What do you know about Holland?

Well, I didn’t know things about Holland, I had to surf the net and search

for images and information about Holland. What have I found ?

Tulips, Word shoes, Wind mills, nice Houses, marihuana, and bikes.

When I had the first encounter with Marcel ( my partner from Holland) I

asked him about all these things. He explained me a lot of things related

to the information which I had found.

Like this:

•        Holland has a queen and her name is Beatriz,
but she doesn’t control the country, because Holland
is constitutional monarchy.

She is Beatriz, she was born on January
31, 1938 and she took the throne on
April 30, 1980.

•        The most  exported product are the tulips, there for they
are very important for the country’s economy.

This beautiful hybrid
tulips are from Holland!

•        The wind mills were originally used for the water
control, because Holland is a big field under the sea level
and they have many problems with  preventing the land from
floods.

 This picture was taken in
September the last year in 
Holland of course.

•        The official language is Dutch which sounds like
an mixture of English and German and French, with a base
in English and German etymology.

This is the official flag
from Holland.

Have with, blue and red,
just like our flag! The
Chilean flag.

•        In Holland most of people have bikes,
they prefer to ride a bike because is cheaper and
healthier. But unfortunately many bikes are stolen everyday.

In the pictures:

A girl biking in
Holland and a
bicycle parking
at Holland.

•        Holland is a very liberal country, and the people
are very liberal as well.  Drugs like the Marihuana are allowed
in Holland and you can buy it in so called “coffee shops” which
actually don’t sell any coffee at all.

Wow! In Chile
you don’t see
thinks like this
kind of coffees.

•        The most important celebration day is “The Queen’s Day”.
During the year at this celebration day the people use traditional
clothes.

All this things happen
in the queen’s day!
All is orange in honor
to the Queen.

How we can read here Holland is very different to Chile,
but very interesting! May be when I’ll have the necessary
money I’ll travel to Holland! But for now I listen Marcel to
tell more thing about Holland and learn of this beautiful
country.

Nicole Lastra Quiroz.

Interview a Holland

So it begin with many technical problems, but in the end, we can comunicate between us.

The conversation was rich and fluid, and we talk of a lot of thing, let me tell you about some of them

In Holland is allow the marihuana, and it sold in coffee shop, so be careful for wath are you asking in that place.

They also do a lot of exrcise, because they prefer to ride a bike, becasuse is cheap and is easy to use and park.

They travel a lot, go to other country to spend a vacation a weekend, I know Europe is no big, because the clima is not very good, is rainy, and is almost al valley

A Queen called Bellatrix is the queen of Holland, but they also has a first minister, so they are a monarchy constitucional. The future King is married with a woman from Argentina, so Argentina has a royal personality, the name of she is Maxima, and is the doughter of Fidela, ex Tyrane of Argentina.

They love flowers, and the principal exportation is Tulipans.

Geographyly speaking, is no big mountain a big lakes, is almost a plane country, the most impressive is they has a lot of field under the line coast, and the rivers are over the field. So they has a lot of water fighter and has afraid of sea growth and river growths. In 1953 was a big accident, and a lot of people die and the guilty was the water.

In the past was a Slavery country so they has a lot of other cultures between them, and today the inmigration is big.

They celebrate the Queen´s Day, and is a party day, the people wear orange, and has the liberation dya of the Germans in the second world war, in may 5.

Has a tradition in the bisthday´s party, they invited all the family to spend time together, and do a circle and sit down in the floor, and eat cake and drink, so they can talk about a lot of stuff.

They know about the reggeton, but is common between the black people.

When they go out to eat, they Do The Dutch

I´m very pleased with this project, but I can´t go any further because my partner quit to the project

Carl Bachmann