Brief Question

So yeah, I have lots to say, obviously, but right now I would just like some input. The issue at hand is this: I have realized that I do not think in a language. I think I've mentioned this before, but I'll rehash. I don't just mean that sometimes it's one language and sometimes it's another, I mean that most of the time I don't need words. Someone in my Dutch class told me that it's a sign of an abnormal brain (he wasn't just picking on me, either), which I hope is not true. So does anyone know what this IS and why other people find it so strange? Most of the time I don't have trouble speaking languages, I just don't use them to think. Ideas?

Assorted pictures

So this is just a random collection of pictures that didn't go in any other post. They are MOSTLY chronological. Ahaha.

Everyone at AFS camp, like three weeks after we arrived in the country.
The Disgusting Tangerine competition at AFS camp. Story: we were eating lunch and Natalie got a tangerine. Except it tasted really, really odd. So what can you do with such a tangerine? Why, make it taste as disgusting as possible, of course! Everyone got a slice or two of tangerine and tried to make the most disgusting one possible using appelstroop (NASTY, NEVER EAT), fruity hagelslag (also nasty, it's these weird multicolored sprinkles that you're supposed to put on bread), bell pepper, Nutella, peanut butter, margarine, salt, pepper, cheese, and pretty much anything else we could find. I believe for the this picture, I was enjoying a succulent Nutella/bell pepper/appelstroop/salt combination. Oh my god, revolting.
BOSLOOP BOSLOOP! Julia looks dead, but I, as you can see, was still super-pumped après-bosloop. The bosloop is where you run 3km through the woods and get graded based on your time. Not unlike cross-country, except it's completely flat and the course is much shorter. Raha.
HAMSTER WEEK at Albert Heijn. It's ridiculous. They deck out the entire store in orange and pictures of hamsters, and there are special HAMSTER DEALS where you're supposed to buy lots of things and "hamster them away"...or something like that?
Julia and I in the back of the Hotel New York in Rotterdam. Apparently it's where most emigrants to the US stayed the night before they left.

Rotterdam.
The front of the Hotel New York.
This building has a giraffe on it! (Rotterdam)

The bridge is supposed to look like a swan. I don't see it, but okay. (Rotterdam)

Another visit to Nijmegen. Inside that rad cathedral this time.

Outside the cathedral. Hey, medieval 'n' stuff.
Ahahaha. This bird picked a very nice perch. (Den Haag)
Binnenhof in Den Haag. This is the seat of the Dutch government. Personally, I think this is cooler than the White House/Capitol Hill.
Scheveningen. The EASTERN coast of the Atlantic Ocean, whoaaaaa.

Canal in Amsterdam.

The Anne Frank House. (Amsterdam)
A really big palace-thing in Amsterdam. Carol told me what it was, but I forgot. Sorry.

Carol, me, and Natalie. Doing the Fortress. This was pioneered in Berlin to keep out the cold as best we could, but in this picture it's being applied for the same purpose in Amsterdam. If anyone ever tells you it's warm in Europe, DO NOT LISTEN. They don't have snow, but it certainly is not warm.

Berlin Pictures

Alright, well, these are going to be slightly annoying because half of them are centered and half of them I accidentally made left. But oh well. Yeah these are some of my pictures from the AFS trip to Berlin, which was completely awesome. Really, it was.

Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
Sunset over Berlin.
Checkpoint Charlie, complete with Snoop-Dogg-lookalike "American guard". Yeah he was totally a German in a costume, WHATEVER.
Holocaust memorial.
This ridiculously sketchy underground screaming techno club. Yeah, crazy.Carol, Natalie and I in a poor attempt to look as hardcore as the patrons of said techno club.
Tower-thing on Alexanderplatz. WHY IS THIS BLUE AND UNDERLINED?!

The view from the top of the tower-thing on the Alexanderplatz.

Brandenburg Gate.
Reichstag. It looks nice out, but do not let that blue sky fool you--it was FRIGID. Seriously, FRIGID. My lips turned blue while we were climbing the cupola.
Steven and I looking pretty rockin' in the cupola of the Reichstag. Again, it was freezing. Note the nice German flag in the backgroud though.
East Side Gallery. "Can we have our ball back?" No. No you cannot.

A picture with a bunch of us right after we got to Berlin (and trooped into the first Starbucks we'd seen since leaving home...HOLLAND HAS NONE)

This is a frame covered in a tarp. NOT A BUILDING. It doesn't have walls. We touched it.

The French Cathedral on Gendarmenmarkt.

Former Berlin Wall.

Berliner Dom from a random bridge on the river.

Picture time!

So I've finally decided to upload my pictures. Or, a few of them anyway. Uploading all of them would take WAY too long and would be boring anyway, but I have a good selection. I'm going to make a couple of separate posts just to separate the photos into somewhat logical groups.

The local windmill. It was actually MOVING today. Imagine!

The only picture that came out well from our AFS Veluwe excursion. I need to ask one of my friends to send me some other ones, but yeah basically our little regional AFS group (me, Julia, and Cecilia from Italy, plus a returnee named Rens) went on a daytrip to Utrecht. Fun.
Marina and a sweet horse puppet. We like to play around in HEMA.
Nice courtyard of the Domkerk in Utrecht.
Canal near my house. There are about a million of the same exact bridge...they just go on and on.
Julia and me.

Aaand a couple of updates: I broke my wrist. Rahaha. Yeah I was doing hurdles on a slippery track and I fell. The accident itself was hilarious, but quite painful. Anyway yeah, that was two weeks ago, and now I only have to have my cast for one more week WOO! It's a nice blue one, complete with signatures from Julia and Natalie (friend of mine from New Zealand who is in Holland with AFS), plus a left-handed Monster Sheepie. Yesssss. Let's see, what else. Julia and I are both changing host families, but I don't have my new one yet. Julia is leaving for her new home in Oosterhout tomorrow. =[ Uhhh yeah, other updates in the next photo posts, once I have an idea of what I've already said.