The "true" Dutch experience!

The boat... the boat the boat the boat - what can I say about the boat, well, every time I tell somebody that I live on a boat, they always go "a boat?! Wow how are you liking it?" and I would typically respond; "well it's definitely an experience, and it gives me everything I need so I don't mind it, and rent's cheap... supposedly - and no, it doesn't go up and down"



Located in the Northwest end (Yea... still in the North! Take that Teppler!... and you watch it Trudy, here you'll get drugged, raped, stabbed and THEN shot, THRICE times, but it's still better than the ghetto south)of the A'dam and about a twenty minute walk from Centraal Station (the hub of buses, trams, metros, trains and almost everything else in A'dam), the cruise ship lies at Stravangerweg 42, 1013 AT - knock on door 121 on deck E, that's where you'll find me (currently; I was in room 130 before) (haha sorta sounds like a prison). Rochdale One is the name of this er's ship (and I can't believe there was an actual Wiki entry, albeit one sentence, but can see it here:

Rochdale One

and on DUWO's site (the short stay rental organization):

DUWO

to get an image of the size of the room, think about your bathroom (in typical Calgary Edgemont home) and go 2.5x that; housing the bed, mini fridge, closet, table with lamp, TV, chair, and little washroom with toilet, sink and shower.

Mainly swarming with European students studying at the local universities, however there are 4 of us AIESEC interns livin' it up 'Breaker High' Stylz. This wikipedia thing is turning out to be handy.

When I was shown room 130, the drains were clogged with hair, TV was missing and later found out internet does not work and my neighbour likes to party on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and sometimes Saturday in his little room with his two other dutch friends until 4am (there is constantly a smell of happy from the room, along with the ever enjoyment of Malcolm in the middle with the playing of that ol'schoo "I wanna get high" song (I think that's what it's called - and crap it's stuck in my head now).

this was going to be great...

satellite where i live; but image is not up to date cause you can't see the boat, but I'm on the water that is directly north of the green arrow:

satellite

if if you move the map left (so you look more right, you can see amsterdam central and the layout basically looks like a half circle with the canals running almost every second street - very cool!)