Queensday 2008

Probably the most popular party day of the year, where Dutch people go out in their orange outfit, and celebrate, originally, the birthday of the Queen’s mother….

I love the outfit of Princess Laurentien, the fuschia dress with short sleeves and A-line skirt, with her matching shoes!!! (third picture, feeding animals)

Also Princess Mabel, the one in black and white with her high heels (fourth picture)

More active…

Today and sunday I have been cycling with my boyfriend, in order to get more active. I was active during autumn, in Liverpool, but in the winter I kind of slummed and failed to cycle a lot.

 

So, get those legs moving again.

 

Sping? Naaah…

Yesterday I was filled with positivity and joy, especially after looking out of the window. The sun was shining, birds were singing, it smelled like flowers…oh joy, it might be spring.

So I whipped out my springiest outfit out of my wardrobe: a flowery skirt with a pink sweater and purple tights (yup, still some tights, my legs are not bare-ready yet)….and, tadaaah,…..<brrr> it was still chilly outside.

I persevered and went to Amsterdam in my springy clothes: I had to apply for the University Library in Amsterdam in order to rent books over there (for my dissertation). However, I have the free library card (yey) but I could not yet look inside the journals I needed yet (probably monday), Indian Journal of Gender Studies , so I went shopping…

I went to American Apparel, a vintage shop, and more superficial glossy magazines….It was lovely…even though it was not really warm yet…

Lazy Blogger

The last couple of weeks has been a period full of deadlines, happiness about received grades, shopping greed and internet browsing.  I still have to wait for one grade to come in, Gender and Ethnicity in Europe, so I hope it will be good.

The next two months I will be focussing on writing my BA dissertation.

I will focus on travel literature of the 18th century of Britains (I think women only) about India. It will be quite interesting, and I already ordered a heap of books at bookstores and the library. I love to write about Postcolonial Theories, and with this topic I can combine English Literature (my BA speciality) and Postcolonial writing (hopefully, my future MA speciality)…

But I will probably still have some time to do the superficial stuff, like blogging, shopping, reading crap magazines, etc….