The truth is, I'm still waiting on a package sent to me almost a month ago. This package did not contain any medicine, or weapons of any kind of destruction, or anything harmful in general. In fact, my dear love sent me the computer cord to my camera phone, so that I could post all my pictures to the internet!
You see, typically in the States I can upload my photos from my phone to my online album. I neglected to reflect on this small detail before reaching the airport in Phoenix on my way to Paris. No problem, I thought. I can have Mark mail it to me. How romantic, receiving something in the mail from someone far away who loves you!
Not.
Still waiting. It's consistently frustrating and tearing at my travel-happy soul. I just want to share all my memories with you, is that so much to ask?! Apparently to the French postal system, it is. And so I wait.
And the other day I did receive a package, and I was so eagerly excited I was sure it had finally arrived!
Nope.
In fact, it was a pair of headphones a Dutch company had sent me from the Netherlands. This has a back story.
You see, during the first weekend of February I took a bus arranged by a student at my school for a mob of us to go to Amsterdam. We were the unfortunate souls who had not managed to get onto the list for the official school organized trip. Fortunately, the person who organized our trip was awesome and managed to organize it for less cost than the school trip! It was awesome, in case you didn't think so.
The weekend passed quickly as we arrived Saturday morning and left Sunday early evening. There were lots of people, lots of cafes, and even more wind. Oh dear lord the wind in Amsterdam is not a force to be reckoned with. Hah, it won the battle every time, forcing us to stop trying to walk and just wait it out.
And we did a lot of walking.
But my point to this back story is to say that while we were walking about I was approached by one woman and two men from Rocking Residence. They make lifestyle accessories; in this case, otherwise known as headphones. There wanted to take my photo with a pair of their headphones. How exciting, I thought!
So pictures were taken. Alina and Dave were the two friends with me kind enough to wait around while the Rocking Residence folks did their thing. I filled out a release form which had to be translated to me because it was all in Dutch (which is not readable even after 5 years of studying French) and was told if they decided to use my photo they would send me a free pair of headphones of my choice. Cool, huh?
So these were the headphones I received this week. Granted, the Netherlands is a lot closer than the United States, but still, I thought my camera-phone cord would be here now (insert saddest face ever).
But these headphones are super cool and Alina and the Rocking Residence folks could get their photos onto computers, so here you go, some photos! Yay!!! (And please pray with me that my cord arrives soon, in one piece.)
These first four are photos Alina took, thank you so much Alina!
These next two are from the Rocking Residence Crew.
At first I opted for the pair that I took photos with, called Miami, but then after examining these ones below, called Jock, I couldn't resist. Maybe it's a good way to remember Amsterdam, green and white? ;D
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