Hej everybody!

So I finally have the time to write a new blog. My exam week is practically over, I only have one more exam tomorrow. But that's an English exam, so that's going to be a piece of cake!

My exam week started last Wednesday. On Wednesday I had my Dutch exam, which went pretty well. I already got my grade back today and I had a 7.5! (Our grades here go from 1 to 10, 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest ) On Thursday I had three exams. The first one was psychology, which I thought was pretty easy. After that I had my science exam, which was one of the hardest exams, but it went oké. Then, as my last exam of the day, I had my cultural and artistic shaping. We had to write a reflection report. You have to do this at the end of every schoolyear. So I didn't have to study for this exam, which was cool. On Friday I had my natural sciences exam, which I think is one of the most difficult subjects, but it went pretty well.

Then the weekend finally arrived, but there was no time to chill and do fun things. I had to study and work, so before I knew it the weekend was over again.

On Monday I had my maths exam, which was hard. It's always hard for me to say how I do in maths, because sometimes I think it went really well and it turns out I didn't and sometimes I think it went not so good and then it turns out I did great. So I won't give you an expectation about this exam. Today I had 4 exams, which was pretty stressful. My first exam was a presentation about the books we have read this year. We read two books in Dutch and one in English, and they all were from before 1900. The presentation went well, even though my friends and I haven't even read all of the books. Most of my cl@ssmates didn't read their books either, but our presentation went well and the teachers didn't even notice we didn't read all of them.

Then I had my biology exam, which I hardly had any time to study for. Under the circumstances it went oke, but I have to wait and see what my grade will be. Then I had my floral test. We had to study 150 different plants. They had 20 plants spread through the cl@ssroom and we had to write down which plant it was. At the end we already got our grade back and I had a 5. When I compared it with my cl@ssmates I did pretty well though. There were 15 people who had a 1! Then, but certainly not least, we had a determine test. We got three plants and with this book we always use, you had to figure out which plant it was.

Oke, on to the more fun things.

As most of you probably know the UEFA Euro 2008 soccer championship started last Saturday and yesterday The Netherlands had to play their first match. We are placed in a very difficult pool, together with Italy, Rumania and France. So yesterday we had to play against Italy and we won by 3-0!!! It was an amazing match! You can say I went a bit crazy! I was jumping up and down when they scored a goal! Italy is the preserving world champion and I guess nobody thought we would win.

Next Monday I'm leaving for London with my fellow students and I'm really looking forward to it! I'm sure it's going to be amazing! I've been in London two times already, but you can never get bored in London I think. We are staying host families in groups of 3-4 students. On Thursday we get the last details and we also hear with which cl@ssmates you are placed in a host family.

This does mean I won't be on for about a week! Of course I will miss you all! But I'm sure I'll have the best time in London!

So last week I started my new game: What am I talking about? Hayley was the winner of the first round! Congratulations, you did amazing!

That makes the score:

Hayley - 1

I know, what a shocker!

Here's this week's clue:

Three cast members from The Simpsons have made guest performances on this show. What show am I talking about?

So once again good luck to everybody!

This week's joke/funny story:

A man calls a company and orders their 5-day, 10 lb. weight loss program.

The next day, there's a knock on the door and there stands before him a voluptuous, athletic, 19 year old babe dressed in nothing but a pair of Nike running shoes and a sign around her neck.

She introduces herself as a representative of the weight loss company.

The sign reads, "If you can catch me, you can have me."

Without a second thought, he takes off after her.

A few miles later huffing and puffing, he finally gives up.

The same girl shows up for the next four days and the same thing happens.

On the fifth day, he weighs himself and is delighted to find he has lost 10 lbs. as promised.

He calls the company and orders their 5-day/20 pound program.

The next day there's a knock at the door and there stands the most stunning and beautiful woman he has ever seen in his life. She is wearing nothing but Reebok running shoes and a sign around her neck that reads, "If you catch me you can have me."

Well, he's out the door after her like a shot.

This girl is in excellent shape and he does his best, but no such luck.

So for the next four days, the same routine happens with him gradually getting in better and better shape.

Much to his delight on the fifth day when he weighs himself, he discovers that he has lost another 20 lbs. as promised.

He decides to go for broke and calls the company to order the 7-day/50 pound program.

"Are you sure?" asks the representative on the phone. "This is our most rigorous program."

"Absolutely," he replies, "I haven't felt this good in years."

The next day there's a knock at the door; and when he opens it he finds a huge muscular guy standing there wearing nothing but pink running shoes and a sign around his neck that reads, "If I catch you, you are mine!!!"

He lost 63 pounds that week.

This week's question:

What would have been your name if you was born a girl instead of a boy, or if you was born a boy instead of a girl?

Song of the week:

Maria Mena - Internal Dialogue

Maria is an amazing artist from Norway. I already knew some of her songs, but I only got her album a little while ago. And it was just in one word amazing! It's already one of my favourite albums I ever heard! I don't know if that says a lot, but oke... It was hard picking just one song from this album, so maybe I'll put up another song of her on a future blog.

Here's the link to the song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLEKw144ZWY

Enjoy the rest of your week!