Doing IT Dutch

This is just a little silly thing i thought of doing. Think of a country and try define it in stereotypical and mathematical terms.
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• Ireland = U2 + Leprechauns + Guinness * Potatoes
• Spain = Bullfighting (OR Wiping out the Aztecs) + Sangria / Siesta
• The Netherlands = Clogs + Tulips + Windmills / Bicycles * Edam Cheese
• Greece = Feta Cheese + Moussaka + Syrtaki + Islands (Alex the Greek!)
• Poland = Girls + Vodka * The Pope
• Belgium = Chocolate + Dangerous Beer  – Seriously MultiLingual Citizens
• USA = Military * Fat People / Global Leaders
• Switzerland = Banks + Fondue / 0

I started using this new service called Spotify. Its a free music streaming service were its possible to share your playlists. Unfortunately its only available in France, Spain, Norway, UK, Sweden, and Finland, but this shouldn’t stop you using it. Luckily the service has a useful `away on holidays` feature that means you can use it anywhere in the world for two weeks once you login in the desired countries. So we shall see how that goes.

This is just some thoughts:

• Erasmus isn’t available in Japan?
• Some Japanese dont have excellent international english?
• Japanese are scared to live outside Japan….

This just dawned on me because i realized in Nijmegen there are people from all over the globe except Japan. Im still waiting to see a Japanese person in Holland! Im sure it bound to happen sometime…

The Dutch are just too good at English in my opinion! Its Crazy! I honestly believe if there was an equal opposite in terms of conquering the English Language to Japan, it would be The Netherlands. Its quite the change of scene! If people speak dutch to me (because they think im dutch) i simply tell them
“Eh i cant speak dutch”. They`re response is 98% of the time, a perfect fluent english complex conversation . This is just weird for me. In Japan, English is far from the dutch fluency.
However the Japanese and the Dutch are – understandably – very different.

Thats not to say speaking English here is perfect, its not. Its just different. In Japan – i had the Japan Book of Anonymous Quotes. A collection of quotes from people i have meet when i was in the land of the rising sun.
I have started the Dutch Book of Anonymous Quotes. Every line has a story behind it. The only problem i seem to be having, is that i have no easy way of memo-ing myself like in Japan.