Cali 2 NL

Things are a bit in flux at the moment. I’m rearraging stuff so bear with me, but I promise to maintain my journal again soon.

So last night we decided that we’d go check out the local movie theater, called The Movies. We’ve heard that the Dutch moviegoing experiance isn’t wonderful, with comments like “it’s expensive”, “there’s talking during the movies”, “getting a seat means you have to push and shove”, etc.
We figured it’d be exactly like seeing a [...]

As someone who, up until now, has only dealt with American banks, I was somewhat excited about the prospect of a completely different banking experiance. Confusion is part of dealing with any new bank, especially in a new country, so I wasn’t expecting everything to be smooth sailing. What I got, though, was [...]

The unusually beautiful weather here was already starting to change, so we decided to go check out the nearby beach (and town) of Zaandvoort. Of course, it’s October here, and the beach is on the cold North Sea, so we weren’t expecting to surf and sunbathe.
Apparantly we arrived on race day. Well, “qualifying [...]

I thought I’d lay out what my days are like so everyone can get a little taste of European life. Your results may vary.
Wednesdays are my crazy day, because I have two rather intense classes to get to which are on opposide ends of town.
At around 7-8am I get up, take a shower in [...]

Just a quick random rant.
I go down to the lobby of my faculty (department, really) to purchase a reader for one of my classes. It’s five euro, which is pretty nice. Only thing is, they don’t take money. All I have is a twenty, and they can’t break it. No big [...]