Update

Hello again. Ive got some bad news. My laptop is broken, or my monitor is.. So im borrowing Alex’ screen. That means that I will have problems during christmas unless I can borrow/buy an old screen somewhere.. Jaja, but on the good side, my friend Sigbjørn is here! He came 2days ago, and we have been christmas shopping, sushi and nachos eating and we went to an Latin American theme party. Hehe, we soon found out that we were the only ones dressed up, but it was cool!

Since he is here I dont want to spend all my time blogging, I just fellt I should tell you guys merry christmas and all that before I leave for Norway also! So, merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Here are some Photos of my and Sigbjørn in Eindhoven:

Second year photos – Part 1

So here is the first part of my second year pictures that I promised you!

Before going “home” to Eindhoven after the summer vacation, I decided to visit Jonas in Germany. I was there a few days and I got to experience some nice German culture, meet some new people and Mikes dog.

If you are not familiar with it, the beer I have here is a really good one, made from wheat. They drink it a lot in Germany and German speaking countries. And I think it is my favorite one!

These are all very typical weizenbier drinking positions. If you see a German in any of these, you can be sure he/she wants a weizen!

And almost before I came back to Eindhoven, we went for another trip to Germany. Hehe. This time Dusseldorf with me, Katia and Jutta. I think we were driving someone to the airport, or maybe picking up someone. It was a nice daytrip, with nice weather and heavy German food.

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After some days back in Eindhoven, Mathilde and Alex showed up! It was really nice to see them again, and Manickam. He was here the whole summer, because he had to work.

In this picture we are biking home from the first day of school. And Mathilde bought a banana plant that needed transport. She is really fond plants, and I think she will have a beautiful garden later on!

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In the evening of the first day together we made a nice dinner, talked about our summer and catched up. It was really nice!

I think it was me who made the dinner actually. Im not a great cook, hehe, but I made vegetarian pasta since Alex doesnt eat meat.

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Hehe, this looks strange I know. From the first day of school and then the next day in France. Im sure there is a good explaination, but I cant remember if we only had the friday of school then weekend afterwards.

Anyway, Mathilde took me along to France that weekend, to see here family and friends. It was a really nice experience, since I had never been to France before.

I call it a flea market, even though there are new things in the streets also. And every street was full of people buy and selling things for really low prices. Ive never seen anything like this before. And I heard that there were maybe 2 million people there every year.. After the “shops” close, the people have dinner and go out to the bars! So during the night we were walking around with Mathildes friends, and it was insane.. Definitely something I recommend people to experience during their lives!

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Quite early when we left the apartment for going out, I managed to loose Mathilde in the crowd.. Hehe, it was impossible to find her, even though I heard later that she was just 20meters away the whole time, looking for me. Well, I found a few of Mathildes friends in there, and I hanged with them. Really cool guys!

This picture is from when we found eachother again I think, hehe. After that the night just became crazy. Going to all kinds of people we didnt know and just started speaking with them. At that time I was with Max from France and Kyle from USA, and when we meet some new people Max was from “Canada MATE!”. Hehe, really funny night.

Haha, I never thought that French maids actually excited, but I found out the morning after the crazy night. After sleeping on this wooden floor for 3-4hours we got woken up by what I think must be the loudest vacumcleaner in the history. It all was saved by the coffee and croissants they had bought for us!

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Here are the housemates after having a nice dinner and some alcohol. Mathilde signed out quite fast, hehe, and Manickam came after. In the end it was me, Alex, Katia and Jutta dancing and singing in the livingroom table! Great evening!

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Well, how to explain this.. I think Ive talked about it before, but I feel I should say it again, hehe.

Every year when the first graders and had their introduction week with the school, the second and third graders organize the “intro-games” in a park close to school. Here you go in groups from post to post, and every group has their team leader from the second or third year. And as a team leader you also have to participate in the games! Hehe, its great fun! And you do things you wouldnt normally do, but heck, you have to be a bit crazy once in a while!

One evening I was invited for dinner at Katias and Juttas place. They have a really cozy terrace. And were very happy with their new apartment.

I cant remember what we ate, but something Austrian maybe?

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Haha.. Now this is something to document. This is probably the last thing I would eat, even if I was starving! I couldnt stop laughing when I saw this.

They also had hotdogs there..

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Manickam finally got his ACL reconstructed. He had been walking around with a torn one for a long time. So after school I went to visit him in the hospital, so it would be so boring to lay there.

They took out a piece of the tendon to the semitendinosus muscle, and use it as a new Anterior Cruciate Ligament. While the knee heals the muscle grows out again pretty fast, and doesnt give any big problems with activites while healing.

He was pretty happy that he got the operation!

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Well, now I have to stop blogging, Im so hungry… And I just got invited to a dinner for tomorrow, but I have to buy more fish at the openmarket first, hehe. I think it is a good deal! So that was the first part of these pictures, I think there will be three parts.. There are so many pictures! I hope you enjoyed them!

See you!

What is up

Hello people. I havent been that good at posting lately I see. Been quite lazy after the exams. Not lazy as in doing nothing, but not sitting to much with my pc, hehe. I thought I would post the first part of my second year photos now, but I see I have to update you on what Ive been doing since the last post.

Me and Sara found out that we wanted to go somewhere on the Sunday, but we didnt know where we should go.. So we met up at the trainstation at 10 in the morning, without a clue to know where we should go, and we decided on Utrecht after some minutes. It was a really good idea. Because its probably one of the nicest cities in the Netherlands. And usually you need good weather to really enjoy a city the first time you see it. But it was sooo foggy! For me it just gave the city a sort of mystical atmosphere, and I really enjoyed that.

Here are some pictures!

Ive also been training quite a lot since I have the time for it. Me and Bojan have a nice plan together. Monday: Ring training, and I have orientation running every second Monday. Wednesday: I do my survival training with All Terrain, and he boulders. Thursday: We do a WOD (workout of the day), a crossfit concept. Or we dont follow the crossfitters totally, we make our own. Ill give you an example further down the page. Then there is the Saturday or Sunday, were I go strength training in the sportscentre.

The ring training is just something we wanted to do, and its really cool and it gives you great stability and strength in the shoulders and core. It is mostly upper body exercises, but we do lower body in other ways. We would like to be able to do the same things as the gymnasts, so we do partial repititions (reps) of many of the same things.

Here is one of the first WODs we did:

” Axels WOD

Do 10 rounds for time!

6reps    Weightened ball (3-5kg) – “Throw-up and slam down”
6reps    Swedish bench – “Clean and jerk”
6reps    Parallel bars – Dips (Start on one side, and finish on the other side)
6reps    Rings – Hanging leg raises
6laps    Wall to wall – Sprints
20reps   Body Squats

This is 1 round!”

We were 4 people, and we all did it within 30-45mins. And im not gonna say which times exactly, hehe. But it was a great workout, and a cool thing to do together with my friends. We all were so exhausted after it.. So me and Manickam went to the market to meet Sara and buy some nice food:

You dont see it so well, but we have a pigs leg each, hehe. Eating it like the boars leg in Asterix and Obelix.

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Ohh! And this morning I found out that the Dutch Santa Claus had been here! We must have been really nice this year, since he came so early, hehe.

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There were 4 of our shoes in front of the fireplace filled with marzipan, chocolate and candy. Such a nice surprice! And he was nice enough to put a napkin in it before the sweets were put in, hehe, it wouldnt be so nice to eat without.

Thank you Sinter Klaas!

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And yesterday evening I was at Florians house for a traditional German christmas movie/drink; “Feuerzangenbowle”.

The movie is from 1944, and is about a gang of old guys who want to go back to school. And one of when actually does it. I makes a fool out of the teachers and the old school system. Its a very funny movie (i think), with very traditional German (which is hard to understand, hehe).

When the old guys look back at their schooldays, they are drinking “feuerzangenbowle”. And when you watch the movie, you also have to drink it.

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It is made with red wine, fruits, cinnamon and other spices over the fire in a pot. Then when it has boiled for a while you can place a big sugar piece laying over the pot. You pore rum over it and set it on fire. While it is burning, the melted sugar drips into the mulled wine and mixes.

Its actually really tasty, but it is also very dangerous! Just after 1 cup you can feel the alcohol a bit, hehe.

Here are a few more photos from the database, hehe:

Well, that was it for now! Bis dann!