It will be a challenge for you Dutchies, and one for me to spell correct :-) or corectly structure my phraises :-S Preston is still great, the weather on the other hand is really bad. I still get ill a lot. :-( Coral says it are the British germs that infect me, which I am not used at...haha...she might be right. I am ill a lot here, and most of the time it lasts for more than a week. So I'm drinking tea with honey again.
I've done my first presentation last Friday! It was so awesome! I had to talk about otherness in advertisement (otherness=different) so of course Do chose: gays! The research already was a lot of fun, I found out about Gay-window advertising, which basically means the advertiser addresses gays by codes only they know! It's so smart! Still it is a pity they only address and not represent...but I am fighting for the gays in my own little way over here :-) This Saturday I took Coral to the gaybar for her very first time, it was so much fun! Which made me think of my first time....Nine? You remember? I went to the COC Amsterdam on my own. It was soooo scary! But thanx to my amazing family I never had to worry about standing alone in the fight against acceptance and discrimination. And yes, dad, I showed her 'If these walls could talk 2' as well. And in good memmory I danced around the room at the end!
School is going well, today I handed in my first large essay of 2500 words, it was a lot of fun to write. I argued that within this advertisement, it is Ellen DeGeneres that sells the product because of her life story. Basically, I find my ways to write almost everything here about gays. I was not able to chose any subject I wanted but I sure picked the right ones because I get a lot of freedom and I am able to do what I love; write about brilliant creative tricks in advertisement.
My next essay will be about 'Men look at women, women watch themselves being looked at.' John Berger. I will be exploring this comment and give examples within advertisement. Isn't my study awesome!? :-D
I had the best lunch with Stacey the other day. I really really connect with her. We think the same. It is so good to see that when I'm patient and I just stay myself, new people come into my life and brighten it up every time. I'm beginning to feel better and better. I don't care about the weather getting worse and worse! :-P I'm having such a good time over here. And slowly I am forgetting about everything that happened before I left the Netherlands. New thinks came along and I forgot for a second how much love I have in my life. My family is so important :-) And lately I am having more contact with Marleen again as well, I'm really happy with that.
I am also preparing for USA more. And I am especially exited about going home to Holland. I miss all the people that I love and the culture I feel so comfortable in. And I miss the Albert Hein!!!!
I will miss talking English, I love that language, you can make so many jokes! I will miss the carelessness of the campus and I will miss the friends I made here. But I think I will not lose any, friends are just like stars: you can't always see them, but you know they are there...(soo lame, but very true)
Well that's it for now! :-)
Oh and a suggestion for when I come back:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB3NPNM4xgo
Haha! I expect you all there singing for me!
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