Saturday, April 30, 2005

The End

Well, not entirely the end. But today I will get on the plane, heading home again. My time here in Pittsburgh is done again, although the project I was here for, My master thesis project, is not over yet. Now I will continue back in the Netherlands for a bit. And then hopefully in June, I will realy be done; graduated with my masters degree. Now THAT will be the end of an era. And the START of a new one. New experiences will be waiting, new people to meet, new places to go,... I can hardly wait for that to start again.

Anyway, for now, I just packed my bags, and am waiting till it's time to head to the airport... Long flight.... Hope they have some good movies...

Well, I'll try to continue to keep you up to date this way, but for now, I'm off...

See you around!

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Overdoing it

As many people who regularly talk with me know; I don't realy like Pittsburgh. I've been here now for over 5 months, and I still don't like the town; it's ugly, and it knows it. The prove is out there, in the form of Asian Ginko trees that will color the brightest yellow with fall (but are without leaves deep into spring), Japanese cherry trees, with their amazing blossom in the spring and Dutch Tulips for immediately thereafter, and they are very busy to turn a highly needed parking lot into yet another park. They are overdoing it; they try so many things, but don't fully engage into any one of them. Moreover, through the mixture of all these seperate attempts, they only seem to be able to emphasize that they are trying to cover-up, to hide the uglyness of the town. It's sad...
Hehe, besides, in dutch there is a saying, "even if a monkey wears a golden ring, it is and will be an ugly thing". Pittsburgh is much like that monkey... sorry people of Pittsburgh...

Anyway, I still have slightly over half a month to go, then I'll return to home again, back to the Netherlands, away from this place again. I don't think I'll miss it. Defenitely not the way I miss Japan... Awell, I'm off to bed now, another day's over again. See you around!