Well, first of all.. I MOVED OUT!!!
I finally have a room of 14 m2 in Utrecht where I'm in my first year of the study Dutch Language and Literature. The room is still a bit of a mess, while the previous and current owner (he is away for 6 months to Florida and after those six months I have to get out of the room again :( ) was not really a cleaner. Everywhere was dust and there are still some I LOVE BEER posters and weird stuff in one of his closets.. But next week I'm going to decorate my room and make it a lot more mine! So HEMA, here I come!
Some products of Hema wich are pretty nice!
Renting the room was also a bit of a problem, because my lovely owner forgat to turn in the application for me renting it. I'm not registered yet in the municipality of Utrecht so I'm currently not officialy living there and not getting the larger study allowance :( But its al good now :)
Apart from my room, I was also a bit stressed because I had to come for the Senate with my jaarclub (i.o.) from my studentscoöperation UMTC. It was really scary and we made a lot of mistakes but eventually we got the I.O. status (in oprichting = in founding). Our name is S.A.S. (i.o.) wich means Semper Amicae Sumus: We are always friends. But it also means to be in your sas, wich is a dutch expression for letting people know that your satisfied of who you are and what your are doing at the moment. It also means, and this is the funniest wordplay of the name, Scheit-Aan-Sonja. Sonja refers to Sonja Bakker, a dietist who wrote lots of books for losing weight. Scheit-aan means actually that we are not listening to Sonja and just eat what we want. Don't worry, its not because we want to get fat or anything or that we eat very much everyday, but its kind of a symbol for us. Everybody is the same and on the one day that we eat together, you shouldn't whine about a calorie or more. Its just fun to eat with each other and to bake delicious stuff. The delicious stuff is always there on our tuesday dinner evenings, because someone always brings brownies, chocolatecake or something other delicious.
One of our favorite deserts...
After that the week wasn't finished, because I had to study for a test. Thursday, I had to translatea Middledutch text to modern dutch and make questions about it. I know this subject is not somethign a foreigner can easily understand (Middledutch is dutch right, so why translate it?) but Middledutch is pretty different from Modern dutch and it was pretty difficult. But it is also very interesting to see how much our language changed. I did pretty well and I think I really passed it! :D
Then the last thing of the list. That thursday evening, I had to work behind the bar at UMTC. It was a lot of fun, but it was pretty late when I finally was free to go home.. I went to bed at 5 AM.. That Friday, I went home for the first time, wich was pretty difficult also because of the terrible snowy weather. Really, it hasn't snowed this much in so many years.. its ridiculous! I'm currently wondering if I can get back to Utrecht tomorrow.. Oh, tomorrow I will finally get my camera back! So I can finally make pictures again! I'm planning to make pictures of the snow, so you can join my wonderment of this crazy weather in Holland. I think I haven't told you about my stupid broken camera yet... so here is the story:
Hope I get in Utrecht with this snow..
I think I used it for 3/4 times in total. After the first time, it broke inmediately and I had to wait for like 5/6 weeks for it to be repaired. After 2/3 times of using it again, it broke again! And I think you guys wonder.. What the hell are you doing with that camera? Wel, nothing! I just make pictures really carefully and didn't do anything that could break it.. but it did.. I'm getting a new one now because my camera was a wrong model.. Grr.. I'm happy I'm getting a new one because it was 180 euros and otherwise is just spilled it on a camera that I used for a very short time.
Well, that is the story for today. I realise that it is immensly long.. But I just got a lot to tell! Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow will be a snowy post ;) See ya soon! xoxo Sabine
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