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vrijdag, 23 sept. 2009:

The streetlamps came on here yesterday at 3pm, so it's officially Autumn.

Hooray!

Also, today, a group of Indonesian students studying abroad here told me I didn't look like the typical American because I didn't have blonde hair.  I explained that many people in the U.S. don't have blonde hair--white people with brown hair, people who aren't white...&c.  They were intrigued to hear all the places in Europe my family is from, and wondered if I still had family in all of those places.  They also asked if the reason I wanted to be in the Netherlands was because I thought it "was better" than the States, which I thought was interesting, and it lead to a discussion of all the various amazing places in the U.S.--including San Francisco, to which they said, worriedly, that they had "heard it had a lot of...gays," and Seattle, which they had heard was very very cold (they didn't know what I was talking about when I compared it to New England and Minnesota / Michigan).  Sometimes I laughed, but it was nice to talk about all these things.  Explaining the U.S. is a funny business.  Sometimes also an embarrassing business.


Here are some pictures of Amsterdam.  It is magick.

My bike.  It's a child's bike.

Some things I love most:
beautiful cities in the fall
yellow leaves falling gently, slowly down
red traffic lights in Autumn
dull grey skies juxtaposed with vibrant yellow leaves
cats in Amsterdam, which are everywhere

There is also construction everywhere.  That is less fun.

I am going to try to use the internet less now.  It is better to Be in Amsterdam.