Weekend

had a wonderful weekend. Robert left again yesterday afternoon, and I have been busy since then getting myself organised again. I have exams on the 10th and 11th of April and to be honest I haven't done anything about them yet.

Robert arrived early on Friday afternoon, and we gave Derk a call to join us. That afternoon we went to Delft, an old town not too far from my home. It is where the royal family bury their dead in the new Church. We also visited the prinsenhof, where the first prince of orange lived and was murdered. And the Army Museum where they had a very good exhibition about Napoleon.

Unfortunately I had another killerheadache in the evening. And I was in bed by 8. It is strange I get these severe headaches or fun at the first day of holiday or break, it is as if my system has to adjust. After that I am mostly more or less okay. I really don't need this in April, I am very afraid of it though, the first evening of that holiday we are going to the theatre and I am really looking forward to it..

the next day Robert and I went to a Second World War fort in Belgium, fort Breendonk. it was a concentration camp for political prisoners. We spend three hours in there, it was very impressive. At one point and could not keep my eyes dry. That evening we stayed in and wrote some role-playing posts.

On Sunday we went to the Batavia warf in Lelystad. this is a working warf where they are building a wooden replica of a famous warship using almost no modern equipment. There you can also visit the last ship they built, a merchant vessel. In the evening we played card games.

Since almost every museum in the Netherlands is closed on Monday we decided to go out of the country again on Monday. This time to Germany, to Xanten. here we visited an archaeological Roman park. Some remains and some replicas. Also the old town itself, with the restored church which was bombed during the Second World War. It was very good to see a display here honouring the priests who had died resisting the Nazis. It makes you realise that not all Germans agreed with what happened and there was resistance there as well.

in the evening we went to the movies in Ede. through my fault we just missed the early shows, but the good friend of mine lives there, so we went to visit her first and she came with us to the cinema.

all in all it was a very good visit, and over much too soon as usual.

Tuesday I also bought a laptop online. I am looking forward to it being delivered. If I am going to do my job experience through volunteer work it should come in very handy.

as usual photos can be viewed here:
http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/miekehaveman/slideshow?.dir=/60ff&.src=ph

musings

for some reason I have not blogged for a while. I guess I have been busy. Busy with schoolwork, which is good. For months I could hardly set myself to it, not really knowing what I wanted and what I was doing.

Recently it all changed. Because in September I will start a year-long coaching course, and it all clicked together. They will actively help you to set up your own practice, also coaching I find less daunting to start with then counselling. You work was less fragile people. So you can make your start-up faults without seriously damaging somebody. Also I'm looking for volunteer work to do my practice hours for my psychology classes. I'm still orientating, but narrowing it down. The only problem right now is still the stamina. If I do too much one of two things will happen. My arms and hand will hurt more, or I will get terrible headaches. One more reason to start working for my self, so I can decide when I work and how many hours.

Another idea I am toying with it is an eBay shop. I have several ideas, but there would need a partner, because even although good day I can barely manage putting stuff on the web site, and getting it ready to send. So if anybody is interested, let me know. I just want to be prepared when I lose my WAO. And to be honest, I would like to earn my own money again after six years.

Looking forward to Robert coming over on Friday. We only met for the first time in February last year, yet hit it off immediately. And I love spending time with them. There is no romantic thing there, and yet he feels like a soulmate. There are so many things we have in common. I just wish one-day I would meet a guy that I liked intellectually and romantically. It got to me again last weekend so I went and subscribe to all the free dating agencies online again and one not free LOL. We will see. And yes I know I am too critical. Even changed to bisexual this time. I have never fallen in love with a woman, and yet I would really like to. Somehow it seems much more comfortable, less complicated. But maybe I'm completely wrong.