Politicians, Roses and Newspapers

So hello, I'm Gwy.
As mentioned somewhere earlier (or not, can't remember), I'm a student. Currently I study political science. Before this I did the first year of a History Bachelor, but I quit when my grades where to low to continue to the second year.
Now, when you think field-trips and above mentioned studies, you might guess that it would be more easy to think of field trips for History than for something abstract like Political-Science.



If you did, guess again. I never had a single field trip the whole last year, but last week we went to the regional parliament to get a tour of the building and an interview with a (labour)politician and a (social liberal) civil cervant.There was a debate, but unfortunately it was only a debate about the function of regional parliaments, not about political subjects.
Tomorrow we go to The Hague, to the national Government. We will have a interview/debate with a member of parliament. I myselve will meet with a member of the Socialist Party, a moderately leftwing (however, the most leftwing of the larger parties) party, who unfortunately have started to become more and more centrist and slightly nationalist: Something which leaves me, even though I have been a partymember for years, with enough critiques and questions. An example is about so-called 'double memberschips': There are a few organisations who consisted of people who were far more leftist then the mainline SP, and hoped to get the SP back to their old leftist line. Instead of accepting this as inner-party democracy they have now began banning these 'double members' from the party. And more!

One of these organisations, albeit one that didn't last long inside, because they were to far leftwing of the central party-leadership, are the Internationale Socialisten, the dutch member of the International Socialist Tendency. After long consideration, I've decided to join them. I did this after last week's 'Omsingel de Banken' (surround the banks!) demonstration, where I talked a lot with existing members of this organisation. So, today, I found a nice stack of socialist newspapers in my mail. So, somehow, I'm going to have to sell them before October is over.....
Anyone interested?



On an a-political note, a week ago I bought my girlfriend some roses, but today they were almost wilted, so I made decorations of them!