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Happy birthday Ania!

Last week Ania came to the Netherlands. We had a great time hanging out and doing touristy stuff. She posted the pics on Picasa. At the end of the week she went to her au pair family in Amstelveen and right after that I got sick. But last night she came over for a surprise visit to bring me food, drinks, medicine and some other things. It was so sweet :)

She warned me I shouldn’t write only about her or I’d lose all the thousands of loyal readers of this blog so here’s some mandatory non-Ania random stuff :P

It’s time for me to finally start with my graduation project so I’m reading in on some possible subjects and making plans. Currently I’m learning and playing with the Spring Framework and I updated Lumino Code to make it usable as a portfolio.

Oh and I noticed something weird about Dutch people speaking English. It seems that the moment they start speaking English they also start pronouncing certain names of people and cities like they’re English. Even though they know perfectly well how to pronounce it the real (Dutch) way. I think I do it too in some situations.

Anyway, Mario Kart for the Wii just arrived from Amazon so I’m gonna give it a spin =) I was thinking… maybe we can organize a Wii party sometime or something :P

Ha, my vacation in Poland with Ania was great. It was kinda tricky to get there with the rental car without a decent/working navigation system but it was all worth it. Also, the rental car reminded me that I suck with a stick shift :P

I tried some Polish food like Gofry (waffle with a Lot of whipped cream and fruit on top) and some sort of potato pancake with goulash on top and of course more Pierogi (it’s Goood).

It’s actually been only the second week(ish) that I’ve seen Ania irl but she’s coming to nl in 15 days! /me bounces around.

Oh and I finally got a Picasa account so I don’t have to mess around with making my own galleries anymore. Picasa is actually pretty nice =) Anyway, here are ze pictures:

http://picasaweb.google.com/christiaanhees/PoddabieWithAnia

I’m off to Poland again :) My train to Berlin leaves in about 2 hours and there I’ll rent a car to drive the last part to Poland. I hope everything will go well since I’ve never rented a car before and never driven in Poland and the last part will be in the dark with small roads, so wish me luck =) I’m looking forward to it though cause I’m gonna see Ania again!

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