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Ladies and gentleman, I did it! Last saturday I ran the Dam tot Damloop, whilst being hopelessly undertrained. I didn’t go running for about a month beforehand; I only went to the gym once in awhile. Thankfully, my lifestyle is active because I cycle everywhere I can (I avoid

Last year I had the luminous idea to start running. I got into it because of the Batavierenrace, the biggest student running event. After a few weeks of training I thought it’d be cool to try and run the 1/2 marathon next year. And now it is 2009

Just a quick post to let ya’ll know I’m doing fine! I still enjoy being busy again. I hope this feeling will last, but last year I felt shitty again during the winter, which led me to believe that I might have that dreaded winter depression thing. We’

With one of my orchestras we have to enroll in something you call ‘concours’ in Dutch. According to Wikipedia this translates as ‘competitive examination’ in English. There are certain levels a amateur orchestra can compete in and ours is on the highest level. You can advertise this to your public,

Music My two orchestra’s have started again, and it made me so incredibly happy to play again! I’ve been making music on my own during the summer, but it’s much more fun in a big group. I was especially surprised with how well we could still play

The end of summer gives me a variety of feelings, good and bad. Sadness because of the ending of my favorite season. The days are shortening, the warmth is leaving, soon we’ll have to wear wintercoats again! Excitement because my orchestra’s are resuming rehearsals. I missed all the

My last post about Crete was rather short, so this post will be devoted to describe the things I’ve done there in more detail. Samaria Gorge This was without a doubt the coolest activity I did on Crete, but it was also the most heavy. I had to wake