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Hi! Hi Sht!
I missed you since the last week, which is a good sign, since I've said in the beginning that these are weekly
episodes, so I'm keeping my promise. But in the last days happened a load of things
so I'm going to break with the lessons
about the Netherlands and the dutch culture
to talk a bit about some activities in which I participated
and you can also participate if you come over to the Netherlands
eerm... let's do it?
Before living in Nijmegen I lived three years in Porto, and I feel bad that this year I missed
Fantasporto and Vila do Conde Shorts Festival, but to compensate that
I went to the international shorts festival in Nijmegen, named Go Short
I've been in a session which had two portuguese movies. The first one was a documentary about camping
I had the impression that I was the only person in the room that understood what was going on the screen
since the documentary had a lot of sayings
that were lost in translation. The second one was a fiction from a producing company from Porto, which let me very happy
I also watched very good animations from the eastern european countries
I watched good french movies. This morning I went with my friend Sjoerd
to watch the oscar animations session, which was very very good and I recommend you
to search for the animations that were on the oscars this year. The venue where the festival was was very good
I also liked the festival poster, which had an antelope, because
Netherlands!
About the second activities it is necessary some context, namely to explain what is the nerd fighter community.
For starters the nerd fighters are nerds, which means that they are people
who like and actively seek knowledge
which is something with which I identify myself
Also they usually like stuff like Anime and Doctor Who
Harry Potter, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, sci-fi in general
Which is something with which I cannot identify myself that much, because I like some of these stuff, but I don't like
lots of these. Anyway, this isn't clear what
defines a nerd. Nerdfighters are nerds that begun to watch the Vlogbrothers
And if you would like more information, I'm going to leave here two links about this topic. As I recognized that I could identify myself
with some of the features os this community, I decided to seek them and went to a nerd fighter gathering
in Amsterdam. Moreover, other important thing
that happened this week was the arrival of this... by mail. This is a thing that lets me plug directly
the external mic to the computer, therefore my report
of the Amsterdam gathering will be all made in voice-over
This guy here gave us a ride, me and this nerd fighters group, until Amsterdam
After arriving there we met the other participants in the gathering in the central station and - oh look
you can see the camera's safety strip in this shot - and we went to NEMO
which is a museum dedicated to science communication
where we had a lot of fun with soap bubbles, and placed our hands in a meteorite, and saw this creepy doll
which interacted with people
Afterwards we waited for a chain reaction to occur
when appeared this gentleman who spoke very good dutch
therefore I understood anything
[something in dutch]
On the second floor we found teen facts, which included a very amusing video
as you can see by the audience reaction
and a peep show with very, very
naughty dummies
Oh, and we could practice french kissing with these two gigantic thoungs
I passed through the wonder lab but didn't got in because I was very hungry, which was just on purpose
because the last activity consisted in eating pizza and hanging out in a nearby restaurant
where I had the opportunity to talk with this gentleman who is very kind and has an awesome suit,
but only after I overcome the feeling that he could sue me at any moment
You must already have guessed that this gentleman is very important
by the fact that he i standing and everybody is listening to him
he was the host of the gathering, so thank him very much!
Then we head to an irish pub where I had a very strange dutch drink
After doing the math, the gathering was great and lively and I have to go to some other gatherings
Back to my face. Third subject!
I forgot the lights. I should have mentioned this earlier: I met some people who are starting
to make videos regularly
some weeks ago, and we are called
the "Vlogfighters" because we are nerd fighters that do blogs, and we have a tumbrlr...
Tumbrlr... tumbrll... tumbrlrr... And we have a Tumblr which is Vlogfighters.tumblr.com
link...
where at list every two weeks each one of us posts a different video with about a different topic.
SO go to the Tumblr page, subscribe to all of our channels to get the videos
when their out and to be able to be the first ones to leave these usual
Youtube comments. And I finish here the third episode of the Nijmegen Diaries
Click on the nerdfighters playing with a video game to get you in a playlist of all the Nijmegen Diaries videos
Click on the five ginger nerdfighters to subscribe to my channel. Ciao!