Happy Sinterklaas!
Did you get candy, or did Zwarte Piet beat your ass? Zwarte Piet was all over the Netherlands during our visit. I don’t think that tradition is going away any time soon.
View ArticleRethinking Options
Between this article and all the comments on it, as well as a number of expat forum posts about life in the Netherlands reaffirming the same and more, I think I’ll hold off on my school plans there....
View ArticleI Get It, PVV, You REALLY Don’t Like Foreigners
From DutchNews.nl (emphasis mine): The anti-Islam PVV in the province of Gelderland think ‘imported exotic’ animals such as Scottish highland cows and ponies from Poland should be removed from the...
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Hey, Nederlanders
Not that you should care what some stupid American of Vietnamese descent thinks, but can you please keep the douchebag vote to a minimum tomorrow? Thanks. P.S. If you have trouble deciding, visit this...
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Drugs and Health Class
Global Commission on Drug Policy reports what we all already know: the war on drugs is a failure and we should decriminalize drugs. In school we’re taught that all drugs are bad and never do them. A...
View ArticleChina: Pissing Me Off Daily
Vietnam in live-fire drill amid South China Sea row Just scroll down and look at that map. Seriously, China? Seriously!? If they don’t do something that pisses off the humanitarian in me (where do I...
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I Hope Nobody in My Tech Dept Follows Tech News
A few weeks ago I saw a drawing of the fancy lulzsec guy with the top hat, monocle, mustache, and wine glass. I like fancy guys! I thought it was cute so I drew my own rendition of it on my whiteboard,...
View ArticleFlorida Gets its Own Giant Lego Man
Yeeeeaahhh!! Dumping crap into the ocean normally makes me a sad lady, but these huge Lego men are too awesome. I wanted to see the one in Zandvoort, NL but our winter trips made heading to the North...
View ArticleMe and Not Me
This is definitely me: ‘Globals’ Generation Focuses on Experience On top of being globally minded, Zogby says, these first globals have a different perspective on the idea of ownership as a tenet of...
View ArticleGrateful – Revisiting Queues
Today I am thankful to live in an area of peace, where I do not have to queue up for food and medical aid.
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