Holland

I'm in Friggen EUROPE!

So after ten hours in a plane I land to find that I'm more at home than I thought I would be. It was raining! the wind was crazy too. I sat next to a wonderful lady from South Africa with three daugters back home who was in Seattle for continued education as a counselor. Also, she was a childhood friend of Dave Matthews; yes, the rockstar. You can imagine we had lots to talk about. I got a VW Tourvan Diesel with a six speed for a rental and proceded to leave Amsterdam in the wrong direction. After driving for about twenty mintues I realized that the directions I was given by the car rental guys were crap and that a pitstop was on order. Luckily one of the gas station attendants spoke english. She was very friendly as well as the truckers who hopped in to try and find where I needed to go. After we figured it out she taught me how to say "left lane" in Dutch which I proptly forgot and proceded to poke fun of me while I was leaving. I sure enjoyed that! Another hour and a half later with one or two stops to look at the maps, a lot of cursing about how badly labeled the roads are and a severely bad job driving through some intersections which I'm sure violated some law or another I arrived at DAF. I was then kindly heckled about not knowing Dutch while in the Netherlands by the guard and sent on my way.

The place I'm staying tonight is called DAF House. It is six rooms that they keep up here on campus for visitors and it seems that they're always filled. I am being kicked out tomorrow night so I'll be making hotel reservations for the next few nights and then I hope I'll be able to get some long term housing like an appartment!

Now all I have to do is figure out how to get to sleep.