Gelukkig is het Vrijdag

Gelukkig is het Vridag, "thank goodness it's Friday." I only have a bit to write on here, but my sister requested another blog entry!! I've been trying my best to stay connected these past few days, but it's a little difficult because the internet in my apartment doesn't work, only in the house! So hopefully it will soon :) So here are just a couple things I've noticed, felt, experiencd, seen, or tasted that might just tickle your fancy to know!

• The many people who have been around me enough to notice, know that I love cheese. So I think I'm pretty much in the right country right now because the cheese here is to die for!
• I've already learned numbers 1-20 and the days of the week in Dutch!! Oh, and of course how to say thank you and you're welcome!
• They sell sausages, or wursts (sp?), here in basically any store you walk in to... AND I had some for dinner the other night and they were delicious!
• Holland hasn't had snow in over 10 years, and I get to experience it first hand here on my trip!!! 20 degrees and windy! Wooo!!!
• Everyone walks here. To the store, to the beach, to the village. It's crazy!! Hopefully I come back home nice and fit!
• The colleges here are very different than back home! I learned this first hand when I went to talk to the lady about my dutch classes. She asked what school I had finished back home and I said of course elementary, high school, and then I said that I had done about a year and a half of college and she basically starts bad mouthing college in America! Basically saying I hadn't been to college at all! Not cool!
• Everyone here is very nice and friendly, well minus the dutch class lady...
• Everything I've tasted here I have loved - whether it looked good or not! Meat paste, which is called Filet American, pea soup, which looks like baby food, and all kinds of cookies and cheeses and meats and veggies and different meals! Hopefully I will learn to how make a lot of things so I can come home and cook some Dutch cuisine for you all :)
• And the last thing I will post for tonight is that the one thing that I have really noticed and love so much is that a smile really is universal. I don't know a lot of Dutch yet, and some people don't know any English at all, but everyone knows a smile :)

Until later.... xoxoxo