Tomorrow is Valentines, hence the photo. I snapped these two via what my friend Suze calls the "hip" shot... It's simple, Point, and shoot... But from the hip. No idea what will come out, but i was lucky with this one.
I've now been in the Netherlands for 6 months, and i have been inspired in so many ways. I am currently taking a master program in SPD. It consists of learning how to design, as well as how designers get to that final product and the many stages which are incorporated into the process before the metal is taken into the warehouse for cutting.
When moving to a new country it is a whole new process. Everything starts all over again, a complete learning process. You find out a lot about yourself, and i can definitely see that myself. Especially working in groups. You find out how you would act in a work environment, and it has definitely helped me grow as someone who voices their opinions etc.
The language, once something filled with plenty of "ggggrrrrrrs" and throat sounds that i found next to impossible are (perhaps unfortunately) becoming less of an effort to pronounce. I enjoy practising what little dutch i know.
Something that i have picked up on here though, is the high intake of small chocolate sprinkles. In australia, we have Fairy bread, which for those of you that don't know, is buttered (generally white) bread. This is then dipped in 100's and 1000's which are coloured pieces of sugar. Yet no person would pull out a 100 and 1000 sandwich at a work place, or university for that matter. In fact, i think this meal, or perhaps afternoon tea snack for a better phrase, is only given to 5 year olds and younger. I think i was a let bloomer, and sneakily ate this at the age of 8, but by 10, if you're still eating this, you wouldn't tell your friends about it.
Yet here in there netherlands, many of my friends casually pull out their lunch box during the break, and break open a chocolate sprinkle sandwich. At first i was overwhelmed at the number of people that found it more than usual, but now i just chuckle.
On coming to the netherlands, i didn't think the culture would be as different from Australia as i have found it, but it is refreshing all the same.
I hope to keep seeing small cultural differences like this...
Over and Out.
