Still hot in the city… city is very nice now, altough the center is packed with tourists who are walking and stepping in front of your bike. Have to use my bike-bell (fietsbel) a lot. Went running this evening, it went very well. About 32 minutes now. Not bad I think if you consider I started only 1 1/2 month ago. Have to improve more. It was funny to see that all the city guards (stadswachten) we’re hanging around in the Westerpark near the pond. Nice to see that they also changed there place of inactive work…

Got a nice reaction about my Amercian Football complains. Maybe I would change my mind if I would attend an US college match. The setting there is completely different. Here we have only one (yes 1) team with one (yes 1) dutch guy together with Americans. They play 6 matches in Amsterdam in a year. They are all pro’s, and we don’t have any youngster performing this sport. So the ‘feeling’ and ‘attachement’ with the sport is not really there. We don’t eat it, we don’t feel it, we don’t live it… We eat soccer etc… A sport very popular all over the world but the USA.