Spiders are out to get me
Posted on May 01, 2008 | Comment? [5]
I’ve been living in our new home in Lommel now for about three weeks. My parents and I recently moved from our home town in the Netherlands to a city in Belgium in case you didn’t know. I still haven’t seen much of Lommel though. So far I’ve only seen the two pet stores (Zoomart and Tom&Co), the sandwich shop next door, the small train station and the McDonalds. The weather has been quite nice the last few days and suddenly I get stalked by big spiders. I killed four of them already and my mom killed one as well in the bathroom. The first one I encountered was four days ago in the hallway, three days ago there was one in my bedroom and then two days ago there was another one in my bedroom and a few hours later there was another one in my bedroom. I took a picture of one of them ugly things. (they all looked similar to that one) Where do these things come from and more importantly, how dare thee walk into my room?! 
My best mate, Melissa came over two weekends ago. 
We decided to go eat at my favourite restaurant, the McDonalds. We sure had some Harry Potter related fun on our bikes on the way over there. We were pretending we were Death Eaters, undercover in the Muggle world. 
While at the restaurant, eating our Big Mac’s, I noticed a little boy sitting backwards on his chair at the table next to us, sipping on a big Coke and glaring angry at me. I told Mel there was a kid glaring at me so she looked and he started to glare at her as well so we both busted out into laughter. I swear he sat there glaring at us for at least 20 minutes, all the while sipping on his Coke. The sight was fucking hilarious. 
I’ve been looking for a job but it is harder than I thought. So far every job that catches my interest requires of you that you must be fluently in both Dutch and French. I don’t speak French and don’t have any intention to learn it. You know what I need? A car. So I can get a job in the Netherlands. At least there they only require of you that you speak fluently Dutch. 
[edit]: New theme online because I missed having a fluid layout.
Dierenpret Houten
Posted on April 14, 2008 | Comment? [3]
Dierenpret Houten was fun. For those who don’t know what it is, Dierenpret (translation: Animal Fun) is a animal event that takes place three times a year in either Houten, Zwolle or Utrecht in the Netherlands. Dierenpret is divided into four categories, Rodents, Cats, Ferrets, and Reptiles. Basically on such a event you can buy toys and other sort of things for your pets, look at all the cats, guinea pigs and hamsters that are participating in contests, get information about certain animals, and at the rodents and reptiles sections you could buy animals as well. This event is pretty popular among people at Dutch animal/pet message boards, so the event also serves as a sort of safe forum meeting place.
Anyway, I went there with my mother. We had to take a bus, a train, another train, and a taxi (which we shared with two nice girls that are active on the Dutch rat forum) to get in Houten, and once we were at the place were the event was held, we had to stand in line for at least an hour before we could finally buy our tickets and go inside. Once inside we went straight to the rodent-section cause I was meeting up with some people of the Dutch hamster forum. After that we just basically looked around everywhere and I bought some things as well. At the end of the day I went home with three new hamsters and four big bags filled with goods for my hamsters and ferrets. 
Here is a picture of some of the stuff I've bought:
By the way, I’ve finished my pets page. You will also find my three new hamsters (Moon, Lucius, and Severus) there.
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