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There’s only a week left until December, seven days until I get to turn my flat into a christmasy wonderland! Which is how long I have left to finish my tree skirt<\/a>, YIKES!   I get the feeling I might be putting the tree up and adding the skirt later as I don’t know if I can cram that much quilting into the next 7 days. Unless I do nothing else and go nowhere else.  <\/p>\n

This isn’t possible though as I have plans for three of the next seven days.   That’s what I get for going and getting a social life.<\/p>\n

\"Funny<\/a>Speaking of social life… lets get back to my day out with the girls on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

As we were walking past the Bijenkorf<\/a> shop we saw this in the window.  The four of us huddled together, squeeling and giggling like we were 13 years old.  So much so that a little old lady and her husband came over to see what was so funny.<\/p>\n

It’s a pink monkey holding a candle holder… but I don’t know if it was our mood or that we are just twisted, but it totally looks like a giant pink penis holding a giant pink penis!  Don’t you think?   <\/p>\n

After separating from the girls I walked around the city center for a while taking photos.  I felt so good, like truly happy!  The air was crisp and people were bustling about trying to get what they needed at the last minute before the shops closed.    <\/p>\n

\"Rotterdam<\/a>\"Rotterdam<\/a><\/center>
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\"Rotterdam<\/p>\n

Each time I stopped to take a photo I just stood… for ages.  I’m not sure why but what I saw in these three photos made me feel really happy inside.   <\/p>\n

Maybe it was that it gave me that excited feeling about Christmas coming or just brought about some sort of sudden appreciation for where I am, it felt nice.<\/p>\n

People in the Netherlands often hate Rotterdam so much, comparing it with Amsterdam and some of the other more traditional cities in the Netherlands, but it really can be a beautiful too in its own way.   Many people come here and never even visit this city.  I mean, it can’t be as cool as Amsterdam, right?  At least that’s what they think… <\/p>\n

So many times I’ve looked around Rotterdam in disgust.  Hating all the things about it that weren’t like home, hating how multicultural it is because I feel foreign in a hundred different ways and wishing it was cleaner. <\/p>\n

Maybe it was the great feeling of spending an afternoon chatting with girlfriends or the thrill the x-mas lights gave me… but that evening I loved where I live and what I do and realized just how amazing it is and how lucky I am. <\/p>\n

I had one of those moments that hits me every few months… the one where I stop and look at all the things around me that I’ve seen a million times, only as if I’m seeing them for the first time.   Then I think… <\/p>\n

Holy shit, I live in Europe… <\/em><\/p>\n

In the evening we went for dinner and a movie with some friends, which was also a really great time.  We saw BORAT!<\/p>\n

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