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Name: Eline
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Birthday: 4/23/1990
Gender: Female
Interests: I LOVE my guitar! and TURQUOISE things. (that one's for u Surya!) what else.. And my friends of course! I like anythin that's different.. My music!! Anyone who wants a slap in the face just needs to say that sailing is boring! Discovery channel is NOT for weirdos or nerds. And chemistry, biology and music r cool subjects!! Umm. :P I shall stop now.
Expertise: singing in the showahh
Occupation: Retired
Industry: Entertainment
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
MSN: p_eline@hotmail.com
Member Since:
5/29/2005
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| Mkay, the story is that I'm moving for the 12th time.. and I must say; I've been finding some pretty interesting things in my room. Ranging from creative writing pieces to candy lingerie.. I can't show you the latter online. It would be very much indecent. So that's why I'm posting some of my creative writing from dutch english classes. Does that make sense? Hehe. English classes in my dutch school. Better?
Describing a Personal Experience
All I could do was stare. Just stare. Four days of Lowlands (..a music festival) left me in a state of mind that have not yet been able to accustom to. Never before have I gone for four days with so little sleep, so much beer and goodness knows what else. My mind wasn't cooperating when I tried to remember which bands I had seen. All I could think about, as I listened to the steady clanking on the train rails, was a nice hot bath. Lowlands had not only affected my mind but had also deprived me of my basic needs. I am not complaining though, because it was my own choice not to stand in the shower queue for more than 2hrs!
As I realised that the train was approaching my train station, I woke up from my trance and noticed that everyone else was just as drugged as I was. I looked around and saw punks, hippies and tourists lying on their backpacks which were stacked against the walls. I was lucky to be able to get a little seat in the corner next to the doors, while the rest had to make do with the steps and the floor.
This was when I realised I had quite a bit of a problem: How was I going to get out? There was nowhere to walk with my backpack, tent and shoulder bag! The train started coming to a halt and as it did I finally announced my situation to my co-lowlanders. The hippie sitting next to me suggested first throwing my tent out onto the platform. Next thing I knew, it was actually sailing through the air and it landed with a loud thump. Then came my backpack rolling out of the train for we were too afraid to throw it in case of by-passers. This finally left myself, apologising and thanking everyone as I waded my way through the crowd, scrambling over their luggage, out of the train at last.
'Fresh air!' I thought to myself, and picked up my belongings. I was about to start my walk to the busstop when I heard a voice. Deep, rich and loud calling "Hey!" I spun around to see where it was coming from but all I could see were a pair of bright green eyes with specks of blue and brown. The sun sparkled in them and made the specks appear to dance.. And there was a smile. Wow.. that smile. And a wave of black. Black? There it was again. And another flash that put an end to my trance. It was my shoulder bag being waved in my face. My shoulder bag containing my camera, iPod, new phone, wallet, ID card, bus ticket and an apple.
Date: somewhere in Sept '07
Waheeey! What a waste of internet space. And 3mins of your life.
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| (this was written quite some time ago.. before i turned 18. And now I finally decided to post it.. I added parts tho.. the longboard bit for instance) Enjoy!
When I grow up I wanna travel.
See the world.. Listen to music..
(on both big and small festivals..)
I will ride camels.. Climb mountains..
Float in the dead sea.. Sleep in a cave..
And Surf. Wherever I can.
I will dance beneath the stars..
and play guitar by the campfire.
Make long journeys with a donkey,
but my VW can come along, too.
I will take the most beautiful photos..
documentaries even..! Because I can.
I will have a house near the beach,
with a special longboard rack.
But by the time you've grown up and are allowed more.. it will seem as if you can do less, because you have to make choices. And set priorities. And then shout out that you don't want that. Because you want it all!!
Yeah, is that not possible? Why can't you just have it all? Doesn't everything turn out just fine and dandy once you grow up?
Well.. apparently not. Because you will have to study, work and earn a living.
So when does that part come? Where you grow up.. and are allowed everything? Or was it simply too much to ask for?
But hey.. 18 is a little bit grown up. And I'm going to Portugal. Surfing. My first *solo* journey.
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| Last time I wrote, I had just turned 17.. a lot has changed since then!
Perhaps ur thinkin.. what's up with her? Why is she starting the blog thing all over again all of a sudden? Isn't facebook good enough for updating each other on all the happenings?
Well, that's the thing. I'm not going to write about the 'happenings' so much anymore.. I've come up with a new kind of (more grown up!!) approach which is... thoughts. -YAY!- ..Why bother? It's just something for myself to read and reflect on later on. If I'm starting to sound like a douche then uhmm.. i agree  Anyhow, my resolution before blowing the life back into my blog is that I'm going to stop using the f-word so much. I've considered erasing it all from the previous posts.. But I thought nahh.. whatever.. that's what 16yr olds write and talk like. They just do. Even if their mommy and daddy say it's bad.
Sooo.. I'm gonna have to start with a short update. Mmmkaaaay.. this is what my life has been like since I last wrote.
In the summer I moved from the grandparents' house in Oss to my parents' house in Almere. The highlight of the summer was definately the sailing we did in Turkey. Pictures are up on facebook. Words can't describe the tranquil blue waters and the jaw-dropping scenery.. *daydreams* This summer I also developed a phobia for hairdressers. -uhh.. what?- yes. Why is that when you ask them for a trim, you always end up walking out of the place with a near BOBLINE??? The layers that I had were sabotaged and I had to get my mom to fix what she could :S Uhmm.. that is why I haven't had a haircut in almost 1.5yrs. I suppose I'm almost like those ppl who have dentist phobias. They'd rather let their teeth rot than be put into the hands of those sadists. Can I blame them? Hmm.. I'm not saying that my hair's gone rotten. It has just seen better days. Anyhow, I think I have enuf money at the moment to go to a REAL hairdresser next week!! I'll summon up all my courage and JUST DO IT.
argh. this was supposed to be short. I'm drifting off enormously.
Next phase of the year was SCHOOL. What can I say, I met some awesome ppl. Some of them who i just 'do stuff' with. Some who I can laugh with.. and even some who influenced my clothing style (am now a loyal dry denim wearer.. look 'nudie jeans' up for instance) but that's only cuz it reflects who I am. More on that later I suppose. Again, I've become known as the 'exotic island girl' in my class. How this happens.. I'm not entirely sure. But I think it's the attitude 
One major happening in the 'school phase' is that I actually failed my exams :( The rly rotten thing is that if i only scored 2 more points on my maths exam, I would've graduated just like everyone else! Maths wasn't the only problem though.. When I took my chemistry exam I was having a reeeally bad day. Exhaustion was taking over which caused me to completely lose it when I couldn't answer the first question of the exam. I knew that i knew the answer.. (cuz it was EASY) but it wasn't coming to me because of a massive brain wipeout. Block. Whatever.
Anyway, this is the reason I'm repeating the year. I'm at a different school where I only retake the subjects I want. I chose to do both chemistry and maths even though I only have to pass one. It's just safer this way. Next to this I also took biology.. Just to keep it up I suppose, because it's reeally amazing how quickly you forget things! And as most ppl know by now, I'm going to be a marine biologist! So... it's just a tiny little detail that it's important to not forget things I learned in high school of course..
Another major thing that's happening right now are driving lessons! I took up a parttime job (waitressing, what else) to pay for it.. since my daddy is refusing to contribute.. but whatever, I'm not gonna whine and complain that ALL my friends are getting driving lessons for their birthdays and all that. Maybe this is actually even better because it will force me to do my best and pass the exam in one go since it's my own slavery money. I'm so so so excited about getting my driver's license because i believe that this is a huge step towards complete independence. And ppl that know me will know that i believe independence is pretty much the ultimate.
I can now say that I've summed up just about all the key parts of the past year.. so now the 'real' writing can commence :)
later! X
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| Hulloooo world!!!
wow.. im gettin so excited. my time has nearly come! bahaha. Sounds like i'm about to die. but i'm not. I'm movin places again. yeaps! I've just finished my exams over here.. I've got absolutely no clue bout how i did, but i think it went aite, cept for my dutch oral which I'm resitting 2mrw. I still find it rly hard makin myself clear in dutch.. it's a shite language haha. Everyone shud just speak english or sumthin. I reckon that would solve sooo many problems. But unfortunately it's not the case, so I'll have to live with it and have my re-sit 2mrw anyway.
Right now, I'm on a break from packing stuff.. I'm very slow paced today, but then on the other hand.. what's the hurry rite!! It's weird tho. Since i've started packing.. my room only looks more like it's been thru some nuclear war. seriously!! it was kinda cleaned up before I started putting stuff in boxes.. and now there's papers all over the floor. shoes everywhere.. goodness me!!
Raaah! there's so many things to be psyched about rite now.
-the rest of the family is coming back
-i'm getting my OWN room which means i can do whatever i want to it. Maybe I should become an interior designer and not a biologist.. hmm.. is it too late? lol
-we're gettin a HOUSE. finally!! a place of our own hahah (and yeap, again, i can feel the interior designer in me pleading for leading this new project. Choosing colours and furniture n stuff teehee. We were shopping for new stuff like kitchen stuff and towels, and dad was about to choose bright green and pink ones but i immediately disapproved haha. some ppl just have no taste! teehee jk.
-I'm goin SURFING on saturday. yeaaaahhh thas right biatches!! okay, it's a surfing clinic but still. It was quite awsm how i came across it. I was just browsing the dutch roxy site cuz i was bored of homework (ahem). And happened to come across 'new events'. So i looked, and there was this shite about a new roxy surf film.. and in order to promote it they want to promote surfing amongst the girlies.. and thas why they had these surfing clinic things. It's awsm, it costs 24,95 for a whole day. including board/wetsuit rental and all. plus u get a goodie bag with surf mags n shite.. yalala! There's also a BBQ in the evening. a woohoo! :P
-Well.. skool is nearly over. one more week! i'm not rly sure what we're gonna do but I actually think we're basically free. We'll probly only have to hand in our books and pick up our reports and all that. There's another BBQ on monday with the whole class. and our tutors will be there too, so that shud be a gud laugh i think!
And now comes another rly rly rly rly big highlight for next weekend! I'M GOIN TO THE 'ARROW ROCK FESTIVAL'!!!! Hell Yeaaahh! it's gonna be brilliant cuz aerosmith is coming, toto and scorpions amongst some other great people. ZZ top just cancelled so that's a HUGE bummer. but i'm soooo psyched abwt it. hahaah!
hmmkaaay.. the packin is gettin nowheeeere. ima get back to it now.
greetz
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| Okay.. i think it is now my duty to post a REAL update for u ppl.. I shall start at a few weeks ago when the italians were here. Italians are awesome people :D most the guys wear black sunnies, listen to metallica and are called... francesco. heh! Aaand they get pissed after only 2 beers. At parties this usually results in them hugging everyone and ..stripping :P (for pics, check out my exchange site!) One of the guys said Ólanda = PARADISO!! XD after a day in amsterdam ;) U know what im talkin abwt yea :P One of them had a rly big mouth tellin everyone that he brought money with him to go see the hoes but I don't think he was prepared to spend 50 euros in 20mins after all hahaa! so they went to the coffeeshop instead.
After a whole day in amsterdam we had our birthday party. There was a delay however.. the bus was an hour late because of a traffic jam so me and Luca were pissed that we were more than 3 hrs late at our own party! hahaha. When we got home the party was still in full swing thank goodness! It was definately a mean night. >>combine 120 people, 150 liters of beer, all the mixed drinks, good music and wadaya get  << hell yea. Unfortunately everyone was too busy partying to remember to take photos.. but i do have pics of us cleaning up ..which is not quite the same. hmmm.
The following monday it was my actual birthday and it was kinda crap to say the least.. but hey, better luck next year huh. i DID have another party that nite tho.. It was someone else's party and i DO have awesome pics from it. So maybe it wasn't such a crap day after all :P ahahaha!
OOH breakfast is calling. laters!
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