If Looks Could Kill...

I would have been murdered.
This girl thought I was going to take "her" chair at the library (which I wasn't going to do) and she got mad at me and gave me this death-filled glare. Needless to say, I "let" her sit in the chair.... then someone threw a chocolate at my head.
Whatever.
I had a good weekend. On Friday my host family and I went to a restaurant to celebrate Carla's birthday, then my host parents and I watched a movie and ate ice cream. Saturday morning I made American pancakes again for everyone, then we went to a park/land that used to be owned by a rich guy with a mansion thing, which was nice. The purple plastic octopus figurine in a tree was the highlight of my day. I fed a cookie crumb to a duck. Then I tested it to see if it would try to eat my drinking glass, which it did. It even jumped off the ground and tried to pull it out of my hand. Carla told me I should stop teasing the duck or else it would bite off my toe. I figured that was some pretty good reasoning, so I stopped. After that I headed over to Delft to celebrate a couple of girls' birthdays. Some other kids from school were there, and we just played Wii, hung out on the porch over the water, and ate typical Dutch "cook it yourself" food. Then a few of us ended up running around on a playground, which was definitely one of the best moments of my year - no really, it was. My friends said I was hardcore 'cause I was barefoot. When we were done there we went into the city to get drinks, then went to a club to go dancing. In the morning I tried to find the station but instead ended up just plain old lost. Again. Finally found it, then went to Keukenhof with my host fam and Sera (my friend from Japan, weet je nog?) which is right now one of the most popular places in the Netherlands, for the Dutch and the non-Dutch alike. Why? Because it's full of tulips!! It was so beautiful! That was really nice. You'd be surprised by how many different kinds of tulips there are. We took a great family portrait there, which I'll put online asap. Anyways, on the car ride back, Matthias, Carla and I rocked out to K3 songs. Yes, you'd better believe we turned it all the way up and busted out our most awesome dance moves while singing along to Belgian children's music....
"Wie is de leukste van het land,
Spiegeltje, Spiegeltje aan de wand.
Dit is de allermooiste avond van mijn hele leven."
That's how cool we are.
Then I went to a friend's house to paint nails and watch movies. I made purple happy faces on my nails, but A.) I'm no artist, and, B.) I'm no skilled manicurist, so my sad excuses for smileys are sort of falling apart. But hey, you know, it was a fun, girly get together. Matthias actually laughed when I told him I was going somewhere to paint my nails, but okay. (Matthias, you are awesome and sorry for the misunderstanding today.... my only "problem" with you is that you are too cool for me.)
Soooo I got home at 11 pm or something, took a shower, came up to my room and typed this up. That was my weekend, basically. Oh but by the way, I didn't have a jacket on the entire weekend! I didn't need one. It's like, HOT can you believe it? I have to keep my window open at night, otherwise it's just too hot to sleep.
This is random, but now that I think about it I ate really Dutch food today. Meaning I didn't eat vegetables. Breakfast was a roll with butter and chocolate flakes, plus orange juice. Lunch was ice cream and a herring sandwich with onions - oh, I guess onions are vegetables - plus a bite of someone's waffle. Dinner was just random party snacking, like chips and fried cheese. I don't know, it just feels so...... Netherlandish.
Wow I can't believe my spellcheck didn't underline "Netherlandish".
But speaking of culture....
A Russian boy is going to be staying with us for a week. It's an exchange program through my school. In October (while I was still at my first school), some kids from my class went to Russia for a week, and now those kids are coming here. One guy couldn't take his partner in his house, so I offered to take him in instead. I'm looking forward to it, we made really good plans to show them around (which is nice for me, too). They're coming on Wednesday.
Ugh, I have so many projects for school to do and just tasks in general that have to get done! Oh well, I think I'll manage.
Pshh, what am I saying, of COURSE I'll manage! I'm Emily Saxe! I can do anything!
Tot ziens,
Moi