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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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