Saturday night in Scheveningen

Last night we all biked to Scheveningen to celebrate two friends' birhtdays. When we got there, we were really astonished. They had prepare a table full of snacks and finger food! It was all simply delicious, and everyone was standing around that table the whole night.

In all it was a very fun night, even though I got tired around 2.30 and went home. Today I'm going to powerwalk a bit, study and then meet up with a friend.

Me  and my Germans again

Last night at the housewarming

Last night was a lot of fun! Their apartment was completely full (kind of like our apartment last weekend) and we were playing music from the 80's and 90's. Everyone looked utterly ridiculous of course, which made it even more fun. It felt like everyone was bordering to looking like prostitutes. For example, I had my hair up in two ponytails, a LOT of eye makeup and clothes that just looked horrible. I also wore a Turtles t-shirt, and got a lot of attention for that. One guy even wanted to buy it from me: "it doesn't matter if it's too small, I'll stretch it out!". Huge Turtles-fan, right there.

After the housewarming we went to the International Pub, where we got some strange looks from people. The worst thing is that I don't know if they thought that I had really bad taste and looked like that normally, or if they understood that we were all dressed out. To be on the safe side I stayed close to the group so they could see I wasn't alone.

Oh, another fun thing that happened last night was that I met two Swedish readers at the pub. It was really nice to meet them, although it was pretty embarrassing to do so in that outfit.

Today I'm going to study a bit and later tonight we're going to a birthday party in Scheveningen!

Yeah... not really looking forward to summarizing yet another chapter of the marketing book...

Bad Taste Housewarming

Today was a rather chill day, meaning I didn't study at all. Even though I probably should have. But, as my wise roomie said: It's Friday!

So, tonight we're going to a housewarming at some friends' place in Laakkwartier. When I told my mom about it, she told me to wear a bulletproof west. I guess the bad reputation of Laakkwartier has spread, hehe.

Anyway, the theme of the party is "bad taste". Yep. Bad taste. Since I obviously don't have any clothes here in Holland that I hate (why would I bring that?) I decided to just mis-match everything. Checked stockings, a flower-printed skirt and a leopard-print top should do the trick. I'm also going to put my hair up, crazy-style.

And no, I'm not going to post a photo of my outfit here.

Have a good Friday night people!

Great motivator, HHS

Today I stayed home to work on the project and to study IMC. I feel like I'm being brainwashed, since I was just in the shower, thinking about the different positioning strategies of the shampoos. Seriously?

Oh, and I got the shock of the day just now when I read an email from our project coach. Apparently, since our group underperformed yesterday we have to organize the next coaching session. I honestly don't know how we ended up in this situation, but if this is the teachers' way of "motivating" us, they should probably take a course in pedagogy.

Right now I don't feel motivated at all, I just feel stressed and as if everything is out of my control.

It should be called "guessing game" and not project

After being home for 4 days in a row, it's somewhat of a shock to go up at 07.00 and be in school until 16.30. When I came home I felt as if I would faint (again!) in the kitchen, but after a salad I'm now feeling a lot better.

We were discussing the project today, and after the "feedback" I have the same feeling as I did with the last project: failure. It seems like the teachers deliberately give us vague instructions and unclear expectations just so that we will try it, and then get massive criticism.

Just sayin'.

When you're a poor student...

I love these ready made salads from Albert Heijn! They're really the best, and not that expensive either. A couple of days ago I bought 4 of them so I have dinner for the days ahead. Tonight I had the caesar salad, one of my favourites!

The ever-changing Dutch weather

I just came back from a 60 minute powerwalk, so nice!

The weather is great today, unlike yesterday when it was raining non-stop and almost storming outside. The roof of my neighbours' house even blew off! They had to call the Brandweer and later in the afternoon they fixed it. You can imagine the surprise!