I S K R I S T A L L E R

Me and Tim went by train to Amsterdam or A'dam as some dutch people say. Tim said he hated it even before I set my foot there and that I certainly would to. There are lots and lots of people in Amsterdam, believe me, Tim had to grab my arm and drag me everywhere because he was afraid of losing me in the masses. Also a thing I am personally not used to in Sweden is that people smoke everywhere, in the streets while walking, in the shoppingcentres, in cafés and even restaurants. I hate when people smoke among other people. And also there were lots of tourists running in and out of souvenirshops and taking photos of everything, and people biked a little everywhere and not a single person cared about the traffic lights. GREEN - Everyone walks of course. YELLOW- Everyone walks of course. RED- Everyone STILL walks of course! And in many places there was thsi really strong and weird smokesmell, Tim told me it was grass/marijuana, yes people even smoke THAT in the streets!
There were lots of shops everywhere, I looked in some and there was one shop I really really loved, it was exactly my kind of style, it was called BERSHKA, I never heard of it before, I bought a dress there with polka dots (you'll see everything I bought in Holland later), I was about to buy jeans too but there was an emergency with Tim because he was obviously dying of boredom so I gave in when I saw his face. haha! We ate at Mcdonald's and it was of course crowded everywhere so we went out to look if there was some place to sit but people were everywhere, luckily we found a table underneath some kind of tent, and if you believe that there was ever silence in Amsterdam you're SO wrong! The noise was soooo loud I had to shout to make Tim hear me whenever I wanted to say something, and that day there was some kind of carnival too so they sang loudly and danced on wagons. And Tim said "There is always something going on in Amsterdam. It is never quiet. Not even at night"
And he should know because he used to go to school there until this summer actually...

There were also lots of "statues" everywhere, but they weren't really statues, it was just people standing everywhere pretending to be statues in different clothes and armours, they would stand very still and sometimes they would move just to point their finger at you or do signs or change position. Tim said they did that for charity. It was pretty cool I think. They wanted me to come and stand next to them so we could have our picture taken but I didnt want to do that because all tourists did that and it felt so humilating haha! I didn't take a photo of them all, which I maybe should have but it was pretty hard to take photos in Amsterdam because there were people every every every where...  Actually I don't like Amsterdam so much, it was too crowded, too loud, too big and too dangerous to me haha, so Harlem is my favourite city here I think, so much more calmer!

 So yah, here are some of the few and not so proffessional photos I took...




One of the "statues"


HAHAHAHAH




I wanted to go here but there was a supersuper long queue:(


De Nieuwe School. This was Tim's school, he just graduated from it. Seriously it is super slim and supertall! So Hollandish!




You could see horse and carriage pretty much everywhere, I felt so sorry for them because people kept running up to pet them even though the driver said no and cars drove close behind them and it was so noisy and only hard pavement to walk on + warm. IIII was exhausted! Pooooor horses:( You had to pay lots just for one ride too.

I was going to try my combination lock for my travelling bag... Seriously I joked about locking my bag so I wouldnt get it up again... God obviously thinks I joke way too much and that I should stop being so unserious and silly cause guess what? I DID IT! I LOCKED MY BAG AND NOW I CANT GET IT UP! THE FUCKING CODE I ENTERED SEEMS TO HAVE CHANGED! WTF! This is sooooo me... sooo only-happens-to Alexandra-happenstance. FUCK. SOOOO I started trying every combination there is but yeah..I think gray hair started growing out... so I thought wtf... and asked my dad to break it and yup. Now I've got no combination luck anymore. Good thing it was a pretty easy one to break... Whatever.