It’s been a crazy week man. For people that don’t know about my studentness, I’m actually part of the redaction of a small newspaper/magazine kinda thingy of my student’s association called ‘Intermania‘. This week was holidays for us and we thought it’d be a nice idea to just do something together.
So about 2 weeks ago we planned a 2-day trip to Madrid. A part of us booked the tickets and we met up on Tuesday to go to the airport. We had some trouble with our web check-in, but everything worked out fine and we printed our priority boarding passes. We got past customs on Tuesday morning and up to the priority queue of the gate. Everything was fine up to the point where our boarding passes were scanned and the system started some alarm noises. The air hostesses couldn’t really tell what the problem was, until after 5 minutes they found that we booked tickets for Wednesday… 
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Ye, we were at the airport a day early. Complete disillusion occurred as we tried to grasp the concept of being on the airport a day early. The hostesses had some problems themselves as they kept apologizing to us. Since most of us had been bragging about going to Madrid, we all kinda felt stupid to go home and be mocked by housemates or whatever, so we decided to stick together for the day nonetheless. It came to the point that we spent the day watching movies and abusing alcohol and drugs. We watched a total of four movies: Barnyard, Children of Men, Requiem for a Dream and Spun. It was too funny to just be in the same absurd situation.
Anyways, the next day we did get out flight to Madrid, but because we left a day ‘too late’, we only had about 18 hours in Madrid. Which we spent walking around a lot. Eating sandwiches and icecreams, we tried to see as many things in Madrid as possible. It resulted in the outside of the Prado museum, 2 churches and some military parade kinda thingy. We spent the night in two (apparently) gaybars just drinking alcohol and discussing stuff. We also spent a large portion of the night at the airport, being tipsy and exchanging dumb jokes. Which was fine up till the point where we had to kinda maneuver through the crowd, because we had priority boarding passes again. Apparently people don’t care too much for 6 slightly tipsy students cutting the line to actually be allowed to enter the airplane as one of the first people. We arrived Thursday morning after a horrible night sleepwise and split up.
Only to meet again on Friday. We had a small trip to Amsterdam to ask some questions to the redaction of the Volkskrant magazine. They really had a lot of useful advice and some really great ideas we’re going to try and use for our own magazine. But with all this new knowledge, we had of course no option but dining in Amsterdam and brainstorming about new formats. Which is exactly what we did.
But since we can’t only be thinking about the future, we had to work on the edition that’s supposed to hit the printers this week. Which is what we did Saturday for the majority of the day. We wrote articles, did desktop publishing, converted and edited photos. We really got about 80% of next edition done in one days work and decided to end it with some chilling and watching music videos. I’m not sure if it’s the influence of certain substances, but David came up with a brilliant idea. Having Rihanna – Don’t stop the music in canon. Which worked out great. Which was the reason for me posting this. Which was the reason you could read this. But since this goal is now achieved… no need in stretching this post is there?
