As promised, another post today! ^^

In case you're wondering, I haven't spend my day hanging around..
No I spend it far from relaxing.. O_O
I actually worked today! ^^

Okay let me start my description of what I did today.. =P
Don't worry I will leave out the boring things! ^^

A friend of my mum's has asked me to help her clean and reorganize her shed..
So I went, because I am too nice.. kidding.. I went because she had sprained her ankle and needed help.. and I am still a nice person! =X
Because I was going to her anyway she wanted me to help her draw up a job application too..
She's Costa Rican, so she finds it difficult writing such formal letters without flaws.
And I totally understand that! ^^ Dutch formal letters are hard enough to write, even for native Dutch people!! =)

At her shed I ended up emptying the whole shed.. Dumping everything into the front yard.
*small break*
And then reorganizing it, twice, because it was a real puzzle to get everything in there!! O_O
You wouldn't believe how much actually went into that shed!!
I moved like twelve heavy carton boxes, a lot of bags and some random things.

When we were done with the shed we had lunch! ^^
It was delicious, you know how something just tastes better when you're hungry!! xD
Not that it wouldn't be delicious if I wasn't hungry! O_O

After lunch my mum called.. ^^' Where I stayed...
It took longer than we thought..
We still had to draw up the job application!
So we did that and I had to send it via mail, to print at home so she would pick it up later! ^^
Yeah, it was all thought out, but it had to be this way, because she has no (useable) printer at home..

By the way, not even an hour after I left she came to pick it up! ^^
Disciplined, don't you think? ^^
She did pay me something for my day's work at her place, but I had fun doing it, too! =)

I still haven't watched "Romeo + Julliet"!!! *mentally slaps herself*
I had really wanted to do that today... =(
But I guess I'll have to wait till tomorrow..
I finished my dad's movie!! I only have to burn it! ^^

I think I'm going to sleep right now, it's getting late and I have to go to the dentist tomorrow -_-'
I don't really like the dentist..
The dentist(person) is nice, that's not the point, but I just don't like it when people examine my mouth..
I think you'll know that feeling.. keke *mentally hits herself again*
Anyway I have to be there really early, like 8:20 am!! =O
Today I left my bed at 8:30 am.. tomorrow I'll have to leave it at 7:30 am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*dies*
I'd better sleep now..
Byebye..

Ps: I don't feel like coloring my whole message.. sorry for not giving you colors! ^^ You can copy this to Word and add colors yourself! xD.. *pushing the send button..*

Picking up my FREE STUDENT TRAVEL PASS!!!

Like I have written in my blog yesterday (or was it the day before? *scratches head*), I had to drag my lazy self to the post office today...
Well, that's not exactly what happened! ^^
I got up at 11:00 am today, which is kind of late already.. but let's ignore that fact, 'kay? ^^"

Since my sister planned to meet up with friends in Amsterdam (the capital city of our country, we live like a 40-minute train ride away..), she was already up, watching a show of Super Junior on youtube.. It was Unbelievable Outing!! ^^ Love that show, although it gets kind of violent at times o_O.. Well, boys will be boys, eh? ^^

So I got up and watched it with her.. I'm kind of nosy towards my sister.. I want to know what she's doing! ^^ And it rewards, because sometimes she finds something very interesting.. =P
So I watched with her, until I remembered she had planned to spend the day in Amsterdam and it was already past 11:00 am..
I asked when she wanted to leave and she said she had still half an hour..
And with that she turned off her computer.. -_-" No UO for me anymore...

And then we had this conversation (it's not really the same words, but it kind of went like this):
Maria: You can't park your bicycle on the old spot anymore, you know that right?
Irene: Eh? What? Yeah, yeah.. *doing other things*
Maria: You have to park it at the newly opened stalls on the other side of the train station..
Irene: Huh? *still doing something else, but realizing she has to do something different with her bicycle*

Sometime later (my sister was still at home, but had now 15 minutes left)..
Maria: You don't know where it is, right?
Irene: *shrug* Not really..
Maria: Okay, wait, I'll show you, I have to go that way anyway..

So that's how I went to pick up my free student travel pass..
I went with my sister to show her the place to leave her bicycle and then went further to the post office..

At the post office, my first thoughts were.. "Oh no, it's closed again! O_O"
That was until I saw someone enter the building xD.. I think the fanfics have altered a new sense for drama in me.. ^^
Well, maybe not only the fanfics, but the J/K- drama's too.. ^^
I like to watch them from time to time, I'm not really an addict of those drama's, but I do enjoy them a lot!! =D
Someone at the site from where I learn a bit Korean once said she doesn't allow herself to watch Korean drama's because they affect the mind! xD
She said they make people believe in love at first sight and the perfect lover and such, while it's really rare to fall in love at first sight (and find the love returned), and meeting the perfect lover is even rarer..
I think she's right.. but the real dreamer (read: people like me) doesn't need a K-drama to believe in such mushy and romantic stuff! ^^
I think it's fair to say that every fangirl loving an idol will fall into the category of real dreamer! (no offense!! I'm one myself!!^^)

I think I lost touch with the title... ^^'
This was really off topic.. but I don't care! =)

To continue my story.. I entered the building too and was immediately confronted with a machine that offered me to get a number..
Nice.. I really don't like those systems, but I guess it's efficient..
So I took a look at the machine and I was confused immediately..
Why would they have two arrows and no explanation?! o_O
I should have made a photo and show it to you! xD You would have totally understood why I was confused..
There was a green arrow above, pointing to the right.. and there was a large red arrow pointing downwards to where the number would come out..
One of the arrows was the one to get the number..
The color green said it must be that arrow, but the RED arrow was pointing in the right direction! o_O
In the end I picked green and it was, fortunately, the right one! ^^
Lucky for me, I didn't have to wait very long.. My number was 108 and there were 2 desks, where number 105 and 106 were currently getting their business done..
Getting my free student travel pass was easy! ^^
After that I went home..

The rest of the day I was being boring xD I won't tell everything..
It all comes down to this.. I was writing my fanfics, checking my mail, hanging around the house and doing nothing xD
It was just too warm to do anything! o_O It was like 24 degrees Celcius, but it felt like a lot more because it was humid.. I like hot weather, but only if I'm still able to move and breath without much effort xD..
I'm just too lazy for humid weather.. ^^"

I'll stop here.. ^^ Byebye!! *waves and yawns* I'm tired!

Santiago Reunion!! ^^

Sunday...

Anonymous: "So what's new this Sunday? Every week has a Sunday.."

Maria: O_O "How can you not know?! I'm having a reunion with my fellow Santiago-go'ers!" ^^

Anonymous: "So what did you do?"

Keke.. I'll tell you! =)

I don't know if I have already told you or not, but I've been to Spain from 1 - 10 August this year! ^^

As you can guess, I went with a group, since it's useless to held a reunion if I went with my parents, of course ^^"

That would make this Sunday really no different from any other Sunday.. xD

Anyway.. to get down to the story.. =P You see, I'm really easily able to make a loooooong story of something that can be said in a few words.. -_-"

*goes off to be ashamed in her room*...

...

*comes back to continue her story*

^^" As I said, I should continue..

So to make a short story long... I mean, to make a long story short.. I went to the church today first.. wait.. I have to tell a lot more about today! ^^' *scratches the back of her neck*..

First of all, some of you might not know it, but I'm a Christian, so I go to church every Sunday.. =) My father plays organ there and my mum, my sister and me sing in the choir..

I love to sing in the choir, I just love to sing! ^^ But I'm not comfortable doing that outside church, so don't ask me to sing *hopes no-one does*..

After church we drank tea and had a choir practice.. ^^' that's actually a lot of fun!! (might sound dull, but it really isn't ^^!)

My dad has a new job for me.. ^^ He's going to play a piece of Bach soon and I'm the only one who can easily follow the notes from the sheet, so it's my job to turn the pages.. ^^ I play the piano, that's why I can follow the sheet easiest xD.. Don't get me wrong though, he doesn't pay me to do so.. ;)

I feel bad for my dad.. He didn't know that we weren't going home after that.. xD

I guess he didn't hear it when we spoke about the reunion of Santiago.. ^^

My dad must have thought he had the midday for himself.. but instead he has to drive us to Amsterdam to spend the rest of the day there..

The reunion was in Amsterdam where the "Borght" is..

We went with eight people to Madrid, Spain with an airplane, after that we drove with cars to PortoMarin. The next day we walked from Sarria back to PortoMarin (23km)(strange but true xD we drove away and walked back ^^').. The second walking day we walked from PortoMarin to Palas de Rey (26/27km).. The third day Palas de Rey - Melide (18km).. The fourth day Melide - Arzua (15km).. The fifth day Arzua - Lavacolla (21).. The sixth day Lavacolla - Santiago de Compostela!! (9km).. In Santiago we bought souvenirs and picked up our pilgrim certificate (there really is such a thing! ^^ Although you have to prove you walked the route by showing a pass with stamps retrieved on the way..)

After spending another day in Santiago we went back to Madrid and spend a day shopping there..
The day after it was already the day of departure..

I wished we had more time in Madrid, because I feel like not having seen much of Madrid, but on the other hand I was exhausted and my sister was feeling sick, so I wanted to go home too..

In the end, it was better that we left.. because my sister had given me her virus... -_-'

I have been sick for five days after getting home.. The virus made that I didn't feel like eating at all.. If I did attempt to eat something I would feel like throwing up.. After a day I felt really hungry and my stomach rumbled, but I still didn't feel like actually eating..

I'm telling too much... again...

Okay, just ignore the things that don't interest you! ^^
You know what you have to do if you don't like this blog.. just click the white X in the red box in the right corner above... ^^

Wait! Don't leave! O_O

Any reader that still reads now is at least interested! ^v^

So, where was I?

Oh, right, my vacation.. It was just exhausted! ^^ Finished talking about that xD

Now, on to the reunion..

As I told before in this blog, we went with eight people..

Me(19), Irene (my sister)(17), Anne(14), Monique(16), Danielle(15), Maartje(21), Tiny and Tinka (both above 30 xD)..

At the reunion we were all there except Monique, who couldn't come..

First we showed all the photos and talked about the fun memories and what we want to do next year.. After that it was cooking time!!! We had decided to make Spanish tortillas with a Spanish salad.. It was delicious! =9

I want to make it at home too! ^^

When I can make it, you can come and taste it sometime.. =D ^^ If I know you, and you know where I live.. xD

I had a lot of fun today! =)

Ah, something totally different.. I have to go to the post office tomorrow... >>

I really don't want to.. I don't know why, because it's actually for my free student travel pass, so I should be totally excited about going.. but, yeah, I'm not actually...

Yesterday I went, but the post office was closed so that's probably why I don't want to go there anymore.. I know, it's stupid xD

I went with my sister, because she wanted to go to the Library, which is across from the post office..

So I went in with her (I love books too!^^)

And I borrowed two good books and two DVDs..

The first is an English novel (untranslated) called "Angels Fall" written by Nora Roberts.. You might have heard from her, she's a best selling author and one of my favorites! ^^

The second book is a Dutch novel.. It's called "Heldere Maan" (roughly translated as "Bright Moon"), it's written by a Dutch writer of Chinese origin called Lulu Wang.. My Dutch readers might have heard from her, she's a brilliant writer!

The first DVD is "Little Miss SUNSHINE" a funny movie!! ^^ My dad had searched for it, because he wanted to see it, but he couldn't find it.. So I borrowed it to watch together with the three of us.. ^^ (my mum isn't really fond of movies, so she's kindly excluded *^.^* )..

The second DVD is "Romeo+Julliet" with Leonardo DiCaprio.. I once saw the movie in drama class at school.. I really like the movie (not just because Leonardo DiCaprio is in it.. I don't really get what people see in him either..), the movie is romantic! ^^

Hmm.. I think I'm finished blogging for today! ^^

See you tomorrow!! Ciaociao!! *waves, as usual energetic!*

WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!! ^^ We got visitors xD

Today I started up well! ^^
First thing I heard... "Wake up, today XX and XX are coming to play on the Wii.." (I won't call their names, since I don't know if they like to be known ^^, it's the kids of a friend of my mum's, ages: 8 and 13 or 14)
All I'll say is: They're really sweet! ^^
My mum was already totally excited while they wouldn't be there till 4 in the afternoon! xD
I'm really not a morning person, but I got up anyways, because I slept quit early yesterday.. (midnight is early for me xD)

Okay.. what story was I going to tell???

^^' This isn't interesting at all.. It's stupid.. =X .. see, now I've started making fun of myself >_<

Maybe I should tell you something that bothers me..
No, I'm not going to complain! ^^
I just have something with my eyes.. see, sometimes, they just won't stop tearing T_T
People might think I wear irritating contacts! =(
The fact that I wear a pair of glasses once in a while might just add to that..
Don't get me wrong.. it's not like I need a bucket when my eyes tear xD.. I just feel they are too wet, and I need to wipe them.. ^^ okay, never mind, it starts getting weird again..

Now, let me get to the actual story.. I tend to trail off..
Just now I was completely doing other things xD (I was watching a Youtube vid about SuJu, pre-debut and baby pics.. incredibly cute!! ^^ YeSungie!!)

That aside, I wanted to talk about my day xD and the visit of friends today =)
This morning I felt like Cinderella.. minus the stepmom, stepsisters, prom, beautiful dress and prince...
I vaccuum cleaned the entire lower floor of our house and I tidied my room (read: clearing the floor of my room ^^" )
Later on the vaccuum cleaning turned out to be useless.. try keeping the floor clean after eating crisps with an excited 8 year old.. ^^'
Right, not much success, but we had fun, so it didn't matter to me at all!! =D

Like I mentioned before, the visitors had come to play on the Wii.. ^^
My mum had bought batteries especially for that occassion xD The Wii remote hasn't been used for over at least 5 months, so the battery had died... T_T
XX and XX don't have a Wii at home, so they had never (or just once) played on a Wii before..
Now, don't think we have a lot of games.. we actually only have Wii Sports, which is like the standard game for the Wii ^^'
They actually enjoyed it alot!! xD
First thing the 8 year old boy asked, searching the types of sports: "Where is soccer?"

I laughed alot today, seeing my mum attempt a try at bowling.. ^^'
She's a natural talent *cough*
One of the visitors actually really was!! 0_0
She beat my highscore of bowling (which I tried real hard to get) in her first try!!! T_T I feel defeated...
...Not really, just joking! ^^
Anyway, it was good fun! Their mother was best at tennis, I suck at tennis..
In real life probably as much as on the Wii xD
My sport is more like hockey and dancing (if you consider dancing a sport)..

That was basically my day! ^^
Oh, and I got some great news!! =D
I am now officially awarded a place for the study of my choice!! ^^
YAAY!! =D
I really wanted to do a media study (from Dutch translated it's something like: Media, Information and Communication)..
Sounds like fun, eh? Well, it's actually said to be a tough study, but I'm going to do well! ^^ I hope..
I'll be learning a lot about all types of media, how to use the media and some skills too!
*gets more excited by the minute*
I'm really happy!! =D

I recieved a letter with information about the group I'm in, the day school starts and some parties that are going to be held! ^^
I don't know if I'm going to a party.. I don't know much people there yet.. only one former class mate, but I didn't really befriended her before.. she's kind though..
Maybe if she goes, we can go together.. there are other parties too, though!! ^^ There's one at the end of September, by then the introduction days have taken place, so I might have friends to go with! ^^
It sounds sad, doesn't it?
But all my friends don't go to HvA (the college I'm going to), they go to InHolland, Reinwardt and such.. and the parties are for people who go to HvA..

Well, it has its good things too, knowing nobody.. that means I can make a fresh impression and there are more new people to meet!^^
Plus, it makes me go out and meet people.. since I have to, in order to make friends xD

Oh.. before I forget.. I placed a banner on top of my blog... (where the title is)
I'll change it later on, but I like Onew.. so I'm okay with this for now! ^^
The new banner (I'm going to make it myself) will have pics of Korean artists too (^-^)=b
Now I just need to figure out how I change the background.. (*-*)a
How stupid it might sound, but I can't found how it should be done...

If someone knows how to change the background.. TELL ME!!

Well, that's it for today!! Byebye! Annyoung!!! *waves and smiles energetically*