TIPS Om weer aan Nederland te wennen:
Geplaatst: 08 mar 2008 18:16
Ik kwam een paar handige tips tegen op het internet, waarvan ik denk dat alle ex-backpackers er wel iets in zullen herkennen!
Daarbij heb ik de vrijheid genomen er zelf nog een paar bij te verzinnen. Veel plezier! :lol:
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Having trouble readjusting to life back at home now that the travelling is over? Here's a few handy hints to help you settle back in...
1) Replace your bed with two or more bunk beds, and every night invite random people to sleep in your bedroom with you. Ensure at least once a week a couple gets drunk and shags on one of the top bunks.
2) Sleep in your sleeping bag, forgetting to wash it for months. Add some bugs in order to wake up with many unsightly bites over your arms and legs.
3) Enlist the help of a family member to set your radio alarm to go off intermittently during the night, filling your room with loud talking. This works best if the station is foreign. Also have several mobiles ringing, without being answered. To add to the torture, ask a friend to bring plastic bags into your room at roughly 6 in the morning and proceed to rustle them for no apparent reason for a good half an hour.
4) Keep all your clothes in a rucksack. Remember to smell them before putting them on and reintroduce the use of the iron SLOWLY.
5) Buy your favourite food, and despite living at home, write your name and when you might next be leaving the house on all bags. This should include mainly pasta, 2 minute noodles, carrots and beer.
6) Ask a family member to every now and again steal an item of food, preferably the one you have most been looking forward to or the most expensive. Keep at least one item of food far too long or in a bag out in the sun, so you have to spend about 24 hours within sprinting distance of the toilet.
7) Make a "free-food-shelf" in your house, even if you live alone. Put all the items of food in there that you haven't used in three years.
Act surprised and happy if you find some dry beans or a jar of weird-flavoured jam from Christmas 1996.
8 ) Even if it's a Sunday, vacate the house by 10a.m. and then stand on the corner of the street looking lost. Ask the first passer-by of similar ethnic background if they have found anywhere good to go yet.
9) When sitting on public transport introduce yourself to the person sitting next to you, say which stop you got on at, where you are going, how long you have been travelling and what university you went to.
10) Go to that little Kebab shop you always walked by quickly because you were too disgusted to buy anything from. See how all of a sudden everything behind the glass counter looks tasty to you.
11) Pay a visit to the ZOO and take a photograph of every single animal that isn't thà¡t interesting. Still be amazed.
12) Finally, stick paper in your shower so that the water comes in just a drizzle. Adjust the hot/cold taps at regular intervals so that you are never fully satisfied with the temperature. Because of this frustration, shower infrequently.
These simple but effective instructions should help you fall back into normal society with the minimum effort. Good luck!
Daarbij heb ik de vrijheid genomen er zelf nog een paar bij te verzinnen. Veel plezier! :lol:
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Having trouble readjusting to life back at home now that the travelling is over? Here's a few handy hints to help you settle back in...
1) Replace your bed with two or more bunk beds, and every night invite random people to sleep in your bedroom with you. Ensure at least once a week a couple gets drunk and shags on one of the top bunks.
2) Sleep in your sleeping bag, forgetting to wash it for months. Add some bugs in order to wake up with many unsightly bites over your arms and legs.
3) Enlist the help of a family member to set your radio alarm to go off intermittently during the night, filling your room with loud talking. This works best if the station is foreign. Also have several mobiles ringing, without being answered. To add to the torture, ask a friend to bring plastic bags into your room at roughly 6 in the morning and proceed to rustle them for no apparent reason for a good half an hour.
4) Keep all your clothes in a rucksack. Remember to smell them before putting them on and reintroduce the use of the iron SLOWLY.
5) Buy your favourite food, and despite living at home, write your name and when you might next be leaving the house on all bags. This should include mainly pasta, 2 minute noodles, carrots and beer.
6) Ask a family member to every now and again steal an item of food, preferably the one you have most been looking forward to or the most expensive. Keep at least one item of food far too long or in a bag out in the sun, so you have to spend about 24 hours within sprinting distance of the toilet.
7) Make a "free-food-shelf" in your house, even if you live alone. Put all the items of food in there that you haven't used in three years.
Act surprised and happy if you find some dry beans or a jar of weird-flavoured jam from Christmas 1996.
8 ) Even if it's a Sunday, vacate the house by 10a.m. and then stand on the corner of the street looking lost. Ask the first passer-by of similar ethnic background if they have found anywhere good to go yet.
9) When sitting on public transport introduce yourself to the person sitting next to you, say which stop you got on at, where you are going, how long you have been travelling and what university you went to.
10) Go to that little Kebab shop you always walked by quickly because you were too disgusted to buy anything from. See how all of a sudden everything behind the glass counter looks tasty to you.
11) Pay a visit to the ZOO and take a photograph of every single animal that isn't thà¡t interesting. Still be amazed.
12) Finally, stick paper in your shower so that the water comes in just a drizzle. Adjust the hot/cold taps at regular intervals so that you are never fully satisfied with the temperature. Because of this frustration, shower infrequently.
These simple but effective instructions should help you fall back into normal society with the minimum effort. Good luck!
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