And there are some new pictures ;). We had a barbecue a bit more than a week ago with Dees who’s leaving our dorm this month unfortunately. So it was kind of the last time we could really have a barbecue with her. I used an altered version of a ‘300′ effect on all of […]

The heavy storm that passed over Western Europe yesterday afternoon did a lot of damage, including to our dorm. About 70 square meters of roof cover was blown off, a third of which fell on the street below while the rest got stuck bent over.
I was working on my computer at the time when suddenly […]

Last weekend we had a ‘Brothers & Sisters’ volleyball tourney in which you could invite brothers and sisters to play a tournament with. Obviously I didn’t invite my sister or she’d have to travel twice 4 hours and pay 30 € to get there, but I played with a housemate and some friends of her.
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This was fun :D… I got invited by Femke a few days ago for the ‘girls night’ that they were going to have tonight. Five girls from our dorm having a nice girly evening ;). I was obviously honored to be invited to participate :D.
We started the evening with a running session of about 7 […]

Bah :(… Well… it’s my own fault. I should’ve known better. Last night I had left my bike locked outside in front of our house like I always do, and when I wanted to go to university today I didn’t find the goddamn thing anymore :(.
A few months ago they had stolen my second lock, […]

“Mens sana in corpore sano”
That’s what Juvenalis said around 100 AD: “A sound mind in a sound body”. Over time, the phrase has come to mean that only a healthy body can produce or sustain a healthy mind. And that’s exactly what I’ve been working on these past months ;).
I started with volleyball late September, […]

Pretty funny you know… The lamp in the shower died again, so we’re showering with two candles again :P… I actually prefer it like that. Without glasses I don’t see anything anyway, and it has a cute feeling to shower like this. If somebody wants a new lamp, they’re going to have to get it […]

Tsk… A few days ago Femke asked me to format her laptop and put Windows XP on it along with Office, a virus scanner, etc. you know… the whole rim-ram (as they say in Belgium). So last night I started working on that, but because of some issues and because I basically didn’t want to […]

My room has never been so full of breathing creatures as yesterday evening :P… With eight people (four from our floor plus a boyfriend and three from downstairs) we watched Million Dollar Baby on the big screen. Three on my couch, four on the bed, and one on a chair in front of my door. […]

Well well… My housemate clearly has too much time on his hands. Marijn made his own homemade Onion Cannon… It’s about 1.5 meter long consisting of a 50 cm long and about 15 cm thick PVC tube (the kind of plastic that is used in buildings) being the ‘gas chamber’ with attached to that a […]

God, I hate modems… We’ve been having trouble with internet for the past two days now… The DSL connection seems to be fine, but every time I reboot the modem, we can only access the internet for one minute or so… if we’re lucky…
After four calls to my ISP, they’re now going to send a […]

Oh boy, that was fun :). We had a barbecue yesterday with Menno, our housemate that left us almost three months ago to live with his girl friend. The people present were Menno, Maaike (his girl friend), Femke, Bas, Deirdre, Annemarie, Saskia, Jeroen (Saskia’s boy friend), Desiree and me. So everybody except Marijn was there […]

Last Wednesday we had some kind of spontaneous house dinner accompanied with a movie. Well, it wasn’t completely spontaneous, the movie had been planned, but I didn’t expect to be having dinner with five people (Annemarie, her boy friend Egbert, Femke, Saskia and me).
We also ‘borrowed’ the room of the new housemate who hasn’t moved […]

I got a present from my housemate Annemarie this evening… When she stood in my doorway saying she had a gift for me I looked at her as if she was speaking Chinese… Why on earth would you buy me a gift??? Apparently she and her boy friend really enjoyed watching Eternal Sunshine of the […]

This evening I went to a play of Imperium Theater, a local amateur theatrical company. My housemate Annemarie, who’s also my partner in Astronomical Practicum, was playing again as well, so I was curious for her new performance and for the new play in general.
And once again I’m glad I went :). I liked the […]

We had a ‘hospiteeravond’ last night. There’s not really an English word for this, or at least I don’t know of an English word for it. ‘Hospiteren’ means being a candidate for a room in a student dorm. It means that you are one of a few and usually many people who are interested in […]

Last Wednesday one of my housemates, Desiree, invited me and my other housemates to come to a performance of her little band in which she’s doing the female voice. They were performing pretty late (11.30 pm), so not many of my housemates made it, but me and Annemarie didn’t want to miss it, so we […]

Don’t you love dorms? We have two ovens in our dorm. (No, they don’t look as new and clean as the one in the picture). Of the right one, the window has been broken for about one and a half years now. The left one broke about a week ago, now that the mechanism that […]

I just watched Fight Club with Femke after we had had dinner together. I was cooking when I asked her whether she had eaten already, and she said she was about to start cooking. So I suggested to join me with my dinner, since I was cooking for two days anyway :). (pork with pasta, […]

One of my housemates informed us two days ago that she’s expectating a baby :). She’s been in the dorm for quite a long time and she was already looking out for an own home for quite some time now, so it’s not that plans changed dramatically. But still, it was apparently not a planned […]

And we did another run, me and Femke :). She doesn’t know the distance of what we did this time, but I’m pretty sure we ran faster than last time, as we didn’t have the time now to chat. We just ran :).
It’s really nice you know… I think I miss the exhaustion of when […]

I participated in a volleyball night tourney last night with my housemate Femke. She had invited me a few days ago, as somebody in the team they were playing with cancelled. So we started with the tourney at around 10.30 pm and we went home eight hours later at 6.30 am. As the night before […]

Tonight I have been staying up a bit late (ok, make that ‘very late’, but well… Friday nights are always like that ;)). At around 2 am, Desiree, a housemate of mine, walked up in my room and told me to look out the window. I stood up and looked out of the window, and […]

I just went running with Femke for 38 minutes, after she asked me if I wanted to join her. It was the first time in years that I’ve gone running for the sport of it :). We did 6.4 km (4.0 miles) in 38 minutes which is 10 kph (6.3 mph for the nutty Americans). […]

Boy, I’m tired… I cleaned dishes and cleaned the kitchen for 2.5 hours today… It was me and a housemate’s turn to clean the kitchen, and last night we had had dinner with 7 people, so it was a total disaster :D… Spaghetti sauce all over the place, pans, pots, forks, knives… Every square inch […]

This is soooooooooooo cool! My housemate Annemarie, who I’m also doing my research project with, is participating in a program called ‘Be A Moviestar’. It’s kind of the acting equivalent of ‘Idols’ which has been done in several countries around the world.
So I just saw her doing a scene from a Dutch movie. Soooooooooo cool! […]

I had a nice evening today :). With four housemates (Boefje, Dees, Sas and Deirdre) we made tapas for dinner. Several kinds of nice spanish looking things… mmmmmmmmmmmm… Delicious… It didn’t look as good as in the picture on the right though :P. For once we ate in the kitchen where we put a few […]

Last Thursday Femke (housemate of mine) invited me to be her ‘brother’ in the volleyball brothers & sisters tourney that her volleyball club organised this Saturday :). People from the club were supposed to invite their brothers and sisters who can be as experienced or inexperienced at volleyball as they want, to play a tourney […]