new blog

go to my new blog, alecinthenetherlands.blogspot.com
I will post pictures and updates from there when I'm in the Netherlands.

Update

I'm really looking forward to going to Holland, I'm getting pretty excited. I really want to see what school is like there, and I'm looking forward to seeing Rotterdam where my father grew up. I'm not worried too much about the weather, I like the cold so I won't be dissappointed if we have real cloudy or cold weather. :D From what I've read, the Amsterdam Dungeon seems pretty cool, and the trip to Antwerp should be fun (despite what the Dutch kids say ;)).
Well, that's all for now.

mijn hyves en mijn myspace

I have not updated in awhile, but I will update this blog more in the coming weeks :)
You can also check out my hyves and myspace pages, which I use much more than this blog :O
Mijn hyves
Mijn myspace

(Those Americans that don't have a hyves account, make one! Most of the Dutch kids have one.)

HTML

I've been trying to teach myself HTML in my free time in digital imaging class, cuz I found this awesome site w3schools.com (in link section). So maybe I'll be able to do some cooler stuff with this blog soon...

more pics

Well, I'm in digital imaging class right now, I'm finished with all my work so I'm gonna post some more pics :D

Me, my brother (right) and my cousin (left) with the same fish as below.




Me on some trail near Big Sur

more about me

Well here's another post, I haven't had much time to post again because of school :0

Well, I love music... some of the styles I like include metal (Metallica, Dimmu Borgir, Ensiferum...) rock (Tool), electronic/techno (mainly stuff like Tiësto and Darude), some classical (Tchaikovsky, Beethoven) and more recently I've gotten into some folk-type music from various places, like Tenhi from Finland and Empyrium from Germany. I love music but I'm not so good at actually playing it, I own a guitar and keyboard but don't play much, I'm not really good :O
As for sports, I don't really play much, but I really like golf and I want to try to get on the team at school in spring.
I'm half Dutch, my dad was born and lived in Rotterdam until 1986. I am really interested in the Dutch culture and I really want to visit because I might want to live there some day (I'm actually a duel American/Dutch citizen until I'm 26, then I have to decide whether I want to be a Dutch or American citizen).
Well that's it for now, I'll try to put some more pictures up soon.

first post

Hello, I'm Alec van der Poel. I'm 16 and I'm a junior at Chaparral. I'm posting some pics of me with my fish I caught at Santa Margarita Lake up north.