Compliment please

Friday I headed to uni on my classless day because of the night markets organised because of the Verge festival. 'Tent with some stalls' would have been a better description as we arrived to the disapointing sight. Together with some people from our house and some others we met there we started our tour which was likely to last all of ten minutes.

On stall was just signing in to get a goody back, so I now am a hat, a keychain and several free entrance tickets for parties richer. Very surprising was the stall with Poffertjes (this description was accompanied with Dutch mini-pancakes, otherwise nobody would understand what they would be eating). When we arrived at the end there was a guy dressed in a jacket that would have made him fit to conduct a circus who was bartering. He had a cigarette and half a subway cookie to offer, so Jenny gave him a massage for the cookie and Harm gave his free hat for the cigarette. The guy statred out with a paperclip, I wonder what he ended up with in the end. The coolest was the girl who gave away compliments on pieces of paper with a red painted heart. She exchanged them for hugs and now I have a little note saying 'you looked like a fairy coming from the woods'. We started talking and in the she wanted to know how to say I love you in Dutch. I wrote the sentence in a couple of languages and the girl proclaimed she would write Ik hou van jou on the next Dutch person she would give a compliment to, not really expecting she would meet one. About 30 seconds later a woman raised her eyebrows in surprise when she saw the note and asked how she got it, since she was Dutch. Naturally complimentgirl couldn't believe her luck.


We spend some time up in the tent where they were playing live music and where you could play Mario Kart, which was also decorated by a mona lisa made out of rubix cubes. We also watched some firedancing and then decided to go cook at Sunniva's house, a Norwegian girl. We found the Dutch section in the supermarket and to our amusement they were selling everything from stroopwafels to double salty liquorice, proffertjesmix and red cabbage with apple.


With some delicious scones for desert in our stomach, we walked to Surry Hills to the house of some friends who just moved. We wanted to go out, but it seemed our other friends were in Bondi, which we thought was too far. Instead we ended up drinking tea and eating cookies when all of a sudden it was 2am and it was time to walk home.