typical 24 hours
3 pm Monday sitting in my room, reading big glossy books about Dutch urban planning.
6 pm Go into shared kitchen, search cabinet and fridge for something besides pasta, throw together dinner from pre-packaged pancakes, strawberry jam and chocolate spread while three-year old episode of ER plays in the lounge.
8 pm Meet up with Marie Carmen and Cris and walk to the Dos, a bar under another student flat that shows movies on Monday nites.
8: 30 – 10:30 Watch Polish gangster flick, dark and very funny. During the movie, arrivals include Laura, Gianluca, and Kiko, all Italian.
10:30 – 1:30 Hang out around a table at the Dos, drinking one-euro Grolsch beers and trying to stay with the conversation as it veers thru Spanish, English, German, and Italian.
1:30 Head to the birthday party of some Spanish student that someone at the bar knows someone who knows.
1:30 – 3:30 Drink sangria dipped from a giant white plastic trashcan while enduring Spanish dance music; check out boys at the party with Gianluca. “I come from a small village,” he says. “I was the gay community.”
3:30 Tire of the party, head back to the Dos, where a new post-party crowd is gathering. Meet Peter the bartender from New Orleans. Watch Maria from Poland / Florida beat a guy at chess.
5 Return home, sleep.
11:30 Wake up, shower, breakfast of buttered crusty bread, computer time.
1:30 Meet up with the Italians for a trip to the Allard Pierson museum of archaeology.
1:45 Stop in a cafe for a quick cup of coffee before the museum.
3:00 Still drinking coffee.
6 pm Go into shared kitchen, search cabinet and fridge for something besides pasta, throw together dinner from pre-packaged pancakes, strawberry jam and chocolate spread while three-year old episode of ER plays in the lounge.
8 pm Meet up with Marie Carmen and Cris and walk to the Dos, a bar under another student flat that shows movies on Monday nites.
8: 30 – 10:30 Watch Polish gangster flick, dark and very funny. During the movie, arrivals include Laura, Gianluca, and Kiko, all Italian.
10:30 – 1:30 Hang out around a table at the Dos, drinking one-euro Grolsch beers and trying to stay with the conversation as it veers thru Spanish, English, German, and Italian.
1:30 Head to the birthday party of some Spanish student that someone at the bar knows someone who knows.
1:30 – 3:30 Drink sangria dipped from a giant white plastic trashcan while enduring Spanish dance music; check out boys at the party with Gianluca. “I come from a small village,” he says. “I was the gay community.”
3:30 Tire of the party, head back to the Dos, where a new post-party crowd is gathering. Meet Peter the bartender from New Orleans. Watch Maria from Poland / Florida beat a guy at chess.
5 Return home, sleep.
11:30 Wake up, shower, breakfast of buttered crusty bread, computer time.
1:30 Meet up with the Italians for a trip to the Allard Pierson museum of archaeology.
1:45 Stop in a cafe for a quick cup of coffee before the museum.
3:00 Still drinking coffee.
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