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18 Years ago I was born in Uithoorn, a village in Noord-Holland, Holland. 3½ Year fore that there was already a little girl born, Barbera, so I was the second and last-born. My parents called me Jolanda. Now I live for about 10 years in the bigger and bigger (and I hope nicer and nicer also) becoming Almere (it's about 40 kilometres east from Amsterdam). I'm in my 6th (and I hope) last year VWO. It's the education you need if you want to go to university. I have to say nothing doing that I have to go another year after this one! 6 Years at my school, for me it was a little too long, but nothing to do about it.
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To be honest, sometimes I forget school a bit to often. Next school I work a kind of allround at a fitnessclub. Besides I also have rather a lot hobbies: sporting, shopping, going out, music, doing nice things with friends, travelling, msn, internet, and so on. You can imagine I can spend a lot of time on these things too! Tell me, what do you like more, school or...?
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There is a variety between all the sports I like: fitness, kickboxing (and other fight- and defendsports), swimming, skating, dancing, etcetera. In all these sports I can really give myself. Just to lose my agression or don't have to think at anything. Only focus on the sport.
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When I go for shopping, most of the time I go to the centre of Almere Stad. Not that I like it there so much, the atmosphere is better in Amsterdam, I think, but it's just near and for that reason very easy to go to. We have nice shops here but if I had say in the mather there will come some more... When do you have enough shops? The municipality is busy to make a so called "stadshart" (cityheart). What I have to expect? I don't know. It all looks very nice on paper but the have to realize all of their plans also. There should come one big shoppingstreet which will be never ending because it's a like a circle. No begin and no end; you just walk a round. I like shopping in some older (and bigger) cities, like Amsterdam and Harlem (Haarlem). There you've got those nice, little, strange shops and tiny alleys where you can lose your way very easily.
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Nowadays, I think there is not so much to do in Almere. I don't go out a lot and you've got some things, like cafe's but it isn't really something for me.
In the past I usually went to
Eindelijk
or Cheers, dancingcafe's where they play all kind off music but mainly r&b, après-ski-music and Top 40.
Nowadays I don't go there that much because there are a lot of "young people" who come there.
I also don't go to Men At Work that often, mostly things are to lively for me there. So, if you want to dance, what I do mostly when I go out, you won't have all the space you'd like to have, unless you're going to dance on the bar!
Here they play Top 40 and classics mainly.
In the past I went much more often to Totum, a youth centre, where they play (hard) rock and more of that kind of music mainly on Saturdaynight.
Nowadays I like Twenty Steps and 1e Rang; the first plays r&b, salsa and trance and the second one plays more classics, trance and r&b. Only the amount r&b becomes bigger and bigger and if I had any say in the matter it will become much less!
At present I'm "into the Salsa". It is possible that you see me at salsa-dancingschool
Burnet
on a Sundaynight.
Always super cosy!!!
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Problably you noticed I like (almost) any kind of music: trance, classics, drum&base, soul, (hard) rock, rap, punk, salsa, r&b, and so on. What I like vary from moment to moment, it depends in what kind of mood I am.
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Well, what other kind of things can you do, except going to the centre with nice people, sport, or... Going to the cinema to see a cool movie or a sneak preview, organise a nice moviemarathon (included all needs for a nice night) or enjoy a night out by going out or go for dinner. I almost like everything. Often this makes life a bit more difficult for me because most of the time I don't know what to choose what I prefer to do.
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In the summer of 2000 I went on vacation on my own together with a friend/colleague, who is a couple of years older as me, to Alanya, Turkey. I was 16 and my parents had better I would not went but it was already too late for that when we were on Schiphol Airport. They kept saying to take care of each other, to stay together, always were permitted to call, etcetera, etcetera. I enjoyed the vacation very much. I really had a super chill vacation; sun, beach, sea, going out, but still relaxed. Damn... I didn't want to leave anymore. What I still like of it, I still have contact with some people I met there. February 2001 was the second time I went to fly without parents. This time I went with school and the destination was nice and very far away! We went to the cold, very cold Dmitrov, Moscow Region, Russia. My school has an exchange-program with school nr.6. For us it's kind of weird because all the schools in Russia has numbers instead of names. In spite of the cold outside (-20ºC), I didn't felt such a warmth in my whole life! Indoors it's so hot, I even put open the window once at night. Everything was very impressive and I saw things there, you don't think about yourself that easily, things like: the kosmonautcentre, the Dutch ambassy in Moscow, Russian ballet in the Kremlintheatre, and so on. It was a pity we had to go back because we had so much fun. We were running out of time but what do you want: in the morning we went out of bed and did excursions, at night we came back and went for a drink or did something else nice. You don't want to know how many countries I still want to see. If I should make a trip around the world, I would be busy for about three years or so, I think. For sure I want to go to Turkey and Russia again but I also want to go to Asia, Africa, Australia, Latin America, Central America, etcetera. So first I have enough to do!
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Internet and MSN? That speaks for itselves, I think. It works like an addiction!
But, if you want to say/lose anything to me: just mail me...
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Love,
Jolanda
