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| Aloha people, I know that I am very lousy with updating my Xanga, and tonight I have a night off so I decided to give Xanga a few minutes of my time and refresh/update my Xanga. (yeaa finally I know, Soazul!!) My life since my last blog has been busy and thrilling with many things happening. I ll update you on some things I did... In november I went to London with 3 M's (Marijn, Martine and Marte) for a friend's 30th B-day bash, had a champ time with those gals you can say that we defintely had a fabulous time ;) It was really a mini reunion of Gally students at the birthday party (which was an India themed party), so champ to see those people again, in the pictures you can have a peek who I met there ;) 
moi, Marte, Andreas, Himel (the b-day guy), Martine and Gilles 
moi, Marijn, Martine, Marte, Kathleen, Nadia, Hilde and Andreas Not included on the pictures are some more people. One week later on November 25th there was this HUGE party in the Netherlands, called Sencity, it s becoming more bigger every year and we can call that it is actually an European Deaf event where people from other countries will flock to the Netherlands for that party. I just wanted to show one pic I think that it is great, the light, the background, and even better as it s a natural shot. Martine and me were promoting some events for the Netherlands National Deaf Youth Association. See below for that pic! 
And on november 30th I jetted off to South America once again!! I think I am just addicted to South America ha! no, not really, I had a reason to go down to South America again as there was this conference in Florianopolis in Brazil I wanted to attend. It s called Theoretical Issues in Researching Sign Language (TISLR) as I am interested into this field of sign language researching. Before this conference started I flew down to Buenos Aires in Argentina where I spent a long weekend from Friday to Monday. Buenos Aires is defintely one of my favorite cities in world, it s a megapolis (some 13 millions ppl live there) but the quality of life there is GRAND, the steaks, the wine, the shopping, people, clothing, even taxi's (lol) and more. After having a fabulous time in Buenos Aires it was time to jet off to Florianopolis in Brazil, I was basically stuck in airports ALL DAY LONG!!! One BIG lesson learned, NEVER NEVER buy two seperate tickets on the same day, as my three flights got a schedule change which made me to miss the final flight to Florianopolis. I actually spent like 10 hours in airports and the total flying time was just 1 hour and 50 minutes, ppfftt I flew Buenos Aires to Montevideo then to Porto Alegre then finally Florianopolis. TISLR... What can I say about this conference? It was DEFINTELY an interesting experience for me. The actual reason for coming to Brazil to attend the TISLR congress was to find out if studying lingustics was something for me or not as I am pondering now about which studies to study when I am starting my graduate school this fall. I was doubting between majoring in cultural anthropology or lingustics of sign language. The TISLR conference provided me different lectures on different subjects and learning about different areas of the sign language lingustics and a great opportunity to meet people in this field. But it was really tiringsome as the conference started at 8:30 am every day for 4 days and the lectures did not finish until 7 pm with JUST 2 breaks between! And we always thoughts that the latinos were relaxed????? :p After 4 days and countless debates with people who attended, it came out that I like the lingustics anthropology the best. That is so perfect as it combines both the cultural aspects and language aspects, so I am starting to look around for schools which offer that graduate program. Before and after TISLR I got a chance to spend one day on one of many beaches of Santa Catarina, the island where Florianopolis is located at, sometimes I thought I was in Maui, Hawaii, that s how beautiful it is over there. Then it was time for me to fly back to the cold and damp Amsterdam! On way back to Amsterdam I had a layover of 10 hours in DC, so I of course hurried to Gally and met up some old friends there and had a dinner with Dan Veit, Jason Lamberton, Jon Lamberton and Brian Morrison, it s always good to hang out with them, before I knew it was time to fly the last transatlantic leg to Amsterdam. 
Jerry Pua, Erin Wilkinson and moi 
Brazilians are very vain, why? they take pictures pictures and again pictures, it was like this flash flash flash all the time, it almost caused blindness! Guys, I only planned to spend a few minutes for this post and it alreday took me 20 minutes ha, time to finish this!! o yea, one more thing, this is for you, Dawnieo!  
Yeaaa, that is the sloth from an earlier post of mine and I still think he actually looks like ET! How he moves his head and neck and how he looks thru his glassy eyes and how he winks!!! :) For all my readers, Happy New year!! Signing off n making a sandwich | | |
| JKF RESIGN!!! JKF RESIGN!!! Like almost everyone I am glued to my computer screen and checking the different blogs about the protests VERY often, whenever I get a chance I will run to a nearest available computer and check the lastest updates. Saturday morning I woke up at 7 am, it was then 1 am over there in the USA and I was quitte SHOCKED when I saw the news about the arrests, just could not believe my eyes, this defintely fueled mine and ours anger towards the cowards of gally adminstration. I SO wished I was rich enough so I could hop on an airplane to DC right now and join the protests, Even though there is a 4000 miles distance between us in the Netherlands and Gallaudet University, we are SUPPORTING ya all who are protesting and the CAUSE to protest. It is REALLY important to CONTINUE our FIGHT and PROTESTS. To enrichen the spirit over there I have 2 pictures to show ya all. 
Gallaudet alumni; Joep van Vlodrop 99-00, Annemieke van Kampen '98, Richard "Rico" Cokart '02 and Wendy van Mansvelt '01. UNITY FOR GALLAUDET!!! 
WE SUPPORT GALLAUDET!!! P.S: Do not mind our clothes! We were at a party in a Deaf club and the theme of the party was "Whores and Pimps" so some of us of course dressed up as a pimp or whore ;) On Saturday I had a movie shoot, all the day my thoughts were in DC. However I guess I did a good job during the shoot, you can see some pics of the movie shoot at http://www.xanga.com/deafmoviedirector Signing off THINKING of you guys over there | | |
| Guys n gals, After a 2 month blog-hiatus, it s time to post some pics from the past summer. It is freaking september already, and the winter-depression is coming... (I actually used a winter-jacket last Tuesday! I came back from Spain, where it was 30 C (90 F) in the night time and it was like 10 C (50 F) here n raining, dios mio, I wanted to fly back to spain right away..) Summer 2006 rocked, hmm it included all ingredients for a champ summer; travels, parties, beach, sport, friends, visitors, food, drinks, family, being outside, staying light outside until 11 pm, hot weather, etc etc Traveled in South America for 4 weeks, was in North California for Jeff&Matilda Bibbs wedding for 1 week, NAD convention in Palm Springs, partying in West Hollywood, bike vacation with Yassine to Maastricht, 6 days in Sitges in Spain with 4 boys.  Sneaking up with a piranha in the Amazon ;)
 And yes, we did swim in the Amazon along with the piranhas, alligators, snakes and whatever else swims in there and no, I did not lose anything!
 Camping out in the rainforst.
 May I introduce this living thing to you, his name is ET. (yeaaa, that animal looked so much like the ET :P)
 The daily life in Amazon, a native woman with her kid washing their clothes in the river, touching how simple their lives is compared to ours.
 Olinda, full of beautiful houses n tourists like us :P
 Mingling with capoeira artists in Salvador.
 La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina
 Me masaging Bibb a few minutes before his wedding starts
 The groommen, had defintely a blast with them n Bibb during the week before the wedding
 Having fun at Bibb s wedding
there re zillion more pics, will try to post some of them in another blog ;) That was it for today Signing off n reading the saturday newspaper | | |
| USA....
Hej all,
here I am in the USA now. My trip in south america was sooo WONDERFUL and when I flew back to the US I was so not ready to leave south america, untill I landed on the US soil and met my friends, at that point I was so ready to be in the US again and to mingle with american friends (excuse my poor english ha, talked too much spanish in the past month grins)
a little update on what was happening the past days, Lake Tahoe retreat with the wedding party, tanning, sunning, long nights in hot tub, beers n beers n beers, mexican night, swedish night, margaritas, swedish meatballs, partying, swimming, jetskiing, kayaking (I have a dramatic story abt kayaking!), playing football (yikkes, soccer is better ha), speedboating, playing poker (I won $ 70, ha and it was only my 2nd time playing poker), bachelor party at Santa Cruz beach and etc etc etc
i better get some sleep before wedding rehearsal
*waving from San Jose*
off to get well earned rest | | |
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yesyesyesyes
in RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL!!!!!!
After Rio, there will be Amazonas, Recife, Salvador, Rio BRanco, Uruguay and Buenos Aires, Argentina
*waving from south america* | | |
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