Rooster
Vanochtend heb ik mijn rooster opgehaald en het was bijzonder grappig. Met een brochure op mijn schoot mocht ik vakken gaan kiezen.Het is hier blijkbaar niet mogelijk om een gescand bestand op de weblog te krijgen dus moeten jullie maar gewoon een beetje nadenken. Ik heb de volgende vakken gekozen: English writing (spreekt voor zich denk ik), Adventure education (how to survive??), Sociology (mensen en groepen bestuderen), Economics (niet voor iedereen even leuk) en Golf (ja golf). Daarnaast ga ik waarschijnlijk ook nog business enterprise doen (een of ander project met zakenmensen uit Hobart), winter skills (hoe te overleven in de winter) en expedition (Op expeditie naar de wilde binnenlanden). Winter skills en expedition vinden af en toe plaats in de weekenden (bij winter skills alleen in de winter) en business enterprise is op maandag avond. Een lesuur is 1.5 uur dus ik heb vrij weinig lesuren en vakken.
Op maandag begin ik om half negen met Adventure education, gevolgd door een pauze van 30 min. en Economics. Om 12 uur ben ik dan uit maar 's avonds word ik weer verwacht in de stad om mee te doen aan het project (hoop ik, was geen probleem volgens de school).
Op dinsdag begin ik om half negen met English writing, gevolgd door een 'tussenuurtje' van 10 tot tien voor een!!!!!!!! Dan heb ik Sociology gevolgd door een korte pauze en Golf!!!!!! De dag eindigt om 4 uur maar je kan nog door gaan met golfen.
Op woensdag begin ik met Economics gevolgd door een pauze en een soort mentor halfuurtje. Daarna snel door naar English writing en lekker 50 minuten pauze houden. Het laatste uurtje heb ik nog even Adventure education en dan ben ik rond kwart voor 3 uit. helaas mag ik door dit barre weer nog 15-20 minuten naar huis lopen dus heb ik wat te doen.
Op donderdag ben ik het eerste uur vrij!!! Dus begin ik pas rond half elf. Adventure education, economics en Sociology zijn de vakken waar ik vandaag present moet zijn (wie wil er ruilen ;)). Rond 4 uur mag ik weer naar huis.
Vrijdag als laatste dagje is nog best wel ok. Ook vandaag heb ik het eerste 'uurtje' vrij dus hoef ik pas rond 10:30 te beginnen. Ik heb op vrijdag alleen Sociology en English writing, dus mag ik rond kwart over 2 met mijn weekend beginnen. het is dus mogelijk dat ik in het weekend of in de vakantie mijn winterskills moet uittesten maar een expeditie tussendoor kan ik er wel bij hebben.
Ik hoop dat het een beetje duidelijk is hoe 'zwaar' ik het wel niet heb. Morgen is mijn eerste schooldag dus ik hou jullie op de hoogte.
Greetings,
posted by Wesley @ 2:00 pm
7 Comments:
heej wes
leuke vakken allemaal. misschien versla je me wel de volgende keer met midgetgolf als je wat dingen hebt bijgeleerd met golf.
heel veel plezier op school en had je nou maar een winterjas of een fleecetrui bij je om te overleven in de winter.
Mitchell
Whaaat, dat rooster man, damn relaxt.
Heb je ook al wat contact met andere mensen naast de mensen waar je het al over hebt gehad?
Of ben je alleen nog maar even aan het kijken en beetje praten met je chick Sofia.;)
Is het ook mogelijk als je vakantie hebt, dat je dan naar Australië op vakantie gaat of zoiets dergelijks..
Adíos amigo
Jeroen
Eeey Wesley
Leuke vakken heb je in je paket gekozen! Je hebt t idd 'zwaar'. Hoop dat je goede cijfers haalt voor engels! Dan laten we dat aan de leiding van school zien en ontslaan ze mr cock:P Spreek je wel weer!
Groeten: Samuël
Super vakken heb je gekozen hey! Echt te gek wat jij daar allemaal kan leren :D
Hoe krijg je het allemaal voor elkaar :O. Geen standaard vakken als wiskunde etc. ??? Is dat speciaal voor buitenlandse leerlingen ofzo? Het leukste nog van al; geen Nederlands he!
En wat is dat met die Sofia, weet Jeroen meer dan wij ^^
Greetz,
Kostas
Hej hoi!!
Cool rooster hoor!! Alleen economie enzo.. toch ietsje minder.. voor t geval je je verveelt onder de lessen (tja.. dat kan zo eens gebeuren he..) Hier ff iets leuks om door te lezen.. herken je er wat in??
HOW TO DEAL WITH DUTCH PEOPLE
(1)Many foreigners call everything Dutch! Well Dutch. Don’t! The word Dutch reminds Dutch people of the word ‘Duits’ which is used for Germans and other things they dislike. A Dutch person is Hollander or a Nederlander.
(2) As a foreigner, don’t ever try to speak Dutch. Not only will you get an enormous headache but the Hollanders will not understand what you mean. Foreigners are supposed to speak English or Gibberish. In the latter case they will be an easy target for pickpockets since the will not be able to talk to the police.
(3) Don’t ever try to eat ‘drop’. Drop is a sort of candy that can only be eaten by Hollanders. It can be recognized by the color black. The taste is a blend between earwax and paint (black). Hollanders absolutely adore the stuff and eat many pounds of it. There is a nationwide conspiracy to look at the faces of foreigners that were made to believe the stuff is actually edible.
4) Don’t buy wooden shoes. The so-called ‘klompen’ will look completely ridiculous. Which is the reason they will try to sell them to you. A Hollander himself would not want to be found dead wearing them. (Preferably a Hollander doesn’t want to be found dead at all).
(5) Don’t make holes in the dikes. Such behavior is commonly disapproved and in extreme cases it can get you stoned by wooden shoes. But feel free to put your finger in the dike if you feel the urge. It will at least get you a few laughs from the natives.
(6) A Hollander is always right and he knows it. With this in mind it is very easy to cope with most Hollanders. If you ever get in an argument with a Hollander, tell him he was absolutely right and that you now realize how wrong you were. Now he will go crazy: Since you’re a foreigner, you can never be right. You agree with him, therefore he couldn’t be right. Impossible. He’s a Hollander. But then he. Now is the time to take a step back and observe how the Hollander will try to strangle himself with a tulip.
(7) Mills are inevitable.
(8) It is not necessary to fake interest for tulips, mills, wooden shoes or cheese. Every Hollander knows you came for the soft drugs ;and the Amsterdam red-light district. Both are widely spread and easy to find. Just ask any Hollander over the age of 6 or a French ;tourist. (See points 19 and 20)
(9) Avoid soccer fans at all times. Soccer in Holland is just an excuse to crush the skulls of practically everybody else, including yours. This mainly takes place when the game is lost or tied or won. It is extremely foolish to stand next to a cop during these festivities (see point 10) Also remember never to mention the 1974cup finals near a Hollander. He will instantly pull you into a long-lasting litany about how good orange played then and how good blablablabla
(10)Cops in Holland are mainly used to throw stuff at. If you get the uncontrollable desire to hit someone, take on a cop. No Hollander will pay any attention if you hit a cop, put a knife in his cranium or firmly kick him in the butt. Cops represent authority and not one single Hollander recognizes a higher authority then himself. You will notice the fact that most cops are actually foreigners that were lured into this job.
(11)Hollanders do not like spending money. They would rather cut off an ear. A Hollander will be your friend for life if you give him something for free. This might explain the great success of McDonalds in Holland. The story that copper wire is an invention of two Hollanders fighting over a found cent is absolutely true.
(12)Holland is small. It is sometimes rumored that Holland is so small they take it inside when it’s raining. This is not true because it rains 365 days a year. This also explains the wooden shoes: they float. Yes, Holland is small and Hollanders are very proud of it. They will use any opportunity to say that Holland ;accomplished such great things for such a small country. A fitting answer would be to refer to it’s colonial past. Which brings us to point 13.
(13)If you want to insult a Hollander - and sooner or later you ;will want to - tell him you don’t think he’s a pacifist. Now start running for your life. He will not stop trying to prove he’s the most peace-loving person in the world until your intestines are on the street. As mentioned earlier, mentioning the so-called colonial past in Suriname or Indonesia, will instantly reduce the Hollander to a sniffling child, begging for forgiveness.
(14)Hollanders are supposed to be tolerant. Nonsense. They just make to much money selling drugs and Malaysian women, to miss the opportunity to make so much profit.
15)The most important way of public transport in Holland is the bicycle. Feel free to take any bike of which you can pick the lock. Just don’t expect your own bike to be in the same spot where you parked it 3 minutes earlier. Hunting season for bikes is open 365 days a year. Good luck!
(16)At almost every bread meal in Holland you will find a mean looking big knife with a sharp slide in it. It is called a ‘kaasschaaf’ and is used to cut very thin slices of cheese. Never cut cheese with a regular knife, you will make yourself completely ridiculous. Another typical eating tool is the so-called bottle scraper. Beware, don’t use it for that annoying itch on your back. It’s designed to scrape the last bits of yoghurt or ;mayonnaise out of the bottle. A Hollander will use every milligram ;of the product he bought. He paid for it, he’ll eat it, no matter what.
(17)At the time this was written, the Dutch economy was doing ;pretty good. Hollanders maintain the idea that this is the result of intensive negotiations between different parties like unions, employers and politicians. They even have a name for it: the poldermodel. One likes to convince foreigners this poldermodel is the key to a successful economy and if those same foreigners would be smart enough to follow their example, their economy would be flourishing as well. This is a load of crap. Hollanders just like to talk, talk, talk. By calling all this chattering negotiating they give themselves the impression they’re doing something useful. Talk is never cheap in Holland.
(18)Hollanders drown fried potato-sticks in lots of mayonnaise and put it in a pointed paper bag. This is called: ‘patatje met’. One such bag is able to keep you alive for an unlimited period of time. It is only uncertain this is a life worth living. But there have been sightings of tourists actually enjoying a patatje met.
19)Holland has a unique service for -mainly- French tourists. At ;the moment they pass the border, they are enthusiastically welcomed by youngsters in fast cars. These youngsters have the explicit wish to show these tourists the way to the many interesting ;tourist-attractions Holland has to offer. Strangely, they always end up in a coffee-shop or drug house though. (see point 20) Weird people, the French.
(20)There is a fast and foolproof way of embarrassing yourself in Holland. Enter a coffeeshop and ask for a cappuccino with a biscuit. Coffeeshops -remember this- do NOT sell coffee. They do however have a large variety of stimulating products at reasonable prices. For unknown reasons, coffee shops are very popular amongst young French tourists.
(21)A ‘Fries’ is a sort of spare-Hollander who lives in the north of the country, in a province all for themselves. They love frozen water, Beerenburg (a form of euthanasia with alcohol) and endlessly pointing out that other Hollanders are not Fries. The rest of Holland looks at this behavior the same way parents will look at an obstinate child.
(22)When it comes to which books to take with you to Holland, I would advise the following: The complete works of William Shakespeare or a leather-bound part of the Encyclopedia Britannica (part Fr to He of the 1913 edition). Both books have about the proper weight to keep a pushy pimp or dealer away from you with a well aimed swing. After this I would advice you to drop the book since this greatly improves your speed during your getaway. Make< sure you bring enough books.
(23)Don’t bother renting a car. Not only will you be able to steal more bikes then you can use but car traffic in Holland is not ;something to enjoy. Where the rest of the world uses kilometers or miles to express the lengths of traffic jams, In Holland these are measured in weeks. To be honest, the most steadfast ones are worth ;a visit. The sight of starving people in an expensive Mercedes can greatly improve your mood if your somewhat philosophical. Bring some pieces of bread to throw through the open windows. The fights< over them are often very spectacular.
(24)In contradiction of many rumors, it is not legal to bring your ;mother in law to Holland for do-it-yourself euthanasia. Tourists are warned not to take matters into their own hands.
(25)Whether you’re catholic, Muslim or worshipper of Urrrgl the god of all Honest politicians, in Holland it will be easy to find a church, temple or oak tree of your liking. Hollanders are supposed to be very tolerant to other religions and believes. This is not ;true. The only reason Holland has so much churches, sects or cults ;is the fact they have a difference in opinion about everything. ;Hollander is always right (see point 6) and everyone that does not agree can beat it and start his own church.
(26)Holland is a kingdom. It just doesn’t have a king but a queen ;and her husband is not a king but a prince. The queen does not rule ;-much- but she’s very capable in cutting ribbons and visiting other countries. She is also very decorative at state banquettes. Her son, the crown prince, will take over if she stops queening. His ;wife in turn will be queen so that Holland will finally have a king and queen again. April 30th is Queen’s Day but it is not the birthday of the queen but princes Juliana’s, who used to be queen. With things like this it’s only logical that more and more people want Holland to be a republic. Queen’s Day, by the way, is just an excuse to drink lots of beer and sell all their old junk on the streets.
(27)It would be wise to learn how to swim before you travel to Holland. No, the dikes will hold, that’s not the problem, but the ;large amount of lakes, streams, rivers canals and creaks could lead ;to painful mistakes. That shiny new strip of asphalt you're turning ;on to with your car during rain might not be an asphalt road at all.
(28)Dutch painting. Dutch painters get famous after they die. This is a very sensible rule from the buyer’s point of view. Not only will the artist have to make a lot of paintings to earn a living, it also produces some very nice investments. The painters however ;do not share this opinion and in at least 1 case this lead to self-mutilation of an ear.
(29)If one of your Dutch friends invites you for a birthday, prepare for a unique experience. Unique in the way that you can only compare it to taking place in a wooden chair with a sharp nai driven trough the seat and afterwards not being able to move for a month. More then 1 foreigner has been driven to the brink of madness by attending a Dutch birthday. The regular Dutch birthday party consists mainly of sitting still and talking to others about your job, your car, politics and foreigners. You are expected to leave somewhere about 23:00 and you will be grateful you can.
(30)Holland has more cities then Amsterdam. There is eh and Well, there are more cities.
(31)Dutch beer has built up quite reputation for itself. Some people even drink it! Brewing is on of the things Hollanders are traditionally very good at. Holland has never been a country where anything was more interesting then drinking yourself half blind or< painting landscapes. This made the beer industry very popular rapidly. Expert say that ones you’ve tasted Dutch beer like ;Heineken, Grolsch or Amstel, all other kinds of beer taste like tap water in a lousy hotel.
(32)Dutch tap water is safe to drink. This is remarkable if you realize most of it comes from polluted rivers like the Rhine and Meuse. Plans to improve the water quality in the Rhine so that fish ;like the salmon can return there to mate, invokes a lot of protests ;from the Dutch. The idea of fish having sex in their drinking water ;arouses them.
(33)There are more pigs than people in Holland. This is amazing if you realize there are 16 million people there and that the pigs ;meant here are the animal kind. Take one pig, go ahead. Feed it.< ;Wait a moment. Wait another moment. If you observe closely, you’ll see two things happen. The pig gets a bit fatter. This is good. And there is some waste coming from the behind of the pig. This is bad. It stinks, it stinks a lot. Now multiply that stench 16 million times. It doesn’t seem to bother Hollanders. This does not only prove that ‘pecunia non olet’ (money doesn’t stink) but it is also good for covering up a terrible stench. And eh you get used to the stench. After a couple of weeks.
(34)Dutch political debates are as boring as a 3-day lecture on famous Swedish sport heroes between 1762 and 1809. No shouting like ‘Hear hear!!’, no fistfights in front of a camera, not even politicians calling each other incompetent once in a while. (And there really are some amongst Dutch politicians). No, telling your opponent you have doubts about his policy is about the worst thing you can say. The result is that the interest for elections dropped drastically amongst Dutch voters. At the last voting only two elects showed up. The first one got lost on his way to the toilet and the second one was an illegal refugee who thought he came to the right place to get a visa.
Wie heeft die gigantische engelse beschrijving gepost? Heb het gelezen en het klinkt wel ok, natuurlijk kan ik het niet met je eens zijn dat het waar is.
Greetings,
die beschrijving..vlgens mij ali..ik heb hem van haar in mn mail..
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