The weekend began with Merijn graduating. It took him 9 years so I guess it’s a good thing he decided to get his bachelor. He now is an official Dutch teacher with a specialty in Dutch as a second language.
The weekend progressed with a family reunion on my mum’s side. Since I had a party to celebrate Merijn’s graduation I was excused from the canoe trip early in the morning. But it looked like everybody had fun.
This morning I went back to Nijmegen. I’m trying to start running again, but my right ankle is still in need of some rehab before I can do 5 km. My colleague, the one who treats me, tells me to walk for 10 minutes and then run. And what do you know, it works. To celebrate the success I joined Merijn to the Thermen in Nijmegen. Multiple sauna’s, a massage, nice food, sitting down to read a book. As I’m typing this post I’m actually melting from relaxation.
So last Saturday the Trailer trash party started. Our community has been organizing Bronsparty’s for 23 years. We had been planning the party since weeks and Saturday everything came together. We setup a bar, got 80 crates of beer, 7 liters of white rum, 50 liters of wine, and 50 liters of non-alcoholic beverages. As you can see in the pictures we tried to give it a trailer trash appearance.
The funny thing is that nobody has a problem adapting. It seems everybody can dress up and be trailer trash. I don’t know how many people came by, but it was crowded.
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The summary of my weekend out with my colleagues is quite simple.
Friday:
- Arrive at Stavelot in Belgium at 8.30pm
- Do a 16km bike trip to adjust to the hilly countryside
- Drink wine and go to bed at 6.00am
Saturday:
- Rise at 11.00am
- Watch Netherlands – Japan
- Do a bike trip for about 4 hours around Stavelot
- Drink beer and wine
- Go to bed at 3.30am
- Crash through the bed, because some people found out my bed sucked. When dropping on to my bed and I would actually burst through the bottom of the bed.
Sunday:
- Get up at 12.00am
- Do a kayak trip of 9 km for about 2 hours
- Get home at 21.00am and die of exhaustion
Ever since I shattered my right ankle (29th of January) running has been out of the question. Today, almost half a year later, I ran my first 5 km again.
It was a nice slow tempo run with some steps and some inclines. I was thinking about my steps all the way and my ankle became sensitive after 3,5 km so I decided to walk home. All in all I thought it went well.
The second first (for this season) was my first motor ride. I asked ‘][‘ to lend me his Yamaha FJ1200. He has the same engine I had back in 2004.
The third first is that I’m going to have a mustache. Why? It’s for the Bronsparty. Every year our living community organizes a theme party. This year’s theme is trailer trash.
A tracksuit, some golden chains, a mullet, sneakers and a tank top and I’m ready. In order to have a nice mustache I’m saving up with a goatee.
And yeah, I know, I look tired. It was an eventful day.
I usually refrain from political stuff on my blog. But the Dutch have brought it upon themselves. Do the the PVV voters have any idea what it going on? Miko has made a point…(in Dutch)
Two weeks ago I wrestled a guy after 20 hours of acrobatics. Why? Because I like wrestling. There is a downside to wrestling if you are very tired though. You don’t have a lot of power or coordination in your muscles. This means that trying to stabilize your head when somebody pulls it down, doesn’t work that well. It leads to neck injury, as even a medical layman could tell you.
Now after two weeks of pain, stiffness in my neck and hardly any sleep I “only” have numbness of the skin in my left arm. I’ve drawn it out for you.
I was looking for the next thing after my ankle ordeal. A nerve lesion seemed like a pretty good idea. Luckily for me full recovery is expected within 6 weeks to 6 months.
As you know I live in a communal house in Nijmegen. So what do you do to spend some together if you live together in a house? You all go to another house with some extra friends.
We went to Friesland and rented a house. On Saturday we rented a boat and boated round the place. Really relaxing.
I’m wrecked. Three days of fun with friends in Haarlem at the Dutch International Acrobatics Festival 2010. Maartje and I did two workshops with the series of transitions we made before.
Friends had to have a shed removed. Maybe you have experience with breaking stuff and maybe you like it. I like it…a lot.
A nice detail was that this shed had been used as a place where a certain product was sold. The product was sex. Terrible colors everywhere and tacky wallpaper.
