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I'm doing 38 things
 

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  1. 1. Learn Dutch
    8 entries . 4 cheers
    545 people
  2. 2. be financially independent
    1 entry . 5 cheers
    1,489 people
  3. 3. move out
    4 cheers
    2,903 people
  4. 4. Study more
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    1,274 people
  5. 5. get better grades
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    1,021 people
  6. 6. Dress better
    1 entry . 4 cheers
    1,181 people
  7. 7. never look back
    2 cheers
    43 people
  8. 8. finish my degree
    7 cheers
    2,483 people
  9. 9. Finish what I start
    8 cheers
    3,721 people
  10. 10. improve my english
    1 entry . 9 cheers
    1,819 people
  11. 11. improve my writing
    1 cheer
    436 people
  12. 12. learn to drive
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    5,886 people
  13. 13. read faster
    199 people
  14. 14. learn to swim
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    2,817 people
  15. 15. decide what the hell I would like to do with the rest of my life
    2 cheers
    6,848 people
  16. 16. study abroad
    4 cheers
    2,297 people
  17. 17. take a creative writing course
    4 cheers
    32 people
  18. 18. expand my vocabulary
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    2,537 people
  19. 19. wear skirts more often
    6 cheers
    291 people
  20. 20. Learn to apply makeup
    1 cheer
    348 people
  21. 21. Learn Kendo
    1 entry
    154 people
  22. 22. learn to belly dance
    3 cheers
    2,250 people
  23. 23. Take more pictures
    3 cheers
    13,986 people
  24. 24. Write down my stories
    1 cheer
    65 people
  25. 25. learn to draw
    3 cheers
    1,919 people
  26. 26. be a better singer
    1 cheer
    67 people
  27. 27. learn french
    1 entry
    10,112 people
  28. 28. Learn to Salsa
    1 cheer
    1,317 people
  29. 29. learn to dance
    3 cheers
    6,235 people
  30. 30. learn about politics
    100 people
  31. 31. learn how to do my hair
    112 people
  32. 32. write my autobiography
    2 entries
    546 people
  33. 33. get married
    3 cheers
    17,868 people
  34. 34. install ubuntu
    2 cheers
    32 people
  35. 35. finish Final Fantasy X
    3 cheers
    31 people
  36. 36. travel the world
    5 cheers
    17,809 people
  37. 37. Go on an archaeological dig
    3 cheers
    129 people
  38. 38. wear hijab
    2 entries . 2 cheers
    17 people

How I did it
How to join a writing group
It took me
3 years
It made me
excited but troubled


Recent entries
be financially independent
I'm on my way 8 months ago

I have no debts so far and I hope it stays like this.

My salary is nothing to be proud of, but it’s allowed me to take the first step: pay my own university costs for this year.

Now it’s the house (and all costs included) there and the health insurance.



lose weight (read all 149 entries…)
An article I saw and thought was interesting 8 months ago

For all you extra dieting, extra working out fans out there.

http://www.shapefit.com/overtraining-exercising-too-much.html



Learn Dutch (read all 8 entries…)
Imburgeringsexamen 10 months ago

So yesterday I did my imburgeringsexamen. The part where you have to read was quite easy, the part of kenis samen leving or something like that was awfully hilarious!

One of the questions was that if my neighbors put a huge statue of the virgin Mary if I should sneak up at night and tear it down, I had a laugh. Oh and if I should forbid my daughter to kiss a guy because he kissed her or hit her. I was having such a laugh I thought everyone was thinking that the stupid questions were hilarious. That was until I came out of the room and I saw an old granny who had taken the test with me crying: one of her questions had been what to do if she saw homosexual men in the street and the right answer was to wave. She was saying that the answer should not have been to wave because if everyone had a right to do and think what they wanted, she should be allowed to think how she wanted as long as she didn’t insult anyone. I felt sorry for her, because she seemed quite perturbed by the video shown at the test. Honestly, someone that old can’t change the way they’ve been taught to behave.

I think the Dutch should put more effort into teaching the younger generations of immigrants and the sons of the original immigrants to be open-minded. There’s not much you can do with people who have already a firm set of beliefs. A Farsi girl and I were talking that the sons of immigrants here are sometimes more old-fashioned than the people in those countries themselves. She said it was probably the discrimination that pushes them into the most extremist sides of their culture.

In any case, I don’t think I passed on the spoken test. Not that I mind much, I got a letter from the gemeente 2 days ago (when I had already paid for the tests) saying that my Dutch and my knowledge of the Dutch society was good enough not to do the imburgeringsexamen. And now they come with that!

EDIT: oh, as a side note. I found a job and guess what? it’s all in Dutch because I’m selling bread at C’est Du Pain. For some reason I speak to all my workmates in Dutch (most of them are immigrant or Dutch from a second generation of immigrants) but I can’t help it. I always end up speaking in English to my boss, though. It’s because he’s more fun when we speak in that language ^^. I guess I’m getting a bit more fluent, at least with saying numbers and “wilt u cacao op uw cappuccino?” -laughs.



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