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Bonnes Voyages

Saturday April 23rd, around lunchtime

Cities I've spent significant amounts of time in, starting at Spring Break:

  • Wherever Bridget lives (I'll call it 'New Jersey Suburbs')
  • Newark NJ
  • Amsterdam NL
  • The Hague NL
  • Rotterdam NL
  • Heerjansdam NL
  • Birmingham UK
  • Syracuse NY
  • Oneida NY
  • Cleveland OH
  • Mayfield Village OH
  • Detroit MI
  • Amsterdam NL (again)
  • St. Petersburg RU
  • Paris FR

Not a bad score 8) I don't really have time to go through all of the last two months, so here's the Spark Notes version: Went home together with Kaleena for Spring Break (March 12th - 19th). Stopped by Bridget's house and stayed there before flying to Amsterdam. Had a lot of fun in The Netherlands; Kaleena interviewed Monsieur Krommenhoek @ my old high school and we managed to pick up a Russian visa at the consulate The Hague.

We got back to a much warmer Colgate--the snow was actually melting! Plowed through a lot of schoolwork for a couple of weeks and got invited for an interview at Progressive the day *after* I bought my plane tickets to Russia. Got accepted for a research assistantship this summer with Professor Ohsumi. Traveled to Progressive in Cleveland on April 7th and interviewed there that evening and on Friday morning.

Got dropped off at the airport, changed, and traveled to Amsterdam a few hours ahead of my planned itinerary. Burned those hours by meeting up with AJ for some breakfast at Schiphol Airport (thanks for breakfast/getting up at 7am on a Saturday ;)). Then got back in a plane to St. Petersburg (Pulkovo Airport), where I was met by Oxana. Gave a very broad presentation of my Oak Associates stuff and walked around the city to see the sights. Time flies when you're not in class 8)

My trip back to Colgate was a hazard. Took me 3 hours (mostly walking) to get from one gate to another in Paris De Gaulle (Air France employee literally sent me to the wrong side of the airport). Finally arrived in Detroit with slightly elevated blood pressure. Picked up by Kaleena in Syracuse after approximately 24 hours of travel; was in class 9 hours later. Here are some pictures ;)


Michael on the couch in NJ
Passing St. John's on the way to Amsterdam
Interviewing Dico Krommenhoek in Rotterdam...
...and I was there too.
The Peace Palace in The Hague (right around the corner from the Russian Consulate)
The snow melting at Colgate
Preparing for my interview in Cleveland.
Marc Presenting
Oxana and Natasha
Pieter Hooimeijer presenting
Dinner on Tuesday.
Dinner on Tuesday II
Dinner on Tuesday ]
Bridge across the Neva.
More bridge.
Group picture.
The Neva.
The Neva.
'In case of a terrorist attack' signs.
Pieter Hooimeijer somewhere on Nevksy Prospect.
My room.
Street with archway.
Another archway.
More archways.
Marc in front of a church.
Canal by a church.
Random room inside the Hermitage museum.
St. Catherine's on Nevsky (Herzen University is right behind it).
Birthday present.
Marc and Oxana.
Down the escalators into the Metro.
Tram.
View from above I
View from above II
View from above

Comments:


  1. Bridget:

    New Jersey suburbs = Park Ridge =OP

    reply to this comment
    (2005-04-23 12:46:26)

  2. Bridget:

    Also, you look much too gleeful next to the terrorist attack sign. And I'm thinking of presenting PBS with a new television show: "Where In the World is Pieter Hooimeijer?"

    reply to this comment
    (2005-04-23 12:53:36)

  3. Sista Kim:

    Nice pictures little brother. I did not get that far in the past few weeks. Let me see... Maarssen NL would be it I think.

    reply to this comment
    (2005-04-23 13:56:56)

  4. Oksana:

    Hi Pieter!!!!
    Very nice pictures!!! Especially that was taken by me :))))
    Hope u really enjoyed to be in Saint-Petersburg

    PS: Is it possible to email me some pictures, especially with me and my friend Natasha??? Thanks in advance.

    reply to this comment
    (2005-04-23 15:51:53)

  5. Oksana:

    ........Sorry for bad english ....:)

    reply to this comment
    (2005-04-23 15:54:45)

  6. Kaleena:

    I like that picture with the buildings surrounding the river...too bad someone's head was in the way ;)

    reply to this comment
    (2005-04-23 17:12:34)

  7. Johny:

    Awesome pictures! Your posture has an arguably uncanny resemblance to the person in the painting behind you (in the picture of you by the podium and the neat blue flag)

    reply to this comment
    (2005-04-23 19:47:56)

  8. pOohGUrLie:

    pieter your site is absolutely superfabulous eventho i can't post pictures here or listen to music or play movies or initiate chat etc. it's sophisticated n looks so professional well done.

    reply to this comment
    (2005-04-23 20:19:39)

  9. Michael:

    inspired by Bridget — #2 Don't you ever forget that "Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?" was a computer game by Broderbund Software BEFORE its PBS game show adaptation. I have to keep the record straight on that one.

    But look at the picture of me! I look so huggable and cuddly!

    I look at the pictures of St. Petersburg and all I can think of is the tank chase scene from the James Bond movie "GoldenEye"... Is that bad?

    And one more thing... Pieter didn't stop by my house in Harrington Park... shame, shame, shame! You have to come back and visit next time, okay? :-)

    reply to this comment
    (2005-04-23 20:33:26)

  10. Michael:

    inspired by Michael — #9 And you're still using the metric system for the weather? What's up with that? At least give me the option; your website should be AT LEAST as cool as The Weather Channel's website in this regard, honestly.

    reply to this comment
    (2005-04-23 20:36:33)

  11. Sista Kim:

    I am sorry I forgot to give you a wake up call. It is now 16.23 here and I realised I forgot something. My excuse is that I have been studying since 9 o' clock this morning. I tried to call you on Kaleena's cellphone and on your own phone but nobody answered. IN an hour or so KJ and I wil go to KJ's parents to have dinner. We will be home at 21.30 I guess. So feel free to call!

    reply to this comment
    (2005-04-24 10:26:27)

  12. Arjo Hooimeijer:

    You're welcome, a pleasure getting up and driving down a desterted A5 for you. Somehow those planes taking over (or should I say off) on both sides are a nice motivation to drive a little faster there ;-)

    I almost got a picture of you going through customs.. too bad that uniformed dude didn't share my artistic view on xray machine architecture O:-)

    You sure have seen a nice piece of the world the last few months, nice job on the pictures.

    Good luck preparing for your finals!

    reply to this comment
    (2005-04-24 14:51:57)

  13. Pieter Hooimeijer:

    inspired by Bridget — #1 Park Ridge... riiiiight... *cough*suburbs*cough*

    inspired by Oksana — #5 Hey Oksana, I'll send you that picture a little later today. Are there any other pictures that you'd like me to send?

    reply to this comment
    (2005-04-25 13:09:58)

  14. Hooimama:

    inspired by Michael — #9
    inspired by Michael — #10

    Hey, Pieterson, there's this very huggable and cuddly person at one of your pictures that doesn't understand that you are using the metric system for the weather because otherwise your mom doesn't understand!

    (Hi, Michael! :-))

    reply to this comment
    (2005-04-25 14:46:08)

  15. Eelco:

    Hallo Pieter,

    Mooie foto's hoor! Ik wist alleen niet dat ze In st Petersburg ook een vredespaleis hebben. Hebben ze vast nageaapt.

    Kan je die site niet zo maken dat je er ook foto's op kan posten?.

    Groeten,

    reply to this comment
    (2005-04-26 05:18:45)

  16. Oksana:

    it would be nice to have pictures where I am. Also Natasha wants to have pictures with her. Spasibo ;))))

    reply to this comment
    (2005-04-27 06:40:54)

  17. Sista Kim:

    HI little brother. I think I did well on my exam today. The first part existed of 50 multiple choice questions. At least 30 questions had to be answered correctly. So I thought that should be a piece of cake. But the exam was actually quite hard. But I still managed to answer 43 or 42 (not absolutely sure) correctly.
    In the afternoon we had to write a proces-verbaal... I am truly sorry but I don't know the English words for it at this moment and I don't feel like looking it up. I think that went well too, but there are lots of tiny mistakes that can make you fail. Now I have to wait for 8 weeks for the results.
    I will call you tomorrow because I am going to bed early... no energy left and a huge stomach ache. ttyl!

    reply to this comment
    (2005-04-27 16:29:26)

  18. Bridget:

    I saw a Colgate Bookstore "Cash for your Books" poster the other day, Pieter. When does the competition begin?

    reply to this comment
    (2005-04-28 08:00:53)

  19. Pieter Hooimeijer:

    inspired by Bridget — #18 Lol I might put up some posters... maybe... Friday...

    reply to this comment
    (2005-04-28 08:43:03)

  20. Sista Kim:

    HAPPY QUEENSDAY!

    reply to this comment
    (2005-04-30 04:42:05)

  21. Pieter Hooimeijer:

    inspired by Sista Kim — #20 Happy Queen's day ;)

    inspired by Arjo Hooimeijer — #12 BTW AJ do you recognize the place name on that map?

    reply to this comment
    (2005-05-01 14:51:40)

  22. Arjo Hooimeijer:

    inspired by Pieter Hooimeijer — #21 Didn't we dump a shitpile of kerosine there?

    reply to this comment
    (2005-05-01 15:03:09)

  23. Pieter Hooimeijer:

    inspired by Arjo Hooimeijer — #22 Aaah yes... and then waited...

    reply to this comment
    (2005-05-07 11:29:33)

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