Updateage

I don't update this blog nearly as often as I ought to. Sorry guys.

So, continuing with describing my vacation. After my visit to the Hieronymus Bosch Art Center, I hopped on the train to Venlo to go see my friend Carol from Brazil. Venlo is a pretty nice city...WAY bigger than Wageningen, but not terribly huge...and it's right on the German border. AND they have hills, which is quite special for Nederland haha. We got some coffee in town, then walked back to Carol's house. Met her host mother and host brother, then took the dog out for a walk in the woods. Dinner. Went out. Met the kid who is accompanying Carol's host brother on a four-month-long trip to southeast Asia and Australia. That's what I want to be doing one day--international hoboing. =P

The next day Carol and I got up ENTIRELY too early and caught a train to Maastricht. It was delayed at our change-trains station, so we had time for a cappuccino to wake up. Maastricht was very beautiful; supposedly it's the oldest settlement in Nederland. I will post pictures later of all the random medieval (and earlier!) stuff we encountered. Spent the day wandering around, and randomly ran into some other AFSers! Crazy, the things that happen in a small country with 57 AFSers in it. Had dinner in Maastricht, then got on the train back home. 3 HOURS LATER I arrived in Wageningen and went to bed. Waaay too tired from carrying a heavy bag all day!

Doorn, which I mentioned in my previous post, was actually nice. I went on a woods walk thing with my uncle, and there was even somewhat of a slope! ZOMG. It must have been a full, like, 5 meters vertical or something. Carayzay. Ate dinner in a very tasty Italian restaurant and was presented with a rose by the manager on the way out. Apparently they give everyone flowers after the meal. Classy! Took the bus home, slept.

School started at 12:30 Monday to allow for...I don't know. Easing back into going to school? Anyway, it was nice to sleep in. Rather unremarkable week of school last week. I can barely remember what went on. I had to turn in a HUGE project for history relating to God in Nederland; my chosen topic was God in de Politiek. I could have said much better things, but I didn't feel like being controversial at the time I wrote the project. =P

This Saturday was a nice lazy day. Slept in, read, played violin, etc. I also made some cranberry-lemon scones, which turned out pretty well if I do say so myself. Sunday we went to Amsterdam; Renee had to turn pages at a concert but Julia and I went to an Afghanistan exhibition in the Nieuwe Kerk. Very, very nice. Makes me want to go to Afghanistan, or at least learn more about it. I know where it is and a bit of its history, but that's about the extent of my Afghanistan knowledge. Anyway, that was good. We wanted to go to an Andy Warhol exhibit in the Stedelijk Museum also, but when we got there there were WAY too many people so we just turned around and left. Heh.

Today was good, besides the fact that I'm still awake. GO TO SLEEP LIZZ.