DAY TWENTY TWENTY-ONE

HELLO
BONJOUR

We just got computers.
We hzve been preparing for children to come. posters posters posters. I hand hurts from poster making. we have to make english signs. some are funny like; WALL, CHAIR.
I swam (almost) across the lake yesterday. We have been doing yoga in the TP every morning.
Today I will be going to PARIS on the train with Ariel (the french girl) to bring the 43 children back tomorrow on the train. OOO that will be interesting. But I get to stay in a french hotel and eat parisian food for FREE.
I need to go pack;

LOVE

DAY 17 18 19

SOOOOO
I obviously have not had access to a comp in a couple days.

I am now at "camp"!!!!!!!!!!!!
i got here yesterday around 4.

I will start by doing a brief summary of the last couple days: (i dont have too much time)
17: I WENT TO AN AMAZING festival in BRUSSELS with ELINE!!!!! it was called COULER CAFE. It was soooo fun. I would like to go into great detail, but cant, i will tell yall when i get home. in short, it was a world music festival with artists and food from all over the world. One artist did a little ode to MJ; RIP.
GREAT GREAT GREAT
18: I took the train, all day. Met my coworkers!!! they are all great. 2 canadiens, 2 californians, 1 Michiganian, 1 St. Louisite, 1 massechusetian, 1 oregonian, 1 parisian, and MN (repen)
We just hung out last night, got to know eachother,
the camp site is SOOOO great
right on a lake, trees, T-ps,
our dorms are nice, beds suck,

i lost my rain jacket in brussels

the food here is NICE (and there are 3 vegetarians!!!)

i should prob go, there is only one comp at the moment, the others come tomorrow.

YAY i can already tell this is going to be a blast!!!!!!!
(and it is not a scam, that is a definite plus!)

DAY SIXTEEN

Today was a day. A good day: This post is going to take me a long time to write, the belgian keyboard is even more scrambled: (: is a period ok,)
^that took me 5 min^

I woke at 7 this morn and checked out, got b fast and went to take the tram to the train station (I never payed for the tram once, they never asked, muahhaha) Everything was going smoothly untill I realized I had gotten on the tram going the opposite direction of the station: awesome. I got to THE opposite end of town and switched: my 10 min tram ride turned into 45 min: My train was at 8 26 and I was on the tram till 8 28: meaning i missed my train: luckily I there was another train at 8 54 that i could take: ufda: but i had to somehow contact eline and tell her i would be later,,,so, sorry mom and dad, i resorted to my cell phone,,,and i didnt have a phone card: sorry: it worked and she was at my gate when i got there! with her friend dafney:
From there we put my stuff in a locker at the station and met thier friend BJ and started the "tour" of Brussels: BJ knows everything about everything, so i learned a lot today; we went allll over; i saw many sights, there is very beautiful architecture here; we went to this nieghborhood where everyday they have this junk market, used everything; i was in heaven!!!!!!!! i was so overwhelmed i could barely think to buy anything; i could buy everything there;
we saw the "little piss boy" a very famous attraction in brussels; i dont get it; it is literally a 1 foot tall statue of a little peeing boy; there were people poseing for pics infront of it; hillarious; there is also a little peeing girl, ze saw that too; ha!
i stood in the center of belgium:
i saw the most beautiful town square in the world
i saw a giant molecule of iron;
i at belgian fries
i learned some dutch
i realized i dont remember any french
i got sun burned
i tried cherry beer
i went to a bar with the largest beer selection, the menu was a novel
i saw a palace

gooood day; again, my feet hurt, hurt, hurt

ELINE SAYS HI MOM AND DAD and to EVERYONE ELSE (that knows her)
{elines appartment is sooo nice!!}

tomorrow we are going to attempt to get me a ticket to the festival that they are going to, it is sold out, if there is a will there is a way! cross your fingers!!!

i still didnt get shoes mom;

DAY FIFTEEN

Hello! today i got lost again. whats new. Amsterdam is the strangest city. the streets get me sooooooooooo lost. I have never encountered such a strange system. A good map of amsterdam could not even prevent one from losting. Getting lost makes my feet hurt.
It is hot today, very nice. Attempted to shop for shoes, one pair of mine have a whole growing in the sole. But since I refuse to pay 40 euro, I walked home empty handed. I really need some purple hightops though.
I met my friend Will at 1:30 (I was late of course due to the fact that the streets got me very confused.) and we sat in the very nice, very large park. Sitting was important. My feet really hate me. I got a death threat from the right one yesterday. Now I am on the internent. Who knows whats instore for tonight. Not me.
Tomorrow I am off to Brussels to meet ELINE! that will be fun!

DAY FOURTEEN

HELLO WORLD ITS MR> ME TOO.

SOOOOOO yesterday i didn"t have much time at all to write. if you didn't notice. (i have to get used to a normal keyboard again.)
I am in AMSTERDAM! I got here at about 3 yesterday, and i immediately went to walk around. AND I basically walked around the whole city. I had no map and I got very lost. I walked for 7 hours. saw it all, 3 days might get long here haha. There is an extreme lack of momuments here, but an ecessive amount of tourists. (lots of hippies. *wink) I saw lots of things, but since i had no literature on anything, i had no idea what i was seeing. hmm...should have done that maybe. Everything closes at 6 here btw. Ecept coffee shops and bars. There are H&Ms on every corner. Followed by a Steak House, then a coffee shop. I am staying right by the Rijks museum, and there is a very nice park there witch I have been hanging out at.
Last night I met a guy from Ohio who is an art major here "studying" for 2 weeks. I also met a girl from Switzerland who is here for the ACDC show today (i don"t know her name so I call her ACDC girl.) Well, the 3 of us went walking around last night. So I saw the whole city again. We went to the redlight district, saw girls in windows and such. Then we went to the "ROck Bar" (ACDC girl's idea) where they were BLASTING ACDC. It was hillarious, Will and I were VERY out of place. FYI ACDC girl wears ONLY ACDC shirts and spider rings, but I don't think she is as hardcore as she dresses. ahha. She barely speaks english and always looks at me blankly.
I was POOPED and I fell asleep instantly in my VERY comfy bed.
Today Will and I went to the Rijksmuseum, it was surprisingly SMALL, I think most of it is under construction. bummer. It was very nice though. Then we attempted to find another museum and failed. Streets here are confusing, and we were lazy and lacking a good map. Everystreet is somethingSTRAT. We walked and walked all day, saw the entire city for a third and forth time. IT IS SMALL. We found the queen's palace, but it cost to get in, so we didn't go. We found some cool galeries and went in those. Bassically we were just lost all day, then we finally found our way "home" and I took a nap.
This hostel is very nice. IDK what I am going to do tonight or tomorrow.
Maybe I will splurge on some food. I haven't bought anything but a baggett, nutella and an orange. Saving money.
LOVE

IN AMSTERDAM AND SAFE. WILL WRITE MORE LATER LOVE YOU ALL!

DAY TWELVE

Today is another chill day. I am getting ready to leave Sab's. I am ready for more Europe, lets go.
I played with Sab's little sister Svenya for most of the morning. She is cute. Welllllll....I am going to buy train tickets now. $$$$$$$ (damn)
PEACE

DAY ELEVEN

Hello all!
Today we woke at 5 30 to go decorate the theater for Sab's graduation. And then.......I spent 8 hours there. OOF. The cerimony started at 10 and lasted till 1 30. It was VERY similar to an American High School graduation, but minus the cap and gown and plus a lot of German. Sab's mom tried to translate a lot of it, nice. Sab wore her cap and gown from MN and switched the tassle and everything. It was cute. If you didn't hear them speak, ALL the students look like they are straight from Roseville Area High School. The girls were wearing thier sweatpants and little lacey tanks with messy buns and the boys were wearing thier jeans and tees (that was prior to the cerimony, before they had dressed up) (the boys are slightly more stylish than MN boys, I must say.) I never realized how truely Americanized Germany is.
After the cerimony we went back to Sab's and had a GERMAN BBQ. Meaning-MEAT. LOTS. I have pictures its rediculous. I am not going to lie, I ate some, and some, I admit, was good.
Now I digest tiredly.

(spelling = terrible)

SURPRISE! Moday I am going to Amsterdam for 3 nights! I realized that I have over a week left b4 work so I thought I might as well take advantage of the fact that I am here and everything is so CLOSE! (I also feel kinda bad about making Sab entertain me for so long. She is great). Then on Thursday I am going to BELGIUM to stay with ELINE for 2 nights. We are going to a festival of some sort on Friday and then I leave for camp Sat morn.
Thats whats up with me.

BISOUS

DAY TEN

This is a photo from the trip to Wismar.
(Mom, your knomb is really gettin around)
(sorry I can't figure out how to flip it)

TODAY-Lay low at Sabrina's. Thats all.

p.s. my camera is a piece of shit. the display is already messed up. i hate bad purchases! anger boils in my viens.