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