the one with Holland rocks I

Heeeey guys now Im sitting in my youth hostel in Utrecht, the last day Im staying here in this amazing country trying to write down things I see and thing I feel.
To be honest, although I have been so excited to come here, I was still having doubts if 2 weeks in this tiny little west european country would be more than enough. However, I had a great great time enjoying nature seeing people embracing this small but proud country.

Just being lazy so I'll just try writing whats happening day by day. =)
(oh I might have lots of mistakes when trying to spell those dutch words... but guess most of you wouldnt mind!)

March 26th
My footprints on Holland finally extended to area outside schiphol airport. People speak amazingly good english and very very friendly and joke a lot.

March 27th
Klaas Jan toured me around Eindhoven. Dont even need to talk to people you can see that Philips totally rule this city by its name appearing everywhere. Anyways, it is so not as ugly as those what we called "industrialized" cities in China, I was impressed --- small, but full of energy of being young and creative. Although it doesnt not have any cutural archetecture thats really stands out to symbolize the town, you'll understand tolerance once you get invovled.
PS Klaas Jan gradually exposed his "asshole" side... awwwww

March 28th
People dont believe this but I did go to Keukenholf in Lisse. Well I would try to explain what it is here since I loved it so much. Keuken means Kitchen in dutch and holf just means herbs. Well in acient times there is this person grow herbs in the garden (his name is in the info package) so they took it as a name but basically it is a flower exhibition mainly you can see tulips everywhere. Well yea today I saw the garden of most tulips I have ever seen, 300 kinds of them and almost seven million of flowers in the large garden divided into different areas and cubics. Though you cannot call this totally nature cause people spend lots of money and effort in making flowers look beautiful and decorate the whole park. But trust me when you see this amount of tulips gathering around and with beautiful weather ahead, the whole scene is just so damn beautiful! The theme for this year is to memorize a swedish biologist specialized in flowers who happened to celebrate his 300th birthday this year, so there is also IKEA commercial quite a lot poping up.
People it is a very dutch thing to do to visit Keukenholf --- it is only once in a year around april since tulips dont last long. But I guess it is only popular among tourists and dutch elderly. Well it is a pity but I think I'll try to visit more bontanic gardens and stuffs whenever I can cause it is really not as boring as I expected!

Well today is also the first I had chance sitting in the car and appreciate ducth field scenery under good weather (hmmm the last time is like 7 years ago but that doesnt count). I was feeling relaxed and being so happy instead of exciting anymore when seeing windmills and cows and goats everywhere. You can see people are biking, fishing, playing golf, lying in the sun... I was told before I come there always been raining and bad weather so now when the sun comes out people pour out as well. Western people really knows how to enjoy life and nature, I think. And they are aware of protecting them. I was also feeling very good, just really appreciating what life has brought to us. But somehow I come to think asians. Well if you only talking about chinese people, we work very very hard to earn a living (ok most of us! which is well represented by the workaholic honkees). Our parents try to save every penny in order to let us have a better life. It is culture. But for me as one of millions students who are being abroad look at how western people live. Then we go back to where we're from start to work our asses off... and in these years you work hard either to be very rich in order to live like prince in shanghai or to immigrant abroad and live like westerners. Is it the cycle us, this educated part of chinese population are following? In the short term yes, because we're developing country with special political background. So smart people just try to leave the cuontry as soon as possible.
OK this is my holiday... and that probably should be what I think right now.

hmm... thats the first two days, I'll continue when got back =(
would be in Oslo for the weekend and hopefully have lots of fun learning and partying!!

See you guys soon!!!