venice and amsterdam so far!

Okay so i have no idea where i last left off...its been so long since i've blogged.

but, right now im sitting in roberts apartment in amsterdam. robert is a cool married man who has kindly offered us his house. just to let you know us is not me, us is me plus 3 others. 2 americans and 1 australian(not including me).

so right now im sitting, just finished a croisant for breakfast, watching the misreable rain drisling from the sky ruining our plans for the day. so we are replanning.

our plan is to see the van gough museum, and to do a tour a of a beer factory.

im sleeping on a self inflatable mattress with my sleeping bag. its quite comfortable actually.

now ben gillard is singing avril!

Venice was nice. we had a hotel in Lido, which was in expensive courtesy to our cool methods of sneaking me into the hotel. which worked quite well. first night we went on a hunt to find a nice cheap restaurant in the jewish ghetto, which is apparantlly the largest jewish collection of people in western europe.

we found the nice restaurant and had some good food. then we wondered around venice a bit, finding our way back to the hotel.

the ferry was good. we probably used it about 10 times and only payed once. they never checked our ticket, so we just kept using the same one.

the next day we went on a gondala ride...which was very nice. but expensive.

we wanderd around venice for a time, eating lots of gelato and taking in the sights.

venice is a very magestic city. i wonder how they built an entire city virtually on water...the ends of buildings literally stop at the water. its amazing.

venice was good. we saved money by going to a supermarket and buying groceries to last us for lunch (nutella and bread), and for breakfast we had a fridge in the room...

anyway i should go, im getting lots of stares by the travellers i am travelling with... :P

hopefully next time i can blog some more.

oh i saw the red light district last night...in amsterdam. very very unique. nothing like it. i'll try explain later.

jack.

Luzern and Labri

So i just finished my time at labri.

it was an awesome time. i learnt so much, just by talking with people, and everyone challanging principles i've assumed were fact my whole life. anyway thats just the short of it. i will be going back there.

but i stayed with Peter and Margot for one night, possibbly the best night of my life. i had all meals provided. everything i needed. washed and ironed clothes. if anyone had a shred of hope to be good at hospitality, they should model it off of them. they cooked marvolous meals, bought me a train ticket, soap, shaving cream andfood for the train trip. plus some extra money for singapore. oh my goodness...

anyway, labri was good. i got my trains there good, then the bus dropped me in the middle of a village in the swiss alps. i had no idea where it was. so i just started walking...eventually i came across this one person who asked me if i was for labri? john. it was just by sheer chance that i saw him though. so he took me in.

once there i settled in to my basement room. i stayed there a total of 9 nghts.

the food there is amazing. they pump you full of good quality food. i suppose it was an ideal of shaffer to have good hospitality. i like seeing that flourish onto the existing labris today. also the sense of community at first can be overwhelming just because everyone knows each other, but after a while you find your niche and just set it there. i spoke aot to a women named robbyn. we spoke over a lot of issues and she challanged me heaps. it was really good. just about feminisim, etc etc...

so an average day is waking up at 8am, having breakfast, then cleaning up, then going to either study or work. study is whatever you want to do in farrel house. studying a book, listening to a tape. work was good also. you can do anything from chopping up wood, or just sweeping.

then theres the lectures. which are either the most boring thing in the entire world, or fascinating. depends who does it.

i fell down pretty sick at labri with a fever. we hitchiked down to aigle to use the internet, then on the way back it took us so long to get a hitch i just got sick from standing in the rain for so long.

after the sickness, i was good to hang out with people. it sucked that it was on my first few nights there. oh well...

anyway...it was good.

now im stuck in luzern with no place to stay and no contact for tiffany...fun fun fun...i just hope it doesnt get too late or im gonna start getting a bit cold ya know...

peace.x

Oktoberfest.

oktoberfest was the best thing i have ever been to in my life...probably.

now im off to labri.

i wish i could be bothered blgoging it all down. because i had an amazing time...i'll be breif huh

met 3 english dudes. lived right around from sil. plan to meet up. they were funny.

first night came in late from train. girls said "meet us at the beer halls" little did they know that the beer halls are about the size of a football field. and theres about 6 of them. so i had no hope of finding them.

so i hung out the english lads. we finally got into the beer hall...courtesy of a nice dish pig who likes australia. then once we were in we squeezed our way onto a table. where after a beer or two, we met some amazing germans. nices people ever. we drank beer. partyed. sang. dances. stood on the tables. it was amazing.

then they asked us if we would like to go to the after party with them. of course.

so we then walked with them to the after party. although i did lose the 3 english guys. found them again later.

so once at the club, it cost 10 euro. thats like 20 bucks. buuut because one of the germans dad was a football referee he had connections. so we all got VIP. how good. so we got in for free with no queue.

after many visits to the toilet we danced on the dance floor. sang along to the classics. met new people. amazing.

so then i just realised my situation. i was on my own. have no idea where the hostelwas. with the englishmen gone...

i then got offered a place to crash at one of the germans house. yeah-haa!! so then i just crashed at their house. it was great.

that was one amazing night out of 3...haha

okay i gotta got o bed cause i told peter and margot that i was tired. which i am. i just didnt realise i needed to sue the computer for so much stuff...lol

aight i will update everyone else later. im on my way to labri atm.

yew!!!

I LOVE GERMANYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY