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It's been a while

Door: Marijn

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01 November 2010 | Verenigde Staten, San Francisco

Hey everybody,

First I would like to thank you all for your positive responses on my last story.
Secondly, as you may already noticed, I'm going to write my blog in English from now on so my friends which I made here are also able to follow my stories.

I know it's been a while since I last post something, but basically I was just kinda busy and since I don't have a laptop or computer in my host family, it makes it a little bit harder to keep my blog up to date.
But from now on I will try to post something every week and at least every two weeks.

Okay a lot has happened since my last story. Let's see, where to start ;-).
Well the first thing I should notice, tonight (local time) the Giants are playing and if they win this match they are the official world league winners, which means there will be a huge party in San Francisco, so GO GIANTS!!!

Okay furthermore, last weekend was Halloween. Of course I tried to dress up as scary as possible :D. I'll add a picture. It was a lot of fun. On Friday everyone got dressed up to school and we did performances with all the classes. Afterwards we had a haunted house through the school.

So that's what recently was going on, now I'll try and remember what kind of fun stuff I did before last weekend ;-).

Well I finally went to walk the Golden Gate Bridge. It was nice, you have a nice view off the city and we even saw some dolphins swimming.

I went to a science/nature museum with some friends here. Really cool, and it is free every third Wednesday of the month, so I will probably go again.

I did a boat tour, almost in the beginning of my stay, around Alcatraz Island and up to the bay bridge, I have some really nice pictures of the trip which I will post later (I really need to go start posting some pictures now -.-).

We unfortunately already had a goodbye party of 3 people I knew and with one of them I could really get along, so it was a kinda sad moment. But because of that we (some dutch friends over here) already made plans to do a Europe tour to visit all the friends we made here, which would be really cool.

Well last week I spend a lot of time finding a Halloween outfit. While I also needed to do stuff for my internship/volunteership (stage). I have an interview with a webdesign company, so maybe I have a place to work as a volunteer for 2 or 3 months. And in the same time I also had other homework to do such as writing letters and preparing a presentation. So last week was a bit more busy but I'm also here to learn English of course, so it's all part of the English Course :D.

So yeah, I still have all sorts of school work to do which is still fun. And I feel like I'm still learning new things almost every day, even though it may not be as much every day. And the little tests I get here in the classes, I commonly score pretty high so I have a good feeling about my Cambridge Exam in March.

This is everything I still remember from last month basically, there is still some more but else my story would maybe become to long and boring :P.

So from now on I will do my best to do a better job in keeping you all up to date. Pictures will follow any day now, I can't afford myself to keep you wait any longer.

Feel free to write a comment in either Dutch or English.

I look forward hearing form you :D.

Bye for now and till next week.

  • 01 November 2010 - 23:51

    Marion:

    It's great to hear that you're having lots of fun!
    That idea of an european tour is a good one, invite your friends to our home so that we can meet them.

  • 02 November 2010 - 07:25

    Mirjam Verhoeven:

    Hi Guy,Fijn om te horen dat je t zo goed hebt daar! All part of learning english, joehoe! Fijne foto's ook...meer graag...haha.
    xxx mirjam

  • 02 November 2010 - 07:55

    Suze:

    He Marijn,

    Dacht ik na drie maanden Engels lezen, praten en schrijven hier in Nederland weer lekker Nederlands te kunnen zijn... begin jij te schrijven in het Engels, moet ik weer helemaal omschakelen, potverdorie.. ;)
    Nee hoor, leuk verhaaltje en leuk om te lezen dat je het naar je zin hebt!
    Die halloween outfit was er goed gelukt!
    Veel plezier nog, Groetjes Suze

  • 02 November 2010 - 12:45

    Liesbeth:

    Hé Marijn, Leuk om weer van je te horen. En ook dat het goed gaat. Hier ook hoor. Die Golden gate Bridge is Stijn zijn favoriet. Koste hem best moeite om er foto's van te maken.Maar dat moet wel natuurlijk. We wachten op jouw foto's. veel plezier en "leer ze ".

  • 02 November 2010 - 20:56

    Ali :

    Hello Marijn,

    Back from our holiday from Australia I see that your site, marijnvandersteen.com has changed in marijninamerica.waarbenjij.nu. And that the language also has changed…..
    I was like Suze glad that, back in Holland, everything could be communicated in Dutch
    Also a good exercise for your lessons. I guess.

    That party is there already been, I think?!! The San Francisco giants have won the world league!!
    You have the island of Alcatraz also already visited, and a look in the cell of All Capone.
    A tricky Island to escape. That have a few prisoners done, they don’t know if they have reached the other side.

    Your photos look creepy cosy I miss only the Dracula teeth…

    From a rainy Netherlands greetings and until your next message
    Ali

  • 03 November 2010 - 12:14

    Marijke:

    Hey Marijn!

    Wat goed om weer van je te horen en dan ook nog zulke positieve berichten. Cool! Lijkt me bijzonder om Halloween mee te maken. Dat je nou zo ver weg moest om een idee te krijgen hoe het is om carnaval te vieren.....Wel mooi meegenomen.
    Have fun en graag blijven schrijven, zodat ik een beetje mee kan genieten.
    Groeten, Marijke

  • 03 November 2010 - 22:37

    Stijn:

    hee,
    Leuk dat je weer eens wat post. Met die foto's wordt het ook een stuk levendiger. Mooi outfit hor.. ik herkende je even niet.
    groeten en veel plezier.

    ps. travian mail ik wel
    pps. Lissan = een tets ;)

  • 04 November 2010 - 22:08

    Paul; Oss:

    Best Regards to Tilburg and San Fransisco (or may I say San).
    Enjoy and 'get a lot of positive life points' Marijn.
    Gr. PMSJ; Oss.

  • 06 November 2010 - 10:19

    Renée Van Der Steen:

    That's a nice story. You enjoy youerself pretty good. You look liked very scary with your Halloween-outfit. Did you go along doors, or isn't that the way they do in America? Have a nice stay next months.
    Renée

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