So I was going to talk about Maastricht (en een "hartestikke bedankt!" te aardig trein mensen). But then some other things happened.

So, Monday, I came home and thought, "Today I'll write my blog about my weekend." Then I got busy.

Tuesday, I thought, "Today, I have to update my blog." Then I didn't.

Wednesday, "Today I'll do it." Then I ate supper and went to Fencing.

Thursday, "Ok, I have to do it today." Then I went to Rotary.

So here I am today, finally write my blog.

Last weekend I went to Maastricht to visit a friend of mine that lives there. I started my adventure on friday where, I boarded the train. Going to Deventer the tickets checkers, no problem, here's my ticket. He looks at me and then the ticket, and then me, "Can I see your discount card?" "Of course." He looks at it, stamps my card, starts to hand it back, then takes another look at it. "Um, weekend retour is only valid after 7 o'clock. Oops. Thank goodness he was a nice person, sat down, told me that in Deventer, I need to ask the next ticket checker if I could ride on this ticket, wrote and explained to the other ticket checker. I couldn't, but atleaste he didn't fine me. :)

So that was what I wrote friday, and then I went to a birthday party, then Saturday my internet stopped working annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd....My family came!!!!!!

So Maastricht was good, got to see a wall that was made in the Roman Times, went shopping, saw some frieds, had fun. I was going to write more, but my families here, and I'm tried, and that was two weeks ago.

On a different note, my family is here!! Hoorah!

They came Saturday, we hung out. Sunday we toured around Twente. Monday we went on a bike ride (37 km) and saw my school, Hengelo, a castle and my first family. Tuesday we went to Enschede for the market. Wednesday we went to the market in Hengelo and saw my host family's work. Thurday was Queens Day, unfortuatly, during the Parade the Royal Family was in in Appeldoorn, a man tried to run into the bus they were on, but his window was broken and he couldnt see and missed, fortuatly. It was a downer on Queens day though. Friday we headed to Den Haag till Sunday and saw the cities sites. Today we went to Movie Park in Germany (like a small Disneyland). In the evening it was dodenherdenking which is the Dutch Rememberance Day, so we went to the mass in my town.

I dont feel like writing more.

Doei!

Jayden

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Happy Easter!

Hey everyone!

I hope everyone had a good easter (and a great time in europe/new york for those reading.)

Easter sunday in The Netherlands people make these great big bonfires, and have bonfire paries, which was alot of fun. The fires were really big and in some towns, the entire town would help build the fire, those ones turned out HUGE.

Easter Monday I visited my host mom and dad's family. My host dad's parents live on a bird farm, they have black swans, turkeys, ducks, geese, chickens, partriges, and quails. Jasper, Laura and I got to help collect eggs to eat that day. I ate turkey, duck, goose and ostrich eggs.

Funny conversation:

"Welke soort van ei is het?" (what kind of egg is it?) -Me
"Gans" (Goose) -Host Opa
"Wat is dat?" (What is that?) -Me
"Umm...Goat?" -Host Opa
"Goat?" -Me
"Goose" - Host mom
"Ohhh."

Haha
Thats all!
Doei!

Jayden

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To The Zoo!

Last weekend I went to the "Venice of Holland", Giethoorn. It's a beautiful city, where almost and the houses boarder on a canal. My host family, along with my first, my couselors family and another rotarian's family took me to the city and we took a boat tour through the city and then went to and island for a picnic. Lovely Day.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=72599&id=519280565&l=b6902111bc

Yesterday I wen to the zoo with my friend Lotte. Burger Zoo (Lovely name eh? "burger" is citizen in dutch), although quite small, was a very nice zoo. The best part was a aqurium, with many different colors and fish, it was very well done. It even had a part where the walls and ceiling were made out of glass, so you could see the fish from every direction.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=87725&id=519280565&l=f5b22b97a6
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=87730&id=519280565&l=7d09830f9d
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=87738&id=519280565&l=1dca3e15fd

Doei!

Jayden

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