Osna in Rotterdam
Friday – Cleaning my apartment
Friday morning I was called by Job that one lady wouldn’t come to Rotterdam, and that person was one of the two drivers. So there was a small chaos… what to do???? Trains, something else… After some sms-ing and ICQ contact, they arranged and I was informed that Katja from Münster didn’t went hitchhiking as planned but driving four people from Osnabrück to Rotterdam, what a nice person!
The whole day I was cleaning the house. I did all the rooms, I started with my living room, then with the bathroom. In the meantime I went to the supermarket to buy some drinks, since the meeting point was my house in the evening. In the afternoon I went to the centre to buy some stuff. In the afternoon, I cleaned the kitchen and also the rest of the bathroom. After the dinner, I started with the sleeping room, which was a big mess, since the last weeks I cleaned my living room by putting stuff from there to my sleeping room, so it looked like a storage room :)
I wasn’t finished with making order in my sleeping room, when Kati came at half past eight. Not that much later came Lars and Job. Lars had a nice home made German cake with him, and also Kati had some candies with her. So, we had something nice to eat and drink while waiting on Osnabrück. Also since they all three were there, I could do some more getting order in my sleeping room. At eight the first car arrived in Rotterdam, they drove to the central station, and didn’t knew how to come to my place. They didn’t prepared for all, no maps, no address, no print out of the map I’ve sent. :)
I told them where to go to which street and also which neighbourhood, when I didn’t heard for 20 minutes anything I called one person. They were still at central station. So, I called Jochem to get the phone number of his cousin Pieterkoen, since he was on his way to me by car. While I was calling Jochem, Pieterkoen called me on my other phone. So I was talking to both on the same time, which was a bit confusing for them :)
Pieterkoen drove me to the Central station, and there we picked up the group. Julia went directly with Pieterkoen to his house, since he was lodging this Ukraine girl. I went in the car of Clement. With my guidance he drove us to my house. In the meantime the other car arrived at my house.
When I entered my apartment, Maria told me there is a good thing and a bad thing, the good thing is that they all arrived and the bad thing is that the hat rack of me was fallen down out of the wall…. Mister Marco was the last to hang his coat, and there were to many on them, and it broke out of the wall. So, when everybody entered my crib, we were there with ten friends from Osnabrück and nine persons from Rotterdam. So, it was a full house. After a small talk, I divided the people under the lodgers, and they went home, to bring their stuff and then the meeting point was eleven at the Irish Pub for the first party!
Maria and Maja were staying at my place, we walked from my house to the Irish pub, but some were a bit slow we came at 23.50; instead of 20 minutes we walked 40 minutes…. But we were still not the last. The band was very good as usual, and we had to leave at 2.30 since then the pub closed.
A group went to have some food, Kebab, and therefore I had even one more person at my place, the presidente of AEGEE Osnabrück, Irena. So we went to bed around 4. At eight I was already awake, but I got out at 10.15; I made, after shower and shopping at the supermarket, I made the brunch for the three ladies.
Saturday – the longest city walk & Honda Party!
After brunch we walked to the city hall, we arrived at 12.50 a bit later then I hoped, but it was ok :). Since the weather was not that nice, some rain came out of the sky, Pieterkoen arranged six big umbrella’s from his work, the free newspaper Metro; and that was great. Lars and Job made a great plan of the city tour.
We had some stops, the first was in the St. Laurenschurch, where they also could see some pictures how the city centre looked like after the bombing. After that we had another “lunch break” stop, most of them bought the BIG warm “Stroopwafel”, the typical Dutch treat. We walked then to the Saturday market, where we gave 30 minutes time to do shopping and eating, many persons bought kilo’s of cheese, and besides Job, Irena tried the Dutch Haring. Our walk continued with the cubic houses, and most of them even went inside this museum, I went also inside, I could have gone in for free since I come there often with friends, but I talked with the owner about the latest news of all the cubic houses, nowadays the costs 200.000 euros for instance.
After this we walked to our social meeting place, Pardoen to have something to drink. We continued our city walk, by going over the Willemsbridge to the south side of Rotterdam. From there we walked to the Hotel New York to end in Café Rotterdam for another drink and also another Dutch treat bitterballen. Finally the last part was the walk over the Erasmusbridge and in the outdoor maritime museum.
We made groups for the dinner afterwards. Some people went first to “the Act” to buy some stuff, green stuff ;) I made dinner for 4 ladies, Nasi Goreng and as desert Dutch “Vla” with whipped cream. After this they refreshed themselves and we went to the Hondo party at Rogier’s and Arjan’s Crib.
It was a great party, there came many members of AEGEE-Rotterdam, I could be the DJ, and many people joined the Hondo game, with the Rotterdam style ending Gold Strike! Also later in the evening some people were kissing….. The party ended at 5.30; again three ladies slept at my place and we went to bed after 6 in the morning….
Sunday - Museum and Swimming pool
At 10.30 I was able to get out of my bed, and already at 11.15 the first participant arrived the nice Chinese girl. At one all the participants were at my place and also some lodgers. Most of them went to the museum and shopping, just Maria, Irena and me went out to go swimming.
This was great, in this way we could relax a bit more. At ten before five we were home, I was scared to be the last, but we were the first. Some 20 minutes later the rest came, and the left all back to Osnabrück.
After they left and we said goodbye, Lars, Job and me went to the Chinese to buy dinner, and we ate at my place. At seven they left, and I was home alone again ;)
So, it was a wonderful weekend, I hope the next mini exchange will be as great as this one!
Friday morning I was called by Job that one lady wouldn’t come to Rotterdam, and that person was one of the two drivers. So there was a small chaos… what to do???? Trains, something else… After some sms-ing and ICQ contact, they arranged and I was informed that Katja from Münster didn’t went hitchhiking as planned but driving four people from Osnabrück to Rotterdam, what a nice person!
The whole day I was cleaning the house. I did all the rooms, I started with my living room, then with the bathroom. In the meantime I went to the supermarket to buy some drinks, since the meeting point was my house in the evening. In the afternoon I went to the centre to buy some stuff. In the afternoon, I cleaned the kitchen and also the rest of the bathroom. After the dinner, I started with the sleeping room, which was a big mess, since the last weeks I cleaned my living room by putting stuff from there to my sleeping room, so it looked like a storage room :)
I wasn’t finished with making order in my sleeping room, when Kati came at half past eight. Not that much later came Lars and Job. Lars had a nice home made German cake with him, and also Kati had some candies with her. So, we had something nice to eat and drink while waiting on Osnabrück. Also since they all three were there, I could do some more getting order in my sleeping room. At eight the first car arrived in Rotterdam, they drove to the central station, and didn’t knew how to come to my place. They didn’t prepared for all, no maps, no address, no print out of the map I’ve sent. :)
I told them where to go to which street and also which neighbourhood, when I didn’t heard for 20 minutes anything I called one person. They were still at central station. So, I called Jochem to get the phone number of his cousin Pieterkoen, since he was on his way to me by car. While I was calling Jochem, Pieterkoen called me on my other phone. So I was talking to both on the same time, which was a bit confusing for them :)
Pieterkoen drove me to the Central station, and there we picked up the group. Julia went directly with Pieterkoen to his house, since he was lodging this Ukraine girl. I went in the car of Clement. With my guidance he drove us to my house. In the meantime the other car arrived at my house.
When I entered my apartment, Maria told me there is a good thing and a bad thing, the good thing is that they all arrived and the bad thing is that the hat rack of me was fallen down out of the wall…. Mister Marco was the last to hang his coat, and there were to many on them, and it broke out of the wall. So, when everybody entered my crib, we were there with ten friends from Osnabrück and nine persons from Rotterdam. So, it was a full house. After a small talk, I divided the people under the lodgers, and they went home, to bring their stuff and then the meeting point was eleven at the Irish Pub for the first party!
Maria and Maja were staying at my place, we walked from my house to the Irish pub, but some were a bit slow we came at 23.50; instead of 20 minutes we walked 40 minutes…. But we were still not the last. The band was very good as usual, and we had to leave at 2.30 since then the pub closed.
A group went to have some food, Kebab, and therefore I had even one more person at my place, the presidente of AEGEE Osnabrück, Irena. So we went to bed around 4. At eight I was already awake, but I got out at 10.15; I made, after shower and shopping at the supermarket, I made the brunch for the three ladies.
Saturday – the longest city walk & Honda Party!
After brunch we walked to the city hall, we arrived at 12.50 a bit later then I hoped, but it was ok :). Since the weather was not that nice, some rain came out of the sky, Pieterkoen arranged six big umbrella’s from his work, the free newspaper Metro; and that was great. Lars and Job made a great plan of the city tour.
We had some stops, the first was in the St. Laurenschurch, where they also could see some pictures how the city centre looked like after the bombing. After that we had another “lunch break” stop, most of them bought the BIG warm “Stroopwafel”, the typical Dutch treat. We walked then to the Saturday market, where we gave 30 minutes time to do shopping and eating, many persons bought kilo’s of cheese, and besides Job, Irena tried the Dutch Haring. Our walk continued with the cubic houses, and most of them even went inside this museum, I went also inside, I could have gone in for free since I come there often with friends, but I talked with the owner about the latest news of all the cubic houses, nowadays the costs 200.000 euros for instance.
After this we walked to our social meeting place, Pardoen to have something to drink. We continued our city walk, by going over the Willemsbridge to the south side of Rotterdam. From there we walked to the Hotel New York to end in Café Rotterdam for another drink and also another Dutch treat bitterballen. Finally the last part was the walk over the Erasmusbridge and in the outdoor maritime museum.
We made groups for the dinner afterwards. Some people went first to “the Act” to buy some stuff, green stuff ;) I made dinner for 4 ladies, Nasi Goreng and as desert Dutch “Vla” with whipped cream. After this they refreshed themselves and we went to the Hondo party at Rogier’s and Arjan’s Crib.
It was a great party, there came many members of AEGEE-Rotterdam, I could be the DJ, and many people joined the Hondo game, with the Rotterdam style ending Gold Strike! Also later in the evening some people were kissing….. The party ended at 5.30; again three ladies slept at my place and we went to bed after 6 in the morning….
Sunday - Museum and Swimming pool
At 10.30 I was able to get out of my bed, and already at 11.15 the first participant arrived the nice Chinese girl. At one all the participants were at my place and also some lodgers. Most of them went to the museum and shopping, just Maria, Irena and me went out to go swimming.
This was great, in this way we could relax a bit more. At ten before five we were home, I was scared to be the last, but we were the first. Some 20 minutes later the rest came, and the left all back to Osnabrück.
After they left and we said goodbye, Lars, Job and me went to the Chinese to buy dinner, and we ate at my place. At seven they left, and I was home alone again ;)
So, it was a wonderful weekend, I hope the next mini exchange will be as great as this one!
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