I leave here in about 3 days! It's kind of crazy, actually it's really crazy. It seemed like the longest year of my life, but also the shortest. It was like 10 years in one. I didn't come here to be an au pair, I came here to meet new people, and to get a breath of fresh scenery; which I got. I feel like I grew up a lot too. I'm turning 19 soon, and I think that my year of 'being 18' was a good one; in a sense that I got a huge kick in the ass from the real world. I think a lot of people, MAINLY MY PARENTS think that is a good thing. There were times during this year when I just wanted to fall in a trap door and never return, but looking back on it now it was the best thing I've ever done. I think that I grew up in a different way most people do when they go to University. I feel like your first year of University is still like Highschool because everybody is trying to impress everybody and it's just annoying. I loved living here and I think that I'll eventually be back here one day...maybe.....I've had a big enough dose of Dutch people. I complain about them all the time, and the younger generation are really really great people, it's just the older people that annoy me! The saying "If you ain't Dutch, you ain't much" doesn't really have an affect on me......although I am bringing a Dutch bike home so I think Dutch culture had somewhat of an impact on me. The Hagelslag did not. We call it Hagelshit because it's so gross. It's chocolate sprinkles, and Dutch families will eat it in the morning on white bread with butter. Tasty? No. I think for little kids it's fine, but when grown men and women are eating it for breakfast that is a problem for me........anyways I have to get packing because my mother isn't here to do it for me, and I've got a lot of mess to clean up (only she can imagine and be accurate of how much that is.....)
I'm adding some pictures I took last weekend, it was my last weekend out in Amsterdam since this last weekend I was away at Kellys (which was really really great). A group of 4 of us went out, the choice of place to go out was Melkweg, which only one person in our group had gone before; and he warned us that it was definitely an event. Melkweg isn't for the faint hearted, you fist pump all night long until 6am. I went out with a 'bang' literally. The song 1901 by Phoenix came on, and it's one my favorite songs, and at this point I was just so glad to be hearing something that wasn't pounding techno so loud that I had a headache and almost couldn't see anything. The floor was a slippery mess, people went crazy, I jumped, and got knocked down. I fell FACE FIRST on the dance floor. I was fine and apparently people thought it was funny because when I got up someone screamed "THAT WAS AMAZING!!!!!!!!" At least someone thought so.......hahahahhahahaha
Tot snel,
Laura
