Amsterdam-ian

sitting down to a delish lunch in amsterdam. After this we will be heading to the heineken brewery for a tour which concludes with a free beer! Woohoo! Yesterday we were in Rembrandt's house... Later we will visit the most famous 'coffee shop' in the world and then head to eindhoven holland.

Woohooo!

Home Again!!

Hay guys! Sorry I haven't posted the Scotland video blog entry yet. I've been busy since I've been home working on presentations and case study proposals!! As well get this- when I got home late on Monday night.. walked over to my bike ready to hit the pedals and make my way home.. NO BIKE! That's right, its gone!

Now I thought I had bad luck with bikes after my first one broke, then my new one got a flat tire, and my pedal fell off in the middle of the street...not to mention the bruises and bone spur memories I have from all the accidents.. NOW MY BRAN NEW BIKE IS GONE!

I'm not sure if it was stolen, or taken by the police for illegal parking (couldn't read what the sign said).. but either way I'm pretty annoyed and tomorrow I will go to the police station and try to figure out what the deal is.

Other than that I feel great! I had an amazing time in scotland. Okay the whether was FREEZING COLD, cloudy, and a bit rainy.. so maybe not as breathtakingly beautiful and relaxing as Marseille, HOWEVER... it was so INTERESTING! I learned so many things not just about the history of Scotland, and the city of Edinburgh, but about europe in general! It was really cool to try the national dish - 'Haggis'.. dude,, look it up man!

And I am so excited to leave for Amsterdam this weekend .. I'm going with the ESN & Matthias, then on the way home I will stop in Eindhoven (5th largest city in Holland) and stay in a nice hotel and check out the city :p

Then the weekend following that I will be in Bremen for the Christmas market (that's Germany for you geographically challenged fellow Americans.) Can't believe how much I'm learning- outside of school! Love it! A lot about culture and global geography as well as language, people, and myself.. uhm am I missing anything!??!

I propose to have my Scotland blog video up by Friday evening :)

Check back for it!!

Cookie

scooooooootttlaaannnnddd

dude i have 2 minz b4 my internet runs out! but i'm in scotland!! woooooo!! tomorrow castles, and tea!

yeah babbyyyy!!!

Keep Rollin Babe!!!!

Good evening blog lovers~

Just getting ready for my trip tomorrow afternoon :D Scotland here I come!! I’m so excited wooo! I will be meeting my friend Traesa, and her friend Kasey in Edinburgh (pronounced Edin-bur-Oh). My bus leaves Groningen Central Station at 1pm tomorrow .. then Ill arrive in Bremen Germany around 3.. my plane leaves around 7 and I arrive around 8 in Scotland. So I will have some down time, but I will bring reading materials and am considering brining my BF (laptop).

I will be in Edinburgh until Monday evening.. then I’ll be making the journey back home and will arrive in the weeee early morning hours on Tuesday. Next weekend Amsterdam with the ESN! YYYEAAAHH! Then I have(tentative) plans to visit the Christmas market in Bremen Germany. The ESN also has a trip planned to Den Haag! Ok I really need to get busy finding out my ancestory (is that a word?) in the Haag. The ESN is a European international student network. They do a bunch of cool stuff and if it wasn’t for the ESN, I’m not sure I would have made it here! I met a lot of great fellow internationals through the ESN!

The other day I went to a very cool career event put on by the ESN. I saw a very beautiful part of the business campus that I hadn’t yet seen… I was feeling great.. It smelled like sugar beets and that always reminds me of Caro :*) A professional businessman from France, and businesswoman from Amsterdam both gave interesting speeches about doing business internationally with different cultures. I learned a lot of interesting differences between how Dutch, French, German, and Asian people do business. As well, I did a couple workshops ---HAHAHA!! I did some dirty trading in one of the workshops and won a bottle of Premium Godiva Liqueur for a group of 16 students.. I made a lot of new friends that night :p In the other class I was the leader of a group of 5 students and played the role of a Chinese CEO trying to do business with some dirty European hospital execs. … sounds interesting eh? It was…
Today I got my bike fixed cuz the pedal fell off… The guy only charged me 1euro!! Chhyyyeesss!! I think I’m guna have a couple beers and may go do something random later… WHAT A LIFE@!!!! YEAH BABEEE!!!!!!!!

Hay family!! When are you coming to see me!?! It’s gorgeous here and I would love to show you around town!!! By the way, New Years would be a good time to visit me friends!! New years in Europe!!?! Start it off right! :x

LOVE, JEN~~~

Pip Pip!

Whats going on with my last post?! No comments?! Did I shock you all??

Last night was sooooo much fun! I really enjoyed myself! I felt like a REAL college student!! :) Dunno if I've said this before, but I realized how IMPORTANT it is to go away to college!! Its something that every person should experience. Its like, constant partying (more for the younger bachelors students) and its a period in life that every person should have. I'm so glad I'm getting my chance. Its a really good thing I can pass for a 19 year old. Because.. everyone I hang with is younger than me!! I dont think they know how old I really am LMAO!! I think I'm just going to start telling people I'm like, 22 or something ;P

Last night Matze and I went to Winsho. We played Flippy cup! Some people were dressed up in costumes... I was walking around chatting with people from... Germany, Ireland, Poland.. etc..

All of us went out to the city and filled up this small bar. There was this REALLY drunk girl, Wendy, from England. She is soooo tiny.. and everytime I see her she gets really drunk :( I was helping her walk around, and even though she couldnt stand straight, she kept reaching for beer... poor thing, I hope she makes it here!

Today was nice and relaxing, I was working on my paper. And tomorrow will be as well. I'm watching TV now, stayed in alone tonight.. recovering from yesterday and working on my paper. I will post some pictures from last night.. I would now but Mr. M took my camera HAHA!

Cookie

We're not at Baker Anymore Toto

Procrastination
Hard work often pays off after time,
But laziness always pays off now.

Yoooo Peeps!! Whats good? What a day what a day... so the focus of my case study has changed a bit... now we are focusing on eBay and its problems with transfer of organizational practices to its Chinese subsidiary... Yeah man!

Today was lovely.. I got up relatively early (10am), rushed to the library to do some writing.. then out shopping a bit.. spend a ridiculous amount of euros on pizza and fries, stuffed my face, watched Matze open presents.. watched some great youtube videos..

Dunno what's the deal with this kid-- but he sure cracks ME up!! HAHA -Check it out-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1zY38p0Lpw

and just writing a bit more on my paper now.. here is a taste of what I’ve been working on..

Although eBay has seen uncanny success in the U.S. over the last decade, due to vast differences in Chinese culture, its U.S.-structured website has produced less than desired results at its Chinese subsidiary. In using Hofstede’s (1984, 1991, 2001) cross-cultural theory, we have a better ability to critically analyze these individual cultural differences, and attempt to identify their potential influence on the ultimate failure of eBay’s Chinese venture.

So as you can see we’ve changed the focus a bit more on eBay.. but I’m hoping to use a couple of references to what happened with Google. Anywho… I’m going to close up shop (my pc / best friend)… and have a couple of beers then go out! OMG I’m going out!??! Wow.. when I first got here I think I was out just about everyday.. noooowwww not so much! Just call me Jen the hermit!!

Oh,… BTW—Its official!! I’m going t Scotland.. No England.. but .. another time! Get this yall—traveling by myself!! OMG!!! AHAHAHAHA!!! Leave in ONE WEEK!

-Jen, OFFICIAL word traveler

Ciao

Undercover Computer Agent Muthaf******

Just a quick update here~ very busy writing papers and trying to sneak in some fun! Matze’s Bday is coming on Friday! Since he was so sweet to me,… and got me a REAAAAALLY awesome gift, perhaps the best I’ve ever received… I’ve been trying to think of something nice to give him. Oh but let me tell you what he got me!

It was a special order- he asked for my pictures from France so he could pick a good ‘background for his laptop’… hhmm… I should’ve known! Well… I did think it was a bit fishy…

Anywho—the gift is a beautiful landscape photo overlooking the city, mounted on plexiglass with a light behind! So you can hang it on the wall and its like a little night light!! Its so awesome! I love it! 

So I’m trying to get some work done ahead of time so I can party with him and our friends in the city this weekend. For once I am working on a mildly interesting paper- It’s about Google and what happened when it tried to get into the Chinese internet search engine market. Kind of interesting stuff!

Perhaps I will post my final research paper so you can all check out my amazing work!

And uh, jeeze my room is always a mess! Its like I clean it all the time! Just sitting here in my bed with my laptop.. reading, schooling, blogging, chatting, writing… and uh.. I feel like I have time for nothing! Really looking forward to a nice break! I still have to figure out what I’m going to do for Christmas vacation.. tick tock tick tock!

Ginosebig

MBA in Europe = Priceless...?

Lately I’ve been feeling the pressure. School is beyond stressful. You can't imagine how difficult this stuff is!! OMG.. compared to Baker College??? Don't make me laugh!! My routine is setting in… I spend a lot of time at home in my room, and sometimes it can get lonely. I’m supposed to be studying, but I find myself distracted or .. at least distracting myself. I procrastinate and continue to put my school work off until the last minute. Then I’m even more stressed out. I guess I need to learn how to use my time more efficiently,… any suggestions?

Other than that, I still find time to go out. Last night I met some new friends. I went over to my friend Katie’s student house, “Orange House”. Its kind of far from my house… but it was nice to check out a new place. I saw a couple people I knew and made some new friends. Anna from Poland, a girl from Hungary and I went out to the city. While on our way to the bar, I met Baha, my SIB friend and went to a bar with him. Then I met some of his friends from all over the world…

My friend Pat called me up and then I walked over to the palace to meet him and saw some of my other good friends like Ozi, Matthias, Jamal, and Vlad. I had my fair share of beers… then it was time to leave so I headed out with Pat and Ozi. Pat needed a ride and wanted me to jump on the back of my bike and let him drive…. However last time that happened, we crashed! So I was like mmaaaannn.. YOU get on the back of my bike. So he did, and to both of our surprise, I actually biked both of us ALL the way home. swweeeeettt

So far I’ve had 3 pretty bad bike crashes; you can still see the wounds from them each. I have a bone spur from my first crash, and two HUGE bruises on each of my thighs from a couple of recent falls. Either way, my new bike is great! Instead of being in the slow lane with everyone passing me up, now I’m zipping past everyone else! Woohoo! Great to feel the wind in my hair and the rain stinging my face!
I miss everyone very much and sometimes wish I could just see your faces for a moment. SO GET SOME STINKEN WEBCAMS PPL!! Perhaps my awesome mom could get a webcam and we could have some skype chats!!?? YEAH!

Tomorrow I will go to the city shopping with Ozi and buy some clothes and boots. Then back home for more studying, and probably will end up out and about tomorrow evening. Its really true- there are so many bars crammed into this little town!!!--- people say, “There are so many bars you could go to a different one each night and never run out of new bars!”

G’nite!

P.S. *I heart Ramen Nooooooodles*

Moldy Dog Poop

there has been a pile of dog crap outside my front door for a couple of weeks now.... Its growing a substance with quite an interesting blue-greenish color. I almost stepped in it toay. Thank god i missed otherwise i would stink p the entire classroom! What a mean stench! Exams r done now i have post exam stress waiting for grades... Other than that im enjoying a couple brewskies at a local Dutchy's watching jhonny english. I will take it easy tonight but tomorrow its back to the books!

Doei!!!
Jennnnnn