The Maxi-Taxi Meal.

“Double” post today. As an appetizer we’ll be having one of those typical blog post, the what has been happening in my life post. Main course will be the post I was thinking of on my way home this afternoon, and dessert is the post-post list I’d almost forgotten about.

Appetizer
We’re rounding off our tests and exams tomorrow, and I really won’t have much time to celebrate. After our last test, KCV - oh yay, ancient Greek/Latin history stuff – I’ll be off to the centrum with Nienke & Stephanie, with the aim of buying more clothes for THIMUN. I really don’t want to have to wear the two same skirts the whole week. For Nienke it’ll just be one last glimpse of the Hague before she’s off to Cape Town where she'll be spending six weeks in the sun. *Insert jealous emoticon here.*
After the centrum, I have to go back to Wassenaar for a compulsory dinner with the MUN-group at a restaurant that, according to a very reliable source, sucks. Oh boy, looking forward to it. I guess as long as I’m not forced to eat fish, I’ll survive.
As it’s Nienke’s “last” day in Holland, her mom decided to throw a party for friends and family. Stephanie & I will probably drop by after the dinner, just to say bye and stuff.
Saturday I have a match – please lord, let me have a good match for once – and after that I’m going to try and get as much homework done as possible and of course do my research for THIMUN. In the evening my mom is throwing her “party” for friends and family to celebrate her birthday. I, along with my brothers have to be a slave for the night and bring drinks and food round. My parents have been holding these ‘drinks nights’ for three or four years now, and the kids have always had to open the door, take the coats and offer a drink. Pffft. Makes you realize that it isn’t just the youth that’s lazy these days.
Sunday morning I’ll try to sleep in a little, and then do some more homework (because I’m not going to have much time or energy during the THIMUN-week). I think my family’s planning to go out for lunch because we’re not having dinner on Friday to celebrate mom’s birthday. I’m not sure what’s happening in the afternoon, I think there may be THIMUN opening ceremonies or something. I’m so confused about THIMUN, I don’t know what’s happening when.

The rest of the week will be lobbying, debating, eating nasty sandwiches, scoffing Maltesers in our Chair’s face, going out and partying. Not to forget meeting people. I’m really looking forward to a great week. I’m just scared that Stephanie and I will get bashed for not writing a resolution about slums –you know, because we’re Brazil and all that.

The Saturday after THIMUN, after the dance, after all the hard (ahum?) work, after all the walking on heels, I’ll be tired as hell. And yet, I’ve decided to say yes to the tickets for a night of stand-up comedy. I want to go, I think it’ll be real fun, but I’m just hoping I don’t fall asleep. I don’t want to know how many jokes a comedian could make up about me after seeing me with my eyes shut.

Can’t believe I just wrote all that, especially after my ‘promise’ not to do such posts anymore.

Main course
Today was the start of new love-hate relationship. This time it's with the movement of air caused by uneven heating of the Earth’s surface. Or just simply, wind.

Why I love wind? Because it makes you bike faster in the morning. Today I had the best bike ride ever –I hardly had to bike. I loved it, despite my hair that was constantly blown in my face and the occasional pokes in my back from twigs that decided not to abide by the laws of gravity.
And why I hate it? Simply because it makes me bike slower in the afternoon and makes my eyes watery from all the sand blown into them. On top of that, this unusual body of mine has a strange reflex of sending messages to my brain telling my annoying lungs and airways to temporarily stop the respiratory system the moment a strong gush of wind comes by. It confuses and pisses me off at the same time –I don’t see the logics in ‘Oh there’s wind, stop breathing.’

So here we have it, yet another one of Maxime’s love-hate relationships.

Dessert
What sucked today: not being able to find my earplug that fell out of my ear because of the wind (I found it after 5 minutes - in my scarf >.<) What rocked today: my English test –reading an article about a suicidal turkey that crashed into a plane is rather amusing
What I needed today: more time & batteries
What I wanted today: more comments *HINT!*