Koulutöiden tekemistä vältellessäni törmäsin tällaiseen hassuun listaan niistä asioista, joista tunnistaa, että on oleskellut Hollannissa liian kauan. Koska lähdön hetki häämöttää jo kuukauden päässä, naurattivat listalle päässeet asiat minua aika tavalla. Valitettavasti en jaksanut kääntää koko listaa suomeksi, joten englannintaitoiset lukijat voivat listalta tarkastella Hollannin omituisuuksia :) Saattaisin kyllä väittää, että monet hulludet on kuvattu jenkkinäkökulmasta ja muutamakin kohta sopii myös hulluihin suomalaisiin yhtä lailla...
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You've been in the Netherlands for too long when...
1/ You have
a bike
2/ You even
know how to brake using retropedaling
3/ Walking
from your faculty to the cafeteria has become unimaginable. You take your bike,
even if it’s for 50 meters
4/ Eating 7
slides of bread for lunch doesn’t scare you anymore
5/ By the
way, you stopped eating warm lunch. You just eat bread
6/ You know
what a kroket is, and you learned to avoid the orange ones
7/ It
doesn’t surprise you anymore to eat at 18:30
8/ You
drink beer
9/ You got
used to trance and electro music
10/ You
don’t cheat on the train, because controllers are EVERYWHERE
11/ When
the cafeteria is crowed, you line up neately with the others
12/ You
used to use cash all the time, but now you have a pin card
13/ You
think ducks are cute
14/ As soon
as the sun pops out, you make a barbecue, even if it’s 10°C outside
15/ You think
15°C is warm
16/ You
know winter stops in May, and not March as everywhere else
17/ You
don’t remember what a moutain looks like
18/ You
still don’t know how to speak Dutch. But your English has improved
19/ You
know what Surinam is. And where it is
20/ You
never go out without your bike lights
21/ You
think butter in a bottle is normal
22/ You
know that all the guys are in Delft. And the girls, everywhere else, especially
Leiden
23/ You go
to Leiden on Saturday
24/ You’ve
been to a flower park, and thought it was cool
25/ You’re
ok with having only one flavour of ice cream (the white ones)
26/ You
don’t even bother to ask “do you speak English?”, you just speak English right
away
27/ When
you go to the cinema, you are ok with being told where to sit
28/ And you
wouldn’t dare sit anywhere else
29/ You
have finally accepted the fact that Gouda is cheese
30/ Paying
6€ for a meal in the cafeteria seems normal
31/ You
know how to repair a bike
32/ You eat
potatoes at least once a day
33/ You
always check the weather before leaving home
34/ You
know what it is being late and having to wait for a boat to cross the bridge
35/ You can
drink milk at any time of the day
36/
Sometimes, you only drink milk as lunch
37/ You
have tried karnemelk at least once
38/ You
start liking dropjes
39/ For you
something sweet means straubwaffels
40/ Spring
means flowers blooming and construction sites opening up all over the place
41/ Being
tall gets a new meaning
42/ Blonde
is back to being a hair-color, not a concept
43/ You
have 4 seasons in one day
44/ You can
start a mail to your teacher who happens to be a doctor by “yo, wassup doc”
(exaggeration can get the message through)
45/ You
think that paying to use the toilets is normal
46/ You
know that kapsalon is not a typical turkish dish, but a hairdresser
47/ You
start to think that the strange position of the hole in the WC is not that
disgusting
48/ You
find it easier to find a good joint that a good coffee
49/ You
have the AH bonus card
50/ Your
windows have no curtains, and you don’t care
51/ If your
windows have curtains, you don’t use them, and just don’t care who might be
looking at you
52/ For
you, light rain is not rain
53/
Professors write a “well done” comment in your assignment and still grade you
with a 6
54/ You can
drink beer in the cinema (good)
55/ 10°C is
warm enough to wear a short or mini skirt
56/ You can
ride your bike in the rain, wind and even snow
57/ Guys
are very cute
58/ You can
ride your bike wearing skirt (if you’re a girl), a suit or even high heels (if
you’re a girl)
59/ When
you start having strong opinion even if you vaguely know the topic
60/ When
you “wash” the dishes with soap without rincing them
61/
“Alstublieft and dank u wel” are the only dutch words you know
62/ You
aren’t surprised anymore that the disco closes at 4 (but it still pisses you
off)
63/ You
learn to bike without using your hands on the handle
64/ You go
to the market and you only buy the stuffs that fit in your bike
65/ Riding
a bike and driking coffee/smoking/eating lunch at the same time is not a
problem any more
66/ You
reformulate the saying “if you drink, don’t drive” by “if you drink, don’t
ride”
67/ You’ve
been asked where the coffeeshop is
68/ You
start wearing orange during soccer events, even when you’re not Dutch
69/ You get
used not to use napkins when eating. You just eat dirtily.
70/ You
know what GVD stands for
71/ You can
never predict the weather and can not believe the weather forecast anymore
72/ You
wait for the light to go green before crossing the street, even if there is no
car
73/ You
sometimes eat only with a spoon
74/ You
tried fried fish from the caravans at least once
75/ You
clap the lecturer (just because he’s been speaking for 2 hours)
76/ You run
to Albert Heijn at 21.55 to get some beer for the party that night
77/ Trees
planted in straight rows/ aka the forest/ seems normal
78/ You
think you understand why they don’t serve coffee at coffeeshops (but you’re not
sure yet)
79/ You
steal a bike at the station because the night before someone stole yours
80/ You
think it is okay to eat multicoloured sprinkels on bread for breakfast
81/ You use
9292ov.nl to go to the supermarket
82/ You
know that the wind blows in your face regardless of the direction in which you
are biking
83/ You
don’t even try to park in an unauthorised area just to ‘pick something up in
5min’, because you know you will get a ticket in 30 seconds
84/ When
you move out of your rental apartment, you know you might have to take the
floors with you
85/
Stepping in doggiepoo on the sidewalk becomes almost a daily thing
86/ You end
up eating super greasy food at 5am at FEBO or ALEV (Delft)
87/ And
after that, you manage to bike home still completely wasted and go to class at
8:45
88/ You
need an appointement to talk with your friends. Or your mother
89/ You
enjoy making tourists jump off the bike path
90/ You
paid more for the lock of your bike than for the bike itself
91/ Real
bread? You’ve made your peace with it. It doesn’t exist
92/ You
know that the Netherlands doesn’t have a special dish. They just fry everything
93/ You
know getting a couch will be difficult because it doesn’t fit through the door.
Windows maybe?
94/ You’re
ok spending Queen’s Day in the train because people are walking on the rails
95/ Jaap,
Joost and Jeroen are the names of most of the Dutch guys you know
96/ When
the sun pops up all your Dutch friends are wearing beach flip flops
97/ Dutch
people ask you why don’t you speak Dutch?
98/ You
still don’t speak Dutch but watch silly Dutch TV shows like Take me out and
Single
99/ You
have been in a relationship with at least one Dutch person
100/ You
are used to people bumping into you abruptly on the street, yet never saying
sorry
I love this, so legit!! Lol
VastaaPoista