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!*