Hello all!
Nice to give an update not on my traditional Monday-post-traveling. This weekend I'm staying back at the Castle to celebrate a HUGE festival here in the Netherlands - Carnaval! It's basically Mardi Gras, except everyone gets dressed up in ridiculous costumes with three main elements: a colorful costume, face paint, and a musical intrument of somekind. It's a week-long celebration, with the main activities taking place on Saturday, Sunday and Monday night before beginning the long fast for Lent. The Castle students and staff are participating in the Parade this year! The theme that was chosen is "around Europe in 90 days" since that's basically what we do while we're at the Castle. So each student picked a country to represent in the parade. I'm being Scotland, sort of in homage to my most recent trip to Europe previous to this one. For the parties Saturday and Sunday night though, we're expected to go all out. So, Christina and I ventured into the (sort of) nearby town of Venlo today. We came across a decked out version if iParty and started the costume search. I'd gone through a few ideas of what to be... a caterpillar, a stop light, grapes. No real luck. Then I found this awesome mask with peacock feathers... done. Peacock. It was decided. After finding only expensive costumes, Christina decided to join me. So we got the masks, green, teal and purple huge plume feathers to stick in our black skirts over our black sequened shirts, colorful rights and heels. Bam! Peacock. I'm fairly proud of this. And I totally have a Halloween costume for next year :)
I also finally bought new boots to replace my sad broken ones!
And Christina and I pushed our beds together and watched Juno while snacking on pretzels, celery and gummies. Good night.
Off to an amusement park tomorrow during the day, then the first Carnaval party tomorrow night!
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