Life

Blast from the past

2011-06-15T02:55:00.002+02:00

With a lot of time on my hands and not tired at all, I figured why not read through my old blog entries from AGES ago and while reading them I remembered a lot of funny stories and realize how carefree my life was back than. I indeed had some very good times during my first years of studies, even though it never included drugs or alcohol, but just spending time with people I liked :) Inga, you are the best buddy ever and I miss you a lot. Hopefully I get to see you this summer :)

Things have changed since than, for good or for worse, but what I realize is that these things make me stronger even though they don't seem so at first ;) From reading my previous entries I realize that I was self-conscious a lot of times and that I worried about many stupid and small things...;)

Let's see what this year and the upcoming years will bring me & maybe even something exciting will happen in my life so I can start blogging again. For right now, there is nothing interesting so I see no need in boring you with senseless entries :)

week 37

2008-09-13T16:35:00.003+02:00

Hey friends,

sorry for not blogging so long...figured got nothing interesting to talk about which is why I didn't blog... just came back from the saturday market where I bought fresh fruits with Inga. Spent some time at my old house and even met my old stinky - and now also alcoholic - roommate Anir ;) I think he was even a little bit happy to see me although we used to fight a lot in the past because of his untidyness...

I am wondering if I should try out a fruit diet *wink*

In the last week I never had to make dinner for myself as I was always invited or at a party so tonight will be my first time this week to cook dinner :P

On Monday the whole family drove to Amsterdam, had yam cha with some relatives and in the evening there was a wedding party @ the boat...on Tuesday I took my bike, my huge and very heavy bag back to Breda (by train...) now I am cycling again... :D
In the evening I met up with Hoi Sum and we had 米粉 with vegetables for dinner. For dessert we had delicious Slagroomsoesjes with chocolate sauce and vanilla ice cream topped with a piece of daim cake :D :D very yummy, yummy!!!

On Wednesday I spent almost the whole day at school having meetings with the project group and stuff and afterwards my sister called me telling that she and my parents were visiting my grandma and my uncle in Maastricht. That is when I spontaneously decided to go there as well. Even though it was already 5pm and the train ride would last 1.5 hrs it was still worth it when seeing the surprised looks on my family's faces. I ended up staying at my grandma's for the night and only slept for 3-4 hours due to my grandma's snoring (^^) and because we had to wake up at 5am to take my uncle to the airport. Coincidentally a big group of elderly German women were having their lunch at my aunt's restaurant that day which is why I was 'allowed' to help out... After the group left I took the train back to Breda where I had dinner with Hoi-Sum and Hung Shui in the evening (Spaghetti Bolognese) and afterwards we went to the city centre but sadly didn't succeed in buying any nice things...but we did have some delicious ice cream from Australian.

Yesterday I did some study stuff and in the evening I met up with Inga, Constanze and Marije for dinner, again. We had potatoes with schnitzel and vegetables and as dessert: soesjes. Was nice to meet with the girls again especially as I haven't seen Constanze back for one year.

For today I only planned to do some tasks for my studies and then I really have to start writing more applications...

Anyways...going back to reading and stuff :)

Big besos *Sam

Back to the roots :D

2008-09-01T18:31:00.005+02:00

Hey friends & family,

it has been a while since I have last written on this blog.
Since I moved back to Breda yesterday I figured I could start blogging again...

So...about one month ago a friend of mine told me that a small room in her house was free and offered to introduce me to the landlord. So after visiting the very small room and talking to the landlord I signed the contract and tadaaaaa: I have a tiny room in Breda!

Although it is very small (only 8 square metres) and I have 6 other roommates it is very good situated...it's only 5 minutes to my university and also only about 5 minutes to the centre. The train station is right around the corner and some supermarkets as well.

So in the course of the last weeks I renovated the room. Firstly by painting it...in pink :D

Then by putting furniture in it (thx for Inga and Hung Shui for lending their help ^^) and now I am sitting in my room and enjoying the nice view on all the cars.... :O

So yesterday I moved my last stuff to my room and then met up with Inga and Hoi-Sum for dinner. It was really nice to go back to my old place although now it looks much more clean and tidy than when I used to live there (and no that's not because I left ^^).
Anyways...today Inga and I went to Ikea and bought some necessary things and afterwards we bought many, many groceries.

Tomorrow my last year finally starts and I am looking forward to it :)

Hope to hear from you soon, ttyl *Sam

Bes' visit to Germany

2008-04-07T21:33:00.005+02:00

Hey there,

I enjoyed a very nice but rainy, fun but cold, interesting and great weekend with Bes.
After a delay of 50 minutes Bes finally arrived in Cologne and after him laughing his butt off (because I drew a BEAUTIFUL welcome-sign) we started our big sightseeing tour through Cologne.

First we visited the Cologne Cathedral...which was a lot of stairs and when we finally arrived at the the top of the cathedral...it was raining 'cats and dogs' ;) It was windy, cold, wet but still we managed to make some pics.

Afterwards we had some 'typical' German food like 'Schweinshaxe, Sauerkraut' and then decided to visit the.... Chocolate museum!! :)

It was a lot of fun, watching how chocolate is 'produced' and we even got to eat some chocolate covered cookies from the chocolate fountain!!

Then we took the train back to K-town, had some chinese buffet in our restaurant and then played poker at Alex's place.

The next day we (Alex, Fabi, Kenzo, Betti, Bes & Me)visited the brown coal mine platform thingy close by my hometown (http://www.olivepixel.com/misc/beast/beast.htm) but it wasn't that impressive. Afterwards Bes, Betti & me drove to Düsseldorf to see the city from above. Therefore we had to go up the TV Tower which was nice...but still not very interesting.

Afterwards we drove to Neuss, had some 'typical' German sausages and then it was already time for Bes to leave :(

I had a very nice time and it felt really good to have a small 'HK reunion' although it makes me miss HK even more. Wish I could do this more often...

Besos

P.S.: Pics will be uploaded on Facebook soon.

Finally weekend !!

2008-04-05T11:01:00.002+02:00

I am almost leaving for the train station...yes I am taking the train again, to Cologne, but this time with a happy ending :
Bes is going to visit me during the weekend and will arrive in Cologne at 12.45hrs today.
After picking him up we're going to be very tourist-y by visiting all the sightseeing spots...
Cologne Dom
Chocolate Museum
Cable Car
maybe the Zoo
many romanesque churches...etc...etc

In the evening, after having dinner at the restaurant, we're probably going to Düsseldorf so I can show Bes the "nightlife" of Germany....whahahaha....
Visit some pubs, walking along the Rhinepromenade etc.
Stupid thing: It's raining!

Anyways gotta go..ttyl!

stupid public transport

2008-03-31T20:57:00.002+02:00

woke up at 6.30h
went out of the house at about 7.00h
cycled all the way to the train station (6 minutes)
bought my train ticket and then...
15 minutes delay...
finally at 7.43h something my train arrived...full with people so it was verrryyy cosy ;)
7.52h arrived in Neuss, running my way to get the connecting train to Cologne...
8.23h arrived at Köln Deutz...searching my way through the train station for the right metro station....bought my ticket...
8.49h arrived at the metro station close to the office...walked for 10 minutes...
9.00h arrived at work
...
17.03h leaving from the office
17.13 arrived at the metro station...taking up to 5 minutes to find out that the stupid ticket machine only accepts coins...and of course I didn't have enough coins...and no one else in the train did...
17.33 I arrived at the train station Köln Deutz...rushing my way up the stairs...to the ticket machine to buy the stupid ticket...of course I couldn't find my city...running to the 'nice' train employee asking him if he could help me...his answer
'I guess you have to wait for the next train to come'
...
I am asking him to help me and he answers with bullsh*t!!
17.49h the next train arrived and I finally get to relax...
18.49h I finally arrived at my final destination...cycled my way back home...
back home at 19.00h...
...

had soooo much fun :D
German people are soooo f*cking nice and polite....
Dutch people compared to German people are angels!!
I hate public transport...at least in HK I got to sleep in the train...here I am scared that people will steal my money...haha :P

cycling felt good but I will stop bullsh*ting now because it makes me feel weird and uncomfortable because this reminds me of a stupid blog entry from someone else :P^^

I cycled =)

2008-03-30T15:14:00.001+02:00

I'm so proud :P
whahaha.... :P
(weird mixture...never said that it's interesting nor that you have to read it!!
I 'ate you!!!)

back to blogging I guess :P

2008-03-30T00:15:00.002+01:00

Hey there,

it has been quite a while since I've written my last blog entry...because I had nothing interesting to tell...but since a couple of days I just felt like blogging again :)
We'll see who of you guys is the first one to see that I am blogging again :P

So what has been going in my life so far...
experienced a wonderful time in Hong Kong while I was on exchange at PolyU for 4 months...got to know many nice and friendly people and made some new friends.

Now I am back in Germany and interning at a small events & incentive agency in cologne.
My colleagues are pretty nice but it's not what I imagined my internship to be.
But I do learn a lot even though it's not always the things that I want or need to learn.
But do they always say...it makes me stronger in the end ;)

Kiss, Sam.

goodbye....for now

2007-08-13T23:15:00.000+02:00

Hey friends of mine,

First of all thank you very much (especially Betti & Erik) for making this wonderful book for me. I am looking forward to read the other ones (I already started reading through it) while I'm sitting on the airplane.

Also thank you to those who wrote something / answered the questions :)

As most of you know that I am going to leave for Hong Kong in a couple of days I started a new blog : www.sam-abroad.blogspot.com

I started this blog because it will be for friends AND family and because I think my going abroad deserves it's own blog ;)

So I am going to stop posting/blogging on this blog but afterwards...when I am back studying in Breda I will probably get back to this blog.

Keep on commenting my friends.

Love, Sam.

adam city trip

2007-07-02T22:33:00.000+02:00

Hey friends of mine,

new blog entry from me since a very long time. Sorry. was busy with working and tidying up my room during the week.

At the moment I am - surprise - in Almere. This morning my sister drove me to Venlo where I took the train to Amsterdam, where I waited for one hour and finally at 12 pm Hoi Sum arrived. We started out with having some brunch by buying delicious chinese "cake"and yummy Cream Soda :D

Then we started to shop through the whole of Amsterdam. We went to lots and lots of shops, but I did not really succeeded in buying a lot, but I bought something for my dads birthday.

We had yummy chinese dinner at shabby chinese restaurant and then it already time to say goodbye :(

Well while sitting in the train on my way to my uncle's place (Almere) I got very sleepy and almost overslept the train stop where I had to get out :D I woke up when we were arriving at the train stop, I looked around and asked at which train station we are. When the man told me that we were at Almere Muziekwijk I screamed, grabbed my things and stormed out of the train. Luckily I did not forget anything in the train ;)

Now I am sitting in the room of my cousin, watching friends episodes and chilling around.
Tomorrow I am going to wake up, not too late, and then take the train to Maastricht to meet some of my relatives from Canada.

Kisses, Sam.

tired like hell

2007-06-25T22:16:00.001+02:00

Hey friends of mine,

Here I am again writing from beautiful Almere in the Netherlands.
I have been so tired the last couple of days, I could hardly keep my eyes open.

When I came back on Friday (car was full with almost all my things, clothes etc from Breda room) I only had less than 30 minutes to change and prepare as Alex, Kenzo and me were going to be waiters/waitress for a small business event of Kenzo's mum's company. We stayed at the event until about 2 o clock.

The next day my family plus my cousin from the Netherlands went to Duesseldorf to eat some Korean food. I did not really like it there but anywayssszzz... I had to work afterwards and this kept going on until 10 o clock where I could finally go home and change and then go to Erpel's Bdayparty. I had a nice and fun time but was really exhausted.

On Sunday I had a bunch of stuff to do for HK exchange stuff and NHTV stuff and still I am not done. In the evening I had dinner with Caro, which was verrrrry nice because I have not seen her for a very long time.

This morning my cousin and me drove to Amstelveen to visit my cousin and her new born (2 months old) baby girl Tara. She is really a cutie and hardly cries. Very sweet and cute and little. In the evening we ordered some pizza after her husband came back and some hours later we drove back to Almere as my cousin has to work from 11 until 5.

Tomorrow I am going to drive to Breda and then I will habd ny keys back from my room, meet up with Stephie and maybe Silke and in the evening I am going to have dinner with Inga, Aj and Hoi-Sum and maybe also with Conny.

Kisses, Sam.

FINISHED

2007-06-21T00:57:00.002+02:00

Hey my friends,

Finally, I cannot even really begin to realize it - I am finished with my first year of study! Today was the last exam for this year and I passed it :D *wohoo*

I cannot believe it but I am sooo happy.
I also passed the project and I am pretty sure that I also passed the exam on monday!

That means no resits, that means no studying anymore until September!

I have been pretty busy this week with studying, writing stupid reflections and frekaing out about the exams. In addition I still have some stuff here in Breda I have to take care of aaaanddd I have to clean and empty my room in Breda so I can officially move back to... Ktown!...

So today after the exam Hoi Sum and me went to Eindhoven to do some big shopping. Sadly I only bought myself a belt but Hoi sum succeeded in buying 2 dresses which was her goal. We got kicked out of Mango because they were closing the shop - so unfriendly and I saw such a nice pair of jeans :( And I don't easily find jeans! Stupid saleswoman! Somehow I always get to meet the worst saleswomen!

I could actually go back home already but as it is Summy's Bday today... Happy Bday ;) she's celebrating it this evening with dinner at an Italian restaurant!

Si after driving Trista to the train station on Friday morning I am going to drive home...picking up my cousin in Venlo and then into a fully booked weekend!

Waitressing, working, partying, eating... :)

Love you all, hope you still visit my blog :D

kisses, Sam.

The end is not near, it is here!!

2007-06-15T09:50:00.001+02:00

Hey there,

I guess we can all see that it has been a while since I have been writing to all of you ;)
The end of my first year of study is near, now I 'only'have to pass two more exams and then I can enjoy my vacation.

I am struggling big time with my motivation right now, I just do not want to do anything concerning my studies. :(
Moreover I have so many things that I have to do besides this (managing things concerning my room, changes of addresses etc.). I also have to fill in and send lots of stuff before leaving to Hong Kong and I just want to relax and do nothing.

Right now I am blogging instead of studying for my finals... argh!!

Kiss, Sam.

celebration

2007-06-01T17:14:00.000+02:00

Here are three very cute pictures which show you how I celebrated into (and before) my Birthday :) I am looking forward to the party tomorrow and hope that you all will enjoy it.

Yesterday, these 5 friends of mine surprised me, cute isn't it? ;)

The most beautiful flowers I have ever seen :) <3

Hoi-Sum, Aj and Constanze having yummy dinner at our place :)

Kisses, Sam.

Last day in Dublin

2007-05-16T13:42:00.001+02:00

Almost back in Germany/Breda :)

I am really looking forward to come back, have a room for myself. Even more to wake up without construction workers making noise, some car alarm going off during the night, some stupid musicians playing loud music every morning, the fire alarm in the building going off or just simply waking up without seeing naked bodyparts :D

Also looking forward to eat something else besides noodles, noodles and noodles and also that nobody will steal my cheese or my milk.

I bought some new books yesterday and was in total panic when I could not find my super good USB-Stick yesterday. I was searching for it everywhere, in the whole room, in my bag for three times and still cound not find it. Then this morning I was looking through my make-up bag and found the stick in there. PF! stupid me again :D

Feeling happy and kind of mad at the same time.

Do not have enough money left so I am trying not to buy anything at all anymore and eat everything from my roomies.

Will work on my course of action now, ttyl guys.
Want to see you in the weekend, so arrange sth!!

Kisses, Sam.

my roomies in Dublin

2007-05-15T16:24:00.001+02:00

People urge me to blog some more although I did not get one single comment on my last beautiful and long post!!

Today I will tell you a little bit about my roomies for the past week.
Starting with the girl who is sleeping in the bed under me:

Denise:

nice
pretty
always offers her food to other roomies
Dutch
do not see her very often so nothing more to tell

Frauke:

German
nice girl
can be exhausting in the morning with her good mood ;)
her alarm clock rang twice for a long long time while she was somewhere else *gr*
is reading my book
very open towards other people, especially when she is drunk :D

Constanze:

my subgroup member
buddies, friends, roomies, what more do you want
wants to pick my eyes
we went to the most dangerous area on our own!!
has nice food and likes to share, but also likes to eat other's food :D
poor girl has to spend the rest of the project weeks with me in her group
washes her socks :D
always makes me laugh!!
funny stories about her roomies in Breda
DANCING QUEEN
turning into a shopaholic, or not?
started blogging in Dublin
always having fun with her
creepy old grandpa :D
Kontstanze ^^
SCHERMAN

Sissy:

weird girl
makes too much noise in the morning
interesting clothing style
don't know if she's dutch, german or some english townish girl
accent
can be so dedicated to her study that she even forgets the most important things
eats in our room all the time

Marcella:

Dutch
actually her name is Marcella
very nice girl
always makes me laugh
my Dutch coach
funny laugh
tells interesting stories
glad to be in a room with her, because so I can get to know her (did not know her before Dublin)

Inga:

I think all of you know her from all the stories I have told about Vestkant and Breda. For those of you, who do not know her:

Roomie in Dublin, Roomie in Breda
German
girl with whom you can have lots of fun with
can be untidy ;)
eats weird stuff all the time
likes Xavier Naidoo music
she is my buddy!!
I am her isk-coach :D although I am terrible in it ;)

That's it for today :)

Kisses, Sam.

Dublin, oh Dublin

2007-05-14T13:08:00.001+02:00

Hey friends of mine,

How was your weekend, did you party a lot?
Have not been online during the weekend as I did not want to pay money if I can go online during the week for free in the university.

What did we do... mhm...on Friday I called Betti during her party ^^ It was nice to hear from her again and she seemed to be happy that I called (who wouldn't ;)) But after the phone call I was kind of sad because I also wanted to be there and not sitting in a hostel far far away... but then constanze gave me some candy and it was a little bit better then.

On Friday and Saturday Constanze and me went to our Area. It was really a scary and ghetto-like place and we had an encounter with a gangmember ^^ Moreover the streets were really bad looking, old, dirty, just not a nice area where you want to live. We both were really happy when we were finished with making pictures, taking interviews and looking at the sport facilities.

The bus rides here area always filled with action. You really have to hold on something otherwise you can fall of your seat because of all the ramps and because the driver will stop/break 2 seconds in front of the traffic light. During one bus trip to our sleazy area their was a weird old man, sitting behind us and he had such a creepy laugh, you know like one of those horror movies?! I am not kidding, it was exactly that laugh! creepy!!

On Saturday we decided to go out in the evening but we did not want to pay any money for that. Sadly our evening was not succesful and we were home very early.

On Sunday we (Inga, Constanze, Frauke, Deborah, Hoi-Sum, Berdine, Julia and me)were going on a Sightseeing tour by ourselves. First of all we went to the coast, Howth Summit. It was really, really cold but we still managed to make a lot of pictures. Afterwards Berdine, Hoi-Sum and me went back to the city and started our long, exhausting Sightseeing tour. We managed to visit almost everything important of Dublin in one day. We visited the Christ church, the St. Patricks Cathedral, Garden of Remembrance, Trinity College. Our feet were so sore afterwards but I was proud that we managed to visit all the things so we do not have to do that in the next days anymore.

I have been shopping a lot here so I will probably have some problems with the weight of my suitcase. But there's just so many nice things and then I feel like buying it, hehe.

Today we are going to the Croke Stadium, don't know how it's going to be. Within the project everything is alright, am really glad to have 'conny' in my subgroup.

I am looking forward to going home. Nothing against my nice roomies but having a room all to yourself, a well functioning shower, clean bed and bathroom is just too nice :)

Nothing more to tell I think, will try to post tomorrow or so, if not we will probably see each other during the weekend :)

Kisses, Sam.

Btw: yay to Conny an me! We managed to reschedule our spm from Friday (my Bday) to Thursday (1 day before my bday) so now I can be home on my birthday. yay :)

Happy Bday Betti!

2007-05-11T11:13:00.001+02:00

Hey friends of mine,

Another post from Dublin.
Don't have a lot of time to write a lot :D

Yesterday a bunch of us girls went out to a discotheque which had free entry between 11 pm and 12 pm, so we went there at that time. First it was still empty but in the course of the time it got pretty packed.
I had a wonderful time making lots and lots of Asian pictures ;) and dancing on the dancefloor with Constanze, Inga, Marcella, Marije and Hoi-Sum. We also laughed our hearts out watching some dorks dancing :D

Today Constanze and me are going to our district to do some field research. We are going to look at some sport facilities etc.

Wish us luck.

Kisses, ttyl ;) Sam.

Dublin day 4

2007-05-08T16:16:00.000+02:00

Hey friends me again, writing with black fingers ;)

I am sitting in one of the computer rooms of the Dublin University right now.
It is a really old building and many steps and you really lose the direction if you do not pay attention to the direction ^^

We had our spm (supervised meeting) in the fourth floor, so we had to go all the way up and got a nice view of the whole building. The atmosphere in our project group was very cold, it seemed like there was a wall between Constanze and me, and the other 5 students. Well... we'll be working in subgroups so it does not really matter.

There seems to be only one bathroom in the whole building for the ladies, which is on the first floor, so you have to go all the way down just to pee :P

Still encountering problems with putting myself in the position of a student in Dublin, but I guess I have to get used to it because it will be the same situation in Hong Kong.

Saw some pictures of the baby girl and she looks really really cute! With a lot of hair already ;)
I am really looking forward to seeing her for the first time.

Now after working for some hours for the project we'll be going into the city again, shopping a little bit and buying some more groceries.

We'll be going out for dinner tonight, yummy chinese :D

As you can see I still blog a lot even tough I am in Dublin!

Take care, big kisses, Sam.

@Fabi: I think Hong Kong is a good choice to go on placement as there is always something new to discover and see. But once you're there you can also visit other cities, countries, as the plane tickets are cheaper when you book them in Hk. I am planning on going to visit Korea, Thailand, etc when I'm there, but first I have to earn some money.

Auntie Sam :)

2007-05-07T19:42:00.001+02:00

Hey guys,

me again, second post from Dublin.
So after blogging yesterday we went shopping.
I was amazed by all the shops!!

Then.. I thought I was in heaven because they had 2 shops (Bershka and Stradivarius) which I knew from my 2 Spain trips. But sadly I did not buy anything. They also had a Gap (love!!) but only few clothes and everything is sooooo expensive!!

Lucikly I found a great bookstore where I bought 3 books already for a great price.
Now the only thing I have to worry about is that my suitcase will weight too much :(

Maybe I can convince someone to carry something home for me.

Other than that... did I mention lots and lots of Asians?! unbelievable!!!

Oh yes... Inga, Hoi-Sum and me went to the ~Temple Bar Area~ yesterday and had lots of fun.
Although the way to that place is only about 15 minutes walking it took us more than one hour because we stopped at a Game Center, Casino, Mc Donald's and another amazing Fast Food Restaurant which we will definitely visit sometime.

Not more time left anymore so this is my short post.

My meetings will start tomorrow so we'll see if it will be busy.

It's kind of strange to put yourself in the position to work at a foreign destination because it feels so much like vacation!!

Anyways... I am fine my friends, don't worry about me!

Oh forgot to tell, changed rooms, now I am in a 10 people room with only 8 students instead of 12 people room with 12 people !!! YAY

Ok, lots of love and the most important thing:
I AM AN AUNT!!!
My cousin finally gave birth to her baby girl Tara!

Kissses, Sam.

first impressions of dublin

2007-05-06T12:46:00.000+02:00

Hello friends of mine,

first blog entry from Dublin.
I arrived here yesesterday, flight was alright, nothing interesting happened.
I was happy that Inga was with me, otherwise I would have been very bored.

When we arrived in dublin we had to wait for a while until the bus driver picked us up and drove us to the youth hostel.
Funny thing: He did not know where the hostel was ^^

Well finally we arrived at the hostel, which looked ok and got into our rooms.
I am in a room with 11 other people, sharing one bathroom with one shower and one toilet. So... it's going to be a lot of stress arranging when someone is going to take a shower etc.
There is supposed to be a plug in our room, but it's totally broken that is why we do not have one plug and have to blow dry our hair outside^^

Other than that it is alright. Inga and me got to know a nice girl also from the same study programme. Her name is Hoi-Sum which means happy in chinese.
We arrived in dublin together so now we hang out a lot, which is nice.

Yesterday we went to the supermarket and bought some food now I am having backpain because of all the heavy food:( *poor sam*

We will probably and hopefully change into other rooms on Monday, and I hope we will not be pushed into 12 persons rooms again. 6 or 8 will be fine^^.

The weather over here is chilly, but sometimes when the sun is shining it's alright.
The hostel is situated near the centre so it does not take us such a long time to go there.

Dublin has a lot of supermarkets ;) and also a lot of shops. Luckily the shops are open today so the three of us (Inga, Hoi-Sum and me) will go shopping afterwards. Sadly my suitcase is already very heavy, so I don't know how I will handle that. Maybe I will just put everything in the hand luggage ;) I definitely want to buy some books and maybe some clothes :D

Nothing more to say for today, maybe will come online later on, maybe not :)

Take care my friends miss you and think of you.

Kiss, Sam.

stupid salespersons!!

2007-04-30T23:50:00.000+02:00

In the last couple of weeks- when I was in Germany and -when I was buying something I have only negative encounters with salespersons.

I truly have to say, that I am almost always (in these cases always) very nice and friendly. The salesperson on the other hand was the opposite.

Example:
I bought some water today, and there was a special offer with it, that you get some body lotion with it (for my mum). So when I was buying the water I asked the cashier where I could get the body lotion which was included with the water. She transfered me to the person at the information desk.
So I went there, greeted the young man nicely and showed him the receipt and the special offer which was in the newspaper. He looked at me and said: I have never heard of it. So I replied that it says here in the paper and showed it to him again. He replied again: I don't know what this is.
So... I asked him FRIENDLY to maybe ask his collegue, and he sighed very loudly, turned around and when he was searching for his collegue I could hear him swearing very loudly and not very friendly-like.
When he came back, he replied that his collegue did not know anything about it. I thanked him and he did not say anything back.

For some of you this is just a little thing, but I am really really angry and even more outraged. I think that this is is very impolite and obnoxious behaviour.
I did not treat him badly, I stayed calm the whole time and I get treated with this sucky behaviour. I don't think that I deserve this.

I have never ever in my whole life treated a customer in our restarant badly, always smiling even when the only thing I wanted to do was to kick them in their butt.

It is really sad that this happened to me several times and I'm sorry guys, but this only happened in Germany, it never happened to me in the Netherlands.

I just cannot understand how rude these people are.

seth chapter 2

2007-04-29T14:25:00.000+02:00

Almost forgot to tell you something nice :)

On Thursday evening Inga told me that Seth was online (Skype). So first I was thinking...mhm should I come online and start chatting with him or not ;)
Then I thought it would be really childish behaviour if I would not do it so I started talking to him.
So we started with some smalltalk and some minutes later I asked him why he did not reply to my emails?
He was surprised and said that he did not receive any emails but another guy also complained about Seth not writing back.
So Seth said it probably went into his junk mail ;)

So I send the email again and the second time he received it :P
So know I am happy again but I have to admit that it is kinda hard to keep a friendship if you barely have contact.

Transcription:

[22:35:27] Seth says: I have to get ready to go to class now but I will talk to you soon. Really I will.
[22:37:21] Samantha says: haha
[22:37:26] Samantha says: I did not say anything :D
[22:37:31] Samantha says: but ok I hope you're right :P
[22:37:40] Samantha says: take care and have a really nice birthday
[22:38:35] Seth says: I will
[22:38:43] Seth says: Take care sam
[22:38:58] Samantha says: :) I will

PASSED!!!

2007-04-18T19:48:00.000+02:00

Hi Samantha,

You passed the megacase with a 5.8 !!

This is not bad, you scored 11 out of 35 points on the financial plan and 42 out of 70 for the marketing plan, together with a 5 pount bonus this makes up for 58 points.

Greetings

WOHOOOOOOOOO!!!! I passed my megacase, that means it is like 75% certain that I will be going on exchange to Hong Kong. If I had not passed it I would have been in a lot of trouble with grades etc.

I scored really bad but who cares, I passed :D

yay!!
wohooo!!!

Just wanted to let you guys know :D

Kiss Sam

getting a little bit more personal...

2007-04-03T23:24:00.000+02:00

I have always been looking up to some of my fellow blogfriends ^^ who seem to be able to post their own personal thoughts, problems and feelings. That is why I am going to try that one out ...

So the last two weeks have been very hard, with lots and lots of studying, stress and exams. I did the resit on Marketing, but I am not sure that I will get a sufficient grade. In addition to this I had to do the stupid megacase, as I did not pass my project last term. The results will be provided in 10 days, and I am actually pretty sure that I passed that one.

Yesterday was my SPSS exam, which was too many tasks for too less time, still I think I did pass ;)

Today... was the RM&T exam... and nope, I don't think I will pass.

It sucks because I studied so hard for all my exams but there were just so many distractions...and somehow...

I think I don't know why, I don't wanna say the most obvious thing, but I seem to always learn the wrong stuff, because they never appear in the exams and then I am getting so frustrated..

Although I am off next week there is just so much stuff to do...placement stuff, study stuff etc.

Other than that I really need the week off, because the last weeks really stressed me out and I was really sometimes almost having a nervous break down.

What else to tell...

It was sucky that I could not go to the birthdayparty of a friend of mine during the weekend because I had to study...didn't see many of my friends for a looong time and I sooo wanted to go there and spend some quality time with my frendz...

I am getting very scared and worried about my exchange as I am fearing that I might fail too many exams... I don't know what to do then, I think it would be a desaster!

I wrote Seth an email some weeks ago, and he does not reply... makes me sad.. I really liked him and was hoping that we would stay in contact...

But I guess I am getting used to loosing friends... happened to me before...

Luckily I have a bunch of very good, the best, slammin (j4u Babe :D ) and very supporting friends :)

Shoutout to friends :) *love you*

Take care my bestest friends :)

Hoping to see you this weekend or next week!!

busy

2007-03-29T09:45:00.000+02:00

Two busy weeks ahead of me, and one still urges me to write, blog, post.

I have one stupid fieldtrip and one even worse resit behind me.
Now I will have to do a Megacase on Friday, which I have no idea of what it is. I just know that it's difficult and I have to do it as I failed the last project. I don't know how to prepare, if I don't pass, I cannot go to Hong Kong.

In addition to this I have 4 exams in the next week, of course each day one exam, so actually I only have the weekend to study for that as I will be busy on Friday from 9hrs until 17hrs.

Of course because of the nice weather my hay fever (Heuschnupfen) comes back, so I look like a monster and feel like one.

Of course I also have to hand in all my Hong Kong application things and send them until tomorrow, because otherwise I cannot reach the deadline anymore, which also means : No Hong kong.

One might think... Oh she knew this before, and yes some of the exams I knew. But still that does not mean that I had enough time.

So excuse me for not writing for this week and the next week but I am busy, my head is full with customer loyalty, marketing mix aund equity capital.

So here you go Christo, the whole post is dedicated to you.

And yes, I am in a really bad mood!

Kiss

Notes for my friends

2007-03-25T22:36:00.001+02:00

Just for Andy:

I am going to Hong Kong, to study abroad for two terms (August-December).

Just for Christo:

Welcome to my Blog :) I hope you will enjoy my posts :)Happy Birthday!!!

Had a nice ice cream date with Betti today :) I miss you already :(
Tomorrow going back to Breda and staying there over the weekend, as my exam week is in two weeks. Push your thumbs for me ^^

Kiss, Sam.

Rehearsal for HK ^^

2007-03-22T01:07:00.001+01:00

Hey friends,

Today was a fuuuunnnnyyy day :)
I spontaneously decided to go to a bar nearby, called 'de Speeltuin' where the motto was 'Asian party'. So I went there with Aj, where we met lots and lots of people from Vestkant etc.

Typical Asian, according to them, is also singing Karaoke. So one could also sing some songs in the bar.
I was kind of enthusiastic and really wanted to sing -but not alone.Nooooobody wanted to sing with me, so I gave up the hope :(

Luckily a little bit later, Trista finally decided that she also wanted to sing, so... we did^^

It was embarassing, nerve-wracking, horrible and fun :) My hands were sooo shaking and wet, and I did not even get to hear myself singing.
It was so loud, or maybe my microphone was not on, I don't know I never heard myself singing.

It was definitely fun and I hope I did not crash anybody's ears with my screeching voice :P

Aaaand.. it's a good rehearsal for Hk, as I am pretty sure (and Joan and Trista already talked about it a lot) that I am going to sing at least once Karaoke in Hk ;) *yay*

P.S.: We sang: All I want for christmas (Mariah Carey) as this was one of the only songs trista knew ;)

shoutout

2007-03-20T16:23:00.000+01:00

WOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO "hihi"

ladidaaaaa
yay *happy*

Happy happy happy for you guys :)
P.S.: I knew it :P

P.P.S.: I am NOT crazy ;)

Reunion, Brussel, flat tire and huray!

2007-02-27T17:32:00.001+01:00

Hey there,

sorry for the very late reply.
I had a very busy weekend including a family reunion, visiting Brussel and having a flat tire, sitting for 5 hours in the car and getting on the nerves of the tourists of Amsterdam.

My aunt from Hong Kong is visiting Europe for one month, so on Friday evening we (my sister and my cousin Wings) decided spontaneously to drive down to Zierikzee on Saturday afternoon. We arrived at about 6 o clock and many cousins already arrived, including my pregnant cousin from Amstelveen, and we noticed that almost all female cousins were there. Only Celine, the youngest one (6 months) was missing.
First we had some finger food and later on we decided to play Bowling in Renesse.
I was one of the worst players but that did not really matter because seeing my aunt in such a good mood, laughing and having fun was much more worth than winning.

When we came back to Zierikzee a bunch of us decided to play Poker, which we then did (until 3 am). We all went to bed at about 4 am and decided to visit Brussel the next day. Altough we were all very tired we managed to start our roadtrip at about 11 am. We were driving with 9 people (my sister, 2 female cousins, 1 boyfriend, 2 male cousins, 1 aunt, 1 uncle and me) and it was a very funny ride, especially because the roads in and around Brussel sucked!!

We visited the Atomium, where we took many funny pictures and Manneken Pis, which was a stupid statue of a little guy peeing. We had dinner at a nice little Italian restaurant, and the nice thing about this dinner was, that we all exchanged our meals with the whole group. It was like a buffet, trying every single dish :)

Afterwards we already had to leave Brussel, as it was already late and we all had 2-3 hours of driving ahead of us. One car, filled with my sister, my 2 cousins, the boyfriend and my aunt was going to Germany. The other one including my 2 male cousins, my uncle and me was going to Almere, which is half an hour away from Amsterdam. We said our goodbyes and started driving out of the city when suddenly we realized, that our car had a flat tire.

That really sucked like hell because it was raining cats and dogs and we had to stand for more than one hour outside the car, while 2 were changing the tire and 2 were holding the umbrellas. Because we were only allowed to drive 80 km/h with the spare/reserve tire it took us twice the time to drive home, as it would have normally.

Finally at about 12 or 1 o clock we arrived safely in Almere and after translating the questionnaire for the field research on Monday, I went to bed.
(My older cousin was so nice to let me sleep in his bed while he had to sleep on the sofa ^^).

The next morning my other older cousin escorted me to the train station where I took the train to Amsterdam.

In Amsterdam I met up with half of my project group, because we were going to ask tourists to fill in our questionnaires about Amsterdam and its tourists.
At first the tourists were nice, altough many tourists just ran away... :(
In the afternoon the tourists became grumpier and at about 4 pm we decided to go back to Breda.

So that was the long weekend I had. I was dead tired yesterday but I had a wonderful time with my relatives and I am happy that we were able to fill in 63 questionnaires.

If you do not have anything to do this weekend and want to help me: I still have to do some qualitative interviews with some of my friends, so if you are so kind and want to help me, that would be muy bien!

Other than that I passed Italian with 8.0 and 5.8 which is great and I received a good peer evaluation (project members giving their fellow members grades from 1 till 10).

love you, bai!

Best news ever!

2007-02-20T18:04:00.000+01:00

Hey guys,

This week, or actually last week Sunday I received some nice news, delivered to me by Aj and Inga. But therefore you have to know a little bit more.
There is an exchange program at my university, where you can spend two terms/one semester abroad, meaning in Australia, USA, Canada, Europe etc. So I liked the idea of going on exchange and applied for two countries. Last week on Valentine's day I had my interview with two persons and afterwards I was in such a bad mood because I was of the opinion that it did not went well at all. The interview went like a question and answer thing.

So this Sunday Aj was telling me, that a letter from NHTV arrived for me. I asked her to open it for me and tell me what was inside. Instead of telling me through skype she told me to pick up the phone. So I was getting very nervous and I was wondering, why, if it would be good news, she would want me to tell through the phone. So, scared as I was, I picked up the phone and she was like: Congratulations!!

YES!! I got accepted to go on exchange, next semester, to Hong Kong! I get to study at the Polytechnic University ;)

I still cannot believe it, I guess I have to see the letter myself first, to really realize it :)

This week is filled with meeting friends I haven't seen for a long long time.
I had a nice evening with my boys ;) this evening I am going to meet a bunch of my old schoolmembers (excited to see some of them, b/c I have not seen them since last summer) and tomorrow I am going to have dinner with Caro *yay*

I have to do some things for university as well and I am going to buy a new wardrobe from IKEA ! Other than that I spend a lot of time in front of the TV in my room *hehe* and I am trying to tidy up my room a little bit.

And some more news, which you might know already:

I have glasses 8-0

nice dinner with waitress Aj

2007-02-17T16:40:00.000+01:00

Let's try out some new things with my blog, for example put some colour into my entries.

So yesterday, after a stressy schoolday full with unneccesary lessons I finally went back to my room in Breda at 2pm. I had some time to relax, watched some O.C. and packed my suitcase. At around 5.30pm I packed everything and already packed my suitcase and brought it downstairs.
Then Inga and I left to go to the school restaurant. Aj described the way like this:
' It's easy to find, just go straightforward along the Haagdijk, passing the Jumbo and then you are already there.' The truth was: We had to pass the Haagdijk, but then the street was already ending and we had to decide to go either to the left, to the right or straight through.
Firstly we went straightforward, but there was nothing to find, only houses and then nothing at all. So Inga and me went all the way back and then decided to go to the left. Of course this was not right. That left only the right street. And yes, the right street was the right one ;)

So we arrived there at about 6pm, got greeted by some waiters and Ajs teachers. We got to sit down at the lobby where we received some Champagner (which was very tasty and sweet mhm :)) and an appetizer, which was bree (some yucky cheese stuff).
Then we got to visit the kitchen and had another appetizer, some meat with a tiny fried egg (spiegelei).
Then finally we got to sit down in the restaurant and the meal could begin. It started with a yummy seafood cocktail with hand made (by Aj) cocktail sauce, which was delicious!
Afterward we had a potato and leek (Lauch) soup. Then Aj served the main dinner:
Meat served on noodles and tomato sauce.
The desert was a yummy Tutti Frutti, mascarpone and gingerbread, with ice cream and whipped cream. The dinner was very yummy, and as we did not have to pay it was even better.
Aj did a great job as a waitress altough she was very nervous and said "fuckers" all the time^^

After dinner Inga and me raced back by bike because I still had a train to catch. At about 9.25pm we were back at home and I was hoping to catch the bus from 9.30 to the train station. Sadly there was no bus coming at 9.30pm
and the next bus would only arrive at 9.43. As it takes about 7 minutes from where I live to the central station and my train to Venlo would leave at 9.51, I did not know if I would catch the train. Luckily the bus came a little bit earlier but still I was racing like hell to catch the rain, so I was running and sweating all the way to the platform and just as I arrived the door in front of me closed. I was swearing and angry when I heard someone calling me 'miss, miss'. There was a train conductor a little further away, waving at me and showing at the still opened door. So again I ran towards hin and jumped into the train.
So I could catch my train and did some sports too :P

All in all I had a very nice evening, with nice food and nice conversations with Inga. Now I am looking forward to the spring break and I will try to enjoy it as much as I can.
See most of you tonight!

P.S.: I got a television in my room :P

Chilling like a couchpotato :P

2007-02-07T23:21:00.000+01:00

Finally I found some time to blog a little bit longer, and actually I really have something to tell.
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Today I wrote my first Italian resit and the teacher sucks!!!
Why: The first exam dealt with grammar and vocabulary of chapter 1 until and including 4!! I knew all!! the vocabulary of chapter 1-4 and there were at least 5 or 6 words who appear in chapter 8 or 9! Argh of course I don't have the translation for that! Sucker!!
The next italian exam is going to be next week thursday, it was postphoned.
On the one hand it gives me the chance to study more for it.
On the other hand I am really struggling with my motivation to study right know. I seem to always find something to distract me, a nice game, some videos to watch, chatting. I really need to change this attitude otherwise sooner or later I will get into a lot of trouble!
I guess I need somebody to push me altough I am probably old enough to do that on my own!!
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Today I finally, for the first time, went to the sports club from our university^^
The reason: Free open week for everyone if you are wearing black :D
So I went there with Vanessa, to try out "Bommen".
It is a mix of aerobic, fitness and hardcore music^^
It was tiring but also good because I have not done any sports at all since my last sports lesson in school :)
So if I have a muscle ache tomorrow I can proudly say: I did something for my body :D
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One more week and then it's springbreak! *yay* one whole week vacation :)
My aunt from Hong Kong is coming over for a while so maybe we're planning on doing a little trip with all the female cousins and her. I hope we will actually really do this!
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Is it not next week already stupid Carneval? I haaaaate it so much and just want it to be over :P I think that many people just use Carneval as an excuse to get drunk, that is why. They say dutch people are crazy freaks when dealing with Carneval so I am happy that I do not have to deal with it in Breda.
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My room is dirty as hell but it is not that I do not want to clean, I am not allowed to. Do not laugh I am NOT kidding! Because of the bed wants we had here one month ago the exterminator told us to not clean the rooms for at least 3-4 weeks so that is the reason why my room is so dusty.
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Tomorrow morning the warden will come to check if we still have some ugly bugs. In addition to this I will TELL him, to repair the lights which have been broken for one week already. It is not that I do not know how to repair them, it's just a simple case of not being able to even get the lamp thingy down. And asking the only remaining man in the house: Anir, who is way smaller than I am... I think you know what I mean. So let's hope the warden can repair it tomorrow.
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Afterwards the lovely Inga and I will make some yummy french toast...mhm...
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Take care my friends, besos *sam

Throwing the stick to Andy

2007-01-29T18:19:00.000+01:00

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Here you go my dear.

Comment!
If you don't know what to say, then rate my font/script/scripture/writ.

Take care :)

Here I am, once again...

2007-01-26T12:14:00.000+01:00

Finally all the exams for this week are done.

I already know that I passed the one I wrote yesterday, simple grammar and vocabulary. The other ones I don't know yet, I really hope so.

Today I will do a little bit of shopping...groceries as well as clothes...if I can find some good ones.

Other than that I set myself the goal to start studying for Italian resit already, and I hope I will get trough with it.

Have I already told you, that many new int. students moved into our houses. Sadly Seth, Nancy, Sophia and some other persons are gone, but therefore 2 Chinese girls, 2 American guys and some others moved in. It's going to be full in no time.

Stephen, my next-door neighbour moved out. He went back to Nigeria. He was alright but I must admit that I am happy, as I do not have to listen to loud door banging, keys bumping against each other and weird african drums music anymore.

And : It is getting a little bit cleaner :)

Yesterday I went to Ikea with Inga and Vanessa. I went there with the intention to only buy a new lamp for my room but ended up seeing soooo many things I wanted to have. Luckily my 2 guardians did not allow me to buy anything other than the lamp :P

I definitely improved my cooking skills since I moved here. Alright I did not have any cookings skills before moving to Breda, but now I do ^^ Mostly it's just experimenting with some food but most of the times I really like it. And every other week I try to do something new. Mostly my meals consists of mushrooms, soy beans, meat and noodles. Not everything mixed!

As I have to go on work-placement in the following year, I have to fill in a matching file, with questions like what are my competencies, on which ones do I want to work... What are my strengths and weaknesses etc etc.
Do you think I can put "I can cook" to strengths? ^^

Alright, I apologize for not writing for such a long time, but now I did so be satisfied and leave lots and lots of comments. I always get very happy if I see that someone left a message on my blog!!

Take care my friends, have a nice weekend, besos *sam

tentamenweek, hertentamens huray!

2007-01-24T22:15:00.000+01:00

Hola mis amigos,

Sry for not posting for a while but was busy with ... studying.
Two exams done, one to go: English

Marketing exam today sucked, we were sitting in a huge sporthall with many teachers surrounding us like crows!

One particular woman was so annoying I almost yelled at her.
She wanted to take my paper away from me, because I was not supposed to get the scribbling paper (Schmierpapier) out of the exam sheet. But it was easier to write on it without turning around to the exam all the time. She wrenched?! the paper in two halfs and wanted to take it away. Then I got a little bit mad because everyone was doing it. Luckily I was allowed to keep the paper but she really pissed me off!
Argh...

Will be going to Ikea tomorrow, finally, to buy a new lamp for my room.

Here a small picture from my room:
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Showing the nice poster :) and my new bed!

Won't be coming home this weekend, so hope to meet and see you next weekend?

Take care my friends, lots of hugs, self-conscious-Sam.

The one where the stupid weather gives me a stupid headache...

2007-01-18T20:33:00.000+01:00

...and the reason why Ikea was closed because of the weather

I saw an old man trying to cross the street but he hardly did as the wind kept pushing him back the other way around : poor old man

I saw a huge huge huge tree, lifted out from his birthplace ;) and laying on the street: poor old tree

stupid wind, stupid weather, stupid exams, stupid headache.

spending time with betti

2007-01-06T21:02:00.000+01:00

Today was a niiiiceee day :) because I spent half of the day with Betti!!

We went to Mg with the intention to pierce her ears, which was part of my Xmas present for her. Well first we went to P&C to buy some clothes for my mum and theeennnn we went to the jewelry shop. I think I was even more scared then Betti ^^
You were veryyyy brave.

Ok afterwards we went to to bookstore where I bought one book afterrrrrrr... half an hour. We also went to some other stores but I don't want to bore you :P

All in all I had a great time and loooots of fun with Betti and on top of that I got a nice poster with a huuuuge islands on it as a gift!!

Love youuuu, Sam.

past summer

2007-01-04T13:05:00.000+01:00

So yesterday I met with two girls I graduated with in the past summer. We met in a cafe, drank something and talked how our life went on after leaving school. It was nice, altough too less time :(

They both said, that they miss the schooltime, and although I enjoyed the last weeks at that school I am still happy to not see any of those shitheads ever again (well most of them and this is only dedicated to those whom I don't like!)

Kiss, Sam.

Anno 2007

2007-01-01T22:29:00.000+01:00

New Year, new design!
Happy New Year // San lin fai lok!

Take care, sam.

Your Life: In 5 Steps

2007-01-01T15:28:00.000+01:00

.::The Basics::.
Name Samantha Caroline Gyselle
Birthdate 01-06-1985
Birthplace location Arnhem, Netherlands
Where you live now Germany and the Netherlands
How many siblings do you have? 1
Are you the oldest, in the middle, or youngest? The youngest
Do you wear glasses or contacts? Not yet :P
Do you look like your Mom or your Dad? People say I look more like my mom’s younger sister
How tall are you? 166 cm
Would you change your height if you could? YES If yes...taller or shorter? Taller!
What color is your hair? Brown-blackish
Have you ever dyed it? Yes (red)
Put highlights in it? Yes (brownish)

.::Step 2: Your Home::.
How long have you lived in the house you're living in? 9-10 years
Do you like it there? Yes, it’s alright
Do you have a lot of trees by your house? In the backyard
When you look out at your backyard, what do you see? Rainy weather, trees, plants
How many floors/stories are in your house? 4
Do you have a basement? If so, is it finished? Yes, yes
In your basement, do you have a pool table, ping-pong table, etc? no
How many rooms are in your house? 15 rooms
Do you like your bedroom? It’s alright, it could be less childish
Describe your room Blue walls, lots of nice teddy bears, winnie poohs, piglets, bed, one wardrobe, blabla typical stuff, rather black or white
What color is the carpet in your room? Skyblue
Do you have your own bathroom or do you have to share one? I share one bathroom with my sister
How many bathrooms are in your house? 2
What is across the hall from your room? My sister’s bedroom
Do you have a TV or a computer in your room? Nope nothing

.::Step 3: Your Job::.
Do you even have a job? yeeesss
What is it? Helping out in a restaurant
How long does it usually take you to get to work? 5-7 minutes
Do you like your job? It’s alright (who likes to work?)
Do you like the people you work with? Yeah, they are alright ^^
Do you work inside or outside? inside
Do you wish you could change your job? yes
How long have you been working at this job? More than 5 years
Do you have to wear a uniform or certain attire? Yes, black and/or white, nothing else
If it rains, does it affect your job? Yes most of the times more customers
How many hours do you usually work in a week? Only during the weekends and not always
Do you like how much you get paid or do you wish you got more? Of course I want more!
Does your best friend work at the same job as you? nope
Is your job a summer job or do you work all year? All year
How would rate your job from 1-10 (with 10 being you love it) 5

.::Step 4: Your Hobbies/Activities/Favorites::.
What's your favorite sport to play? to watch? Volleyball although I suck at it/ ice-skating
Do you collect anything? Cute little stuff (Winnie Pooh, Piglet, Tigger)
Do you prefer to watch TV or watch a movie? I like both
What's your favorite TV show? O.C. and One Tree Hill and Heroes
Favorite movie? Save the last dance, Bring it on, Step up, The day after tomorrow
What's your favorite kind of music to listen to? Soft Rock (if there is such a word), R&B, Pop
Have you ever been to a concert? Yessss, even 2 !!!
Who's your favorite band/artist? Simple Plan, All American Rejects, Rihanna, Cassie
Have you been to their concert? Rihanna and Kelly Clarkson
Do you have an iPod? yes
What's your favorite thing to do on a rainy day? Laying in my comfy bed while reading a book
Do you like to read? yessssss

.::Step 5: Your Future::.
What will you be doing 2 weeks from now? Studying in Breda
What about 2 months from now? Still studying in Breda
2 years? Almost finished with my Study?!!
What will you be majoring in? International Leisure Management
What job are you hoping to get when you get out of college? Wedding planner <3 ^^
Where would you like to go on your honeymoon? Hawaii, Fiji Islands,…
How many kids do you want? how many boys? how many girls? I just want kids :)
Where do you want to live when you're married? Not in Germany, that’s for sure
Where will you be spending your next birthday? How old will you be turning? In Breda, 22
When's a good age to retire? What do you want to do once you're retired? I don’t know. Watching my grandchildren playing.

Finish these 40

2006-12-30T15:43:00.000+01:00

1. I love... sleeping
2. Right now I want... to eat chocolate or read a nice new book
3. I feel like... sleeping
4. I hate it when... people wake me up to early or when I have to do things I don't want to do
5. I fear... death
6. I'm lonely without... my friends and family
7. I need... good news
8. Today I... met a friend I didn't see for half a year
9. Tomorrow I'm... celebrating New Year's Eve, as far as that is possible
10. I just... want to rest and don't worry about anything
11. I want to meet... my grandma and my grandpa in heaven
12. I'm hungry for... Doritos Cool American Chips
13. I love it when... the sun shines and I do not have to stress about anything
14. I'm afraid of... losing someone close to me
15. I'm listening to... nothing right now, normally The Fray, All-American-Rejects, Rihanna, Cassie
16. I'm wearing... Jeans, Turtleneck top, socks, necklaces
17. I wish I was in... heaven :)
18. I'm craving... Poffertjes!!
19. I want to get... good grades for the next exams!
20. I can... eat lots of food and still be hungry
21. I can't... talk and drink at the same time
22. I have... many books which I have read three or four times already
23. I haven't... vomited from drinking too much alcohol :P
24. I'm nervous when... talking to unknown people on the phone
25. My Mom thinks I'm... lazy, stubborn and not respectful
26. My Dad thinks I'm... lazy, stupid and slow
28. I'm happy when... I can do what I want, whenever I want
29. I'm sad when... I lose people I love
30. I like eating... Candies, Ice-Cream, Donuts and Bagels
31. I hate eating... Veggies, spicy stuff and Tuna!
32. I love watching... non sense TV-Shows (O.C., Heroes, One Tree Hill, Gilmore Girls)
33. I love listening to... music and my little cousins talking
34. I like playing... games, computer games or board-games
35. I hate waking up to...o early
36. I can see... that it's getting dark outside already
37. I'm glad that... I can relax a little bit
38. I'm disappointed that... my grades are not better
39. I look like... hell :D
40. I wish I looked like... a supermodel!

Sometimes life is not how it is supposed to be

2006-12-06T08:46:00.000+01:00

Sometimes life is just unfair...

Why do those people, who deserve it the least, get punished so much?

Why do those people, who deserve it so much, just get away?

:(

Nice visit in the weekend and nice presents from Mel/Mom :)

2006-11-27T17:41:00.000+01:00

Alright FABI :)

Now I finally found some time to blog some new information about my -oh so- interesting life :P

Well...let's go back way way back to the nice weekend I spent with two of my best friends :D

On friday after my 2 booooring lectures (and after getting my results for the Leisure resit: 7.9 points YAY!!!!) I went by train to Venlo, waited there for about ten minutes until the train from Mönchengladbach arrived with.... Betti & Andy :D
As they arrived at 16.03 and we had to catch the train from 16.04 we had to rush from the one platform to the other one.... and we arrived there when the train was still there....

BUT: the train doors wouldn't open anymore so we were there on time but the doors just didn't open... *sucky*
Alright so someday, sometime we arrived in Amsterdam at the Heineken Music Hall where many litle crazy Fans approached us...
YES ! We went to a fancy, nice, screamy Rihanna concert ;)
I thought it was much fun, Betti and me had a greeeat time dancing to the music ^^
As for Andy.... I don't know...did you like it?? :D

I had a really great Weekend with lots of nice food (sweets) and talking and joking around with my visitors :D Thank youuuuu *love*

Alrighty then I encountered many stupido problems with my new project group because of discommunication, or should I say lack of communication at all! But well we will see how it all works out in the end.

Alrighty... then my mom brought me some nice gifts from Melly and her:
2 pair of really nice nice nice shoes :D
1 nice top with sime strawberries on it
2 nice key chains from Taiwan and Korea

Thank you veryyyyy much :)

Alrighty now I have nothing else more to say..

ttyl *besos*

Welcome: 2nd year student :)

2006-11-13T22:31:00.000+01:00

Since today I am officially a second year student :)
You are wondering why?
Yes I just started studying this year but because I am studying the fast track, in Term B I will have lessons, lectures, workshops and projects with the second year students.
-----> a lot of stress

I am still studying for the Leisure resit which I will have tomorrow evening (wish me luck from 6.30 pm until 9pm). But in addition to this I also received a new project today. There are only second year students in my project group, which on the one side is good because they are experienced and have done many projects, on the other side I am the "weak link" and have to try to keep up with them without making many mistakes.

On top of that we already have to deliver two documents (cooperation agreement and course of action) until Friday 4pm. Which is maybe not that difficult you might think. But for my first project I had one week to finish the cooperation agreement and three weeks for the course of action, you can imagine how much pressure I now have as I have to deliver everything within this week.

That means: Yes I am stressed and very happy when I am done with my resit, but still ^^ I have to complete my ISK-reflection report, and kep up to date with my lessons, lectures and homework. Yay...

I am really looking forward to Friday...finally some of my friends will visit my fancy room :P and we get to go to the concert....wohoooo....
Fyi: It might happen, that I will fall asleep during the train trip ^^

I am sorry if I did/could not chat with most of you during the last two/three weeks, if I could not meet you although I was in Ktown, I did not reply any emails or messages :( Please don't be mad if you are ;)

Lots of kisses and hugs *sam

(back to studying...yay...vomit...^^)

Oral, a noun, indicating spoken communication. As in oral exam or oral history.

2006-11-06T14:07:00.000+01:00

So I did "fine" in my oral exam for Project Management today!!
That's what the teacher told me after we were finished :)

Now I only have to finish or start with my Integrated Skills Assignment, do the presentation, learn for Leisure again and then I am finished :)

Yay!

Seems that I am getting more ill every day, this morning I woke up and when I was breathing nice peeping sounds were coming with it.

bai, hugs ;)

How I have been...

2006-11-05T22:33:00.000+01:00

It's been a long time since I published a new entry. That is because I was very busy writing reports, learning for my exams, having meetings and also a little Italian.

What can I say because it seems as if nobody really reads my entries because I hardly see any comments [and Andy gets sooooo many :(, do you guys like him more than me? ;( ]

Anyways... I got ill during the last couple of days, having a soar throat which really is no fun. Fortunately (or maybe not) my voice has recovered...that means I am able to go to my oral exam tomorrow morning and in addition to that I have to hold the presentation on thursday.

The presentation on Tuesday will be about our project "students discover dutch cities" which my group and me (7 enthusiastic people, 6 women, 1 man)worked really hard for. Instead of having a lame and boring presentation we will make a Game Show, with silly questions and some live games (dancing, drawing..). I hope the audience will appreciate us making fools of ourselves just to get the most points (12).

This weekend I will go home (finally)...looking forward to it. Sadly I will not have much time to relax because I will have a resit on Monday, that means study study study again and hope that I will get more than 29 questions right ;)

I am really looking forward to next week Friday...finally some fun after so much bullshit ;)

Ok I have to go now, have to wake up early to make a pretty face during my oral exam ;)

REPLY!!

passed :D

2006-10-26T22:18:00.000+02:00

I passed my first exam: Communication Skills!!!
Wohoooo :)

7.5 out of 10.0 which is ok, average.

Autumn Vacation, Part 2

2006-10-21T14:05:00.000+02:00

On Thursday I was supposed to drive to Cologne by car, meet at the Chocolate Museum with Inga (Germany), Sophia (Finland) and AJ (Kyrgistan). The three of them are living either in my house in Breda (AJ and Inga) or living in the house next to me (Sophia).
It turned into a big mess because although I had a navigation system with me, it was not really up to date -> huge construction place in front of the museum
So instead of parking near the museum (15 minutes walking) I had to park at the train station, where I had to take the bus to a place near the museum and walk for 30 minutes. As if this would not be sucky enough I met the most unfriendly busdriver in the whole wide world. I asked him nicely and politly if his bus would drive to the Chocolate Museum and he just growled NO. When I went to the Information Desk the person told me it was the right bus... So I went back in the bus and again, asked politly if I could buy a ticket... He screamed that I should get the ticket at the ticket machine and continued to read his newspaper. I was soooo mad that I wanted to kick his ass right there. In addition to this he was driving horrible and shouting at the pedestrians all the time.
So finally after the horrible bus ride and 30 minutes walking I arrived at the museum 1 hour later ;)

All in all it was not very interesting because I was not interested in the theory of Chocolate but only in eating the chocolate... Still I made a lot of pictures which you can see on Studivz.net.
Of course clumsy as I am my T-shirt got covered in chocolate all over...GREEDY SAM!
Oh a funny story: There was a production line (fließband) for the production of chocolate. You could walk around the line and look at the differents steps of the production. Inga noticed that there were a lot of red buzzers and curious as she is she pushed on one of the red buzzers and what happened: Everything stopped :D There was a little sign next to the buzzer saying: Just push in emergency! ^^
She was running away after that ;) and luckily after some moments a worker started the treadmill again.

When we were finished with the museum Aj and I drove back to Ktown and after a short stop at my house we went to the restaurant. There we succeeded in eating Buffet, Bananas, Ice-Cream, Lychees for over 3 hours :D
We had a lot of fun and we were soooooooooooo full :D

On Friday we went to Düsseldorf for a big long Shopping Tour. We were shopping from 1.30 pm until 6.30 pm. I had a very successful shopping spree...bought a lot :D But Aj just bought one top ^^

After coming back from Ddorf we had to hurry because we wanted to make a cake for the "party" at Alex's place later that evening. We made a delicous yummy Chocolate Cake but therefore arrived one hour later ^^

I had a very very nice time at Alex's place. We had a lot of fun listening to nice music (It's tearing up my heart when I'm with you....^^), talking about intestinal obstruction and teaching Aj many many German words.

Thank you so much for inviting us over Alex :)
I hope we can repeat this next week, at someone else's place maybe ^^

I had 2 very nice days with Aj and I hope she also did.
Well I'll stop talking weird stuff... bai bai

Vacation...wohooo

2006-10-12T07:42:00.000+02:00

It has already been one week since the last time I blogged.
I was busy with my project plan, staying in Breda and watching One Tree Hill.

Today is the last "schoolday" afterwards I will have one week vacation *yeah*

I am really really looking forward to going home, the quote "Home, sweet home" is really true....according to me!

I also get to see my friends again, after a loooooong looooong time :)

We finally have Internet @ Vestkant, which on the one side good ("finally contact to the outside world"), but on the other side verry verry bad ("instead of studying, oh let's check who's online, let's just check one website ;)")

In the free week, I am going to meet up with 3 of my neighbours. One of them, AJ, is going to stay with me for 3 days, the other two we will meet in Cologne. We want to visit the Chocolate Museum there. (I have never been there!)

That's it for now. I have to keep on packing my stuff (yeah) and then I have to leave for school. Afterwards I will come back at 12.30 am, leave my bike in the garage, get my luggage and go back to school by bus. That is because I can leave for the trai station directly after my last lesson.

I guess I will talk to you this evening and see you on the weekend *hope*?

Bai Bai *sam

Yeah baby :P

2006-10-05T13:24:00.000+02:00

Weeekeeeendddd......

Wohoo just finished my Event Management presentation.
I was not nervous at all but the other girls got me nervous so I was shivering all time during my presentation.
I think it went well but I do not even get a grade for it, only a bonus so who cares.

Other than that I have a lot of homework but I don't care, I will be staying in Breda this weekend, so I can do it there.

Just talked to my cousin and I will go to Rdam after my Italian class. Maybe I'll even stay there for the night. Wohoo...haven't seen her for a while.
Looking forward to it and it gives me the chance to escape my roommates student party tonight.... I'm sure it includes a lot of drunken ppl, drugs etc.

No thanks.

In addition to this: I scored some tickets for the Rihanna concert for Betti and me...WOHOOOO....

yes I am happy :)

comment plz, it's not as if my english is so hard to understand!!

Finally weekend!

2006-09-30T00:39:00.000+02:00

Of course the stupid cable guys did not come yesterday... no they said they will come this morning... i hope when I am back on Monday, my room is not destroyed and full with dust... we will see :D

Yesterday evening we had a nice time. Stephie came over and we cooked Noodles with mushrooms and creamy sauce. Seth and Aj joined us and afterwards we were soooooo stuffed :D

After that we went over to Seth's room and ate Oreo cookies while drinking Milk (or dunking the Oreos into the milk) and watched some FRIENDS episodes.

All in all it was a nice evening and I had a lot of fun.

This morning I had a meeting with my study coach, and we talked about my goals, myself and I asked her about my chances of doing my exchange in Hong Kong. She said if I apply early enough then my chances wouldn't be that bad.

So wish me luck.

Have a nice weekend :)

Time goes by....

2006-09-03T12:53:00.000+02:00

It's already sunday, and I'll leave to Breda this evening.
I can hardly believe, that this weekend ends so fast...

I didn't see so many friends of mine, and it seems, as if this weekend only consisted of 24 hours or less...

But still I got to meet with some of my friends :) and I also got the chance to meet my super cute newborn cousin Celine... I love her already!! :D

Other than that I am looking forward to next weekend, where we will probably go bowling with some friends (for those who didn't know this new information, I would be happy if you would join us) and of course, one of my best friends: Caro!! :) is coming back from her one year work and travel trip in Australia.
Yeehaaaaa ;)

So my dearest friends, I hope to meet you next weekend!

Ttyl ...later this week, because I don't have internet at home ANDY, it will be a little bit more difficult to write into my blog :P

hups

2006-09-02T00:24:00.000+02:00

One of the most important things I forget today:

I have a new family member :)

Her name is Celine Jim, she was born today at 10.15 am, she weighs 2,775kg and is 53cm. I haven't seen her today, but I am definitely going to visit her tomorrow.
I'm looking forward to meeting her and I hope she will like me ;)

Ok that's it for today :D

last week

2006-09-01T23:56:00.000+02:00

Hey there,

Yes I'm still alive.
I'm sorry for not updating my blog for such a long time, but I have a lot of reasonst why :P

Well first of all, I was ill ^^ and I was away for 3 of the 5 days, so I wasn't able to write a blog entry.

Mhm...I can tell you something about my week...
On Monday we had a little Introduction at the school, but it's not really worth telling you about it, because we just played some silly baby games and that was it.
After that I took the train to Rotterdam (ca 40min) to meet my parents there.
In Rotterdam we ate in a delicous Chinese Restaurant (first time since a very long time...^^). The food we didn't eat I took to go, so when I arrived at my home (Breda) my roommates and I heated the food?! and ate it all together.

Tuesday was a more interesting day. In the morning, Inga and me had to go to the school by bike. Because neither she or I had a bike, we borrowed a bike from our friendly neighbour girl (Sophia from Finnland). Man I wished, we went to the school by bus. My butt was sooooo sore after the ride to the school. It hurt so much ;)
Because for the rest of the day, we had to use the bike, I went to my teacher, and told him, that I needed a person to take me on his bike, because Inga and I couldn't handle the bike ;)
So the teacher said: Alright, that's no problem, you can sit on my bike...
Sadly the teacher had fun in riding the bike very fast, and not stopping for anything ( I later found out, that the bike didn't have any brakes) so whenever there was a bump, he would race over it very fast.
Well that was the bad part of the day. The good part was, that we were able to visit the soccer-stadium NAC in Breda. It was very impressive and of course very interesting, to go through the dressing rooms, the bars, the private rooms and of course seeing the stadium from the inside.

Because there was no programme for Wednesday and Thursday, my parents came on Wednesday to take a look at my new home. They said it was ok, but of course my sister's room/house was much much better...blabla....^^
After them inspecting my room and meeting my roommates, we drove to Eindhoven, where we met some friends of my dad from Belgium. We ate some chinese food for dinner (what else ;)) and after that, Eddy, the son of my dad's friend, took me to the train station by car. From Eindhoven I took the train to Maastricht (1 hour) where I then went to the restaurant of my aunt Lily (La Chine, Markt 33 Maastricht - it has very good food and it's not expensive - so try it :D) where her boyfriend drove me to my grandma later that night.

Because I had no events on Wednesday and Thursday I decided to sleep over at my grandma's because I haven't seen her for a while, and I also had to do some stuff at the Postbank.

When I woke up the next morning (9 a.m.) I was feeling so comfortable and so I decided to sleep some more and I finally got up at about half past 12 :D
Then I had some breakfast and shortly after that my aunt Jane came with one of my cousins, Kevin. Later that day, we drove to Maastricht, where we had some food at the restaurant and finally my grandma, my aunt and my two little cute cousins Kevin and Dennis, brought me to the train station. They stayed there until my train was starting to move, waving like crazy little freaks, but I loved it :D
I already miss them so much :D

Well on Friday morning, I woke up at 10 o clock, prepared everything for leaving back to Germany that weekend. But before that, Inga, AJ and I wanted to go to the bike shop, because we wanted to buy some bikes. When we arrived at the first bike shop, and we asked for some 2nd-hand bikes, the guy lead us through several rooms, until we ended up at a dark garden, where there were several bikes...

Some days ago a student told us, that one night, she saw the bikeshop guy at the street, putting some bikes into his car. When she asked, what he was doing, he only said "what does it look like what I'm doing?".
So that's how we found out, that all the "2nd-hand bikes" are stolen...nice ;)

Well we didn't "find" any bikes today, because they were all "gone" but the bikeguy said, he would "receive" some bikes later that evening, and we should give him a call ;)

Well...after receiving some heavy books at school today I started on my way going back to Germany.
Nothing exciting happened besides a lot of traffic jams and nose bleeding in the middle of driving through the traffic jam ;)

Over and out :P

I hope this is enough for the last missing days ANDY!!! :P