things

many things going on recently ... thursday night i accompanied my good friend alwin from the office to a lecture at the holocaust museum, which was women telling their stories of life after concentration camps. it was extremely interesting but 3 hours long. afterward, we met up outside with all of alwin's other german babe friends ... luckily once you meet one of them you meet all of them. afterward we went to buy some drinks from a store in chinatown (apparently they are cheapest there,) where i purchased two coca lights. we then went up to alwins little apartment in montparnasse. interesting night ... as more and more beer was ingested (not be me) it became more and more interesting. started out talking about nazism, then east germany, then the boys pulled up some east german propoganda songs on youtube and laughed hysterically for awhile, then we pulled up some videos of sarkozy saying stupid things, then we discussed politics. alwin: "we don't like obama because he doesn't support global warming. think about it: first, the netherlands will overflow and germany will have nice warm beaches and no one will want to go to the mediterraean! once it gets to my town then we will support obama." later: "i hate nature, theres not places there to buy beer or cigarettes." etc etc. don't worry family: none of these activities influenced or injured me in any way.

anyways, friday night i took the train up to brussels to once again hang out with L&L for the weekend and go to the LDS temple up in The Hague. We woke up at 5am and took a bus with the church group. It was a very cute town, Lauren of course wanted to see the international justice court and i in the war criminals so we stopped by there as well. our friend sinoui told us he would drive us up to amsterdam to spend the afternoon - about an hour drive. a really great day. we walked around, ate some falafel, tried to get into the van gogh museum but got there too late, then hung out at the big park for the rest of the evening. there was some eurobabes skateboarding, kids playing on swings joyfully, naked babies swimming in the fountain, lovers snuggling on the warm grass. it was lovely. we ate pizza for 5 euros and waded in the waters. me and lauren really, REALLY wanted to swing on the rad tire swing but the little kids wouldnt get off. we thought it might look creepy that we were standing there staring contemptively for so long that we decided to go watch the shirtless male skateboarders for awhile.
we left around 7. the drive back to brussels was incredibly beautiful. me and lauren were unfortunately at the height of our hyped up state one often experiences briefly after going without enough sleep. we got back to brussels, ate some frites, then thought we saw a girl crying blood and a man dressed in a bear suit peering out at us from behind a building.
needless to say ... time for bed. im put up amsterdam pictures later.