Hot or NOT !

Have a look... This is 'the' new fashion 2010.. If you have a look at the movie clip from Lady gaga, she wore those shoes..



I do not know who designed these shoes but I do know one thing for sure he/she is a crazy fuck.

Annoying!

Men, it's so annoying parents: Clean up this mess, do this, do that... My god leave me alone people! It is time to find a room for myself! Far away from home! I am not saying that it's sometimes helpful to live at home, they care for you, they love you and they need you and sometimes it's not fun to admit but I need them too. But dear lord god, would you please make them less annoying.

Amen!

Day Off, Yippie yah jeej...

It sounds great a day off, and it was to a certain point, but it was kind of annoying though. I woke up at 11 o'clock and I went downstairs but there was my dad. He told me to clean up my room and to do the dishes. You may imagine that I was pissed. I mean it is not a lot what he asked me but it was just annoying because I had planned other stuff. First I wanted to my homework: Sentence Analysis and Phonetics. What I did. And after homework I was tend to do nothing really. I mean, HOLIDAY! It is always the same here at home. When my father has a holiday as well he is trying to act like a dictator, which works for him quiet well. In the end I didn't clean my room and I didn't do the dishes.
I listened to music and I phoned a few friends just to talk about random topics. Furthermore I watched two and a half men, which is hilarious! They have a lot of humor. I love the kid! He is funny. It was a sitting-on-the-couch day. Lovely!

I will go to my friend tomorrow, because she hopefully passed her driving exam. I'll buy her some cake. If she doesn't make it, she has cake and when she does make it she has cake. I mean, what more do you want? It's probably going to be a chocolate cake! That works pretty good for all women!

Tomorrow again a sitting-on-the-couch-doing-nothing-day. Sounds good to me.

Valentine's Day Facts

Valentine’s Day History: Roman Roots


Lovers’ holiday goes back to Roman festivals where men stripped and had goat-or dog skin and spanked young women in hopes that the fertility would increase.

Lupercalia was held every year on February 15. It was popular among a lot of people into the fifth century. The church named the festival to the legend of St. Valentine. The story behind Valentine is that he aloud marriages but then in secret because there was an Emperor who forbade men to marry. Therefore Valentine was executed on February 14. However it is not sure whether this legend is true.


Valentine’s Day 2010: Spending Takes a Holiday?

According the U.S. NRF, people spend approximately 14,1 billion on Valentine’s Day in 2010. However the numbers were 14,7 billion last year. Americans plan to spend more on Valentine’s day on each group(family, pets) than last year. According to Kathy Grannis is Valentine’s Day because it’s providing another way to make somebody else happy and show others your appreciation instead.

Valentine’s Day gifts go back to basic


Last year a lot more people spend their Valentine’s Day on an evening out or going out but nowadays people tend to buy clothes for their significant others. Men spend almost twice as much on Valentine than women do.

Valentine’s Day cards

The first Valentine’s Day card was sent in 1415 from France’s Duke to his wife when he was a prisoner. Valentine’s Day card went more popular during the Revolutionary War.
Nowadays the greetings card are the most common Valentine’s gifts. According to the Greeting Card Association 190 million Valentine’s cards were sent.
Giving one another a Valentine’s Day card is a cultural tradition in the United States. Hallmark started his business in 1913.

Valentine’s Day Candy: Cash Cow

Approximately 47 percent of the United States consumers will exchange Valentine’s Day candy. This is good for the sales. It adds op billion dollars. 75 percent of that billion is spent to chocolate. This can be associated with romance at least since Mexico’s 15th- and 16th- century Aztec Empire. The chocolate hearts for example doesn’t mean anything except: ‘Be mine,’ Kiss me,’ ‘Call me.’ Etc. A lot of candy heart were made last year. There were made eight billion candy hearts.



What is love? Evolution and Infatuation

Helen Fisher is an anthropologist and an author of several books on love. Fisher breaks love into three distinct brain systems that enable mating and reproduction:
- Sex drive
- Romantic love(obsession, passion, infatuation)
- Attachment(calmness and security with a long-term partner)

Those three play a role in love. Fisher added that only two of these three brain systems: sex drive and romantic love was used during Valentine’s Day. Fisher: ‘Once you start giving the dog a valentine, you are talking about a real expression of attachment as well as romantic love.’

It's sad, It's unbelievable, It's Sven Kramer

Sad, sad, sad. Sven Kramer actually won the 10.000m. but in his 17th round he made a big mistake! He decided(or his coach did, no one knows yet)to ride in the wrong course. When he finished he thought he won the race, but unfortunately he lost! Lee his opponent is number one and received a gold medal! Sven Kramer left the building immediately! However his coach was still on his but looking like he wanted to cry. The big question now is: who made the mistake? Did his coach tell him to go to the wrong course or was his pointing just a way of saying: Come on, SVEN! Or was it Sven who made the mistake himself. Maybe he was too busy thinking and forgot which course he had to take. Who knows...

Nevertheless it is sad, tragic and disappointing!

Amsterdam, baby!

It was a wonderful day today! I went to Amsterdam with my good friend Willemijn. I gave her a gift for her birthday and that was that I would take her to a Chinese massage. The idea was that those Chinese women would walk on our backs but they started with their hands. It was good! After the massage we went to a restaurant for a cup of tea and then we went shopping! We went to all the shops we loved, like: Berksha, H&M, Zara and of course River Island! It is a great shop with a lot of variety. I bought a new skirt. The fashion of today is sailor clothes, army clothes etc. I love the sailor line. Those jackets are beautiful! After shopping we ate Fallafel! I never ate that before but I love it, however it is not healthy I suppose. And we decided to go to the movies too. We went to Valentine's Day. It was a good movie with a lot of humor in it. We laughed a lot! It was enjoyable!

Happy birthday, Willemijn!

Homework... WHAT!??!

How could this be true? Learners who don't get homework at all. How great. But it is true. At my teaching practice learners don't have homework: never! I taughed a lesson yesterday and I gave the leaners some homework. One learner replied and said: Homework.. What?!? We never have homework. What is homework? He asked.

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I’m still dead, don’t you see? I died because I couldn’t stop the sun. I died. Inside where I am - I died.’

This is a wonderful sentence from the short story: stop the sun. It is about Terry who is a 13 year old boy and it is about his dad. His father acts a little bit strange. His eyes dissapear so now and then. He thinks of the past. His father has a so called Vietnam syndrome. Terry really wants to know what happened back then. He thinks when his father will talk, everything is going to be alright. But he thought wrong. Terry asked him what happened and his father said I’m still dead, don’t you see? I died because I couldn’t stop the sun. I died. Inside where I am .. I died.


Lovely! You need to read it!

Mar & Mir: Goodlooking women

We had a lot of fun that day. Actually our plan was to do our homework but we found out a lovely photo booth on my Apple from school. We made a lot of photographs that evening. Marleen stayed for one hour and we made pictures the entire evening.

This is not the worst photo. We have really bad pictures but we had a lot of fun that evening. I mean look at the picture on the left.

Ohh, on that bicycle

Unfortunately this sentence doesn't excist. How great wouldn't it be if this sentence really excisted. I always use the Dutch sentence: ' Ohh, op die fiets.'' It sounds good and everybody knows what that means.
I began at 9.00 o'clock today. This was the first time we had tutorial. Our group consists out of 9 people and we were there with the four of us. But of course I can understand why... it was carnaval last weekend. After the tutorial group I had to work on a group project. Only Szidonia was there, luckily. We had to prepare our presentation for this Friday. It is about the future tense. We had only 30 minutes to work on it, because I had to go to another class: sentence analysis. It was a lot of fun, difficult though. After a while I finally understood what the teacher was saying that is why I said: 'Oh, on that bicycle.' At the end of the day Linda, Rianne and I worked on BRP5. We read the assignment and we were fully suprised because it is a lot of work. A little bit too much if you ask me.

But we need to go on!

Teaching practice

My teaching practice started yesterday. I had to be there around 8 o'clock in the morning. I have a young fellow who helps me out. He is my tutor. He told me that he had to prepare a lesson for the afternoon. I asked him: ' maybe I can teach?' He said: 'Alright.' He told me that I have a lot of courage because the classes who I taught were difficult. Today it is my second day. The first two hours we decided to do several tests. The main problem in the VMBO is their motivation. My tutor tries it again and again to motivate them. I do this by taking into account their frame of references. I already asked what they like to do during the lesson. They said that they love to listen to music and watching movies and reading. My main aim is to motivate the learners.


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