Blogs from Overijssel, Netherlands, Europe - page 4

It was a very nice weekend in some lovely weather. We had sort of miscalculated which day it was on so we had to rush the day we got back to Amsterdam but it was worth it - a great way to meet up and catch up with lots of friends and to enjoy a very well organised day. Apparently a picture is worth a thousand words, so I'm going to leave it at that....... read more

Nina came over in the morning to say goodbye because she was leaving for her home in Hildesheim, Germany. It was sad to know that I wouldn't see her for probably more than 6 months. Thank goodness for Skype and webcams! I called Lea, but she was already at the airport ready to fly to Israel, so we will meet there! I then called my friend and past classmate, Andra, and we decided to meet at 1:00 to catch up. It was SO good to see her and talk about all sorts of things, laugh, and be in each other's company. I missed her so much, but when I think about it, we didn't hang out all the time when I was living in Enschede. Our personalities just clicked and have a lot of the ... read more

Hallo, Wij zijn Maarten en Marleen, neef en nicht van elkaar. Na een stage in Chili wilde ik (Maarten) erg graag terug naar Zuid Amerika. Tijdens een familieweekend kwamen wij samen op het idee om een reis door Zuid-Amerika te maken. Na flink wat leeswerk en orientatie besloten wij in een weekend ergens in december 2006 dat Peru en Bolivia ons doel zouden worden. Op dit moment zitten we twee weken voor vertrek, de laatste voorbereidingen worden nu gedaan. Medicijnen, klamboe, reisdocumenten etc worden nu geregeld. Op deze pagina zullen we proberen om een reisdagboek bij te houden. We weten niet precies hoeveel we de beschikking hebben over internet maar we doen ons best! ... read more

So, we rented a car in amsterdam - got a 2 door ford ka, super cute and tiny and blue. marc drove - my last experience with a stick shift resulted in a broken clutch....yeah, i'm a bit special. so my maternal grandfathers family is from olst, a tiny village in the eastern part of the country. so off we go, driving, driving, driving. we get there and it's market day! so i think that we were the only people to actually visit from outside of the village in a long time - we actually found people that didn't speak english. and i'm happy to report that when i would go up to a counter they automatically spoke to me in dutch, made me feel like i fit right in. so at the end of the ... read more

I returned to Enschede Saturday evening from a friend and family-packed weekend in Edam and Amsterdam. I checked my email and a nice lady from the university named Susanna sent me an email inviting me to watch a Korfbal game. A what game? I had never heard of Korfball before - it sounds more like a German baked good with sausage meat inside or something. I figured I could research ahead of time on the internet to find out what Korfbal was, but I decided to skip the brainy research and just blindly go there waiting to be surprised. Susanna is my coordinator/liason at my university. She's the one that always offers me a cup of coffee whenever I come to visit her, the one that reassured me after I busted into her office crying with ... read more