Hallo allemaal, Ik heb eigenlijk niet zoveel te melden, maar ik dacht...laat ik maar iets van me laten horen. Voordat jullie denken dat ik verdwenen ben. :-P Op werk is nu alles rustig, gaat wel redelijk. Alleen moet ik misschien wel iets meer gaan doen aan mn scriptie. MAAR IK HEB GEEEEEEN ZINNNN!!!! Nou, t komt nog wel. Uitstel van executie maar goed. Ben afgelopen weekend uitgeweest. Well, jeej for me!! :D haha Was echt leuk. Zeker voor herhaling vatbaar. Zaterdag had ik een bruiloft. Was heel mooi. De bruid zag er ook heel mooi uit. 't thema was chinees, want [View Full Entry]

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The music sounded traditional and festive. Although we were one block away, pedaling in Paramaribo's streets, we could hear the brass, the keyboard and the drums. Like ants to sugar, we were drawn. A few feet off the road was a plain white building from which the music emanated. Dismounting, we inched inwards quite unprepared for what we would see. Inside was ablaze with colourslike the rainbow had descended here. The rainbow swayed to the beat and danced around. Then, a part of the rainbow dislodged itself and danced over to us. A human shape with a head, face and a [View Full Entry]

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We felt giddy. Kinda High. And there seemed to be no escape. We had never smoked so much second-hand marijuana in our lives. Saramacca street at 7:00 a.m. was no place for non-smokers to be but it was the bus stop for public transportation to Brownsberg Nature Reserve. Tante 'Wee Nah' had, the night before insisted that we take a taxi to the stop. We were prepared to make the 35-minute early-morning walk with very heavy backpacks - the cheapskates we were. She paid for it too and we pretended to resist the 'luxury'. We had, for two days, been putting [View Full Entry]

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We travelled to Paramaribo from Georgetown, Guyana, deciding to go overland. We had a not-too-comfy minibus pick us up at 3:30 am. Only 10 or so people on board. It took a couple of hours to get to Rosignol and we didn't have to wait long for the short 6:30 am crossing on a rickety old ferry to New Amsterdam. Passing through we could see that New Amsterdam and Berbice were quite pretty. A couple of hours later we stopped in Corriverton where the Corantijn river served as the border with Suriname. The next few hours were about pain and suffering. [View Full Entry]

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'Fawaka'. The voice was surprisingly pleasant. It belonged to a rough-looking immigration officer at the South Drain Ferry Terminal in Suriname. He had just 'helloed' us in the local language called 'Sranang Tongo' or 'Taki Taki' before stamping our passports. A few minutes ago we had departed from Guyana and crossed the Corentyne River. The ferry building looked the same like the one across the water and the customs clearance was the same lengthy, tedious drill just like the one across the water. Outside the terminal, there were only three buses and it was then that we'd understand [View Full Entry]

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[url='/Videos/3407.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/3407.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'] Auto door het water Hallo lieve mensen! Hoe is het met jullie??? Met mij alles prima hier. Nog steeds aan het genieten van het goede Surinaamse leven. Ik ben al een beetje een gezond kleurtje gekregen en hoorde laatst zelf dat ik een buikje heb!!!! :-O :-O BIG NEWS PEOPLE. Alleen is het saai op werk en t bedrijf zelf is niets aan. Maar ik vermaak me wel. En ben van plan om deze week ook echt echt te gaan beginnen met mn scriptie. Nu zal ik er wel aan moeten geloven ben ik bang. I [View Full Entry]

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5-27 Hotel: Guesthouse Albergo Alberga, Paramaribo, Suriname, 15 Euro Early this morning we picked up our rental car from Avis. As we walked through Independence Square, we noticed several people had setup poles with birdcages, today was Sunday and locals hold a 'tweety fest', seeing who has the best songbird. We had noticed people carrying around their birdcages while walking through town yesterday, already this morning there were 20-30 cages setup on the lawn. We would miss the competition though but was interesting to see the setup. We planned to drive to the Brownsberg park, about [View Full Entry]

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Georgetown to Paramaribo 5-25 Hotel: Guesthouse Albergo Alberga, Paramaribo, Suriname, 30 Euro We woke up at 4:30 AM today, our taxi driver Roy would be arriving around 5 AM to take us to the border. The weather looked really bad today, big storms all along the coast. The border was about a 3 hr drive away, but there was a ferry in the middle that only ran once an hour. It started raining quite a bit after leaving town and Roy was driving slower to be safe. He was speaking about his experiences in Guyana and New York, how he [View Full Entry]

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Woah over een week ben ik hier gewoon al een maand!!!! Damn, time flies when youre having fun. Ik ben afgelopen zaterdag verhuisd naar mijn eigen huisje. Het bevalt me erg goed daar. Ik kan alleen nog niet koken, want er is nog geen gasbom aangesloten. Als dat er eenmaal is, ga ik misschien nog wel een keer proberen te koken. Ik eet nu met die vrouw mee van wie het huis is. Gelukkig kookt ze wel lekker. :-D En er moet nog wel een keukenkastje geplaatst worden. Heb nu mijn boodschappen in een doos, hahaha. Ik moet jullie nog fotos [View Full Entry]

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