Ceramstraat + the end of the Introduction week

Hello ladies and gentlemen,

Let me tell you about my neighbourhood where I live in. I live in an area called Korrewegwijk, it's around 10min by bike from the centre. It's a calm area with houses with max.two floors, I live in one of those as well.I've a nice room, with a window to the inner yard. The neighbours have at least cats and rabbits and luckily there are some trees that I can have a look on as well:)
I'd very much like to show you some pictures, but since I haven't got a camera yet(I know, I've talked about getting one for ages, but somehow it seems like I've become far too Dutch, and find it too expensive;)

Yesterday evening we had a house meeting with Ruggero(an Italian, lived here for soon two years) and Justin (Hong Kong, is here for 5months, just like me) Froukje, our fourth flatmate is visiting her sister in Norway, so she wasn't on the meeting. Froukje is from the Netherlands, but she's Frisian (speaks Frisian as her mother tongue). The meeting basically consisted of going through the cleaning procedures of the house, when/how and by whom it should be done.

The introduction week I told you about on my previous post came to an end on Wednesday. We had a magnificent Dutch party on Monday. First we (group 2) celebrated the bday of our mentor Mirjam( we bought her a nice hat) and ate delicious cake made by Axel. We were dressed up in crazy orange costumes, which made us to be the target of the paparazzies when we entered the club..Now I know how Paris Hilton feels every day (except from the fact that she doesn't wear a gigantic orange joker hat) Our definitive star of the evening was Satu aka Miss Holland, later adopting the nickname queen of the Bitches. She wore a tiara, orange string made of a plastic flag and a Holland scarf around her;)

On Tueday I cooked for Axel, Satu and Andrew. We were supposed to go to a language class in the evening, but we ended up eating too much of spaghetti bolognese. hehe, I didn't want to scare ppl off by serving Finnish food =)maybe next time.
Wednesday was Valentine's Day, we watched first a Dutch movie(can't remember the name) it reminded me of the Swedish movie Jallajalla..so you got to laugh a lot. At the Valentine's party we all got numbers, so you could send secret greetings to each other. Let's just say, that I got quite a few notes from the same person and later on a rose as well, must admit that it was a Valentine's Day I wont forget easily:)

Tomorrow will be the time for Amsterdam!!! I might go to Utrecht as well, to visit my dear cousin Marja-Maija (yes, we Ristiluoma's are really conqueiring the Netherlands) and come back first on Sunday, don't know yet.

Keep those comments coming,
Take Care
Anna