A few months back I wrote that I had joined a club at the sports centre. It was actually the aikido club. I believe the reasoning was that the training sessions fit around my Dutch classes if I recall correctly.
Aikido is a martial art, however unlike other martial arts there is no competitive component. After [...]
Entries from December 2007
December 28, 2007
Gradings
December 20, 2007
Motsneeuw
Motsneeuw is not really snow. It looks like snow, but it is to snow what drizzle is to rain. I went out around 11am this morning to find cars covered in white powder and certain (less-patronised) areas of the city were white as. Eindhovens Dagblad are asking people to send in snow photos.
And the third [...]
December 16, 2007
More Christmas
As I said, the place has gone Christmas-mad. On Friday I received my Christmas box from the uni, which is a hamper full of goodies. Unfortunately I had to walk this thing home and it was kinda heavy and kinda big. And after doing a fairly heavy aikido class on Thursday (more on that later), [...]
December 9, 2007
Christmas and related activities
So Europe appears to have a) gotten cold and b) gone Christmas mad.
Last week was Sinterklaas in the Netherlands. This is a bigger celebration than Christmas here, in terms of presents. The story goes that Sinterklaas arrives from Spain in November on a boat to prepare for handing out presents on December 5th/6th. Naughty children [...]
