Sunday, May 20, 2007
Politically scorrect....
We don't want to let people think we claim the pope doesn't respect other countries. Here another picture that shows how good he is in integrating in other societies....
Sunday, May 13, 2007
TRIVIA of the week
Ehy people!! TWO free beers for who guess who is the guy in the picture!! Vote in the poll and write your name and choice in the post!! Beers are waiting you....!!!P.S. The most voted superheros are spare Superman and Spiderman.... how ordinary....
Thursday, May 10, 2007
smoke on the water
I've already had this bad impression, but yesterday I had the proof: the water is not my natural element.
When I was in the US I already used to be the slowest of the pool (and the poll), after puckered old men, pregnant women, drowning kids; but yesterday it was terrible!
Even the old women in the jacuzzi were faster than me (and they were lying still!).
The lowest complaint I received has been: "it looks like you're swimming on a treadmill".
I'm sick of the water.
Let's cheers with beer!
Monday, May 07, 2007
Erasmus Meeting
Here we are after a weekend of paties!!!
It has been great! Four of my friends from the Erasmus in Paris came to visit me here in Amsterdam. For few days it has been like doing the Erasmus again, this time in Amsterdam! (It would have been also nice!). We have done a barbeque in a park, drank a lot of beer, eat a lot of food, walked around the city and of course chatted a lot about the old old days!!
I am very very glad to have seen them again and I'm really looking forward for the next Erasmus meeting! This time in London, then!! Super cool!
Guys, thank you very much to have come and I love youuuu!!!!!
So, what I would like to say about this weekend apart for the meeting, is that here in Amsterdam on friday and saturday there were two celebrations of something "serious". The 4th of May it is the Dodenherdenking, the day of the deads, so in this day at 8 p.m. there is one minute of silence to commemorate all the people who died during the second world war. The 5th of May it is Bevrijdingsdag, in which the liberation from the german occupation at the end of the second world war is commemorated. It is interesting because this last commemoration nowadays it's not only the commemoration of the end of the world war, but it is an important moment to think about all the wars in general, so in the mueum plain there are few concerts and a lot of markets to collect money for war children around the world, or for creating hospitals and all these movements for peace in general. I find it particulary interesting because for the end of the second world war in Italy there are only a bunch of politicians that thanks the americans for having freed us (while we where not really invaded...) and take the occasion to underline how good are the americans and as they have helped us they can also help the middle east countries... Instead, I think it's much better to commemorate this date trying to avoid the same error, and feeling the pain for what has happened in the 40ies, avoid to inflict or to let other people inflict the same pain to other populations....
So, it's not true that all the celebration here are fancy and pointless....
Friday, May 04, 2007
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Koninginnedag
Hey Everybody!!So, here there's our last adventure, the Queen's Day!! If you want to have a look at the pictures, as always, you can go in the site http://picasaweb.google.it/ellyon17/Koninginnedag2007
So, what is it... the Queen's Day is THE national holiday in the Netherlands, and it is the birthday of the Queen. The 30 of April is actually the birthday of the former queen, Queen Giuliana, but this one, Beatrix, decided to keep this date because her birthday is in January and it's not the best period for an outdoor party in the Netherlands....
Originally the Queen's day is famous because is the only day in the year when people are allowed to sell everything on the street, to have the 'vrijmarkt', the free market. Now it is still like this, so you can buy literaly any shit you like, but it also a good occasion to have music and concerts and different events all around the city.
Well, I think that it is definitively the best day to visit Amsterdam! It's incredibly full of people, there was almost one million people around the city, and markets everywhere, and music, big stages, small stages, everything you ever wanted but you've never dared to ask it's there for you. Rivers of beer and food, baked ham, orange sweeties and cakes, really, everything!
We have walked around the city for something like 10 hours, we've seen some of the biggest events in the city but it was really impossible to attend to all of them, as there where tens of big concerts in the same moment in different parts of the city.
Of course the Queen didn't show up, she probably prefer to stay in small towns shaking hands to small children, but dutch people where really fond in taking fun of her all around the city.
It was a great great party, probably the best I've never seen in my life! But now... here I am back to work, because these Dutch don't celebrate the 1st of May (probably the only country in the world), and waiting for the next year Queen's day.....
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