THe weekend

Aside from music letdowns, it was a pretty good weekend if unproductive. I already talked about Friday night, so then Saturday morning, we trekked 10 km south to Kinderdijk. It is quite the Dutch place, very much a tourist destination, it is the largest concentration of old windmills in the country. Besides, tulips, it is panoramas of this place people most associate with Holland, and rightly so as it is located in Zuid-Holland. So we all met at Intl House at 10;30am and biked down towards Krimpen Aan De Lek where I had found a ferry to Kinderdijk. Unfortunately, we made a wrong turn and ended up at the ferry port for Krimpen Aan de Issel. I found that we could take this ferry to Ridderkerk and transfer to the Kinderdijk one. It started pouring just as we got onto the ferry but thankfully this proved to be the only serious rain all day. Once we got off the ferry, all 13 of us rode over to the windmills. It's really just one big long path with windmills. Cool to see but that's it. There is one you can go inside for 3 euro, I'm a chump. After that, because it was cold we all settled to a small cafe. Then it was the route back, took the ferry to Ridderkerk, and went along the south side of the Maas. At this point it was after 3:00 and some people were tired and had to study for an exam on Monday so once at Red Bridge, Willemsbrug, the group parted ways, so I took some people to go find the Rotterdam Ska-Jazz Foundation concert in some park outside. Went down the street I thought it was on and there was nothing, I don't even remember hearing music. I was disheartened and we went up and down the block and still nothing. Then we gave up, and started heading home, until we started talking about all the coffee shops in the vicinity and decided sporadically to go to one in Beurs. Got there and smoked one J and then headed home around 5. Then at night it was to be 80s/90s night at Off Corso club. But before there would be party and Jello shots at International house. So I went over there around 10:30 and the jello shots were more like sweet slushies. It was a good time there, lots of people, then around 12, we all shipped out into town, it was raining but oh well. Got inside after paying the 12.50 cover, and beers that night were 2.50. I dont understand this place, it is the 2nd time I have been and they freaking serve beer in glasses. Why the fuck would you do that in a club? No one ever returns the glasses to the counter because theyre dancing and then you have to battle through all those people so it ends up being just leaving the glass on the ground and then they break and shatter and there's broken glass on the dance floor and those people come around and clean it up. And not until after 3am do they serve beer in PLASTIC cups. By serving in glasses it is not like they are conserving because the glasses fucking break to pieces! Anyway, the music was alright, a lot more 80s than 90s and not as much hip hop as I'd have liked. It was much more fun than when they play whatever the fuck they want. Girls were okay, once again you can't hear shit in there, and this short French girl who was with these 2 Asian girls who were with this Portuguese guy Luis who hangs in our group kept looking at me, so I gave it a shot, but she was really shy, not stepping back or anything, and I couldn't understand what she aid her name to be,I thought she said Neeneenee, so when she said it I tried to make sounds that sounded like what she just said and I hoped she would just assume I said the right thing but she was meticulous I asked her to spell it but it was long and I still couldn't get it, oh well. Stayed until about 4am, when some went to get drinks, the dynamics of our group shape shifted and these girls who had been below the platform were now next to us, and effortlessly I was suddenly dancing right beside them, so I decided not to be a stick in the mud and talk and their names were Esther and Tamara. I thought I was at a USY dance all over again. Tamara was visiting from Switzerland and Esther goes to Erasmus. I was going to ask her to dance when someone pulled me away to go get drinks so I tried to find them in the same place after we got back but to no avail. Then today I did much of nothing, and then went to see KRS-One in Amsterdam. I have only been to one real hip hip concert before, that was Aesop Rock at the Middle East and compared to how rock concerts are  usually much more structured with the band's set and an encore, and more serious, this was quite a combo between b-boy fest, freestyle showdown, interactive exhibition. I got there right on time at 10:15 and he went through til about 12 midnight, brought in a guy named Supernaturaal who did this time machine thing where he rapped like other rappers Slick Rick, Busta Rhymes, and Biggie, I didn't realize how well respected he is that he was even mentioned on a Big Pun track for his ability to freestyle. The train to Amsterdam is about an hour and can be long without an Ipod so I gotta get my Itunes working. Ok, its 4:30 am and I gotta sleep so I'm done for tonight. PEACE. mud.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinderdijk