My BA thesis is finally finished! I sent it to my supervisor a week ago, so now I'll just have to wait and see what he has to say about it. I hope it's good enough and that I don't have to rewrite much.

Yesterday I came back from a trip to Friesland (in the North of the Netherlands). We go there with a group of family and friends every year to have some fun. This resulted in a delicious barbecue, a wasp plague (which was very annoying), a shopping trip, a hilarious game of real life Stratego in the dark, sleepless nights, karaoke, watchin the Olympics on a huge screen outside with a campfire, me helping my nephew with his first French homework, watchin beautiful stars at night, and lots of fun! As you can imagine, I had a great time :)

Also, my friend Linda, who was pregnant, gave birth to a beautiful baby boy named Tygo on August 16. She lives in Friesland, which gave me the perfect opportunity to go and admire her cute little baby last weekend as well. He is so adorable! Not good for my hormones, lol ;) Both mom and dad are proud parents and they were radiating with love :) So cute!

Right now I'm enjoying a quiet day after so many hectic days and nights at Thomas' place. He's back to work and I'm enjoying my last week of summer holiday. Next week classes will start again...I didn't have much of a summer vacation, but that's ok. I'm glad I got to finish all my BA stuff on time and am ready to move into my new room and enjoy studentlife again.

Tonight Thomas went away to spend the evening with some friends. I stayed home and decided to spoil myself with a night all by myself, doing what I feel like doing without thinking too much about the consequences. And when you do that....you end up buying chocolat (white chocolat it is!) of course...

I lit some candles to create a relaxed mood and I went to snuggle up on the couch with a cup of tea. I know I'm gonna regret the chocolat tomorrow, feeling like shit about eating too much, but I just like chocolat. And since yesterday I had a bit of an off day, dealing with some stuff in my head, I thought I was allowed to ;) Plus my period is coming up, so that's another excuse haha ;)

I also went downloading some tv-series that I haven't checked out yet...I had to watch 2 episodes of The L-Word for one of my college classes (how cool is that?) and I got interested in it. However, it's not really airing here anymore, so I decided to download the first season. I already watched 5 episodes and I love it! My favorite character is Jenny, she's so beautiful (a little too skinny though...) and I love the way she portrays the feelings of being torn between her boyfriend and having feelings for a woman at the same time.

I also LOVE Grey's Anatomy. I've been watching it on tv from the start and since this weekend I'm getting Thomas hooked up on the series too ;) We've started from scratch, watching the first season and he likes it a lot, so that's good!

Furthermore I'm waiting on The O.C. season 1 (stopped watching on tv around season 3 because they were messing with the airing times, it went from primetime to like sunday afternoon all of a sudden) so I'm gonna start over with that one too. I always loved it! And Everwood is going strong as well...I love that series! I love Amy, I can identify with her on many levels. And than there is One Tree Hill, which I've never watched before and after watching the movie August Rush with Kerri Russel, I wanted to check out Felicity...Ok, I am a student, so I can't afford to buy all the DVD boxes...thank God there is the internet ;)

Soooooooo if you ask me...it can become winter soon, with rainy days and snow, with me cuddling up in front of the tv..being all warm and comfy...yeah I'd like that...

Last sunday I went to the biggest book market of Europe. The Deventer book market has more than 850 stands, spread all through the city center. I've been there before and for a booklover like me, it really is heaven on earth! My dad and boyfriend joined me in the fun and we went to shop books like crazy :)

In the end I managed to stay within my set budget, which was good. I tend to go overboard with buying books sometimes. I only bought 8, which is fairly good for the amount of money I spent. I bought:

- The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, since I went to Boston and actually saw the house myself, and took a tour inside, I am intrigued by getting to know the story.

- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, I think it's a must read for an American studies student, and I really am interested in the time period of the great depression.

- Magician by Raymond E. Feist, a very well-known fantasy writer. I'm curious about his work, since I've heard so much great stuff about him, so here I am at the beginning of experiencing a new fantasy world :)

- Dressing up for the Carnival by Carol Shields, I read The Stone Diaries for my Canadian Literature class and I really liked her writing style and the subtleties she includes in her work. So why not buy a collective of short stories?

- The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, I've always wanted to read this book, mostly because it depicts the Arthurian age/legend(s) from women's perspective, which is very interesting to me. It's different from all the masculine versions of the legend of King Arthur.

- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, I basically wanted to read this classic because it was mentioned by Bella, a character in the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer a lot, so I want to get in to the references she made and see for myself what the deeper meaning of this novel is for the Twilight series. Plus it's a classic must read of course :)

- The Broken Bridge by Philip Pullman, just because I adore His Dark Materials trilogy and am very curious about all his other works.

- The House of Spirits by Isabelle Allende, ok so this is kinda funny. I was at the hairdresser and I read an interview with her and her husband. She really came across as a very strong woman who really knows what she wants. I've already had some books of her in my hands before but for some reason didn't buy them, at the bookmarket I couldn't resist :) And I also like the fact that there are fantasy elements thrown in a realistic society setting :)

Well that's it when it comes to my bookadventure in Deventer. I loved every minute of it and I wish there were more events like that in my neighborhood. Now I just have to wait another year again...:( but maybe that's not that bad, otherwise my bankaccount will be empty in no time haha.

Yesterday was the day of my moving. My parents, Thomas, and I went to get all my stuff from my room, clean it etc. At first it wasn't sure whether I would be getting my keys to the new room on the same day, since officially my contract starts today, but the landlord was kind enough to give me the keys a day earlier after he did his check up on the room to see if it was left properly and clean. That was great, we didn't have to come back another day and bring all my stuff to my parents' house first. We worked all day to get everything ready and right now it looks really nice. The good thing is, I'm renting it from my friend who is a huge booklover herself, so right now I have 6 bookcases full of books that I can read whenever I want....lol :) She's gone to the US for 6 months and left most of her stuff in her room for me to use, which is great since I don't have much furniture myself. I'm really excited to get into my new room, but I'm not gonna be spending much time there yet, I'm spending the summer with my parents and boyfriend and in september I'll be in Nijmegen again.

Well this update became rather long, so I'll leave you to it ;) I'll post pictures of my room when I am able to go there and snap some...we forgot to take our camera yesterday so that's too bad. You'll just have to be a little more patient :) Oh and by the way, not that it is too interesting, but I changed my 'about me' picture...it was kinda outdated. So if you want, you can check it out :)