woohoo!

ok, so i don't have a paying job yet but i had my second meeting today with a graphics place. i start my stagiair (what the dutch call intern) on monday! i will stagiair on monday and friday for the next six months. with the economy as bad as it is everywhere they can't afford to hire anyone else now. but business is looking up for them, so in six months who knows, maybe! no guarantees though, but in the meantime we'll be helping eachother. they'll be helping me learn...

ok so i said the last post would be my last before leaving...
but i just had to post my favorite christmas commercial for this year.

YouTube - M&M yellow snow reclame



and now time for a quick shower and finish packing.
we've already taken down our christmas tree this morning since we're leaving tomorrow.

hope everyone has a wonderful christmas and a happy new year!
this is my last journal entry before rono and i go on vacation to america tomorrow.
today we'll spend the day with the family.

btw there's no 24 hours of "A Christmas Story" on tv here.
they haven't even showed that movie on tv this season here.
i guess i'll have to buy the dvd for next year.

merry christmas!

i can only hope that all the data is still there and it's only not working cuz the cables or whatever got knocked loose.

it was sitting on the ottoman next to my school books.
my school books slid over and knocked the external drive to the ground with a thud.

the light still comes on when i plug it in but the drive doesn't recognize and i don't hear anything. but even the little plastic piece where the light is is loose and the case opens up with ease and doesn't...

Cars Sliding Down Icy Hill - iReport.com

kinda funny to watch the video though.

...like yesterday with the man at the art supply store when i mad copies for my stay permit renewal before i sent it in the mail...

man (in dutch): where are you from?
me (also in dutch ) : america.
man: (his face lights up with a big smile) oh! obama! did you vote for obama?
me (big smile on my face): yes!
man: what part of america are you from?
me: texas
man: oh, where bush is from!
me: yeah. (thinking: )...

this morning i came home from my meeting at the depot.
the depot is a place where i've started working one day a week.
it's not for money, but it's a good way of getting out and meeting people and practicing my dutch.
and while it's not a totally creative position it is art related.
the depot is a place that recycles things like small pieces of wood, beads of glass, jars, scrap material, anything that can be used in art projects...

i was hoping i'd get to see it online somewhere since i'm living over here in europe now.

i found this link, Thanksgiving/Macy's Day Parade 2008 Webcast - Times Square, New York City - EarthCam

it's actually kinda fun to watch the city streets even when the parade isn't there.

i've been looking everywhere for turkey to eat on thanksgiving.
finally today i found some turkey schnitzel. don't know how good it will be but at least i'll be able to...

i tried hard not to burst out laughing tonight at church when the choir sang "i will follow him".
just like in the movie "sister act", the song started slow, and led up to the rockin' version
this catholic church by us isn't like one i've ever been to before
i even saw the priest crack a smile as he watched the choir sing.

oh and we did get some snow today!
it snowed for about an hour, hour and a half or so....

...is what i feel like right now.
the weather is really crappy now.
rain, wind, cold.
i just got home from school.
it was funny when we were at school,
and the wind started blowing the rain against the window,
everyone in the classroom gasped and we were like
luckily for my walk home the rain had stopped for the most part.
on my way home i stopped at the store to buy some bread.
i was only about 2 blocks from home when the rain...

last week i started taking the dutch version of synthroid, Euthyrox aka Levothyroxine (for graves disease, hyperhyroid).
i still had some of my old medication from america left so i hadn't started taking the new stuff yet.
well, apparantly they don't have synthroid here, so i was given levothyroxine.
i had been taking the generic version of synthroid in america which was also levothyroxine, so there shouldn't have been a problem.
but every morning i took it i woke up...

ABRO were wed

the Dutch wedding that is...



hard to believe it's been one year already!


and tomorrow's my birthday and the peek of the leonid meteor shower
*hopes for clear skies*

watching 100 episodes of spongebob squarepants on nickelodeon. in dutch.

well we only got to watch about 10 or 20 episodes, i think. and i could only understand about half of what was being said but it was still fun.

+obama/biden texas banner and bumper stickers sent to me by my parents
+election night poster i got at school (the party i wanted to go to in groningen)
+obama bumper sticker turned into a hat
+obama cut-out birthday card for rono from my parents
+obama buttons from mary
+cool american doritos (what they have here instead of ranch flavor)
+democratic blue shirt
...

...i wasn't sick (got a cold bleh. ).
...i didn't have to go to school today.
...i could drive a car here (no license for me yet) and the trains ran all night long (because if they did i'd go to an election night party in groningen that looks like a lot of fun http://www.groningerforum.nl )

but instead i'll be having my own private election party at home, on the sofa.
i'm gonna sleep on the sofa tonight and stay up as late as i can watching...