Today passed with no grand adventure of any sorts. I followed T2t around today so that I could get a feel for the average day in the life of a student. You know what I don't miss? Being a student. I learned a good bit from the classes taught in English, but trying to keep up with Maths in Dutch was a little beyond my capabilities. Dus......... yeah (that's the one Dutch phrase I've learned that's stuck... my language acquisition skills need work... it's means "so" in the context of an awkward silence... also, I've probably spelled it wrong, I've only been here a week, cut me some slack)
On to more pressing things:
1) I heard a teacher use the sassiest phrase I have ever heard in my whole life today and think it bears repeating. One of the T2t girls was being disruptive and this teacher looked at her with a glare that could have frozen Hitler in his tracks and said very calmly,
"If you continue to disrupt my class, disrupt your afternoon"
Then went back to teaching like nothing ever happened.
2) In that same class the teacher expressed her concern that meat packaging companies in the States were using mice in their meat. I hope I wasn't lying when I said that the FDA is trying to crack down on that. 'MURICA
3) Here I will speak about something that I have grown to admire about the Dutch. It is a habit that I've been working to cultivate in myself because I'm so impressed with the skill. Now, if you haven't figured out that I'm real big on food, you must be a new reader, because well, I have no qualms about sharing my love for food and the art of eating. So it really should come to no surprise that the quality in which the Dutch have most captured my heart is food related.
Based on my observations, at each meal, a true Dutchman will grasp his/her fork and knife - one in each hand - and wield the instruments with the most ambidextrous of talent, scraping every morsel of food from the plate with amazing precision. It involves a fair amount of metal meeting porcelain screeches, but the dexterity in which they are able to glean every edible element off the plate circumvents any ear discomfort. Not only do they manage not to waste anything, they also perform this at speeds unlike I've ever seen. Normally I'm always the first one done with my meal, but man, these people put my speed eating to the test. My goodness, one minute the food is there and the next minute it's gone. Amazing, absolutely amazing. Finally, a people after my own heart.
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