yes, ladies and gentleman, i do feel good. Just by accident ;-)
okay, seriously: ( i just recognize that i am AGAIN two weeks not up-to-date)
Last weekend:
- Just exhausting, started on thursday, got to know very interesting people... on saturday Amanda and me in the Versuz in Hasselt. (big discotheek but not as cool as i expected it to be, but we had korting-tickets, so... why not :-D) AMANDA thought that the first bus was at 6 - but no... we waited together with about 30 other youth til our bus came. at 8. So, i was awfully tired :-D
This week:
- I follow a computerlesson now, which drives me crazy because I am pretty bad at it.
- I am ready with school!!!! Best thing ever :-) Now i can finally go to a higher class. But i have to admit, i was a little but sad when we all left. It was also alittle "home", even though it was tiring, boring, unbelievably different people with different backgrounds. But i learned something.
Halima wants to become a nurse but she cant because of her headscarf. She is nineteen and since two years married, she was the most eager person in class.
Fatima admitted that she had a crappy last year and that she laughing to cover it.
Guillano wants to study something with computer and security and studied arts in his country. Hes making his drivers license.
Since Sheyma is married and pregnant she didnt come to school anymore.
Olga is unhappy because she liked her life in White Russia better but her husband is belgian.
Kaori wants to follow almost every class in "volwassenenonderwijs" when she can speak nederlands.
I think these people belong to the most bravest ones I have ever known. They left EVERYTHING behind, stepped in an unsecure future, for better opportunities for her kids, themselves.
How can we dare not to appreciate this power behind those people?
Why dont we accept them, if they are so brave, so powerful in their ambitions?
What chances do we miss if we bring them down?
Which chance do they offer for our socierty?
- This weekend:
Friday: I saw the atomium! I made a postcard picture and enjoyed good music and rain in brussels...
Saturday: Jump in beach party!! Very nice "fuif" (youthparty from far too young til 25) which offered me a useful impression of the belgian youth (besides having a lot of fun of course!!)
- belgians can drink. i was impressed.
- the youth smokes EVERYWHERE weed and i guess everybody knows.
- driving drunk doesnt seem to be an obstacule for going home.
So, all in all, the fuif was great fun and i am so happy that i met finally the people from JH Jovita which are not stubborn Chiros or Scouts (not that i dont like them but in general they are not very open-minded to not-chiros :-))). JH JOVITA is really the most social youthhouse :-D
Sunday:
- meeting with youth council. Horrible headache and very complicated people around. But interesting though.
THIS THIS week:
I feel good. Settled down I guess. I mean, really. Language is better and better ( i have finally the feeling that people understand me when i talk to them).
Oh yes, Belgium, i like you!!!!
On friday my parents will come. and my :bro: and my zus. YEAH!
Groetjes to my lovely family, who is bringing dark bread over here, to the people from JH Jovita which are just so nice, to bram for good music and to octavio and my former class. And to Belgium. :-DD
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Worry-last-minute
Hello everyone...
So sorry that I didnt manage to keep this blog update. But thats a good thing I think because it means that I dont suffer boredom here :-) No, seriously... So glad that I have most of the time much work. Full agenda is what I like most :-)
I think I start with last thursday which spent in Brussels.
There was a Colloquium about Fairtrade, so exactly my main task at work.
When I stepped out of the station in Brussel-Noord I was in the dodgiest and dirtiest part of Brussels I think.
Waaw I was scared to get shot cause of my white jacket :-D No, seriously, I was glad as I found the way out. (it is not that i haven't had a plan from google maps... It's just - I cannot read them properly I guess). I went in the totally wrong direction but I finally managed it to got the HUUUUGE (and I mean HUGE) building in which the colloquium set place in. I imagine Hilton Hotel like that.
But it just fit to the people who where there: business, buisness, buisness. Like London. I felt so important :-D
The colloquium was very interesting, inspirating. I learned that Fairtrade has actually - as every other thing on this world - a high current market value. A future-thing which is just coming up and the smartest firms and companies are buying/selling fairtrade. (I would like to make an exception on "smart" for starbucks: they are in my opinion just profiteurs. But well, its a good thing in this case.)
By the way, the key-speaker (professor in globalisation, sustainabilty and financies, graduated on cambridge) was one of the 35 biggest buissness women in the world. and she was soo VOGUE. Amazing.
Belgium is so small, it makes me feel secure:
I met some people on the colloquium with which I went in a bar with afterwards. I called also another EVSer, Petar, and he brought another girl. Oh, it was a nice evening... Just a little bit too long. Okay, lets say it honestly: It was nice and I took the latest train back home, together with Kristof, and I was stuck in Hasselt. (Thank you again, Marie-Rose tha you came to pick me up!!!! That was soooo nice. Yes, Fons, and the next time I will walk :-D)
(Even though I had to call Fons haha) But at no time I was scared, probably because Belgium is so small and just in CASE you got lost or anything: ring someone whos living near that place. Amazing.
I never felt so secure as in this country and I do understand (as a GERMAN) now worry-less Dorien (best friend from Australia) when he says: Dont worry until its the time for it.
Worry-last-minute; so-to-say.
And it works, because it doesnt vanish your problems but instead you have more time to enjoy life without them. (Its probably every australians attitude because they also feel so secure in europe, britains backyard, because there is everytime a plane you can take... Haha The size of OZ and EU is almost same, ay??)
By the way, my best friend saskia is now in Australia. I am jealous :-D But I am still saving my money for May 2010. (By the way, what are you saying, if its 2010: Oh-10? 10?)
Oh yes, I havent really talked about the weekend yet... It was nice; even though its the reason why I feel a little sick now. But well, probably worth it. No, Fons, it was 5 's morgens, not 6 :-D
No, really, nice friday. Amanda and me can proudly proclaim that we were in a poker club (and it was soo boring :-D) but we met this amazing girl from chicago. "Reeeeeally, beliiiiieve me, between 19 and 25 is the beeeest time of your life and you need to enjoooooy every second of it!!!" She said she was tired but I swear she was on drugs. :-D
Saturday I spend with chasing cars, german music and a little bit of rain....
The week:
Strange. Felt homesick for the first time, out of balance, everytime close the tears. ME?!
I dont understand either. Mh. Its probably because its really hard to make belgian friends here, because I am neither in school nor in university - where the most people in my age are.
But well, this is kind of the excercise I was searching for, the EVS competition and desease in the same time. Its getting normal staying here and you are loosing home kind of. Its always a good and a bad feeling, i think. But I will probably manage it, I got to know soo many people, well; just mates, but still. they can become best mates, maybe.
(By the way, I noticed that our relationsships are through facebook even more superficial. You add someone and you are friends with. And then you forget about. But you are friends! Isnt it strange?)
Wednesday:
That was yesterday and since then I am feeling so much better. Maybe because of the huuuge rain over here. So nice. Could have watched it the whole night long :-D
Okay I think thats toooo much now, so I am just saying Salut! Tot Straks!
Groetjes aan Amanda (zij verjaart vandaag!!! sweet 19) and Bram and Fons and Marie-Rose and Arko and my nice big italian family. See u soon.
And Jana, i miss you and training!!!! I am thinking about going home for our show :-D
So sorry that I didnt manage to keep this blog update. But thats a good thing I think because it means that I dont suffer boredom here :-) No, seriously... So glad that I have most of the time much work. Full agenda is what I like most :-)
I think I start with last thursday which spent in Brussels.
There was a Colloquium about Fairtrade, so exactly my main task at work.
When I stepped out of the station in Brussel-Noord I was in the dodgiest and dirtiest part of Brussels I think.
Waaw I was scared to get shot cause of my white jacket :-D No, seriously, I was glad as I found the way out. (it is not that i haven't had a plan from google maps... It's just - I cannot read them properly I guess). I went in the totally wrong direction but I finally managed it to got the HUUUUGE (and I mean HUGE) building in which the colloquium set place in. I imagine Hilton Hotel like that.
But it just fit to the people who where there: business, buisness, buisness. Like London. I felt so important :-D
The colloquium was very interesting, inspirating. I learned that Fairtrade has actually - as every other thing on this world - a high current market value. A future-thing which is just coming up and the smartest firms and companies are buying/selling fairtrade. (I would like to make an exception on "smart" for starbucks: they are in my opinion just profiteurs. But well, its a good thing in this case.)
By the way, the key-speaker (professor in globalisation, sustainabilty and financies, graduated on cambridge) was one of the 35 biggest buissness women in the world. and she was soo VOGUE. Amazing.
Belgium is so small, it makes me feel secure:
I met some people on the colloquium with which I went in a bar with afterwards. I called also another EVSer, Petar, and he brought another girl. Oh, it was a nice evening... Just a little bit too long. Okay, lets say it honestly: It was nice and I took the latest train back home, together with Kristof, and I was stuck in Hasselt. (Thank you again, Marie-Rose tha you came to pick me up!!!! That was soooo nice. Yes, Fons, and the next time I will walk :-D)
(Even though I had to call Fons haha) But at no time I was scared, probably because Belgium is so small and just in CASE you got lost or anything: ring someone whos living near that place. Amazing.
I never felt so secure as in this country and I do understand (as a GERMAN) now worry-less Dorien (best friend from Australia) when he says: Dont worry until its the time for it.
Worry-last-minute; so-to-say.
And it works, because it doesnt vanish your problems but instead you have more time to enjoy life without them. (Its probably every australians attitude because they also feel so secure in europe, britains backyard, because there is everytime a plane you can take... Haha The size of OZ and EU is almost same, ay??)
By the way, my best friend saskia is now in Australia. I am jealous :-D But I am still saving my money for May 2010. (By the way, what are you saying, if its 2010: Oh-10? 10?)
Oh yes, I havent really talked about the weekend yet... It was nice; even though its the reason why I feel a little sick now. But well, probably worth it. No, Fons, it was 5 's morgens, not 6 :-D
No, really, nice friday. Amanda and me can proudly proclaim that we were in a poker club (and it was soo boring :-D) but we met this amazing girl from chicago. "Reeeeeally, beliiiiieve me, between 19 and 25 is the beeeest time of your life and you need to enjoooooy every second of it!!!" She said she was tired but I swear she was on drugs. :-D
Saturday I spend with chasing cars, german music and a little bit of rain....
The week:
Strange. Felt homesick for the first time, out of balance, everytime close the tears. ME?!
I dont understand either. Mh. Its probably because its really hard to make belgian friends here, because I am neither in school nor in university - where the most people in my age are.
But well, this is kind of the excercise I was searching for, the EVS competition and desease in the same time. Its getting normal staying here and you are loosing home kind of. Its always a good and a bad feeling, i think. But I will probably manage it, I got to know soo many people, well; just mates, but still. they can become best mates, maybe.
(By the way, I noticed that our relationsships are through facebook even more superficial. You add someone and you are friends with. And then you forget about. But you are friends! Isnt it strange?)
Wednesday:
That was yesterday and since then I am feeling so much better. Maybe because of the huuuge rain over here. So nice. Could have watched it the whole night long :-D
Okay I think thats toooo much now, so I am just saying Salut! Tot Straks!
Groetjes aan Amanda (zij verjaart vandaag!!! sweet 19) and Bram and Fons and Marie-Rose and Arko and my nice big italian family. See u soon.
And Jana, i miss you and training!!!! I am thinking about going home for our show :-D
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