SOS Holland

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

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