Coaching in Haag

I had a really fun and inspiring time coaching the Parliament of Pain in  Haag, Holland. It was really a great experience. I haven't been to Holland in quite a while.
Four hours of coaching went really well and everyone seemed really happy about the bootcamp. It is the best thing as a coach, when everyone seem like they learned something. I am always a little nervous in the beginning of practice, that my drills aren't going to be what they expected.
After practice they took me out for specialty beers... YIKES... those things are STRONG!! I even got locked in among all the beers... but without an opener, but that was probably for the best...

GREAT BOOTCAMP!

Sunday I spent in Rotterdam with Roos, who is one of the skaters but also my friend Fridges girlfriend, just biking and walking around, getting some really good bread and juice. Rotterdam is very modern, there is lots of very modern architecture.

Before breakfast he tried to kill me... 

So now I'm in Brussels visiting a really awesome friend, NON DERBY, and going for walks and trying to get some school done. I like Brussels, it is very different from Rotterdam, buildings are older and my friend Charles is being a supergreat tourguide. He is also sitting around playing guitar when I am just chillaxing on the couch. I love that I have people like this in my life, people I can just be me around.  I am also preparing for the seminars I'm holding at EROC. I'm starting it off with a seminar on tournament play, and the next day me and Only are holding a seminar together, on training structure. I am really excited about it, even if I am also really nervous. Always nervous when I have to be in front of a bunch of people to talk.

Taking the train from Brussels to Berlin, I love trains, watching the world just fly by outside. It is time for contemplation.

Crossdressing in Rotterdam

Fisty and Loony got the real sized glasses, I totally lucked out

Guess who is who!

I did it! I got Major Madness to wear pants... and I must say that his skirt is VERY comfortable! His boots are a probably 3 sizes to large for a girl like myself... yeah... (and for you who don't know Major Madness, he's a referee from Essen and very prone on wearing man-skirts he also told me Merby is VERY bad for his nails)
Rotterdam party was fun, Loony, Fisty and this girl KickAss decided on some public peeing from the dock that the after-party was held at and I did not score a big beer glass - the bar only had three and Fisty, Loony and the medic managed to get to them before me. Apperently people in this part of Europe drink beer out of very small glasses, I am not sure I approve of this! I prefer the German way of doing it... but then I want good beer, I am quite a beer snob. Just ask Loony, but she likes it, she just asks for the same beer as me! But more about Holland, that language is crazy - their way of say kitchen sounds like the Swedish way of saying kuken (and that means cock in Swedish)... so yeah, since we (me, Loony and Fisty) are such teenagers we ended up standing around the bar saying (maybe yelling)'' KUKEN, KUKEN, KUKEN'' several times...  the bartender was kind of ''what do you girls want from the kitchen?''
Oh, and I forgot to mention that Fisty had to fight the medic out of her bed... (that just came out wrong) and the next morning Blauwe Bill (the guy who made it all happen) couldn't find his wallet, but later on he aperently discovered it in his fridge....

Oh, I love derby - now on my way to coach with Loony at our outdoor track - and she just finished printing the shirts for the bout this weekend. It is sunny outdoors and I have spent all day catching up on sleep we missed out on driving to and from Rotterdam (about 24 hours all together ) and catchign up on e-mails - both SwedeVix work and stuff for Crime City Rollers!