Yarp.

Soooooo I rode my bike to and from school for a whole week! Cool, huh? But I have to take the tram to school tomorrow, because I left my bike at the train station on Saturday. I went to Aalsmeer to visit an Indonesian AFSer for her birthday party. It was really fun to see some of the other girls again, and she made some really delicious traditional Indonesian food for us. But I can't say I like Aalsmeer. I was lost for an hour. It was 5 pm on a Saturday and I was the only one on the street, except for some other lonely wanderers. Luckily my nice host dad went onto Google Maps to tell me how to get to the party. Took a Metro back to the station... first time on a Dutch metro. Anyways, my bike is still there because it was too late at night to bike back home, so I took the tram.
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My host dad just waved his hands to the music, looked at me and said:
"You're just writing to write. There's no.... inner inspiration."
*Waves hands again. Makes guitar sounds. Whistles.*
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We just watched this movie called Eight Below, about some sled dogs that were left alone for almost 200 days. Sad. There was also a scary seal living inside an orca carcass. Ew, gross.
You know the movie Spirited Away? Remember "No Face" and how he throws up everything he had eaten? I think Miyazaki got that idea by studying hamsters. Today, Chu filled his little hamster cheeks with seeds and hamster food, then proceeded to push them all back out in a nice safe corner of his cage. It was pretty friggin gross. The wonders of nature.
Oh my gosh, I really do have nothing to write about......
Carla made some yummy waffles today. Thank you for those.
Jotte came over today just to talk. Little did she know I would use her as one of my chow mein puzzle minions! Mwahahahahah! I put together like, 4 more pieces. Yay!
Oh, but you know.... I was talking to the Chinese girl at the party, and it turns out she's only 15 years old! I couldn't believe it.... she's so young and she went on a year abroad, away from her parents, and she speaks English and Dutch. Wow. And, she told me that in her home city, she goes to school from 8 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week, with a one hour lunch break and two hour dinner break. Then it's homework until 11 pm, then bed. She even has school Sunday mornings. WHAT??? So she just looooves school here because it's so much freedom.
Oh, and someone said something... interesting to me. Apparently, in a lot of countries, the kids who want to do AFS have to take a test to qualify, because more people want to do an exchange than there are host families available. When I told someone that Americans don't have to take a test and AFS tries really hard to recruit us, she said, "Yeah, but you're Americans. Everything just gets handed to you." I don't know, it just left me thinking.
Eh. I guess I should sleep now, its 12 am. Why is it that I never want to sleep at night, but I never want to get up in the morning?
Oh. The title. Ever seen Hot Fuzz? No? Go rent it. Right now.
Tot ziens,
Emily