Again..irony

Well nothing new to speak of lately; just busying up myself. But the good news is I get to return to Europe this week; yeah!!! Not only to I get to return to Amsterdam, again, I get to return to Estonia, again. I love going to Estonia and I love returning to Estonia. I will be again teaching English while there. This time I get to teach the advanced class. It will be a challenge, even moreso than usual; but the Lord will equip us accordingly.

Here is my thought of irony.
Since I have been home, for just over 2 weeks, I have had the unfortunate opportunity of watching much television. One thing that I have noticed is that there are a lot of commercials on various stations advocating to people to monitor and limit the programs that their kids watch. The grand irony is that they use characters from the television shows, some in character, as they tell people to block their programs. What a hoot, the networks telling us to censor out their shows. The greatest is the one where they say if you are blushing then your kids should not be watching. How ironic. If you are watching, your kids should not be watching but you should not either. ha ha

Adventures??

Well, not too many adventures since I have been back home. Searching for the mythical job is not very adventurous yet it is daring. I feel like I am tempting fate or something. Searching for a job reminded me why I went to school in the first place.

An adventure that I am up for is to return to Estonia. That is the upside of not being able to start school this semester. I am free to go. However, I do need to obtain a plane ticket to travel to Estonia.

Return

My last couple of days in the Netherlands were good. I finally went and checked out Ooster Park; I've been wanting to do that for about 7 months. It was pretty cool there. It is a great place to hang out or take a nap. MLK Park is a great place to take a nap as well.

It did feel a bit odd to be leaving the Netherlands. I was thinking "Where am I going?" But once I made it home, I felt normal as soon as I arrived. Good ole Texas. Even though it was 106 degrees when I got here, I still love it. A few more days, then I will return to East Texas; that is the place to be.

One of my adventures on my last week was to return to the Zaan area. I checked out Zaandam and then pedaled around to Zaanse Schans. When I got almost there, it started raining and I got soaked. I thought that the windmills looked cool with the rain so I took some pictures.

Adventures

I have had some adventures lately. I plan on having a couple more before I rotate back to the world. There is a lot to do in the Netherlands and since it is a small country, everything is closer together. There are cool places to see nearby. A short bike ride gets you there. There are cool parks in most cities that you go. Also, there are old buildings and the like all around. There are great things to do at the Hostel where I work as well. Even there are cool church services to join as well. I will not get to do all before I leave, but I plan to enjoy the time remaining.

Alkmaar

The Cheese Market is touted as a pretty cool place. Well, it was kind of cool that day. It was also informative and a bit fun to watch, if you could see it. A lot of people wanted to see it and did not feel bad about pushing you out of the way to see. So I just grabbed some open ground in the back a watched what was going on in the square at Alkmaar. There is a guy making a wooden shoe there. He sells many of them and gets even more awed tourists gawking at his work. A lady tells over the speakers all about the cheese market. The first advice that she gives is to watch out for pickpockets. Then, in different languages, explains the things that are going in the cheese process. The thing that I found interesting is that the scale master is a sworn-in man.
After the cheese, I walked around Alkmaar a bit. I had fresh camera batteries and another sunny day (in my mind at least) this time. I saw a windmill in town an went to check it out. I then wondered how far Oudorp was; I wanted to check that town out. Apparently it was more than close to Alkmaar so I got to see it. It was good to check out, there are some nice windmills there. Also, there is a good bakery there.

The Hague

Recently I went to The Hague. I have wanted to check it out. I had heard great things about it. It was supposed to be the best thing since sliced bread. However, it was not. But nonetheless, it is a great city and it has a beach! So that is where I spent most of my time. I enjoyed checking out the city and walking around. There is pier that goes out over the water a ways. There they have a bungee jump. I of course did not partake in such things. But seeing people do it right in front of you begs the question even moreso, "Why?"