That's right. You just throw everything away after dinner. At least in my house.
I'll cut to the chase on this one. I found out who the Taylor Lautner look-alike is. Here's a segment from a wikipedia article about the guy:Magnus Carlsen (born Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen on 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess Grandmaster and chess prodigy currently ranked number one in the world on the official FIDE rating list... On 26 April 2004 Carlsen became a Grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 148 days, making him the third-youngest Grandmaster in history. (source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Carlsen)
Here's a pic of him when he was chessing it up, and a pic of him in the G-Star Raw advertisements:
...and you didn't believe me when I said he looked like a grumpy werewolf. I think that's his game face...
Well, for all you AFS staff/volunteers reading this, you'll be glad to know that I've convinced a girl in my class to look into going abroad on a gap year program with AFS. Yayy, spreading the word! Can I have a prize now?
Speaking of AFS, I went to Amsterdam with the other AFS kids. It was fun, we took a boat ride through the canals and my American friends and I ate Dutch pancakes and walked around town. We checked out a few bars, but it wasn't anything special. And no, I did not end up face-down in the gutters of the red light district. Sorry to disappoint you.
Anyways, for some reason we keep playing softball in gym class. Maybe baseball is America's favorite pastime, but I can assure, it is not mine. I got out three times today, but I don't really care. I can hit the ball, I just usually count on people not being able to catch it. Which apparently isn't a very good strategy...
Did I mention the bread here is amazing? Because it really is. You could probably give me two pieces of bread with dirt in-between and I'd think it was delicious. Or as they say here, "lekker". By the way, "lekker" can apply to anything. It doesn't just mean, "delicious cake". Here they say, "It is delicious weather," "He is a delicious man," "These shoes are deliciously warm," and I even see on the back of cars, "You'll feel more delicious in a {insert car name here}". Everything is lekker. Even sleep. "Slaap lekker!"
If this makes you think that there aren't very many words in the Dutch language, you are absolutely correct. The people who play "sports" are "sporters" who are "sportive". You don't go to the dentist, you go to the tooth doctor. It makes the language easy to learn, but also repetitive. Only a little repetitive. Well, I think it's repetitive. Because it is that. Repetitive, I mean.
Well, I'm going to go take a walk with my host mom now. Oh, but before I forget, I have a small story for all y'all:
So, my host parents and I went out to get fast food (yay, apparently people here like chicken nuggets, too....) and while we were in line I saw a music video playing on the TV. Which made me die a little inside. Because I used to listen to this song and feel happy and uplifted and generally blissful and optimistic, especially on a bad day. But now, it makes me ... well, a bit disdainful. The song is called "Just the Way You Are" by Bruno Mars. Now, that sounds great, and the lyrics are beautiful - as you can probably guess, it's about how much this guy loves this girl and doesn't want her to change one thing. HOWEVER, just watch the video and you'll see why not everyone (or practically no one) can enjoy this song while watching it. (Okay, in case you don't feel like watching it, or you just don't get what I mean, the girl he is singing about is HOT, we're talking HOTTT. So normal people like me might be the target audience, but now I'm just sad. A crowd full of sad people isn't exactly the goal, I don't think.) Well, it's a good song anyways, here's the link. Maybe just close your eyes while listening to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjhCEhWiKXk
Tot ziens,
Emily
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