I've been a little lax on my blogging lately, so I decided to do a general update including all the stuff I've been doing in Delft. Primarily I've been working on my thesis, but that's only a full-time job, and I just finished up the final draft (one more set of revisions and it's done)! However, there's more than that in my life.
First off, back in February I went to Carnival in Maastricht, which was full of gnomes flicking me off, men dressed as babies, and cardinals hitting on nuns. What a day...
Then there were the cooking adventures! Chilean empanadas, fresh bread (check out the apron!), Dino cake, and cow pancakes (different from cow-cakes...), in some order.
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Chilean Empanadass - these are absolutely delicious. Period.
That's right; I just used a period to emphasize me saying "period." |
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| Baking bread. Check out the apron my folks sent me at Easter time! |
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| Dino-Cake! This was for Taja's birthday. |
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| Cow pancakes! Awesome, Netherlands. Awesome. |
And of course there's been a fair bit of cycling while I'm here in the land of the bicycle. Marcio and I cycled to Kinderdijk, where the windmills are, and I've been cycling on my own, too. Just like last year, I've put some kilometers on the ol' Cube riding through the farms of Middendelfland, where there are hundreds of baby animals in the spring.
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| Kinderdijk with the windmills. |
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| That's not a boat, it's a building. Crazy. |
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| What's wrong with this picture? ...or what's RIGHT!? |
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| When Spring got started all the baby sheep came out! They're so cute and awkward! |
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| Oh, Moholt, you thirsty devil! Drunk all and left no drop for me!? |
And of course, living up on the 17th story in a country with no hills, I have a most excellent view. In theory I can see all the way to the Sea, but I haven't had a clear enough day for that yet. But with a vantage point like this, a blog post about my life here wouldn't be complete without a sunset photo.
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| Sunset from my flat. |
So that's what's I've been up to! It's all wrapping up now. I've got my last committee meeting for my thesis the first week in June, and I present my work on 21 June, bringing this whole MSc program to a close. It's daunting and exciting to be on the brink of so much change - I'll be back in the US by August. Weird.
