Saturday, July 29, 2006

I have been going to see Maia play tennis for the last few days. Today, however, she didn't have any games. I tried to convince her to let me break her loose (she was complaining that the program is very strict), but I guess she wanted to hang out with her friends since she won't see them again in the near future, totally understandable. So, today I luxuriated in bed for awhile. Got up for breakfast and a mango smoothy, planned my day, then went back to sleep glamorously. It's very hard to sleep in the hostel because there are 17 other people in my room and people are always going in and out and rustling around and whatnot. So, I was overly tired and needed to catch up. Oh and I love sleeping. There's that as well...When I woke up again I went to the Van Gogh museum, which was cool, then laid in a park nearby and read my book. It's so good. It's called The Place at the End of the World. It's written by a journalist who goes into war zones and reports on the perspectives of the people who have no voice. Very informative, but readable, which is always good with a nonfiction book in my opinion. I often get bogged down and can't finish non-fiction books because they are so informative that I feel like I have to soak up ALL the knowledge contained in the book. Then I get frustrated because I don't progress with the book quickly and then I generally give it up halfway through or something. Ridiculous. I know. I just got through the Anne Frank museum. Oh the Holocaust. They had a cool movie thing at the end where it presented different rights - they were using the example of freedom of the press as an example and asking questions like if someone is promoting Holocaust denial, should that be cracked down upon. Basically it was looking at the balancing of rights. It was basic for me, but I think for other people, probably not. These might not be things that people generally think about. So, I was impressed by that. Tonight the hostel people are having a movie and discussion night - sounds good in theory. I thought it might be a God related movie, but no - they are watching and discussing Batman Returns...So bizarre. Not exactly what I was hoping for. So I am trying to avoid the place until then. But my dinner is there...So tomorrow I might try to go to the Dutch Resistance museum. I went to the war documentation center yesterday before going to Maia's game and they didn't let me in because I wasn't doing research. But I just wanted to look around and find out about their mission statement etc. Mmmmm war documentation. But oh well. So, the resistance museum may be kind of what I am looking for. Then I will head back to the tennis stadium. It's the last or second to last day of playing. Maia leaves the day after tomorrow. I am almost positive that I will be meeting a friend in Frankfurt and I'm not sure what the plan is from there. Things have gotten a bit confusing...We'll see what happens and I will keep everyone updated...since I'm obsessed with the internet at this stage in my life...

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