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Geez, it’s been a whole week! I don’t think I’ve gone that long without posting since I got here! But okay, here comes the news. I’m going to try to keep it short. Which means it won’t be. Maar goed…
Finished my paper, turned it in. I have thus no more school until at least 2 Feb and I think it’s actually 9 Feb. Let’s look that up… Well, the Dutch Present-Day Society one starts 9 Feb but I can’t seem to find the listing for the other one. It’s probably the same, but I heard of someone in this building whose class has been canceled (she asked the professor) but the ‘powers that be’ haven’t officially notified her of that yet. It’s a ‘test’ now, to see exactly how incompetent the Utrecht people are (very). She has different requirements than I do so it’s not a problem for her, but for me it would be because I have to have 12 credits per semester and it was a struggle to find even these classes that interested me. Heads will roll if I go to class on the first day and am told, “Sorry…”
Oh, and note to self: I need to remember to look up grad schools here. I did that once a very long time ago and found a ton of stuff and didn’t have the patience to sit there and try to puzzle it all out. My Dutch is better now, so let’s try again. :) I’m thinking maybe NOT Utrecht… we haven’t had good luck with them so far, but maybe they’re all like that. But in comparison to UF and how attentive they are to you there… wow… this is a whole other world.
Annnnd: I’m going home this Thursday!!! No, Dutchies, don’t rejoice yet – only for a week, to visit. I’m getting the sense that Mom really wants to see me (yeah? ;)) and I don’t have any school until February. So if anybody has any requests (besides D and his Starbucks, LOL! I have a good surprise for you regarding that, btw, but my lips are sealed…), speak now or forever hold your peace! And if anybody’s into the whole surprise-her-at-the-airport thing (LOL… not much of a surprise dus), I’ll be back at 8.00 on 29 Jan (the day before my birthday… for some reason I wanted to have my birthday here. I don’t have any plans or anything, but I just felt like it. Maybe because then it comes six hours earlier! LOL!)
Plans: visit Gville (N, if you’re reading this, make plans to swim! LOL!), go to the beach (it’s going to be 20 degrees!!!), see Mona Lisa Smile (it’s coming out here in Nederland on the day I leave), buy shoes (LOL Mom), drive my car, get a haircut, hit Barnes & Noble and Starbucks (I have no doubt I will be joined by a certain younger sister on that venture), maaaaaybe visit Stanton (probably not), definitely hit Target and Lerner, join in on the deliver-Aunt-P-back-to-South-Carolina mission, and… uhh… that’s all I’ve thought of for now. Oh, no, wait, one more thing – you guys wanna hear a story? So I book this ticket online while chatting with Mom via MSN, and right as I click Confirm, Mom says – “Oh, and you need to go to the dentist!” LMAO! I was like, “No, I changed my mind, I changed my mind!!!”
Cool stuff done lately: went to Duinrell (think that’s the name…?) with D and T yesterday – that’s like a water park but indoors. Hot tubs and a wave pool and best of all, TONS of slides. But I’m hurting today – there was this one slide where you go so fast that it’s impossible to sit up, and then it spits you into a big funnel-like thing and you go round and round like a whirlpool and then fall out the middle. I thought it would be cool, but no – I believe I’ve found the one water slide that I don’t like. But maybe that was just because I (both times) forgot to put my hands behind my head. The bottom isn’t all that smooth, there are seams and stuff, and I have a sore lump on the back of my head from that. And my neck hurts too, but I don’t know if that’s from that slide or just from all the water wrestling D and I were doing…? The wave pool was fun though – they say to stay out of the corners, so of course where did we go… it’s fun getting slammed up against the wall! :) Oh, and I was a ‘sandwich’ at one point too… D in front and T behind. (Something like - D: “Hey T, kom op – broodje Jess!” T: “Nee, ze vindt het niet lekker vanachter zo!” LMSA!!!)
Trying to figure out still more stuff that I can take home and leave home. But I refuse to check anything. Ideally, I would take just my backpack. But that might be a tight squeeze. So then I thought, okay, my big backpack. But then there’s no space for my laptop and I definitely want to take that. So I have to strike a balance. Oh well, it’s doable.
Okay, this is long enough. Tot de volgende keer!
Geez, it’s been a whole week! I don’t think I’ve gone that long without posting since I got here! But okay, here comes the news. I’m going to try to keep it short. Which means it won’t be. Maar goed…
Finished my paper, turned it in. I have thus no more school until at least 2 Feb and I think it’s actually 9 Feb. Let’s look that up… Well, the Dutch Present-Day Society one starts 9 Feb but I can’t seem to find the listing for the other one. It’s probably the same, but I heard of someone in this building whose class has been canceled (she asked the professor) but the ‘powers that be’ haven’t officially notified her of that yet. It’s a ‘test’ now, to see exactly how incompetent the Utrecht people are (very). She has different requirements than I do so it’s not a problem for her, but for me it would be because I have to have 12 credits per semester and it was a struggle to find even these classes that interested me. Heads will roll if I go to class on the first day and am told, “Sorry…”
Oh, and note to self: I need to remember to look up grad schools here. I did that once a very long time ago and found a ton of stuff and didn’t have the patience to sit there and try to puzzle it all out. My Dutch is better now, so let’s try again. :) I’m thinking maybe NOT Utrecht… we haven’t had good luck with them so far, but maybe they’re all like that. But in comparison to UF and how attentive they are to you there… wow… this is a whole other world.
Annnnd: I’m going home this Thursday!!! No, Dutchies, don’t rejoice yet – only for a week, to visit. I’m getting the sense that Mom really wants to see me (yeah? ;)) and I don’t have any school until February. So if anybody has any requests (besides D and his Starbucks, LOL! I have a good surprise for you regarding that, btw, but my lips are sealed…), speak now or forever hold your peace! And if anybody’s into the whole surprise-her-at-the-airport thing (LOL… not much of a surprise dus), I’ll be back at 8.00 on 29 Jan (the day before my birthday… for some reason I wanted to have my birthday here. I don’t have any plans or anything, but I just felt like it. Maybe because then it comes six hours earlier! LOL!)
Plans: visit Gville (N, if you’re reading this, make plans to swim! LOL!), go to the beach (it’s going to be 20 degrees!!!), see Mona Lisa Smile (it’s coming out here in Nederland on the day I leave), buy shoes (LOL Mom), drive my car, get a haircut, hit Barnes & Noble and Starbucks (I have no doubt I will be joined by a certain younger sister on that venture), maaaaaybe visit Stanton (probably not), definitely hit Target and Lerner, join in on the deliver-Aunt-P-back-to-South-Carolina mission, and… uhh… that’s all I’ve thought of for now. Oh, no, wait, one more thing – you guys wanna hear a story? So I book this ticket online while chatting with Mom via MSN, and right as I click Confirm, Mom says – “Oh, and you need to go to the dentist!” LMAO! I was like, “No, I changed my mind, I changed my mind!!!”
Cool stuff done lately: went to Duinrell (think that’s the name…?) with D and T yesterday – that’s like a water park but indoors. Hot tubs and a wave pool and best of all, TONS of slides. But I’m hurting today – there was this one slide where you go so fast that it’s impossible to sit up, and then it spits you into a big funnel-like thing and you go round and round like a whirlpool and then fall out the middle. I thought it would be cool, but no – I believe I’ve found the one water slide that I don’t like. But maybe that was just because I (both times) forgot to put my hands behind my head. The bottom isn’t all that smooth, there are seams and stuff, and I have a sore lump on the back of my head from that. And my neck hurts too, but I don’t know if that’s from that slide or just from all the water wrestling D and I were doing…? The wave pool was fun though – they say to stay out of the corners, so of course where did we go… it’s fun getting slammed up against the wall! :) Oh, and I was a ‘sandwich’ at one point too… D in front and T behind. (Something like - D: “Hey T, kom op – broodje Jess!” T: “Nee, ze vindt het niet lekker vanachter zo!” LMSA!!!)
Trying to figure out still more stuff that I can take home and leave home. But I refuse to check anything. Ideally, I would take just my backpack. But that might be a tight squeeze. So then I thought, okay, my big backpack. But then there’s no space for my laptop and I definitely want to take that. So I have to strike a balance. Oh well, it’s doable.
Okay, this is long enough. Tot de volgende keer!
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