hallo, ik ben angela.

urr today was my first day of school c: it was pretty good, actually. i left at 8, just to make sure i'd have time to get there, and luckily i managed to tag along behind a group of kids going to the same academic complex thing. it is so friggin cold in the morning. ohmygod.
i got there and pulled into the front, and there was a teacherly looking guy, who was like "i like your hair", so i thanked him. but then he said something about me turning back, and going around, and i was like WAAAT. so i said i speak english. apparently, that solved any prior problem, cos he was like OH just put your bike over here. so i did :D

nvm everything is groovy now. glad we got this sorted out.

the first class i had was social studies. all the teachers were like UHH ILL SPEAK ENGLISH. and i was like reeeally dont. so, they didnt. i didnt understand much. i can usually tell how they feel about something, just not exactly what that thing is. so my page of notes wound up being something like "really nice, a lot, complicated, democracy, how do you feel?"
i am obviously going to be top of my class, rest assured.

a teacher also came in and gave me a sheet to sign up for activities next week because i'm not going on the trip. apparently i get to go to the zoo and horseback ride. :D the few girls i did manage to converse with are also going, so hopefully i'll see them there and we can hang out c:
after that, the student i was shadowing for the day and i went outside for break. basically, it was 20 minutes of being surrounded by tall, beautiful, popular, dutch teenagers out for a smoke break. they were all like "YOU'RE FROM NEW YORK?? why did you fucking come here? new york is fucking cool this place fucking sucks!" i've noticed that dutch teenagers love to swear in english, because nobody cares at all. but it still sounds odd to me to swear in front of the teacher haha.
anyway, floris called me which was a relief because i got to stop having my awkward conversation for a bit. also, slightly embarrassing because my phone is essentially a brick.

i'd love to chat, but i'm being paged.

anyway, we were going to go get coffee, but by the time he got to where i was [i didn't know where i was, so it took a while], my break was almost over. so instead of a nice cup of tea, i was rushed up 3 flights of stairs to economie class.
which was like the most boring hour i have ever lived.
i've forgotten to tell you, since we have school trip next week, none of the classes are actually starting. so nobody is taking notes. or paying attention. the teacher is just talking, forever. lol. so i spent the time making a list of things to bring, and looking up the odd word here and there to write down in my dorky dutch notebook.
a few people talked to me c: i talked too, but its awkward because i SO want to speak dutch, i just dont have the vocabulary yet. so i have to choose between being devoted to speaking dutch, or making any social connections at all. i think i'll pick the latter and slide into the former.
after that we had math. i was in math A, even though i'm going to be in math B, but it still looked hard. i couldnt really read the stuff we were going to do, but i took a list home with me, and i can see if i'm actually in the right class.
then, at 12:30, it was supposed to be the second break, but i found out that ACTUALLY we all just got to go home because we only have certain classes this week :D i was freaky hungry and decided that i was going to get lost ANYWAY, so i might as well stop for food. so, i sort of dicked around the streets a little bit until i found somewhere to take my weird debit card. i went to this bakery and bought essentially buttered dough filled with sausage and covered with cheese. it was delicious, for obvious reasons.

clearly, i am aware of how nutrition works.

then i tried to find my way out of the shopping thing i'd stumbled into, but all the roads were under construction, so i just picked a direction and went with it. i was like FFFFFFU, and i had it all planned out in my head how to tell some poor person that i'm trying to go to borne how do i get there. but, then i managed to bike past a place that i remembered, and then i went home. also, totally multitasking, i rode my bike, ate an apple, AND didnt die, all at the same time. great job!

also tonight, i went to chorus for the first time. there were two kids from my economie class in it. but they all were nice and i had fun c: we sang this song from the great gatsby, five foot two, which was hilarious. they all already knew it, and had a perfectly choreographed little dance that they all did. I TOTALLY LOL'D. C:

aaaanyway, looking forward to tomorrow. i'm not really sure what to do after school, but i might go out somewhere and look at things, and also hopefully chill with floris. but that still leaves me legit like 3 hours to do nuffin'. i want to bike around and explore, but i realize that i would literally never find my way home. so maybe another time :P

bye <3 <3