Hey

So I promise that I'll be updating this thing more in the upcoming months. I have alot of stuff coming up, all for which I extremely excited for.

April 17,18,19 I'm in Maastricht visiting a Rotarian's daughters for the weekend. I'm really excited for that because it the oldest city in The Netherlands, and it is apparently extremely beautiful.

April 26-May 11 My family's coming! Super excited for that. The plan is that we are going to see Twente (the area I'm in.), see madurodam (miniture version of famous things in The Netherlands), scheveningen (Beach) and keukenhof (Tulips) in Den Haag, see the museum in Arnhem, the planetarium and go sailing in Friesland, and see the Anne Frank House, Madam Tusauds (wax museum) and the other things in Amsterdam. Fun eh? I'm super excited for it.

The weekend after my parents leave, May 16-17, I'm going wadlopen in Friesland with Rotary. It's where you walk to the Dutch Islands when the tide goes out.

May 30-June 15 is EuroTour! I am super excited for that. On the tour we are seeing Weimar (DL), Prague (CZ), Vienna (AT), Lido Di Jesolo (IT), Venice (IT), Murano (IT), Verona (IT), Florence (IT), Sienna (IT), Rome (IT), Vatican City (IT), Barcelona (ES), EuroDisney (FR), and Paris (FR). I simply cannot contain my excitement! haha. Also, every person needs to make a presentation on one place (in Dutch) while we are in that place, kind of like a tour guide. I got Florence, I have been researching it a lot, and it's such an interesting place! I'm going to have a terrible time deciding what to say to get the presentation down to 5 mintues. So make sure you watch out for the blog post/s after the tour!

After EuroTour, I have 2 weekends here, then I'm back on a plane, jet back to Canada, which I have to say, I'm not nearly as excited about. So now that everybody know what's coming up for me, I should probably tell you what I've been doing... The weekend after the football game, I had a Rotex weekend, which would have been fun, if it wasn't so freaking cold! We were sleeping in tents, and it was so cold that no one slept and everyone was insanely grumpy, so we went home Saturday night instead of Sunday. It kind of bummed me out, but it was fun none the less. I got to meet the new Southie in-bounds (People from south of the Equator who exchange winter-winter instead of summer-summer like me) and they are pretty cool. We also got to see the Palace in Apeldoorn that had absolutly amazing gardens.

This weekend I just kind of chilled, ate herring (which you'll see later). The weekend was nice and relaxing. I read some of the book I'm reading for Nederlands, De Jongen in de Gestriped Pyjama (The Boy In The Striped Pajama's), it's in Dutch! And I understand it! I am so happy about that. For thoses who have never seen a Dutch person eat a herring...It's quite the experience, and a must try when you come to the Netherlands. It looks something like this...



Thats all!
Lovee,
Doei!

J

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