I woke up in a strange bed, not knowing how I came there, what I was doing, or why my body hurt so much. I looked around and pieces of the evening before came back to me. I was at my volunteer work, at the local stage and we had a meeting. And we also learned how to tap beer (I knew that already, but we had to do it again and show we knew it).
And then I drank a beer and another and another and another and some more. I missed the last bus home and went home with a co-worker, who's also a good friend. On the way to his house I tried to longboard, but fell down so much that I had a few wounds, that was the thing that was hurting.
Now I'm dizzy and not able to spell, make good sentences and anything like it. Stupid hangovers.
I like being able to drink beer since I were sixteen, can't even imagine waiting till 21. The drunken evenings with friends are just too much fun
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Saturday, October 31, 2009
Monday, August 31, 2009
How to survive high school.
As said in my last post, I just started school today. I just realized I'm not the only one, so I thought it would be a good idea to make a list of how to survive high school. After all, it's my sixth year and my fourth school I'm at.
- Get to know as many people as possible. It's good to know what's going on at school
- Make sure the teachers like you. You'll get away with much more than you would if they don't
- Make friends. Walk up to strangers, talk with them. They could be friends you haven't met yet.
- Do your homework, show interest, ask a lot of questions.
- You're at school to graduate and move on. Keep that in mind.
- Don't involve yourself in the drama's. It costs to much energy
- Have fun and be yourself. If people don't like you, it's their problem, not yours.
- Be nice to the new kids, walk up to them, show them around. They'd appreciate it
- If you have trouble with a subject, tell the teacher. Most of them would be glad to help.
- If you get to much homework, make it with a friend. Let one do the even numbers and the other the uneven. Then copy each others work.
- Make notes during the classes.
- If one of your classmates is sick during a class, offer them to copy your notes. It will help you make friends.
- Don't let people take advantage of you
Just remember, in a few years you'll leave, lose most friends you had, build up a completely new life. In the end your social status won't matter, but your graduation will.
- Get to know as many people as possible. It's good to know what's going on at school
- Make sure the teachers like you. You'll get away with much more than you would if they don't
- Make friends. Walk up to strangers, talk with them. They could be friends you haven't met yet.
- Do your homework, show interest, ask a lot of questions.
- You're at school to graduate and move on. Keep that in mind.
- Don't involve yourself in the drama's. It costs to much energy
- Have fun and be yourself. If people don't like you, it's their problem, not yours.
- Be nice to the new kids, walk up to them, show them around. They'd appreciate it
- If you have trouble with a subject, tell the teacher. Most of them would be glad to help.
- If you get to much homework, make it with a friend. Let one do the even numbers and the other the uneven. Then copy each others work.
- Make notes during the classes.
- If one of your classmates is sick during a class, offer them to copy your notes. It will help you make friends.
- Don't let people take advantage of you
Just remember, in a few years you'll leave, lose most friends you had, build up a completely new life. In the end your social status won't matter, but your graduation will.
Back to school
Summer holiday has ended. Goodbye fun, goodbye staying up and sleeping until the sun reached the sky. Goodbye endless conversations with friends. Goodbye freedom.
For me, it's back to school again. And even though it was the first day, the teachers did their best to erase all summer feelings.
But it wasn't that bad at all. There were a lot of friends of mine, who failed their exams or didn't pass the year and decided to go to my school.
Let me explain a bit of the school system in Netherland.
You have the basic school, you go there when you're 4 and leave when you're 12. It's 8 years long.
Then, in the 8th grade, you get a test. Depending on the score they'll decide what you'll do in high-school.
VMBO is the easiest, it takes four years.
HAVO is a bit harder, it takes 5 years.
VWO is the hardest, it takes 6 years.
After your VMBO you can go to the MBO, where you can learn a profession.
After HAVO you can go to HBO. HBO is similar to what you call college. You learn a profession but it's more theoretical.
After VWO you can go to the university.
At my school they give the last two years in one, 3/4VMBO, 4/5HAVO and 5/6VWO. The only exception is 4HAVO, preparing you for the 4/5HAVO class.
And that's what I did last year.
Well, you'll hear if anything happens at school
-Maaike
For me, it's back to school again. And even though it was the first day, the teachers did their best to erase all summer feelings.
But it wasn't that bad at all. There were a lot of friends of mine, who failed their exams or didn't pass the year and decided to go to my school.
Let me explain a bit of the school system in Netherland.
You have the basic school, you go there when you're 4 and leave when you're 12. It's 8 years long.
Then, in the 8th grade, you get a test. Depending on the score they'll decide what you'll do in high-school.
VMBO is the easiest, it takes four years.
HAVO is a bit harder, it takes 5 years.
VWO is the hardest, it takes 6 years.
After your VMBO you can go to the MBO, where you can learn a profession.
After HAVO you can go to HBO. HBO is similar to what you call college. You learn a profession but it's more theoretical.
After VWO you can go to the university.
At my school they give the last two years in one, 3/4VMBO, 4/5HAVO and 5/6VWO. The only exception is 4HAVO, preparing you for the 4/5HAVO class.
And that's what I did last year.
Well, you'll hear if anything happens at school
-Maaike
Monday, July 27, 2009
Now and then
I never thought things would end like they did. But life constantly seems to surprise me.
One using coke, the other smoking weed and drinking, one wanting to become a prostitute, one on the XTC. My old friends fucked-up so much.
And I just sit back and watch them fall, like they never were a part of my life, just some words I read in a book, a scene I saw in a movie. Nothing real, nothing personal.
Reminds me, No Fun At All will play in Netherland in October or something, sure I'm going there.
I went to Propagandhi last Thursday, it was amazing. I love the friends I went with.
Not much to say, but it's a small update ;)
One using coke, the other smoking weed and drinking, one wanting to become a prostitute, one on the XTC. My old friends fucked-up so much.
And I just sit back and watch them fall, like they never were a part of my life, just some words I read in a book, a scene I saw in a movie. Nothing real, nothing personal.
Reminds me, No Fun At All will play in Netherland in October or something, sure I'm going there.
I went to Propagandhi last Thursday, it was amazing. I love the friends I went with.
Not much to say, but it's a small update ;)
Saturday, June 20, 2009
About the music and the friends
If someone two years ago told me that I'd be spending my days by going to shows, volunteerswork at the local stage and being way to enthousiastic about my friends their bands, I'd laugh at them.
Now, I found out, it works as a drug to me. My volunteerswork is taking almost all of my free weekends, I'm working at metal, drum and bass, house, jazz, hip-hop and all other kind of music shows, standing behind the bar, selling tickets or the garderobe. Because it's in a different town than that I live, I'm sleeping at colleagues houses most of the time, who became my friends. People I talk to on weekly base, who I'm also seeing outside my volunteerswork. Sometimes, when I'm in this town for other reasons, I'm just dropping by there, talking to everyone, drinking a beer with the people there. It became such a big part of my life, that I couldn't imagine doing something else on my friday or saturday evening.
When I'm doing something else it mostly involves going to shows. Sometimes in bigger venues, bands like Less than Jake and Alkaline Trio I saw this year and I'm going to Sick of it All, Atmosphere, Sociale Distortion and Propagandhi the coming 30 days. Sometimes just local gigs or friends bands. My love for the bands of my friends is really big and I'll support them any way possible. We go to bigger shows together and I'm at most of their shows, even if it involves sitting 2 hours or more in a train. Even then, I mostly stay at their place that night, because my home-town is impossible to reach after 12 if you don't have a car.
Like a drug, I became addicted to this life of travelling, working, seeing bands, meeting people. At school, I'm dreaming, writing and thinking about music, the next gigs I'm attending, the festivas I'm going to, upcoming releases, the coming weekend at my volunteerswork. Without, I'm nothing.
I live on my teenage dreams, raging on the volume of control, without this I'm nothing.
Vine Yard - Teenage Dreams
www.myspace.com/wearevineyard
We offer you this new resistance, instead of forcing you into their acceptance
Question Mark - Independant
www.myspace.com/qmcore
<3>
Now, I found out, it works as a drug to me. My volunteerswork is taking almost all of my free weekends, I'm working at metal, drum and bass, house, jazz, hip-hop and all other kind of music shows, standing behind the bar, selling tickets or the garderobe. Because it's in a different town than that I live, I'm sleeping at colleagues houses most of the time, who became my friends. People I talk to on weekly base, who I'm also seeing outside my volunteerswork. Sometimes, when I'm in this town for other reasons, I'm just dropping by there, talking to everyone, drinking a beer with the people there. It became such a big part of my life, that I couldn't imagine doing something else on my friday or saturday evening.
When I'm doing something else it mostly involves going to shows. Sometimes in bigger venues, bands like Less than Jake and Alkaline Trio I saw this year and I'm going to Sick of it All, Atmosphere, Sociale Distortion and Propagandhi the coming 30 days. Sometimes just local gigs or friends bands. My love for the bands of my friends is really big and I'll support them any way possible. We go to bigger shows together and I'm at most of their shows, even if it involves sitting 2 hours or more in a train. Even then, I mostly stay at their place that night, because my home-town is impossible to reach after 12 if you don't have a car.
Like a drug, I became addicted to this life of travelling, working, seeing bands, meeting people. At school, I'm dreaming, writing and thinking about music, the next gigs I'm attending, the festivas I'm going to, upcoming releases, the coming weekend at my volunteerswork. Without, I'm nothing.
I live on my teenage dreams, raging on the volume of control, without this I'm nothing.
Vine Yard - Teenage Dreams
www.myspace.com/wearevineyard
We offer you this new resistance, instead of forcing you into their acceptance
Question Mark - Independant
www.myspace.com/qmcore
<3>
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