than himself. It will strike on you that most of the policemen are foreigners who they attracted in this job.
Next time point 11 to 20!!!
xxxxxxx Marloes <3
vrijdag 24 april 2009
Brother & Sister Weekend!
this weekend is going to be a special weekend...
I don't really think it's so exciting, but my mother sees it as "a new step" and i think my brother is a little bit nervous too.
My parents have this weekend a weekend with old friends, they know each other from secundary school (so since they had my age!!) and there are also 2 of my dad's brothers and their wives. They have that weekend every year, and without children...
So when we were really young we slept at an uncle and aunt. That was so much fun, but this year my brother and i stay together at home.
I don't know what we are going to do tonight, and tomorrow i have scouting and working, but sunday we are going to the zoo :D
It's such a long time i've been to the zoo.. I've always liked it there, but i really think it's more than 6 years ago that i've been there the last time.
The zoo...
The part of Holland where you can see "wild" animals. Hahaha, last time i had a conversation with Tommy about wild animals and he told that he had seen some mooses, just right in nature. After i said something like "How different can it be??", he asked how many times i saw wild animals. And i answered "Well, i have just seen them today. Sheep, cows.." But i had to say something after that, because i thought he might think that the sheep and cows were wild (you never know with the culture differences..). I can tell you:
Sheep and cows in Holland are NOT wild.
They are from a farmer, but you can see them in their normal habitat :D
The grass hihi
So that's why to go to the zoo: you never see animals otherwise. Of course i don't believe that there are also elephants walking in Sweden, but the only wild animals in Holland are, except for musquitos and bees and so on, squirrels, swines, deer and some small animals like hedgehogs and birds hahahaha.
I guess we will have a great day, even more because they are predicting more good weather!
Be careful at nature!! xxxx Marloes
P.S. This is funny:
Rozen verwelken, schepen vergaan.... dus koop geen bloemen en vlieg voortaan!
Roses are withering, ships are sinking..... so don't buy flowers and fly from now on!
(with that first phrase the love poems begin (like roses are withering, ships are sinking, but my love for you will forever be you understand?).. in dutch it's riming)
I don't really think it's so exciting, but my mother sees it as "a new step" and i think my brother is a little bit nervous too.
My parents have this weekend a weekend with old friends, they know each other from secundary school (so since they had my age!!) and there are also 2 of my dad's brothers and their wives. They have that weekend every year, and without children...
So when we were really young we slept at an uncle and aunt. That was so much fun, but this year my brother and i stay together at home.
I don't know what we are going to do tonight, and tomorrow i have scouting and working, but sunday we are going to the zoo :D
It's such a long time i've been to the zoo.. I've always liked it there, but i really think it's more than 6 years ago that i've been there the last time.
The zoo...
The part of Holland where you can see "wild" animals. Hahaha, last time i had a conversation with Tommy about wild animals and he told that he had seen some mooses, just right in nature. After i said something like "How different can it be??", he asked how many times i saw wild animals. And i answered "Well, i have just seen them today. Sheep, cows.." But i had to say something after that, because i thought he might think that the sheep and cows were wild (you never know with the culture differences..). I can tell you:
Sheep and cows in Holland are NOT wild.
They are from a farmer, but you can see them in their normal habitat :D
The grass hihi
So that's why to go to the zoo: you never see animals otherwise. Of course i don't believe that there are also elephants walking in Sweden, but the only wild animals in Holland are, except for musquitos and bees and so on, squirrels, swines, deer and some small animals like hedgehogs and birds hahahaha.
I guess we will have a great day, even more because they are predicting more good weather!
Be careful at nature!! xxxx Marloes
P.S. This is funny:
Rozen verwelken, schepen vergaan.... dus koop geen bloemen en vlieg voortaan!
Roses are withering, ships are sinking..... so don't buy flowers and fly from now on!
(with that first phrase the love poems begin (like roses are withering, ships are sinking, but my love for you will forever be you understand?).. in dutch it's riming)
donderdag 23 april 2009
The things i want for my birthday
The 3rd of May will be my 16th birthday :D:D
And... as always people are asking me what i want to have..
But i don't have an answer!!! I don't know what they can give me..
Although there are some things... the only things is that they can't give me that!! Or of some they can, but it's far too expensive, or not something to give for a birthday.. A way to being an adult, so my wishes are more grown-up too, is that a problem??
What do i want for my 16th birthday??
- I want two men. No, not in that way... I want the men, that me and my friends call CP and HB (that's shorter and in HB's case something we know how to say), jumping out of a birthday cake for me.... :D
- I want two girls. Also not in that way... Having them here would be such a lot bigger present than the men. And if they would like to jump out of a cake, DO THAT!!!! (This was a silent hint :) )
- I want peace in the world. And not even peace... No, i want equality between men and women, food enough everywhere, bright drinking water, money for everybody, no climate problems any more, no racism, no discrimination, no fighting, no killing, no diseases, medicines... All together, i want it to be as people describe heaven haha
- I want holiday. And that's something i have already then hihi, and it's over then too... My birthday is the last sunday of the holiday, and luckily we have two days after that (because two kind of national days for which we normally aren't free but this year we are (4 may, remembering the dutch soldiers fallen in wars, 5 may celebrating freedom (originally all because of WWII)))
- I want understanding... Understanding between people in the world, but i also want it just at home.. I want my parens stop talking about the way i say things and the way they see things that i don't mean. They only see it when my brother and i are having a discussion about our destination for summer, but they don't see that i immediately stopped calling Sweden or Norway as countries for a summerholiday. They don't see my enthusiasm about all countries they called, except for Finland and Italy (what i said that i didn't prefer them as my holiday (reason 1: the languages)), they only see me "pushing" for my own things. And that is just NOT true!! Of course i wanted to Irún to visit the Spanish, but my brother was sure he didn't want Spain, so i stopped. And now we are going to Spain, the plan is to drive THROUGH that city, and NOT to stop there!!! That's like driving to Stockholm and skipping Gullringen... Like Bøkko who looses from a stupid dutch in the last 10 meters of the race... Like a 5.4 at your list of notes because of which you are not allowed to go to the next year... (And a bit like going to Italy when you're learning French and Spanish, the only thing for me that is against Italy haha)
That's what i want for my birthday...
10 Nights sleeping (as the dutch children are counting) and we will see what comes true....
Birthdays are healthy, the more you have, the older you will be!! Marloes <3
And... as always people are asking me what i want to have..
But i don't have an answer!!! I don't know what they can give me..
Although there are some things... the only things is that they can't give me that!! Or of some they can, but it's far too expensive, or not something to give for a birthday.. A way to being an adult, so my wishes are more grown-up too, is that a problem??
What do i want for my 16th birthday??
- I want two men. No, not in that way... I want the men, that me and my friends call CP and HB (that's shorter and in HB's case something we know how to say), jumping out of a birthday cake for me.... :D
- I want two girls. Also not in that way... Having them here would be such a lot bigger present than the men. And if they would like to jump out of a cake, DO THAT!!!! (This was a silent hint :) )
- I want peace in the world. And not even peace... No, i want equality between men and women, food enough everywhere, bright drinking water, money for everybody, no climate problems any more, no racism, no discrimination, no fighting, no killing, no diseases, medicines... All together, i want it to be as people describe heaven haha
- I want holiday. And that's something i have already then hihi, and it's over then too... My birthday is the last sunday of the holiday, and luckily we have two days after that (because two kind of national days for which we normally aren't free but this year we are (4 may, remembering the dutch soldiers fallen in wars, 5 may celebrating freedom (originally all because of WWII)))
- I want understanding... Understanding between people in the world, but i also want it just at home.. I want my parens stop talking about the way i say things and the way they see things that i don't mean. They only see it when my brother and i are having a discussion about our destination for summer, but they don't see that i immediately stopped calling Sweden or Norway as countries for a summerholiday. They don't see my enthusiasm about all countries they called, except for Finland and Italy (what i said that i didn't prefer them as my holiday (reason 1: the languages)), they only see me "pushing" for my own things. And that is just NOT true!! Of course i wanted to Irún to visit the Spanish, but my brother was sure he didn't want Spain, so i stopped. And now we are going to Spain, the plan is to drive THROUGH that city, and NOT to stop there!!! That's like driving to Stockholm and skipping Gullringen... Like Bøkko who looses from a stupid dutch in the last 10 meters of the race... Like a 5.4 at your list of notes because of which you are not allowed to go to the next year... (And a bit like going to Italy when you're learning French and Spanish, the only thing for me that is against Italy haha)
That's what i want for my birthday...
10 Nights sleeping (as the dutch children are counting) and we will see what comes true....
Birthdays are healthy, the more you have, the older you will be!! Marloes <3
dinsdag 21 april 2009
BZN
this blog's name is "Blog zonder naam" which means "Blog without name"..
Why?? Just because i thought that was funny hahaha
Which things make you laughing??
That depends on the time of the day you are...
I experienced that when you are very tired, you start talking about such stupid things.. and they are all funny!!
Examples:
One night, a night with my friends, we were laying in our "beds" and two had already fallen in sleep. And what were Eva, Katja and me talking about?? Sea cucumbers, mummies, saunas and Paul de Leeuw (a man we had seen on tv that evening).. And it was a long time ago that we had so much fun.. Who would ever eat sea cucumbers?? Lol!! It was 5 o'clock in the morning...
In the bus from Belgium to Holland when we came back from Spain, Eva and i were sitting together and we were so tired from the whole week and so we discussed about whether trolls and gnomes existed or not... People in Iceland think so.. Are they right or are they crazy?? Eva thought the last one, i didn't know.. I've never seen one, and i don't think they would like to live here, but nobody has proved they don't exist. They could always be right, couldn't they?? It sounds weird, but you never know...
And so on and so on...
In my agenda, i have a new thing.. The week we are in now, has a card in it hahaha. It's a card from Norway and i keep reading it over and over again. Hihihi and some have read it too:
* "Is her name Lola??" - No.. it's Ida... (Sanne)
* "Ohhhh so cute!!!!" - Yes! I know! (Sanne)
* "Kos og klem??!!" - Hihihi (Eva)
* "That's so kind!!" - :D (Katja)
* "I don't see any trolls, do you??!! - Yes.. don't you see them?? (Eva, in the geography lesson)
* "Wow.. it's so beautiful!" - Haha, yes... (i don't remember who said that)
* "Norge, kos, og, klem... right..." - I know what it means :D (don't remember that one either)
* "Did your Swedish friend send that to you?" - thinking "yes.. duh!"
soooooo they like the card here!! Like they all like mister Carl Philip hahaha
So now i'm going to learn English (such a lot of words... and it's só boring!!)
And tonight i have to see the news, because Swedish king and queen are in the country :)
(i only wished they brought their son for my birthday hahahaha)
The grass is always greener on the other side of the street, Marloes
Why?? Just because i thought that was funny hahaha
Which things make you laughing??
That depends on the time of the day you are...
I experienced that when you are very tired, you start talking about such stupid things.. and they are all funny!!
Examples:
One night, a night with my friends, we were laying in our "beds" and two had already fallen in sleep. And what were Eva, Katja and me talking about?? Sea cucumbers, mummies, saunas and Paul de Leeuw (a man we had seen on tv that evening).. And it was a long time ago that we had so much fun.. Who would ever eat sea cucumbers?? Lol!! It was 5 o'clock in the morning...
In the bus from Belgium to Holland when we came back from Spain, Eva and i were sitting together and we were so tired from the whole week and so we discussed about whether trolls and gnomes existed or not... People in Iceland think so.. Are they right or are they crazy?? Eva thought the last one, i didn't know.. I've never seen one, and i don't think they would like to live here, but nobody has proved they don't exist. They could always be right, couldn't they?? It sounds weird, but you never know...
And so on and so on...
In my agenda, i have a new thing.. The week we are in now, has a card in it hahaha. It's a card from Norway and i keep reading it over and over again. Hihihi and some have read it too:
* "Is her name Lola??" - No.. it's Ida... (Sanne)
* "Ohhhh so cute!!!!" - Yes! I know! (Sanne)
* "Kos og klem??!!" - Hihihi (Eva)
* "That's so kind!!" - :D (Katja)
* "I don't see any trolls, do you??!! - Yes.. don't you see them?? (Eva, in the geography lesson)
* "Wow.. it's so beautiful!" - Haha, yes... (i don't remember who said that)
* "Norge, kos, og, klem... right..." - I know what it means :D (don't remember that one either)
* "Did your Swedish friend send that to you?" - thinking "yes.. duh!"
soooooo they like the card here!! Like they all like mister Carl Philip hahaha
So now i'm going to learn English (such a lot of words... and it's só boring!!)
And tonight i have to see the news, because Swedish king and queen are in the country :)
(i only wished they brought their son for my birthday hahahaha)
The grass is always greener on the other side of the street, Marloes
vrijdag 17 april 2009
Future is now!
Yes, i started my blog with a title that was also the theme of a World Jamboree. And it was the one that was in Holland in 1995. I really like that theme, because it's true.. What's happening now is important for in the future. And so are we, the youth, because we are the next leaders of the countries that will have to build peace and to care about our parents..
i've just read Ida's blog and i really must say she's right...
It's so nice to travel, but most of the times it only stays with dreaming.
In my case not about Spain, but so many others..
and sometimes even Spain and France, like right now hahaha
I wished future came something faster.
I would like to have a timemachine, for just travelling to nice times in the past or to the future for being so independent and make my dreams come true :)
Travelling in the past...
to the time i was able to hug my Grandad
to the WSJ2007
to the time i was in Sweden
to the time in my old house, i note that i'm forgetting what it looked like from inside!! And although i now live on the other side of the street i would like to see it again how it was when i was the little Marloes. The blond girl who really thought Switzerland was next to Sweden...
to the time that life was so easy and you were so little that you couldn't really see all the bad things in the world
to the time that Sinterklaas really existed
But my age now has positive things too..
I'm having great and real friends
I'm discovering the world, by learning at school but also by realizing how big it is and how different things, cultures, and countries can be. "Near" (like Sweden) and far away (like Africa).
I'm realizing the world i live in and it's only becoming bigger and bigger.. Sweden is no longer the neighbour of Switzerland and in Luxembourg aren't all people rich (because they could buy luxe things, because they were living in LUXEmbourg)
I feel like i'm living and i'm finding out what it is like to be human and to live in this world, with all responsibilities and nice things
And most of all i'm discovering myself. I feel like i'm becoming the woman i will be for the rest of my life. I'm forming my opinions about things and i'm taught how to be a good and responsible citizen of the world (like i see it.. not a good citizen of only Holland). And with discovering your life and opinions are the negative things. For example that not everybody shares your opinion. In small things, you don't all think the same boy is hot, and in big things, about people with other cultures, traditions and religions who live in Holland. It's all part of it!
But the most beautiful thing is that i have found my real friends. The ones that respect me in all.. I didn't believe my parents last year that friendships from that moment would go over and that you would find the ones for the rest of your life in later times, in the second part of secondary school, in which i'm now. I didn't believe it, my class was too nice and how could i ever lose Laura who was my best friend??
But they were right.. At the end of that year i found better friends and, really, i lost Laura. She's not more than somebody i know well and with whom i can talk sometimes. I still can talk better with her than with some other people, but a real friend she isn't any more.
My class with which i have Dutch, English, gymnastics and societystudies (V4C) IS nicer than the other one (VG3A) and i have my real friends...
And positive things of the future, i'm not going to mention because you will know them yourself.. Freedom, responsibility, money, independence... they all have a black side too. And they are teaching us NOW how to use it, by giving us more and more and by letting you discover your way of thinking and being. And of course we will discover the bad things of them, and we are already doing that sometimes, but the most important thing for then is that you will have those friends you're making now and that you will have a nice time to look back at.
Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends, <3 Marloes
i've just read Ida's blog and i really must say she's right...
It's so nice to travel, but most of the times it only stays with dreaming.
In my case not about Spain, but so many others..
and sometimes even Spain and France, like right now hahaha
I wished future came something faster.
I would like to have a timemachine, for just travelling to nice times in the past or to the future for being so independent and make my dreams come true :)
Travelling in the past...
to the time i was able to hug my Grandad
to the WSJ2007
to the time i was in Sweden
to the time in my old house, i note that i'm forgetting what it looked like from inside!! And although i now live on the other side of the street i would like to see it again how it was when i was the little Marloes. The blond girl who really thought Switzerland was next to Sweden...
to the time that life was so easy and you were so little that you couldn't really see all the bad things in the world
to the time that Sinterklaas really existed
But my age now has positive things too..
I'm having great and real friends
I'm discovering the world, by learning at school but also by realizing how big it is and how different things, cultures, and countries can be. "Near" (like Sweden) and far away (like Africa).
I'm realizing the world i live in and it's only becoming bigger and bigger.. Sweden is no longer the neighbour of Switzerland and in Luxembourg aren't all people rich (because they could buy luxe things, because they were living in LUXEmbourg)
I feel like i'm living and i'm finding out what it is like to be human and to live in this world, with all responsibilities and nice things
And most of all i'm discovering myself. I feel like i'm becoming the woman i will be for the rest of my life. I'm forming my opinions about things and i'm taught how to be a good and responsible citizen of the world (like i see it.. not a good citizen of only Holland). And with discovering your life and opinions are the negative things. For example that not everybody shares your opinion. In small things, you don't all think the same boy is hot, and in big things, about people with other cultures, traditions and religions who live in Holland. It's all part of it!
But the most beautiful thing is that i have found my real friends. The ones that respect me in all.. I didn't believe my parents last year that friendships from that moment would go over and that you would find the ones for the rest of your life in later times, in the second part of secondary school, in which i'm now. I didn't believe it, my class was too nice and how could i ever lose Laura who was my best friend??
But they were right.. At the end of that year i found better friends and, really, i lost Laura. She's not more than somebody i know well and with whom i can talk sometimes. I still can talk better with her than with some other people, but a real friend she isn't any more.
My class with which i have Dutch, English, gymnastics and societystudies (V4C) IS nicer than the other one (VG3A) and i have my real friends...
And positive things of the future, i'm not going to mention because you will know them yourself.. Freedom, responsibility, money, independence... they all have a black side too. And they are teaching us NOW how to use it, by giving us more and more and by letting you discover your way of thinking and being. And of course we will discover the bad things of them, and we are already doing that sometimes, but the most important thing for then is that you will have those friends you're making now and that you will have a nice time to look back at.
Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends, <3 Marloes
woensdag 15 april 2009
Vive la vie et vive la France!
So today was my lucky day of the year...
First of all i wasn't so happy with today..
I had to get a vaccination and i'm not so keen on needles and i knew from last time ( a month ago ) that my arm would really hurt. And then i had gymnastics!!!!
So Eva and i were thinking we were really poor.
How could this day have turned into such a nice day??
It started good.. I could sleep long because of that vaccination. It would have no sense to go to the first two hours because i had to cycle a lot. So i stayed in bed until 8.15 and i missed German and a Spanish test :)
Eva and i went to the sportshall for the vaccination which hurted more than last time. But the weather was great!!! We cycled without our jackets, like we can since a couple of days, and now it's almost 24 degrees!!!
We waited long and talked a lot with each other and another friend that had to get the vaccination too, Aranka. We waited very long to miss as much as possible of gymnastics. When we finally arrived they were ready with running, so that was what we missed :D:D
Softball... better than hockey or football what we could also choose.
Surprising moment: i hit the ball!!! Unfortunately it was caught but with my second turn i made a HOMERUN!! Really, you should have seen that!! I have to admit that it was more because of the others than of me, but it was a homerun!!!
Then next... i got to hear that my English test for tomorrow goes to next week, and my 8th hour Dutch was cancelled. All good..
But the nicest thing hasn't come yet...
I SUCCEEDED FOR MY FRENCH EXAM!!
It's so fast to hear it, because it went to French people and they are not most serious with time.. but they really changed their minds i think!
Oh my God, i'm so happy!! When i have my degree i can study at a French university without doing a test for getting accepted :D
That's what made my day so good!!
Spring has come, everywhere are flowers, newborn animals and a sun.
I'm having the greatest friends in the world and i succeeded for my French exam!!
So.. i will finish this blog in French
Vive la vie et vive la France!! Marloes
First of all i wasn't so happy with today..
I had to get a vaccination and i'm not so keen on needles and i knew from last time ( a month ago ) that my arm would really hurt. And then i had gymnastics!!!!
So Eva and i were thinking we were really poor.
How could this day have turned into such a nice day??
It started good.. I could sleep long because of that vaccination. It would have no sense to go to the first two hours because i had to cycle a lot. So i stayed in bed until 8.15 and i missed German and a Spanish test :)
Eva and i went to the sportshall for the vaccination which hurted more than last time. But the weather was great!!! We cycled without our jackets, like we can since a couple of days, and now it's almost 24 degrees!!!
We waited long and talked a lot with each other and another friend that had to get the vaccination too, Aranka. We waited very long to miss as much as possible of gymnastics. When we finally arrived they were ready with running, so that was what we missed :D:D
Softball... better than hockey or football what we could also choose.
Surprising moment: i hit the ball!!! Unfortunately it was caught but with my second turn i made a HOMERUN!! Really, you should have seen that!! I have to admit that it was more because of the others than of me, but it was a homerun!!!
Then next... i got to hear that my English test for tomorrow goes to next week, and my 8th hour Dutch was cancelled. All good..
But the nicest thing hasn't come yet...
I SUCCEEDED FOR MY FRENCH EXAM!!
It's so fast to hear it, because it went to French people and they are not most serious with time.. but they really changed their minds i think!
Oh my God, i'm so happy!! When i have my degree i can study at a French university without doing a test for getting accepted :D
That's what made my day so good!!
Spring has come, everywhere are flowers, newborn animals and a sun.
I'm having the greatest friends in the world and i succeeded for my French exam!!
So.. i will finish this blog in French
Vive la vie et vive la France!! Marloes
vrijdag 10 april 2009
Easter vibes!
As everybody probably knows.. it's Easter!!
Of course Easter is sunday and monday, but thursday friday and saturday are part of it too.
I grew up with catholic belief and i know think i'm old enough to decide what i want to do with it.
I sing and that's why i have been in church thursday and i will be saturday. But isn't the friday one of the most important days of Easter??
Jesus can't be alive again if he hadn't died before.. And that's what happened at that friday. So i also went to church this evening. Not with my brother because he thinks one time is more than enough and not with my mother because she's feeling not so well and she has been laying on her bed the whole day. I went with my dad and i liked it!
Easter is more than just a man dying, like Christmas is more than a baby that was born 2000 years ago. Easter is the party of believing that good things will always win from the bad things. That life will win from death and that love will win from hate. And that's what i like about believing. Seeing it so positive, believing that one man died for all of us and knowing that it isn't over when we lose somebody. Believing in a life after death. I know a lot of people don't believe there's something like "heaven". I don't know yet... I refuse to believe that all people we lost are really gone. I refuse to believe that we will never see the people we loved so much again.
What do i believe? I don't know... But in a letter i wrote to my aunt before she was burnt, i wrote if she wanted to send all my love to my Grandad. I really believe, or i want to believe that we will see all those people again. That we will talk with them again and that everything is better there. That's what i hope at least for them. That "heaven" is even better than life here! That people aren't killing each other there, that people have the same rights there, that people aren't hungry and thirsty and that people live with love and peace there. Maybe it's a bit wishful thinking, but that's how i would like to see the world.
So maybe it's not wishful thinking... Maybe that's Easter's message. Who would think that Jesus would stand up again? Nobody, but he did, or so the story goes. Who would think Jesus was able to make people walking, hearing and seein again? Nobody, but he did, or so the story goes. Easter maybe wants to tell us that things of which we have always believed they weren't true or even impossible aren't impossible if you believe in it, believe in yourself and human-being.
Jesus was a wonderful man. He opened eyes of so many people. He was such a normal man, like we all are and i think he showed the most important thing for Christians. That most important thing should be important to all people and i think it actually IS important for a lot of people who don't believe. I'm talking about helping other people and threat them the way you want to be threated. Jesus has said, in Dutch:
Heb de ander lief zoals uzelf, want de ander is uzelf. Behandel anderen zoals je zelf behandeld zou willen worden.
Or in English: Love the other like yourself, because the other is yourself. Threat others like you would like to be threated yourself.
If everybody would do that, there would be no more fighting and no more killing. Human-rights would be respected everywhere and racism, discrimination and hate would no more exist.
That is for me the message of believing and christianity. Believing that the world would be better if you follow the way of Jesus, and act as much as you can like he did.
Making the world better and try to begin with that in your own small community.
A better world starts with yourself, Marloes
Of course Easter is sunday and monday, but thursday friday and saturday are part of it too.
I grew up with catholic belief and i know think i'm old enough to decide what i want to do with it.
I sing and that's why i have been in church thursday and i will be saturday. But isn't the friday one of the most important days of Easter??
Jesus can't be alive again if he hadn't died before.. And that's what happened at that friday. So i also went to church this evening. Not with my brother because he thinks one time is more than enough and not with my mother because she's feeling not so well and she has been laying on her bed the whole day. I went with my dad and i liked it!
Easter is more than just a man dying, like Christmas is more than a baby that was born 2000 years ago. Easter is the party of believing that good things will always win from the bad things. That life will win from death and that love will win from hate. And that's what i like about believing. Seeing it so positive, believing that one man died for all of us and knowing that it isn't over when we lose somebody. Believing in a life after death. I know a lot of people don't believe there's something like "heaven". I don't know yet... I refuse to believe that all people we lost are really gone. I refuse to believe that we will never see the people we loved so much again.
What do i believe? I don't know... But in a letter i wrote to my aunt before she was burnt, i wrote if she wanted to send all my love to my Grandad. I really believe, or i want to believe that we will see all those people again. That we will talk with them again and that everything is better there. That's what i hope at least for them. That "heaven" is even better than life here! That people aren't killing each other there, that people have the same rights there, that people aren't hungry and thirsty and that people live with love and peace there. Maybe it's a bit wishful thinking, but that's how i would like to see the world.
So maybe it's not wishful thinking... Maybe that's Easter's message. Who would think that Jesus would stand up again? Nobody, but he did, or so the story goes. Who would think Jesus was able to make people walking, hearing and seein again? Nobody, but he did, or so the story goes. Easter maybe wants to tell us that things of which we have always believed they weren't true or even impossible aren't impossible if you believe in it, believe in yourself and human-being.
Jesus was a wonderful man. He opened eyes of so many people. He was such a normal man, like we all are and i think he showed the most important thing for Christians. That most important thing should be important to all people and i think it actually IS important for a lot of people who don't believe. I'm talking about helping other people and threat them the way you want to be threated. Jesus has said, in Dutch:
Heb de ander lief zoals uzelf, want de ander is uzelf. Behandel anderen zoals je zelf behandeld zou willen worden.
Or in English: Love the other like yourself, because the other is yourself. Threat others like you would like to be threated yourself.
If everybody would do that, there would be no more fighting and no more killing. Human-rights would be respected everywhere and racism, discrimination and hate would no more exist.
That is for me the message of believing and christianity. Believing that the world would be better if you follow the way of Jesus, and act as much as you can like he did.
Making the world better and try to begin with that in your own small community.
A better world starts with yourself, Marloes
donderdag 9 april 2009
Everything has a beginning...
This is my first blog and i don't know so well what to write..
So i think i'm going to write about one of the most important things in my life: friendship.
Friends are very important to me and that's why i'm writing this blog in English, so ALL my friends can understand it.. :D
I'm going to write about my best friends. In my life i have like.. 6 parts i think. School, dancing, scouting, free time, out of school and sleeping.
For every part i have my best friend or friends :D
School
At school my best friends are Eva, Katja and Aranka.
Eva has been in my class since i came at secondary school, so that's almost 4 years now. In the beginning we weren't really friends. We both came from other schools and stayed a bit with the people we knew. We are not the busiest ones you can imagine and a little bit shy too.. But the people we knew were the same kind of people. Not the bitches from the school, but more silent and more serious (but not nerds!!). So the people we knew got to know each other and so we met too.
We still weren't friends but last year (so late!) when Laura completely let me fall, i finally decided i had to search for other friends while Laura was doing that too. And i found Eva :) I think we have the same ideas about a lot of things and we are always having fun. In breaks, i really don't remember, we got friends with Katja and Aranka and we still see them in breaks and Eva sees them in some lessons. They are more different than Eva and i are, but everything is going great :D I have found great friends and i know i can trust them better than others i had at school of whom i still don't know for sure if they wait to cycle home. That's a pity from our friendship.. Laura lived very near me, but Eva lives in another side of the city, like Aranka does. Katja lives 10 minutes cycling from me in Schiedam, so even more far away for the other two. But it doesn't matter so much... I feel like these friends really respect me when i, for example, like music they don't like. They let me talk about Sweden on and on and Eva even talks WITH me :)
Dancing
At dancing, zumba, i have Anne. She's a crazy girl and got crazy of Sweden too, all because of me.. We are laughing so much in that hour and because of her i'm always looking forward. I really like to see her and it's a pity she's in another school so we see each other only once a week. But that one time is great!!! And we have a crush on the same men... and Eva too!
Scouting
At scouting i met Bobby when we were really young. We were the only from our "girls from age 7 - 11" group to go to the "girls age 11 - 14" in that year. That's how we got friends, and we still are. I got her so far to go to the explorers in 2007 because she first wanted to stop, but she's still there and she loves it!! She's sure she wants to go to Sweden in 2011 and always hears my stories about England. In summer we go to Switzerland and we are really looking forward. It's going to be a great week :D
Bed
In my bed i have no boys haha.. I have a sheep and two mooses. And they all have a story. My sheep i have had since i was born. We have a picture with me and the sheep on it, where the sheep was bigger than my head haha. It's now more grey than white, but it's a kind of my history and my life so that's why i still have it. I will never throw it away. It has seen a lot of places, as much as i have seen haha. I have one big moose and one small moose. They are younger. The small one i bought in Sweden last year and it says I love Sweden. It's so cute!!!! And it makes me thinking about the great time i've had there :)
The big moose has been from my dead aunt. I don't know where she bought it, but it's very cute and i got it after she died, so it's one of the memories about my aunt and that's why i watch at it every night.
Outside school
Outside school i do things with Eva and Katja and Aranka and i think they are just my friends here too...
Free time
That sounds the same as "Outside school" but here i want to call other friends. The friends for whom i'm writing this blog in English and the only friends who will probably read this blog because the others don't know (yet) that i have it :D
The friends i have seen 1 or 2 times but who are one of the best i have..
Ida & Sofia.
I don't think i will have to tell them how i met them, but maybe for Ida because she has just told me that her memory is very bad.. Hahaha, if you want me to write it down in English, just tell me and i will do it for you :D
They are one of the reasons i have seen (a part of) Sweden. And therefore (even less of) Denmark. I really loved my time in Sweden and every day, every hour, every minute i want to go back. Now i have heard Sofia is in hospital too, i'm totally in shock. I feel so terrible that i can't be there and only sit here and can't do anything. Of course i can't make her and her mother better, but i feel terrible that i can't be there and make her a little bit happier.
That's what i hate so much... Everything is so nice and great and perfect, but we live 1400 kilometers away from each other. Calling is expensive, travelling is expensive, holidays are different and especially Ida's school gives a lot of homework. I don't like it because they really are my best friends too and i want to do the things that i do with my other friends with them!!! Go shopping in Rotterdam, having fun in lessons and breaks, talking about the things we have to learn at school and complain about it (although that is not the biggest problem) and so much much more!!
Our friendship is so special and one of the reasons is that terrible distance.. but also the way Ida and i met and how such a small meeting on internet can grow into such a huge friendship. The fact that we have to talk in English, which improved a lot on both sides i think, and that we always understand each other. How we are almost "normal" friends while we are living in such different countries with different cultures and with having such different lives. The way there's always something to talk about. And the feeling that it's true what they say and that it comes from both sides. Those are some of the lot of things that are so special about our friendship.
And then i haven't told about the special things of them!!!! That they always make me happy, that they are so funny, and that they are so like me while everything is so different...
I think it proves that different cultures and countries can result in the best of friends and that all war, hate, racism and integrationproblems aren't necessary at ALL!
So now i'm going to finish this blog, so Ida can read this long and long story. I want to tell that i really LOVE her and Sofia and that i'm lucky to have found them, and Ida knows how big the chance was it wouldn't be like this with that conversation in 2006..
Friends are always near, Marloes
So i think i'm going to write about one of the most important things in my life: friendship.
Friends are very important to me and that's why i'm writing this blog in English, so ALL my friends can understand it.. :D
I'm going to write about my best friends. In my life i have like.. 6 parts i think. School, dancing, scouting, free time, out of school and sleeping.
For every part i have my best friend or friends :D
School
At school my best friends are Eva, Katja and Aranka.
Eva has been in my class since i came at secondary school, so that's almost 4 years now. In the beginning we weren't really friends. We both came from other schools and stayed a bit with the people we knew. We are not the busiest ones you can imagine and a little bit shy too.. But the people we knew were the same kind of people. Not the bitches from the school, but more silent and more serious (but not nerds!!). So the people we knew got to know each other and so we met too.
We still weren't friends but last year (so late!) when Laura completely let me fall, i finally decided i had to search for other friends while Laura was doing that too. And i found Eva :) I think we have the same ideas about a lot of things and we are always having fun. In breaks, i really don't remember, we got friends with Katja and Aranka and we still see them in breaks and Eva sees them in some lessons. They are more different than Eva and i are, but everything is going great :D I have found great friends and i know i can trust them better than others i had at school of whom i still don't know for sure if they wait to cycle home. That's a pity from our friendship.. Laura lived very near me, but Eva lives in another side of the city, like Aranka does. Katja lives 10 minutes cycling from me in Schiedam, so even more far away for the other two. But it doesn't matter so much... I feel like these friends really respect me when i, for example, like music they don't like. They let me talk about Sweden on and on and Eva even talks WITH me :)
Dancing
At dancing, zumba, i have Anne. She's a crazy girl and got crazy of Sweden too, all because of me.. We are laughing so much in that hour and because of her i'm always looking forward. I really like to see her and it's a pity she's in another school so we see each other only once a week. But that one time is great!!! And we have a crush on the same men... and Eva too!
Scouting
At scouting i met Bobby when we were really young. We were the only from our "girls from age 7 - 11" group to go to the "girls age 11 - 14" in that year. That's how we got friends, and we still are. I got her so far to go to the explorers in 2007 because she first wanted to stop, but she's still there and she loves it!! She's sure she wants to go to Sweden in 2011 and always hears my stories about England. In summer we go to Switzerland and we are really looking forward. It's going to be a great week :D
Bed
In my bed i have no boys haha.. I have a sheep and two mooses. And they all have a story. My sheep i have had since i was born. We have a picture with me and the sheep on it, where the sheep was bigger than my head haha. It's now more grey than white, but it's a kind of my history and my life so that's why i still have it. I will never throw it away. It has seen a lot of places, as much as i have seen haha. I have one big moose and one small moose. They are younger. The small one i bought in Sweden last year and it says I love Sweden. It's so cute!!!! And it makes me thinking about the great time i've had there :)
The big moose has been from my dead aunt. I don't know where she bought it, but it's very cute and i got it after she died, so it's one of the memories about my aunt and that's why i watch at it every night.
Outside school
Outside school i do things with Eva and Katja and Aranka and i think they are just my friends here too...
Free time
That sounds the same as "Outside school" but here i want to call other friends. The friends for whom i'm writing this blog in English and the only friends who will probably read this blog because the others don't know (yet) that i have it :D
The friends i have seen 1 or 2 times but who are one of the best i have..
Ida & Sofia.
I don't think i will have to tell them how i met them, but maybe for Ida because she has just told me that her memory is very bad.. Hahaha, if you want me to write it down in English, just tell me and i will do it for you :D
They are one of the reasons i have seen (a part of) Sweden. And therefore (even less of) Denmark. I really loved my time in Sweden and every day, every hour, every minute i want to go back. Now i have heard Sofia is in hospital too, i'm totally in shock. I feel so terrible that i can't be there and only sit here and can't do anything. Of course i can't make her and her mother better, but i feel terrible that i can't be there and make her a little bit happier.
That's what i hate so much... Everything is so nice and great and perfect, but we live 1400 kilometers away from each other. Calling is expensive, travelling is expensive, holidays are different and especially Ida's school gives a lot of homework. I don't like it because they really are my best friends too and i want to do the things that i do with my other friends with them!!! Go shopping in Rotterdam, having fun in lessons and breaks, talking about the things we have to learn at school and complain about it (although that is not the biggest problem) and so much much more!!
Our friendship is so special and one of the reasons is that terrible distance.. but also the way Ida and i met and how such a small meeting on internet can grow into such a huge friendship. The fact that we have to talk in English, which improved a lot on both sides i think, and that we always understand each other. How we are almost "normal" friends while we are living in such different countries with different cultures and with having such different lives. The way there's always something to talk about. And the feeling that it's true what they say and that it comes from both sides. Those are some of the lot of things that are so special about our friendship.
And then i haven't told about the special things of them!!!! That they always make me happy, that they are so funny, and that they are so like me while everything is so different...
I think it proves that different cultures and countries can result in the best of friends and that all war, hate, racism and integrationproblems aren't necessary at ALL!
So now i'm going to finish this blog, so Ida can read this long and long story. I want to tell that i really LOVE her and Sofia and that i'm lucky to have found them, and Ida knows how big the chance was it wouldn't be like this with that conversation in 2006..
Friends are always near, Marloes
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