Yo! I'm in Leiden, Netherlands. Just got here tonight... it was pretty exiting that we got here 3 hours early! So my friend Yuko and I walked around and went to this great pizza place- Donatellos. We shared a pizza but after that I still felt like I just needed... something. So we went looking for coffee. We remembered walking past a place that said "Coffee Shop" so we walked back toward it. When we got in, it was full of young men and was blasting "P.I.M.P." by 50 Cent. So we were kind of like... hmm this is an interesting coffee shop, but whatever. So we got to the counter and looked at the menu... basically we had our choice of various flavors of Hash and Joints. No coffee. FALSE ADVERTISING! So for future reference if you ever find yourself in the Netherlands just know that "Coffee Shop"s here DONT sell coffee. Haha. In case you are wondering, we DID leave right away. Ol Steffers is not that adventurious... or maybe the better word is stupid. Sadly I had to get my hot drink fix at McDonalds. The other shops were closed and it was getting too cold for me to keep going.
Im bummed that this internet cafe wont let me conect my camera because I wanted to post some fun photos! One is of me in front of a Windmill.. taken tonight in Holland. The other was of me with my bike in front of the Reichstad in Berlin- thats the house of parliment for Germany. Yesterday Yuko and I went on the ride of our lives! We went with Fat Tire bike tours around Berlin. It was sooo fun! Would have been perfect if it was 20 degrees warmer... coldest day yet yesterday. But oh well. We went on the English speaking tour and had this awesome guide, an ex-patriot from Australia with the narliest dreads I have ever seen! They were sooo long. Props to Randall (the guide)! Yuko and I were the only Americans on the tour.. except this cool lady whos husband is a professor at Stanford. Everyone esle was from all over... I was excited to see some paisanos from Mexico! Others were from Norway, Netherlands, Peru.... and thats all I can remember. I guess English is one of the most common second languages in Europe so since the tours were only offered in German or English it would make sense there were lots of other Europeans there.
Does anyone else like the song "Apologize" by OneRepublic? I love it! I wish I could get it on my iPod... Ill have to work on that one. Well I better go... need to study for another exam. Plus the door is open in here and my fingers are turning into icicles. Ill try to post some photos soon... and I really mean it this time. I keep saying that but I think I can actually get photos on soon.
Oh, one more thing I thought was funny. I was looking through some random phrases in Dutch and I saw some interesting things. First, to ask someone what their name is you say "Who hate you?"... thats the way it sounds at least. And to ask someone to marry you its "Trauma". Haha. k bye.
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ha, i do like that song. and i'm already "trauma"tized. hahahaha. so, knowing how you like movies and all i will tell you about the movie that i saw and enjoyed: dan in real life. it was cute and funny--my fav combo. I was trying to make a joke with the guy selling us the movie tickets but he didn't get it. oh well. The total for two movie tickets was $18 buckaroos so i made a comment like "this sure ain't the two buck chuck...." no, i said "this must not be the the $2 dollar movie theater" and he says with complete seriousness "no, that one is across the street" I actually stopped and waited a moment and before i said " i was making a joke!"
anyway steph, I can't for you to get back!! keep it going for being home for the holidays!
let's talk soon padrushka.
love,
liddddd
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