Dutch Maiden/s

Sorry I haven't been posting in a while - I've been pretty busy enjoying my stay in Manila. Anyway, a lot of you have seen this picture already - don't I look so pretty? :)

While I was putting on these clothes (there were about 4-5 layers of them), I could hear kids asking their parents "mommy, why is that man wearing the ladies' costume?" People would also shriek whenever I raised up my skirt to get something (I was wearing maong pants underneath hehehe).

The guy with me is Anton, our half-Dutch, half-Pinoy family friend. He drove me around Holland with my tita to see how cheese is made (in Edam), and what a traditional Dutch fishing village looks like (in Volendam). Here is another picture of us with some real Dutch maidens:


When we got to the cheese factory pictured above, they asked us where we were from. We told them that we were from the Philippines - so these girls started speaking in Dutch. They said stuff like "hey come out here - there are 2 hot, young guys out here!" (that is not a lie - they actually said "2," so they thought I was hot and young as well hehehe). Of course, Anton was fluent in Dutch.

When he demostrated this ability (which he did eventually, after listening to a good part of their conversation), the girls were blushing so hard that they looked like tomatoes! (well they didn't really look like tomatoes, but their faces turned so red that...well you get the idea!)

I am back in Europe, by the way. I just got here last night, after a long (12 hours!) and bumpy no-smoking airplane ride. I had to lug myself and my large maleta from Amsterdam to Brussels - it was a smooth but crowded 2 1/2 hour train ride.

On Sunday, I am flying back to Warsaw from Amsterdam, so that's another 2 1/2 hour maleta-carrying train ride for me. I am really looking forward to this leg of my journey (that's a lie). If I keep this up, I'll probably lose the 10 kilos I gained during my last stay in Europe (another lie).

I'll be back in Manila on July! See you all again soon!