Adventures of a teenage nomad

so before i describe amsterdam, i dont want to forget the ryan air experience.

ryan air is this great budget air plane that has ridiculously cheap flights all over europe. i think each of our tickets cost about 20 bucks. not bad right? sure they are usually early in the morning, and land in not the exact city, but an hour or two away, but its still pretty cool.

since the tickets are so cheap they bombard you with advertisements during the flight. right as u sit down ur handed a magazine of stuff u can buy. after lift off they come around with a cart of pretty expensive snacks and drinks. then when your just about to drift of to sleep, they come around with scratch tickets. a little while later they have a cart of perfumes you can buy, and finally when ur just about to descend they come around with ryanair calendars availible for purchase. yikes! its quite the experience, even funny at times, unless your dead tired...

ok, so amsterdam- its still beautiful! we got into our really nice hostel- stayok. had a bit of trouble because i guess i only reserved one bed instead of 2, but it worked our allright in the end. we walked around amsterdam for a long while, went to a few of the markets, and i saw someone from the farm working at one of the stands, so we got together and had dinner out with him, very nice, a bit too spicey, but still nice.

he left, and kara and i walked around a bit, but eventually ended the night with a fabulous pub crawl!

the next day, we again walked around and went to a few more markets and then went to a bar with live music and chilled out a little bit. then the next day she left back for the usa.

so it sounds like we didnt do much, but there was a lot of walking, and i think we saw a lot!
so im staying here for an extra day or two, i might be getting a job as a pub crawl person, i have my interview in a little bit, who knows?! if not, then ill go back to the farm, then to paris- then home!

its so weird to think of going home, ive gotten really used to life in europe. hmmm...

~MARYme

wow, his place is so differen han he las farm, its ridiculous! o, before i begin, on his keyboard the t is very hard o push. so i will probqbly be lacking>

so im here in holland, safe and sound! its not reqlly a family im staying with but insead a bunch of people. i havent exactly figured out who lives here and who doesnt, but i think it would be impossible to try. in holland one of there rights is the right to housing. so, if a place sits abandoned for a year, its within the peoples righs to move in. its called squatting, and thats how im here right now. some people squatted this abandoned fqrm house, did loads of work on it, and now all hey have to pay is electricity and water.

so the bathrooms even cooler than the last one! its a definite outhouse, including a cutout heart, its very nice!

so dinand pretty much told me about this place, he says, if ud like to do nothing arund here, do nothing, if u feel like building a bridge, build a bridge. so its pretty free and easy.
for sleeping arangements, we were having a little no bed crisis when this guy named jack said he had free room in his yurt. obviously i said yes, so im sleeping in a yurt, in a field next to a canal, pretty sweet! it gets a little cold at night, but its not bad at all.

so i went to the store to get some grocerys, but they couldnt accept my card, thankfully i had cash. so then i went to every atm in this town and they all said they couldnt make a connection with my bank. hmm a little concerning there.

oh well, i have som emergency money i can dip into while here, and i wont be spending a lot anyway.

so one of the cool things here is the closet of free clothes, they are all extremely funky and hippieish, very cool.

ok, so pics might be a little longer than when i thought, but they are coming!

much love to all
MARYme