Amsterdam schedules

So far in Amsterdam, Claudio and I are doing very well. We both have jobs, have a place to live, and are slowly but surely making friends with schedule permitting.

It's very difficult at this time working and having any free time. I work 50 hours a week and Claudio works 60. sooooo not much free time. But thankfully our schedules are roughly at the same time. We wake up together, take the tram together, sometimes we will get an ice cream right before his work (2pm) then meet up after to work for a late dinner and return home before 1am. Not much glamour but i love being able to spend time with him as he does with me. :) We haven't had the same days off because of how irrational both our work places are so we just try and enjoy each other's company as much as possible.

11:30-12:30pm attempt to wake up.

13:20 out the door

13:26 catch the tram

13:45-14:00 Claudio gets off the tram first and heads to work

14:00-14:30 I head to Neumarkt to start my work

23:00-0:00 I get off work and head to Westermarkt where Claudio meets me

0:00-0:30 catch the tram and head home

0:30- 2:00 watch shows, talk online, Claudio plays guitar, a lil cleaning and off to bed. :/

REPEAT!!!!

hahahahahahahaha

Right now i'm exhausted since it is 10:27am but sometimes we do go out and get fresh produce or just go for a walk but, most of the time we are just too tired to do much else. lots of working for little money but it will all be worth it in the end. Just hard to find things and do things easily with our schedules the way they are.

Tourist

There are two sides of tourism. 1)being a tourist 2) not being a tourist.

They say americans are the worst but, I beg to differ. Unless you are a very humble, aware, respectful, and well traveled savvy person there is just one word to be used "TOURIST", which is a bad word. Wether you are from USA, Canada, Europe, Asia, Middle East every tourist seem to be recognizable and unfortunately bad. Now this can be argued of course, even I know some are exceptions (like me... ha!) but staying here in Amsterdam I have been noticed the signs of the "T" word. Here are some of my discoveries. ;)

1) camera in hand

2) map/pamphlet in hand

3) backpack/ fanny pack/ and sash bags with the above items in hand

4) eyes looking up and around

5) finger pointing

6) tripping because not paying attention

7) riding a "RENT A BIKE" bike

8) hats and sunglasses

9) eating ready to eat grocery food from a backpack or plastic bag (ex: salads, sandwich, apples, carrots, and chips etc...)

Now I'm not saying that Ts are bad but i just found it funny in my own humor. I also noticed that Ts are very territorial. I even noticed myself being so a few times... haha.