Merry christmas and happy new year

Hey Family!

How are you?

I wanna wish a merry christmas and happy new year!
I hope you all happiness , healthiness,love&luck

Last year in Amsterdam has been unforgettable.When I look back to all this year I've spend next to you I can't even believe all the things we did together , all those picnics, parties , roadtrips ,etc...I can't believe that all those memories come from only one year.It seems much more.We were so productives ,weren't we?
And I can't stop thinking either about the day I decided to go to Amsterdam in Erasmus instead of going to Edinburg and I realize how good my decision was .Probably, one of the best of my life.Because I know it wouldn't have been so great.

So I am not gonna wish you a happier 2009 than 2008 was , because I know it is quite impossible, but I am gonna wish you all to take again as good decisions as the one choosing Amsterdam that will bring you to where u want and to where u deserve to be.


Very Impacient to see the ones we are lucky to welcome very soon in Barcelona!!
I couldn't imagine a better way to start 2009 than with the people that made 2008 exeptional, simply " the days of my life".
And to the others ,
believe us , you'll be with us,in our hearts.

Love u ,

Hélène

..........GOinG BaCk TrIP ................. ................GrEaT MeMoRiEs.....................

Hey!!

Family!!, I went back to our lovely city. It was werid. Yes, I miss you all soo much. But yes, I also had much fun...
Usually I start writing without thinking too much, but this trip I don´t know how to describe it., so I just will say what I remember I did, because I ended every day a bit stoned and "cervezoso" (beer-ing).

DAY1: I arrived on friday in Schipoll Airport, and until I heard the tipicall noise every 2 minutes which I used to dream with time ago ( "MaMu- Me") , I didn´t realized I was back. I meet my friend in Central Station at 6 and she took me directly to have some beers with my bag. After a couple of beers and joints I realized I leaved my bike on sarphati 4 months ago. We went there, but I was expecting no bike. I arrived there and get inside the "yellow" and that was so, so, so, so, fucking weird... I checked in the parking because I kept my keys, but no bike there.. I decided to talk to Tom, and after he saying this year there are no more partys and me saying sorry to him because of the ones of last year, I am not sorry at all, he come with me to check in the fucking "purple". And you now what??? Sudently, my bike showed up and said she was missing me so much.. Amazing!! After 4 months my bike still alive...
Before leaving, I went to see my place the 145 L room, but after feeling my body with "chicken-skin" I wasn´t brave enough to get inside.. So we had another beer and we went to her place. She leaved close to Erasmus Park, in other part of the city.. When I arrived there I realiced that I was supposed to be at Sara´s at 9. It was already 10.. After having dinner and biking through the hole city like "Flash", I arrived there. I had been some times in that house before.., but it didn´t look like it used at all. Kind of different decoration, different people, new porsh style (Sara´s brand..), but there where two faces I knew: Sara and Judith. We had some pictures and some beers and we went to Hotel Arena. We had much fun.. Ask Sara.. I haven´t seen her so drunk never..
I am going to summarize the trip because if not this will never end..

DAY2: I woke up I don´t know at what time, and I went to fix my bike. I had lunch and I went to my friends second house "Green house effect", one of the "survivors" places where you can still smoke and drink.. We stayed there until ¿?? and then my friend was tired of the nitgh before and went to sleep. I meet another friend there and we went to melgwek.

Day3: I meet directly my friend in a coffee at ¿?¿ because I don´t know what happened in this trip with our watches that where completly not working.. It was sunny so I made her and a friend of her a touristic visit of the city. ( one more) We went to VondelPark (not Picnoc this time), MuseumPlein( I AMSTERDAM and a new one..) some Coffeshops( I was making a hash collection to send..) and suddently Maciek called me ( yes the polish guy..). I took my friend to the bar by the Amstel hotel, the one which had sofas out side and a great cold coffee, and I told Maciek to meet there. Biking to the bar, I heard "Conde!" with a familiar voice, and I was thinking who can be this?? And suddently I looked foward and you know who was?? Fucking Ernest!! He recognice me. We talk a bit and then we left. Was great to see him.
Finally we arrived to the summer bar (it was not summer at all that day...) and I meet Maciek.We talked a lot about how our lives had change in just 4 months!!!!! He was not too happy, he told me Amsterdam is not the same any more.. But I had a great idea and we 4 went to our "Dards Bar". We had some beers as usuall... And we played. It was so easy because Maciek is not exactly Robin Hood, and my friend was as bad as you Robin..hehe. I am sorry man.. When I was there the bar-man recogniced me and asked me why I used to come so often before and not now.. I told him thay unfortunately, I was not living here any more.. At that moment I wanted to bet some beers at cricket, but no Adria, no Moflo, no Joan.... I just bet myself..And yes! I won..hehe (I know.. , really bad joke). After 2 hours there Maciek left and we had some beers in another bar and we went home.

DAY4: We woke up at ¿?, we had lunch, and we went to Cocos at 5 or 6( happy hour). We had 1 mojito, 2 mojitos, 3 mojitos........, 8 mojitos!! And the happy hour finished... We were a bit drunk already but the day just started.. so we went to have some beers to my friend second house, again! At ¿? I was already "cervezoso" , but some times I have great ideas. I realized it was monday so I told my friend to go to Winston. It was Drumm&Bass nitgh. Too much dancing, too many beers, too much money wasted, some joints, much fun, and at ?¿ the bar close.. Now it was time to try to get home, well, time to try to find before the bike and go home.. Once there, we eat something, some beers, some joints and ZzZzZz...

DAY5: It was time to send the letters. So it was the Coffe-Shop day. We went to Barneys, Dampkrim, BaBa, ....... I waste some more money and I made the letters. Before going to the best bar ever, I met Sarah in a Bar. We had some beers and she took me to the Borrel..It was at shitty as usual.. Afterwards we went to a new Bar, we met a friend of my friend, we had dinner and we went to my favourite bar: The Doos. The best Bar ever was open as usual, was cheap as usual, and I don´t have to tell you how we finished.. As usual..hehe.

DAY6 ( LAST DAY): We woke up at ¿?¿, had lunch and we went to the bar we used to go.. Beer, beer, beer, joint, beer, beer,... And sudently we realized we had not to much money.. So my friend had the idea of insted of having dinner eat a muffin and was like dinner and also an investment... So we did.. I had to tell you that my plane left from Eindhoven at 9.15, so I had to be in Central at 6.. Long trip, possiblilities of loosing the plain, risk, as usual.. The "cake" made its effect and we laugh a lot.. We had some beers until the money was over.. So it was time to go home, finish the luggage and rest a bit. When I realized I was at her place with everything done but it was 4.. Finally I knew the time.. So I rest 1 hour and I left to Central. I loked my bike and I hid the key and I went to Eindhoven. My friend found the bike and the key, so my bike is definetly a survaivor...


Well, this has been my "GoinG BaCk TrIp".. Maybe too long, but I really wanted to let you all know how it was, how where my feelings... In conclusion, I have to say that the first day was weird, I also went directly to Sarphati (and this was really hard...), but I am really happy because I have seen the city still great. Of course it has nothing to be without all you, but I realized that is possible to come back and have fun.. I was really worried about it..Remember family, Amstedam still Amsterdam (even being just half without you ...).
After this trip, I have to say that I have the willing, the wish, and I really think that some day, somehow we will all go back, just for a week, just for a weekend, just for a day, maybe just for some hours.. And if it is not possible, just close your eyes and we will all be in Sarphati.. Our memories will always be there, will always stay with us..

Missing you a lot..

kisses and hugs

....Conde....

Ps1: If you want to see the pictures click them... I am not good enough in computers as you know..

Ps2: ....Always Remembering, Never Forgeting....

RaSTa MoFLo in NY

Hi everyone!

This is Crazy Dancing-Chichotte-Moflo writing his second post. As some of you may know, i came back from NYC two days ago. I just wanted to let u all know that my experience there was awesome; if you haven´t been there yet, i highly recommend you to go as soon as you have a chance because it really worths it. Unfortunately, Mahsa and i weren´t able to see each other because of the distance between both states, nevertheless i had a great time with my family and some other friends from Madrid that also joined us.

When i was arriving to the US, during the flight we had to fill in a document answering some questions like "do u suffer from a contagious sickness?" or "are u a member of any terrorist organisation?". At the beginning i thought it was some kind of joke, but i changed my mind when the father of my friend was kept inside a little room for two hours because the US police thought that he was a drug dealer. When finally he was released we went directly to the Hotel we booked for that was in the fucking middle of Manhattan!! I shared my room with my bro and a friend of mine called "John the drunk" (direct translation from his spanish nickname haha); our room was in the 28th floor and our bathroom sink was always full of ice with cans of beer haha.
Even though i was there only for five days, i was able to see plenty of things: Statue of Liberty (you have to take a ferry to the island where it is, and it´s not that big!) Wall Street (it´s really cool), China Town (you can buy fake watches really cheap), Soho ( I went to a great restaurant with live jazz music), Central Park (it´s fucking huge and amazingly beautiful), The Dakota Building (Where John Lennon was murdered), The Empire State (no words to express the feeling you have when you are the top of it = 86 floor!!), Times Square (incredible during the night, epileptic attack!) Brooklyn (it´s the Orthodox Jewish neighborhood, they are completely crazy!) Queens(another neighborhood that belongs to Long Island) and even part of The Bronx (It´s fucking unbelievable but it´s really dangerous).

By the way, Adria your post touched me deep inside and thank you so much for the ultimate sarphati remix, it brings me plenty of good memories. Can´t wait any longer for new year´s eve guys, it´s only two weeks away (Mahsa i will miss you so much that day!)

Love you all. Moflooooooooo

Razz Mataz

I´ve been a while wanting to post this picture. If you close your eyes and open them again...it could be perfectly one wednesday in paradiso. After that amazing post of Adria I think I wont be able to express better what I feel right now...I just want to tell u that I had the best year of my life with the best family ever,

Lots of love

chimo

P.D: This is on Razz Mataz, when Robin came and Hector and Conde join us by surprise.

Sarphati Mix

It's Adria again. As I told you about a week ago I usually get bored while I'm studying. There was this one thing I've been trying to do since I came back: the Ultimate Sarphati Mix. This is something we discussed with Moflo, Conde and Robin when we were enjoying (¿?) our last days in Sarphati. We came up with like a 100 songs and then we selected 48, enough for 3 hours of music. We divided the songs in 3 groups, 16 songs each. The first album was meant to show the kind of music we used to listen when we went partying (or in Moflo-Conde's room). The second one was basically intended to have Paradiso-Melkweg related songs. The third album, the touching one, was supposed to be filled with songs we used to listen in Sarphati. Or at least that was the plan... then everything ended up all messed up and we even included a german drunk song in the Paradiso album. But, the main thing is that most of these songs will bring you back to Amsterdam and will make you think of the fun and tears we shared. Enjoy listening:

DOWNLOAD CD 1

DOWNLOAD CD 2

DOWNLOAD CD 3

*If there's any problem with any link, let me know.

First Time Hurts

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Yeah, I'm still an alcoholic and I still haven't get rid of my yellow raincoat. I was looking for some cool pictures of Matadepera to show you guys, but all I found were drunk faces, so I decided to hang my drunk face in Matadepera.

You're not gonna believe this... It's my first post in here! Shame on me. It's gonna be quick and painless. Since I came back from our city I've been thinking of us in there. I miss all that. Being with some of you back here in Barcelona it's been strange, specially with the ones I'm not usually seeing (people visiting for a couple of days). Why did it took me so long to write in here? Because it took me a long time to accept that we won't go back there. I mean, I knew, but I didn't wanna know. I'm studying for my exams now (again), so I have plenty of time to think (always a bad thing). I've been avoiding that kind of thoughts since july. Yeah, I'm that kind of weak person. Actually, today it's been the first day that I've opened the "Amsterdam" folder on My Pics. I watched like 20 of Moflo's videos and I realized that I miss being there with you guys, and that there's no point in hiding it from myself. It will be one of the best years of my life and it's basically because of you. Someday, when my son tells me that he's going to Amsterdam with some friends to smoke some weed and fuck some whores, I will be able to tell him that I was there many years ago with some friends that did that as well ("and what did you do there, daddy?") So, today, 2nd of december, I'm officially an ex-erasmus.

Everything here's fine. I've been seeing some of the catalan people often and I enjoyed all the visits as if I was back in Amsterdam. I've been reading and stalking (nice word, Mahsa) all the ones who I haven't got the chance to see (so far). I'm really looking forward to new year's eve in Barcelona. I hope I can see all of those who are not coming as soon as possible.

I miss hanging out with you guys. I miss you.

Hola tios que pasa ????

I came back from barlcelonafor a week now where i could practise my Spanish ( in a successful way i would say but probably joan and adria wouldn’t…) .

So, 2 amazing days started after a road trip quite strange to get there ( my driver was just crazy : driving on the emergency line sometimes and about 150km per hour in average (take your calculator mahsa…), Adria and Joan were kindly waiting for me ( actually we waited for mister late (joan) one more time..).

We went to Chimo’s place to meet Joan faus, Mariona, Hélène and Chimichimo.

Suddenly (as a Marisol pronunciation) fucking Hector and Conde ( of course…) appeared in the apartment ( surprise managed by Adria and them). So imagine the happiness of the moment that leads us to do only one thing: “let’s open the whisky bottle!”

We did it….

It was almost the same that being into a Sarphati’s room, even if of course lot of people were missing. We decided then to move to the famous “razzmatazz”.

I m not going to be able to tell u exactly what happened in the club cause things were not that clear in my mind, I just no one security guys wanted to kill me at the end, looking at me like a killer and screaming “que pasa, que pasa!!!”….nervous man

I have to noticed that I sleep with a barca cover that smelt like Etto or maybe it was adria‘s….don’t know.

Therefore after having a great lunch that only chimo as the secret, conde and I decide to make tourism…. Disaster, Conde being the worst guy of the history of humanity. So after five minutes in front of “Sagrada de familia” we went to starbuckcoffee……. No comment.

Fortunately Hector arrived and I got some really interesting information (normal it‘s hector you are probably thinking).

Besides, magic fountains;And we realized on of my dream by going to CAMP NOU to watch amazing match 6-0 for barca with Etto scoring 4 goals in one half and Messi playing like god ( even if Henry was a shame for me..).Nacho joined us (finally) as well.

We finished this great night by a lovely coffee.

On Sunday it was, first “burger kinggggggg”, then visit of the center with a “tapas lunch” and a last lovely coffee before Madrid people departure’s.

After that just the time for Adria, Joan and me to go to Newport Beach.., euh sorry to Barcelona port making fun about tourists and watching an amazing modern bridge…

Finally, these two days looks like a week, and it was just great to be with u guys cause when I’m with one or several of u, I don’t why, but I feel just happy.

So for these entire people thank u a lot for this week end.

And for all the other, see u soon, because being together now is the same and tha’s the more important thing.

Kisses and hugs from Toulouse forca barca

Naked women

Hey you guys!

I'm doing well here in Bergen; my days pass by with my psychology studies, my music and my friends. Additionally I'm acctually attending a drawing course, where I'm learning to draw protraits and nudes! It's so much fun!!!!

I was thinking; what pictures can I show from here that will reflect my life? It's not like I take pictures of everything I do.... So hey - how about showing a couple of my drawings??



I've never done anything like it before, so I'm expecting some improvement. But it's not to bad for a start? I really reccommend it for anyone who has ever considered taking courses in painting or drawing. It's great!

Btw; I hope noone is offended by me posting naked women on our webpage... If so, please just remove them. You can do it anonymous by editing this post, so don't hesitate!

With kind regards (and a loads of hugs and kisses!!!!!!!!!!!)
Mama Cathie

US belated news!

Hello to everybody!!

EEEhhhHHhhh!! It is so long since the last time I wrote in this “diary” and after having been so busy and offline, It is 2 am and I am awake enough to give up to speed to you guys!!!

The first thing I want and I’m obligated to do is thanking Mahsa for everything she did last month for my b.friend and me. THANKS for driving 7 hours alone from Tucson to Vegas, THANKS a LOT for the best suite ever, THANKS for making the end of our stay in US completely gorgeous with a great and wonderful Grand Canyon’s “movie-end” (leaving apart fucking low temperatures, remember?), Definitely going to Las Vegas with you was the best choice ever!! Mahsaaaaaaaaaa I miss you!!!

As I was describing, US trip was very nice, exciting, stimulating and a bit romantic too J. Jose and I stood 3 weeks in San Francisco, and we definitely loved it! You can smell the freedom everywhere!!! We went to an “interesting” S/M gay pride called “Folsom Street fair”, some street festivals, some parties, Alcatraz, golden gate bridge, a lot of cultural visits,…. After that, we went on an unplanned trip to LA, Vegas, flagstaff and Grand Canyon!! It was really fun and I spent absolutely needed time with B.friend after our “Erasmus break“…. Anyway, I don’t want to bore you with lot of info about the trip, I will do it face to face soon.

I,m in Madrid then, living in my own flat, sharing it with Jose and another friend. We are having such a good time here, it was so stressed in the very beginnings tought. Besides, I,m full of subjects in the university this term so, studying is my near and middle term future hahaha.

I,m still remembering all of you more that you can imagine!! Now I,m noticing that we spent so much time together and I have “monkey” of beeing with friends all the time!! Thanksfully I,m meeting Conde, Moflo and Hector so often so I can hug some that lived and live the same as me, it is kind of comforting.

Anyway, I,m tired of writing, and tomorrow it is going to be a long university day, so.... BYE!!!!

PD: I,m posting some of the pictures with Mahsa in Las Vegas, such a big girl this persianamericanspanishsoul friend!!! It has been so difficult to decide wich ones post, here you are,...... Mahsa you should swim in swans lake near your hometown, I really hope it could be fun! :-)

PD2: oooohhhhh I forgot to announce it……, I,M IN for BCN!!! I will be there probably from 28 to 2nd,,,,,, I hope to see as most of you there!!

Kissesssssssss

Time to give some news too!!

Hey everybody!
I am so sorry to not giving more news but i think a lot about you even if i try to not think too much about last year. I can see that everybody is busy and back to "normal" life.
My life is at the moment crazy, i have time for nothing and believe it or not i don't even have time to see Robin and same for him. We haven't been to a club together in Toulouse, when i go out , i found him in the street going back home and i am drunk and when he goes out....i have such an hangover of the past night that i can't go with him. But we will manage to have a real Toulousaine party and we will post the pics.
As i said life is crazy because i am going to another kind of erasmus next semester so i have to prepare everything.....Yeppppppp i am going to LSE in London. It's great but it's not a new erasmus for me, it can't be and it will never be : 1st because i don't want to, 2d because London is so f..... expensive!!! But as i'll be there, i'm going to Amsterdam for queensdays.....FOR SURE!!!
What else to say, well i have classes from monday till wednesday most of the time from 8am till 8 pm with 1h30 break and after that i have an intership on tuesday and friday.....So i have
stopped going out now , i mean i go out less often ( only once a week). It's getting worse because i have to move out of my appartement at the end of december, to find an intership for the begining of may ( probably in Paris) and to find an flat in London....
The good point is that i really enjoy being back in my city..taking the public bikes ( like in BCN) everyday and seeing my friends.
I would love to come to BCN to see the spanish team for new eve....but i have to save money for F..... expensive London so i hope Santa will be generous.
Girlssssssssssss i miss your gossips and i have some new from me.....( mahsa you know which part of my life i an talking about) !!!
I hope to see you all as soon as possible, come to Toulouse whenever you want or to London from January till en of april or to Paris from May till.....So you have the choice!!!
Take care
Lot of Love
Julie

.......................... GoInG BacK...........................................

Hey familly,

How is everything going??I hope all of you are good. It has been long time since I wrote our Almost Berlin Trip because of my birthday.. In this case I felt also the necesity to write, just to tell you that I am going back to Amsterdam.. I just bougth my way back to Madrid trip because as some of you know when I arrived here in summer I boutgh a two ways trip (was cheaper). I thougth about buying another two ways trip but I don´t want to go back again without at least one of you..Maybe QUEENS DAY???????
I am going from the 5 December to the 11 December. Almost a week, but the way back to Madrid arrives from fucking Eindovehn..(my economy nowadays is really short..). I thougth about starting to work in Red Ligth, but I wont have many customers so..
It would be great if someone knows how much time takes to go from Amsterdam to Eindovehn, bus , etc.. I do not remmember it..
If some of you want to come these days would be great!! Let me know please as soon as possible. For the moment I think MR. Bikes is the only one coming more o less the same days, so I hope to see him. By the way I told Sara, Judith, Alvin and Maciek I am going so I hope we make a small meeting.. But not in my house.. Finally!!hehe
I have a friend living there since 1 month also, I have to show her some stuff of our city. I think for me is going to be weird to go back, but I really want to know what I feel, because I am seriously thinking of going again, not as a tourist, but this is another story...
I haven´t said nothing about my life back, but nothing special rigth now, I won´t pretend everything is so great back home as it used to be last year in Amsterdam because it is not. I am just bussy doing o pretending to do maybe too many things, but is the way to create a new routine.
Well Sarphati people, I will let you know If our building and our rabit continues alive.. and if something have chaged, eventhougth I know yes, Is not going to be the same without you..

"Lost" of kisses and huges to all of you!!

Still missing you,

Conde

BarCeloNa News!

Hey Guys!!
How R U?It has been a long time since I wrote....
This Monday I started to work in AIG Europe for a six-month long internship in the "Financial Lines".I guess lots of u know that AIG Inc., had a big liquidity problem in September and that the Fed bailed out AIG ( 85 billions$)..But AIG Europe is a french subsidiary ,without any liquidity or other problem,except facing a bad image right now!!haha!( Look at how good worker I am ;) )!Adrià is convinced that they hired me because they are not gonna last long.!haha!
Anyway, I’m kinda happy to be working in spite of the fact that I’m gonna be waking up early for 6 months(OMG!)!It’s good to be busy in order to not think to much about Amsterdam .Besides, I’m still having 2 free afternoons...This quarter I ‘m only taking 2 courses,which was too much free time.In one of the courses I’m with Adrià and I have to do a work with him!I hope he’s gonna work more than with Pierre!!And more than Nacho did with me!JK!
Oh I’m also very proud of myself because I’m using a lot "Bicing"( too long to explain , sort of bike system in bcn).It makes me soooo happy!I’m always riding from my work to the university ( 25 minuts) and to university to Chimo’s place ( really closed ),etc.I’m seeing her a lot , at least on Mondays and Tuedays after university in her place to eat some cookies and study english!I’m serious!!! Hahahaa
We also talk about u very often and remember Amsterdam in general!
I am still having a little erasmus life in Bcn, which I am glad to, because of Miffy
( Australian girl from Prinsengracht) and all the Amsterdam people coming to visit (specially to Mariona&Anna).Miffy is living in Bcn and we often hang out together and go to the bar where she’s working which is full of Australians &co!

Last Saturday I went to a Halloween dinner where I didn’t know everybody.All of the sudden, I started to speak with one guy and "U know what?", he went in erasmus to Leiden and his favourite club ever is Paradiso!We were so excited and talked for a while about Netherlands, Amsterdam,clubs, restaurants and everything we loved there!We both agreed we had never found a club like Paradiso!I really miss Wednesday there!hahaha!

Otherwise I’m also happy to be back in Bcn.I’m enjoying again my city, my family and all my friends .And it’s better like that,I couldn’t have stand being depressed during all the year!!
Enough for today! (For those who are still reading...) .
I thought I didn’t have that much to explain but finally...

I hope all of u are great, having fun , and enjoying life back home or wherever u are.
Hope to see u soon!
Love u
XXX

Hélène

Dear Mr. President

I voted yesterday. I had to stand in line for more than an hour. And now we have a new president!! I'm sure you all know already. Hector I really wanted to put your name down in the write-in candidate!!! Hahaha JK
-Mahsa

Possible exchange of Hector for Chimoooo

Hey guys!!!

This is Moflo writing for the first time in the fucking Amsterdam blog. I just want to let u know that Hector came yesterday to Madrid for a job interview; that´s why i wrote that title for this post because it´s possible that next week Hector could start working in Madrid for the next year!!!!! (Chimo we don´t want you anymore having Hector!! Just kidding sweetheart hehe).
Today he had the interview and right now we are going to take some beers just in case we have to celebrate it in advance!!!. Tonight he is going back to Barcelona, but tomorrow he will receive a call from the firm telling him whether he has been selected or not. (Please guys pray for Hector hehe).

Now it´s time to focus on myself and not in our fucking presidenttt. As some of you guys may know, i started working in my uni one month ago more or less in the econometrics department (sounds cool doesn´t it??). I can say that the work it´s quite interesting and only four hours per day, which means that i have enough time to attend to the lectures of my courses. Apart from my horrible routine, i also can say that Conde and i have been partying quite a lot during the weekends of those last two months (i think that everybody knows the way it works --> drink to forget that we are not in Amsterdam anymore). Anyway i just wanted to tell everybody how much i miss all of u.

Especial message for Mario: We are craving to hear,to read,to see your wild wild trip to the US with Mahsa (Conde told me that you went to Las Vegassss).

Take care everyone and hope to see u soon. Moflo in the sky with diamondsssss

Wednesday night...

- "Wednesday night... Paradiso!!"
- ...but we are not in Amsterdam anymore!?!
- ...mmm, Wednesday night... Apolo!!

American life as it used to be....

Hey dudes!!!!!!

I've been going to school for about a month now, and almost back for 2 months. I can't believe it's been that long already.

I have a lot of classes this semester because I have to catch up from last year. Hahahaha

And now I'm applying to be a professional business student at my university. About 2000 students apply every semester and they accept 400. I have my assessnent tests and my interviews in 2 weeks. So wish me luck.

My university is really big here. There are about 50,000 students here. So it takes me 30 minutes to walk between classes. But it a very nice university. I took these pictures in the morning when it's not over-crowded with people.

I've also been working in a restaurant. It's in the northern part of town. It's a "corners of the world" restaurant so we have a lot of Tapas. And on thursdays we have live jazz, and fridays a live band, and saturdays a bellydancer and then after that a live DJ. It sounds strange but it's a nice place. The only thing is in the US servers make money only by the tips that people leave, so we have to practically kiss eveyone's ass. Hahaha

I've been going to a lot of American football and baseball games here too. They're really fun(at least for me.) Haha. I'll take pictures of my university's football game next time they play at our school so i can show you, same thing for the baseball.

The more time I spend here, the more I realize how much my life here is a typicall stereotype of Americans(in a good way of course :)

So I took a couple of pictures from one of the pool parties I went to. The party started at 12 noon, and by the time I got there at 3 everyone was already drunk. They had already drunk 1 and a half beer kegs, and all of the hard alcohol between them. By about 10:30pm everyone was already passed out on the beds and the couches. So my friend and I had to sleep on the dog bed. And it was NOT comfortable at all. We all woke up at about 7 in the morning and everyone started playing games again and swimming.........


I went to work from there, and I'm sure I was still a bit drunk. Good thing I didn't get pulled over or else I might have been in jail now, hahaha

And yesterday I took two exchange students out to dinner with my friends. They're from Britain. With realy thick british accents. (which made me think of Joe) And listening to them talk about how everything is so different and american made me think of how you guys would say the same thing if you were here. haha

Well I have to go to to try and sleep, my aunt is visiting us and i gave her my room. So i've been sleeping on the couches/the floor for 2 weeks, and I only get about 6 hours of sleep.

Tomorrow night mitra's boyfriend is coming to meet my parents for the first time. Wish him luck. hahaha

Jk

I love you guys, and miss you more every day

Kisses

Mahsa

p.s. Mario, sorry I keep missing you on the internet. I should be home and online all day tomorrow. So I hope you can be on then.