Anthropomorphic dollar sign doing the double Dutch

So my landlord knocked on my door about two minutes ago. He asked my roommate and I if we would be home tomorrow morning at 11 AM. Employees of the city tomorrow will be visiting every house on this street to see if they can hear the construction happening on the street behind ours from [...]

April 8th, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: Europe, Netherlands | Leave a comment

Music is my boyfriend

I’d always known it but being here has confirmed it: Europeans LOVE bad dance music. I heard Robbie Williams’ “Angels” for the second time recently. This time I was prepared enough to sing along and record it. But after a month of dancing to repetitious beats with vocoders singing over them, I’m supremely thankful for [...]

February 22nd, 2008 | Tags: , , , | Category: Europe, Music, Netherlands | Leave a comment

Carnival

I haven’t experienced any major culture shock since I embarked on Dutch life one short week ago. There were a many little quirks here (circular shaped buttons to flush toilets) and there (gas stoves that need lighting) and inconveniences aplenty (the majority of stores stores don’t accept credit card), but nothing that really was jaw-droppingly [...]

February 3rd, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Europe, Netherlands | 3 comments

A’Dam

Last night, I headed to Amsterdam on a whim. Emily, my friend from high school, is doing her masters in Amsterdam. She said a big party was going down and invited me to come along. This is what I found:

First off, the actual ride to Amsterdam took about 35 minutes. This is [...]

January 27th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Europe, Netherlands | One comment