Amsterdam and head-butting

SAY HELLO TO AMSTERDAM!!!

Melanie and I went couchsurfing in Amsterdam this weekend. I fell in deep bliss with this city! This has nothing to do with the scandalous lifestyle I usually like to get mixed up in (yes girlfriend) such as drugs and the red light district. I might as well mention now that we did not go back to the red light district at night and I regret it so much! Apparently the prostitutes take your camera and throw it in the toilet if you try to take a picture of them.


Also, I was completely stunned silly by it's large number of bicycles (1 million bikes : 700 000 habitants) and beautiful canals. I had no idea Amsterdam was known for those. In conclusion, it's a city that I would definitely consider moving into, although what's a chemist gotta do in Amsterdam??? This means one thing: change career paths.


Something else I'd like to mention proudly : today, I stood up for my cultural heritage. Coming out from the uni, I was stalled by a young woman who wanted to recruit people for a campus communist group. When her partner saw me, he walked over and shouted "Chopouka!" or something stupid like that. The weirdest part of it all was that when he said that, his eyes were gleaming, as if expecting me to become his friend! ARE YOU KIDDING ME? What is it with this country that people think it's okay to make fun of someone's language? I asked him to repeat what he said and when he did, I told him that no one of the asian race appreciates a comment like that, and that his attitude is close to discrimination. I walked away casually after making my point but I should have nagged on until I squeezed out an official apology. So many things were left unsaid but there's no need to worry, I'm sure this is not the last time someone's shouts a made-up Chinese word in my direction so I have plenty of chances to preach.