Sister weekend

I just said good bye to my sister who has been visiting me here in The Hague since Thursday. It's been so great, and we've been doing some sightseeing, shopping, dining, going out, everything really! We went to see the Peace Palace (that I actually hadn't seen yet), and it was amazing! I understand why it's a very popular tourist attraction. Last night we felt like staying in so we ordered thuisbezorgd (home delivery) and really overdosed on food while watching a movie. Sister bonding at its best!

Posing outside the Peace Palace like real tourists

I have to tell you about something really funny we saw yesterday when we were biking home! Two swans were in the canal, and it seemed like they were having a bit "fun", if you know what I mean. However, suddenly, one of the swans was drowning the other one. I mean actually drowning, the swan was pushing the other swan's head under the water and tried to keep it down. It was amazing how the people around tried to intervene by throwing leaves at them etc. The whole affair ended with a swan-chase down the canal. I hope the poor swan got away...

Swarte Piet show. Sorry for the blurry pic.

I feel that I am drifting away from the subject a bit... We also saw the Sinter Klaas parade with a lot of Swarte Piets jumping around the city. A bit creepy if you ask me. Despite the shoepolish-covered little elfs, it was a really nice weekend, and I can't wait till the next time she comes to visit!

Reading, studying, and reading some more

So... Here I am again, sitting on my sofa, then at my desk, then lying in my bed (and then repeating the cycle) - reading. It has dawned on me that term 2 is exactly like term 1, but only a bit more to do. How come I had this whole vision that it would be so calm? I guess I had forgotten all about assignments and deadlines while studying for exams. Don't get me wrong though, I still love this programme and especially the people in it. But I don't know, I have this feeling that there is so much to do, and that christmas (and Sweden) never seems to come any closer. I suppose I'm just being a little homesick at the moment. However, that will hopefully fade somewhat when my sister comes to visit on Thursday! It's going to be great, and she's bringing Swedish things for me that I miss here. For example, she's bringing an "adventsljusstake" (advent candlestick) which is tradition to have in the windows in late November and December.

Can't wait to see you sis!

A Swedish Advent Candlestick

Amsterdam, shopping, and Belgian visit

Me and my roommate in A'dam

This weekend has been crazy, to say the least. On Friday, me and my roommate went to Amsterdam to go shopping. We found a pair of pumps, but we soon got claustrophobic by the gigantic amount of people. I (with my hypocondriac side) could barely breathe with so many people pushing each other and blocking my way. So, we took the train home after an exhausting day of walking, walking and walking. Later on, my friends from Belgium came over and we had a nice mojito-night at my place.

Brunch at de Bakkerswinkel

Last night, however, was a big drama night. My friend fell on the bike and hurt her ankle so bad that we had to go to the hospital. After coming home from the hospital, I walked downtown to get our bikes. Not a very smart idea to go alone when I think about it now, but I managed to get home safe anyway. Now I have to check the schedule for tomorrow, it's very likely that they've changed it again since last time I saw it.

Time for term 2!

Audiovisual done!

Today I went to school to attend the kick-off for term 2. It was with some challenge though, because we went to an after-exams-party downtown last night. To mom: No, I don't make it a habit to party on Tuesdays... Anyway, term 2 starts on Monday and we have to do some kind of digital portfolio to put our works in. At least I think so, but I didn't really get the point with it.

 

 

At the shooting session

Oh, today we handed in the audiovisual! FINALLY. It's so nice to have it done, and my group was really awesome. If anyone of you guys are reading this - I love you! Here's the link to the YouTube video. I can't help to think I look and sound like a retard in it though, but hey, what can you do about it?

http://www.youtube.com/user/MeNameShivara#p/a/u/0/b7YVD5c10mA

Enjoy!

Audiovisual project

The weekend has been great, and I've finally slept enough to compensate for the lack of sleep during the exam week. Today I'm gonna go to a friend's house and work on a project that is due Wednesday. It's an audiovisual for Intercultural Communication about stereotypes. I might even post the link to YouTube when it's done, it all depends on how retarded I'll look in it, haha. Well well, back to work I guess, see ya!

The exam week is finally, finally, OVER

Thank God it's Friday. Seriously. What a week it's been! Had the last exam today in Language Proficiency. While writing the essay, I just thought to myself "fuck this, I'm hungry." So I started writing the summary. That's basically how you get after a week of endless studying and exams every day. I was pretty happy yesterday though, because I got back the results for the exam I had on Tuesday. I'm pretty satisfied I must say! Let's just hope the other ones went as well. Yesterday was the hardest one ever - Intercultural Communication. I just hope I passed it so I don't have to do a resit.

Well well, enough talk about school! After the exam we went to Siezo, the bar next to uni, and had a drink. Then I went home, made tacos for me and my lovely roommate and her boyfriend, and now I'm just waiting for people to come over so we can GET THIS PARTY STARTED. God knows we deserve it!

Two exams down - three to go!

Today I had the first two exams, Dutch and Introduction to Communication. The Dutch exam this morning was an oral exam, and we had to perform a prepared dialogue, an improvised dialogue and answer some questions. The prepared dialogue went well, but the improvised one was a bit trickier. Anyway, on the whole I think it went okay. After Dutch exam I went home to study for the next one, and I managed to fall asleep while reading - three times. So after quitting studying and watching Lonely Island-videos on Youtube for an hour, while drinking loads of coffee, I was fit for fight again. I guess we'll find out later if it worked or not! Tomorrow morning is the Internal Communication exam. Can't really say I'm looking forward to it.