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I’m back from Amsterdam and the few days felt like a movie. You know the feeling when you experience things and all of a sudden you realise that it’s so amazing, yet very cliché and just like one of these film scenes that are totally fascinating but still seem pretty unreal, simply because they’re so brilliant and cool? I’ve probably said that before but I think that might even be the point when you actually start living.

Anyway, I stayed in a nice house with my Dutch friends and a three guys and two girls from Slovenia who came over for New Year’s as well and were a pretty cool bunch of people. On New Years Eve we first hung out at our place drinking and playing silly games and I ate my very first oliebollen (Ima: “You have to eat it, otherwise you’ll have a bad 2010!”), it’s some Dutch speciality and it actually tasted pretty nice.

Shortly before midnight we went to a private house party on the other side of the road, it took place in a big building, a former squat and now gallery or something. The best part of it was that it had a roof terrace from where you had a 360° view over Amsterdam. It was amazing. We went upstairs and watched the fireworks while a band was playing on the roof. The fireworks, the people, the music, the atmosphere, it just blew me away.

We stayed up all night, it was great. Not such a bad start into 2010 and quite promising actually.