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