Netherlands Emails: (27/a zillion)
More quiet reflection...at this point, we were all getting pretty tired.
The last week in Rotterdam certainly was the quietest for our group. A lot of people were sick, and the rest were thoroughly tired of the train system, so many of us stayed close to home, unless we were going out for a class thing. On Monday after Trent's last lecture in the Olive Garden I went to see the Cube Houses, yet another of Rotterdam's architectural wonders. The floor is even, but the walls are every which way, so the furniture actually has to be custom-made. The houses really are rentable, but one is open for touring for a few euros - by the end of my walkthrough I was tempted to ask how much rent was per month (they're like treehouses, but even cooler). I also wandered around yet another church, but since it was Monday, I couldn't go in. Spent the rest of the day at the library, though, and tried an interesting wok/smoothie place called Eazie, though it didn't feel quite right to eat stir fry without William. :P Some people had thrown together a potluck at the hotel, so I munched and chatted - I tried something that was like the giant, sweetened equivalent of a TCI communion wafer. (You think you've found the weirdest food in the Netherlands, and then they just pull something else out of the giant bag of weird...)
The last week in Rotterdam certainly was the quietest for our group. A lot of people were sick, and the rest were thoroughly tired of the train system, so many of us stayed close to home, unless we were going out for a class thing. On Monday after Trent's last lecture in the Olive Garden I went to see the Cube Houses, yet another of Rotterdam's architectural wonders. The floor is even, but the walls are every which way, so the furniture actually has to be custom-made. The houses really are rentable, but one is open for touring for a few euros - by the end of my walkthrough I was tempted to ask how much rent was per month (they're like treehouses, but even cooler). I also wandered around yet another church, but since it was Monday, I couldn't go in. Spent the rest of the day at the library, though, and tried an interesting wok/smoothie place called Eazie, though it didn't feel quite right to eat stir fry without William. :P Some people had thrown together a potluck at the hotel, so I munched and chatted - I tried something that was like the giant, sweetened equivalent of a TCI communion wafer. (You think you've found the weirdest food in the Netherlands, and then they just pull something else out of the giant bag of weird...)