{"id":58,"date":"2005-03-18T08:17:04","date_gmt":"2005-03-18T06:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=58"},"modified":"2010-05-24T22:05:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T20:05:48","slug":"mars-vs-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/58","title":{"rendered":"Mars vs Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this on a forum I frequent and thought it was totally blog-worthy.<\/p>\n<div><strong>****************<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>I never quite figured out why the sexual urge of men<br \/>\nand women differ so much. And I never have figured out the whole<br \/>\nVenus and Mars thing. I have never figured out why men<br \/>\nthink with their heads and women with their hearts.<\/p>\n<p>FOR EXAMPLE<br \/>\nOne evening last week, my girlfriend and I were getting into bed.<br \/>\nWell, the passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says &#8220;I don&#8217;t feel like it, I just want you to hold me.&#8221;<br \/>\nI said &#8220;WHAT????!!! What was that?!&#8221;<br \/>\nSo she says the words that every boyfriend on the<br \/>\nplanet dreads to hear&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;You&#8217;re just not in touch with my emotional needs as a woman enough for me to satisfy your physical needs as a man.&#8221;<br \/>\nShe responded to my puzzled look by saying, &#8220;Can&#8217;t you just love me for who I am and not what I do for you in the bedroom?&#8221;<br \/>\nRealizing that nothing was going to happen that night, I went to sleep.<br \/>\nThe very next day I opted to take the day off of work to spend time with her.<br \/>\nWe went out to a nice lunch and then went shopping at a big, big unnamed department store.<br \/>\nI walked around with herwhile she tried on several different very expensive outfits. She couldn&#8217;t decide which one to take so I told herwe&#8217;ll just buy them all.<br \/>\nShe wanted new shoes to compliment her newclothes, so I said lets get a pair for each outfit. We went onto the jewellery department where she picked out a pair of diamond earrings.<br \/>\nLet me tell you &#8230; she was so excited. She must havethought I was one wave short of a shipwreck. I started to think she was testing me because she asked for a tennis bracelet when she doesn&#8217;t even know how to play tennis.<br \/>\nI think I threw her for a loop when I said, &#8220;That&#8217;s fine, honey.&#8221;<br \/>\nShe was almost nearing sexual satisfaction from all of the excitement. Smiling with excited anticipation she finally said, &#8220;I think this is all dear, let&#8217;s go to the cashier.&#8221;<br \/>\nI could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, &#8220;No, honey, I don&#8217;t feel like it.&#8221;<br \/>\nHer face just went completely blank as her jaw dropped with a baffled &#8220;WHAT???!!!&#8221;<br \/>\nI then said, &#8220;Really honey! I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while. You&#8217;re just not in touch with my financial needs as a man enough for me to satisfy your shopping needs as a woman.&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd just when she had this look like she was going to kill me, I added, &#8220;Why can&#8217;t you just love me for who I am and not for the things I buy you?&#8221;<br \/>\nApparently I&#8217;m not having sex tonight either.<\/p>\n<p>heheteehehehe<\/p>\n<div><strong>****************<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>So Tuesday I got the results back from my exams for Niveau 2 of NT2 (Level 2 of Nederlands als een Tweede Taal &#8211; Dutch as a Second Language).  As I wrote in previous blogs I was sort of nervous because I hadn&#8217;t been attending quite as much as I should, I was sure I didn&#8217;t get any score at all on spreken (speaking) and that made me nervous about whether I&#8217;d move on into Niveau 3 or not.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/mt\/pics\/toets2.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, I didn&#8217;t do nearly as bad as I thought.  In fact, I passed with flying colors!   I was pretty shocked when I saw the results, especially in spreken.  I was so sure that it had gone terribly wrong, I have no idea where I scraped up those 27 points.  I would have liked to have had 30+ on that section but considering I thought I wasn&#8217;t going to get any points at all, I&#8217;ll happily take the ones I got an run with them.<\/p>\n<p>So now I move on to Niveau 3, which is a bit different than Niveau 2 because now we have <em>Maatschaporientatie<\/em> and <em>Loopbaanorientatie<\/em>. I think I spelled those right.  What they are is two new sections of the course, maatschaporientatie being the part where we learn more about the country, it&#8217;s culture, the history and all that junk.  Loopbaanorientatie is the one where we discuss what we want to do here for work\/school, how we go about finding the job or training we need, etc.   Should be interesting, considering I don&#8217;t have the first fucking clue what I want to do.  I think I will be doing a lot of shrugging in that one.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, for those who don&#8217;t know:<br \/>\nLezen = Reading<br \/>\nSchrijven = Writing<br \/>\nLuisteren = Listening<br \/>\nSpreken = Speaking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this on a forum I frequent and thought it was totally blog-worthy. **************** I never quite figured out why the sexual urge of men and women differ so much. And I never have figured out the whole Venus and Mars thing. 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