Okay,
I bet your wondering where the hell I've been. I can explain? I
havent' done anything worthwihile mentioning since London. Because
the bank charged my account 67.50 euros and depleted my account. I
don't know if you know but London is very pricey! Those pounds are
costly the exhange rate sucks for euros I don't even want to imagine
how dollars would fair there. So since England I've been slumming it,
going to parks after dark with a friend of course, I know totally
unsafe, but whatever. And now it's November and I'm nearly broke
again. The life an au pair, well you're living a very poor life
indeed. Anyway, I'm not talking about that right now.
So
I don't have many pictures this post because my camera of 8 or 9
years finally died on Sunday. Right when I had an Au Pair outing that
my agency and Host mom made me go too. I had to spend 85 euros of my
300 euros this month to buy a new one as I am going to Paris next
week. I want pictures...like seriously??? It's supposed to be
delivered today.
So
on Sunday I went to Nijmegen, which is somewhere in the middle part
of Holland, I live in the south part so it was 2 hours by train,
however I had to change trains like 4 times, so in actuality it took
like, 4 hours..it sucked. Let's see there we had a lunch and I found
to my utter horror that my body has an issue tolerating salt at the
momnt. Like seriously they had a pumpkin soup there and it was way to
salty to mee so I didn't eat it. In actuality it was fine, but my
host family uses no salt, and no pepper as I've stated before so as
you can see my issue. When I go home, it's gonna suck in that way
anyway. No way in hell do I want to stay longer here..lol.
So
anyway, after the lunch we had this tour, given by two guys on the
history of WW2. I still need to go to a concentration camp, but I
digress. Anyway, they mostly talked about bombings...I'm more
interested in the personal stories as were the majority of the girls,
so it was a bust for me. It's a black page on Dutch history I was
told, because back then, Dutch police not Germans turned in the
Jewish dutch people in holland...how could they do that? I can't
judge, I know but that's horrific. I'm not surprised, because there
is a lot of things that are slightly taboo here.
Take
Sinterklass for instance....visit this link, pay attention to the
paragraph Zwarte Piets..which translates to Black Peters. That is all
I can say about that, without touching a nerve with some people,
myself included.
Until next time, which may or may not be next week for Paris.
On a side note, I almost forgot, Halloween with the kids...actually I'll make that a seperate post until then lol
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