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Amsterdam Pride

Sunday, August 2, 2015 by Tse Moana Leave a Comment

20150801_120205I spent the day in Amsterdam yesterday on the KPN boat during the Canal Parade of Amsterdam Pride. It was a fantastic experience, I’m so glad I got this opportunity to go. When I got home last night I was exhausted, but it was so, so worth it.

I drove to Amsterdam with two of my colleagues, Cindy and Thomas. All of us neatly in white pants as required by our organisers. We parked near the station and took a bus to the meet-up point. There we were given our company t-shirt and various decorations.

After waiting until everyone was there, we headed to the embarkation point. Our boat was not quite as large as I had imagined, considering we were about 60 people total. Once we were all on board, it turned out to be roomier than it looked. The boat had a middle catwalk of sorts and underneath were stored boxes of iced drinks. We each got a lunch box and after eating the boat slowly moved out.

20150801_140543We first headed for out waiting spot. There we met up with the other KPN boat. This was a boat without people but filled with screens and cameras. People from all around the world could tune in to a special website and watch the parade live from the camera’s on that boat. They could also leave video messages on the website which were played on the screens during the parade.
Then, when it was time to move out, we took our place in line and the parade started. It was immensely impressive to be there on the water and see the hundred of thousands of people on the streets and on smaller boats along the edges of the canals. All of them happy, cheering, waving. Some throwing beads (I even caught one) or flowers or shooting at us with water guns.

IMG-20150801-WA0022As part of a boat you’re expected to be lively. Each boat generally has their own DJ both to entertain, but also to keep their people motivated to move. I’ve never been much of a dancer, but I never danced this much in my live as on that boat.

The whole parade took about two hours and was, at times, risky. There’s over twenty bridges that we had to pass. None of which can be raised. And some of those are so low that we all had to drop to our knees and duck our heads to not lose our heads.

And every time we got to one of those bridges, we also had to tilt our confetti cannon. Which was a fairly unwieldy thing. I happened to be positioned near it most of the time so I would assist the boat steward with the cannon.

At the end of the parade we were at the other end of the city. While disembarking we ate some finger food that was served and had some group photos taken. After that some people remained in the city, but for us it was time to head back to the North. We took a train back to the station where the car was and headed home. We stopped in Lelystad for a quick McDonalds dinner and made it back to Groningen in a very respectable time, thanks to Thomas’ driving.

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Posted in: General, Photos Tagged: Amsterdam, Culture, Fun, Gender, Me, People, Photos, Pride, Sexuality, Work

Historical Days Verhildersum 2013 [3/3]

Friday, August 16, 2013 by Tse Moana Leave a Comment
Posted in: General, Photos Tagged: Animals, Nature, People, Photos, Re-enactment, Verhildersum

Filler :D

Saturday, October 2, 2010 by Tse Moana 2 Comments

Been sick since Monday, not in the mood to blog much, hence some filler. Shot this last week.

Posted in: Photos Tagged: Me, People, Photos

Celtic Midsummer Fest (KMF)

Wednesday, July 7, 2010 by Tse Moana 7 Comments

19 GroepSo, I went to re-enact the Iron age over the weekend at a festival. I’ve still got everything jumbling around in my head so not really a proper telling in story order, more this was awesome and this was awesome kinda bulletpoints.

The group of people was awesome. I’m not always very good with larger groups, let alone when there’s people in it I don’t know or don’t know very well, but I liked the (for me) new people and got along very well with those I did know but not very well.

I slept outside the first night. It was very cool to see the stars, plus, it’s something that was on my 101 list 😀

15 SlaapplekIt was insanely warm the two days and my hair was really getting in the way. Too long in the neck and hanging in my eyes near the sides. So I asked Eva if she would cut it, Iron age style 😀

On Saturday we cut the back side. First I got soapy water poured over my head (remnants from the wool felting) Then Eva massaged some of the camomile blossoms (actually there with other herbs and such to demonstrate plants that can be used to dye wool…) in my head, all the while bullshitting the spectators on how they first needed to calm the skin on my head 😀

Then the awesomely made (by our very own blacksmith Juut) Iron age knifes were grabbed and Eva and Wilma started cutting my hair. It was a hit with visitors, people stopped at the camp in droves, intrigued at what we were doing. Some must have declared me crazy for letting them do that to me 😀

48 Yngvar kusSunday we finished the job with the front end.

Eva and Signe brought their horses. This made the whole encampment come alive, and look much more real life than without it. It was too warm to do anything with them during the day, but we did some pulling with Yngvar on Sunday evening. It was hilarious dragging the event volunteers from one point to another.

All the various works that were done/demonstrated over the weekend were all very well thought out (the group’s been doing this for about a year now, this was my first time going with them) and it felt completely natural to be doing them or to see them done around. Wool felting, card weaving, scraping horns to prep them for being turned into drinking horns, chopping wood, carving wood, cooking over fire, blacksmithing (normally done, but this weekend it was too warm), the aforementioned hair cutting, sewing etc… The whole experience felt very natural, just like a regular kinda lifestyle (as opposed to really feeling like you’re playing or something) 🙂

22 Wol & Verfplanten

Wool and plants to make dyes

 

23 Etenswaren

Food stuff

 

24 Etenswaren

More food stuff

 

65 Gevilt Wol en Kaardweven

Felted wool and card weaving

 

25 Naaiwerk

Everyone has something they can do for when there are spectators. I brought a tunic so I could sew edges on it

 

32 Kamp

Cooking set up

 

11 Ingrid & Juut

Felting

 

14 Voet

I hit, and tore open, my small toes on a tent pike…

 

15 Vuur

Feeding the fire

 

48 Bodhran

Also music

 

 

Posted in: General, Photos Tagged: 101 in 1001, Creativity, Eva & Jarig, Events, Friends, History, KMF, People, Photos, Re-enactment

Ye Olde Danse

Monday, September 14, 2009 by Tse Moana Leave a Comment

One of the things that were done was a demonstration of historical dancing, from the 19th century and such.

Posted in: General, Photos Tagged: People, Photos, Verhildersum

Family Portrait

Friday, August 1, 2008 by Tse Moana 1 Comment

Since the last one we shot was about three years ago, I decided a new one should be done so I dragged mom, dog and dad out into the yard, set up the timer and ran for it 🙂

Posted in: General, Photos Tagged: Animals, Dad, Dogs, Family, Me, Mom, People, Photos, Tessa

Juliana, Sci-Fi, Amsterdam & Presentatie

Monday, March 22, 2004 by Tse Moana Leave a Comment

Dan was er vandaag natuurlijk het grote nieuws, Prinses Juliana is overleden, 94 was het mensje, een hele leeftijd hoor. Had ik nog een beetje pech ook. Normaal kijk ik op zaterdagavond naar Andromeda en Firefly en dan tape ik Firefly en kijk Andromeda (het overlapt een half uur). Dit had ik vanavond ook gedaan want Yorin en RTL5 (de uitzendende zenders) zijn meestal niet zo herdenkering en dergelijke). Had ik beter niet kunnen doen. Ik ging namelijk om half 10 Andromeda kijken, en kwam tijdens het zappen naar RTL5 ook langs Yorin waar Firefly bezig was. Op RTL 5 was X-Files nog niet afgelopen dus wachtte ik even. Dus, dat eindigt krijg je reclame enz… Toen kwam er dus geen Andromeda maar een docu over Juliana (ongeveer 5 van gezien/gehoord vandaag, dat is echt genoeg…). Ik had dus beter gewoon Firefly kunnen gaan kijken. Nou goed. Volgende keer beter.

Verder ben ik afgelopen donderdag naar A’dam geweest, naar het Bio Molecular Archaeology Symposium samen met mijn minorklas. Het congres zelf was vreselijk ingewikkeld, en voor ons studenten eigenlijk te hoog gegrepen. Daarentegen hadden we onder elkaar wel veel lol in de trein er heen. De terugweg was ook leuk aangezien ik samen met een paar anderen er eerder tussen uit geknepen ben, terwijl we een paar andere klasgenoten en de lerares achterlieten. Daardoor waren we tegen 6-en thuis ipv tegen 9-en.

Morgen… eigenlijk vandaag… ga ik maar eens aan de slag met een presentatie die ik moet maken voor dinsdag, dan kan ik mijn cijfer voor het werkstuk waar het op gebaseerd is een beetje ophalen (had een 2). Veel plezier.

Posted in: General Tagged: Archaeology, Media, People, School, TV

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