Went to de Efteling, which is a theme park full of fun, yesterday, with Brian, my brother and Eveline and it was so great!! I think we spend most of the time laughing ourselves silly, because my cousin has a very infectious laugh and my brother is barking mad and made her double up every 15 minutes or so. Literally, so we had to wait until she could stand up straight again... I used to go to de Efteling once every year when my brother and I were small, but I've only been there twice in the last five years or so, and I noticed how beautiful and imaginative everything actually is. Some things, however, were not as awesome as I remembered. All the dolls and crocodiles and dragons and things seemed real when I was little. Here are a couple of short videos I made and pasted together with Movie Maker: [link]

My parents will leave for Germany/Italy this weekend, and I suspect I myself will not be spending much time in my house/at my PC, so you'll have to do without me for a while. I've not been getting much attention here lately, anyway, so I'm sure you won't miss me. BYE.

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Got this from , so some of the answers apply to her.


1. Your Name: Saskia

2. Age: 21

3. Single or Taken: taken. That’s right.

4. Favourite Film: at the moment… I’d say “Withnail and I”

5. Favourite Song or Album: right now “Around the Well” by Iron & Wine

6. Favourite Band/Artist: Sigur Rós

7. Dirty or Clean: pretty clean

8. Tattoos and/or Piercings: I’ve got five piercings in my ears

9. Do we know each other outside of dA? You’re my cousin, so YES

10. What's your philosophy on life? Enjoy it while it lasts

11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty? Half-empty

12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest? obviously

13. What is your favourite memory of us? When we were laughing our heads off in a nearly empty movie theatre

14. What is your favourite guilty pleasure? Like I would tell you that when I feel guilty about it

15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you: something you don’t know yet? Hmm, I can't take people touching my knees or feet. It'll freak me out. Maybe I shouldn't have said that...

16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarkey) - what are they?

1 do a gig somewhere with Chris and Brian
2 spend a month or so in Iceland and ride a horse, bareback, through those lovely hills. Ohhh yeah.
3 to make money with doing what I love

17. Can we get together and make a cake? that’d definitely be a lot of fun

18. Which country is your spiritual home? Haha, tricky. The one I feel most at ease in would be Scotland.

19. What is your big weakness? Shyness/insecurity

20. Do you think I'm a good person? Yes, you make me laugh. That’s good.

21. What was your best/favourite subject at school? English, Literature and Art

22. Describe your accent: haha, it got seriously damaged by speaking so much English. My Dutch g isn’t nearly as strong as it should be, and my s turned into a whistle because of English Language Lab. Other than that, I guess I speak something in between Leids and Hagueish..

23. If you could change anything about me, would you? No, I love you the way you are.

24. What do you wear to sleep? Er… usually not much, but when I’m sleeping somewhere else I wear a green Snoopy pyjama.

25. Trousers or skirts? Trousers, but I love skirts and I wish I could walk around in those huge 17th century ones.

26. Cigarettes or alcohol? Alcohol. Cigarettes make me sick.

27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? (If you have no idea, just say something crazy, it'll entertain me!) We’d go to America and find Johnny Depp.

28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you? Uh… this is an odd question. Who is 'I'?