I had the same Indian Drinking thing, but mine was in a smaller size. I always played the indian, never cowboys. To this day I'm no fan of cowboys.

You're using terms of endearment. That's really sweet.

I, myself, talked to my grandfather on the phone recently and found it adorable when he said "Nu denn, mien Deern. Schön, dass du angerufen hast." (So, my little girl. Nice you've called.) It felt a bit unfamiliar, but nevertheless good.
He had been all excited about getting curly kale for lunch during our conversation which I found quite touching.

Juliane

Do you like curly kale as well? I'm not really fond of it.

Arnon

My mother always cooks it on Christmas Eve and I didn't exactly love it when I was a child. Perhaps because it always came with smoked pork chop. It has grown on me over the years, though, (at least the kale itself) in all likelihood for nostalgic reasons.

Arnon

Are you in Amsterdam? Do you come here too? Next week Pordenonelegge! :)
PS. Mauro Covacich... chique dinges!

Arnon

If you don't like curly kale, you are not Dutch enough.

So I will do, my beloved ones. I am waiting for the game.

Sasja

Twenty years ago, when my Maleisian neighbour and I asked eachother about our favourite food she came up with bami. I must have said something like siu-yok.
Do you like curly kale?
I do.
But for today, i didn't think of it at all. And i am sure that december won't give me a reminder. No I will go for something else.
How many times a year do I have to eat curly kale to be considered a Dutch person. Or is it only a matter of liking it. Is it okay only to think of it?

Hanny

You don't have to eat curly kale, liking is enough. :) I don't like it, but then again, I never heard of it before I came to the Netherlands. I love zuurkool, though. :)

What is siu-yok?

Siu yok is roasted pork

Help

My stepson (14) wants to have a circumcision, not for religious raisons, he thinks this will increase his sexlife, any suggestions to discourage this, or should I encourage him?

Circumcision

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision

Sasja

Arnon isn't Dutch, he writes in Dutch, but he 's in the first place an immigrant.

Strasse's Partner

From the wikipedia article:
"The penis is thought to be lost in 1 in 1,000,000 circumcisions"

This scentence would be scary enough for me to reconsider...

documentaire besnijdenis

http://www.vpro.nl/programma/geluk/afleveringen/19016226/

Mieke

Dit he tell you this?

Valentina

Alas, no Pordenone for me this year. They cannot invite me each year.

Strasse's partner

A piercing is probably as dangerous as a (male) circumcision. Let him do it if he wants to be circumcised.

Sasja

That's my perception of Arnon, the globetrotter, the wanderer.
He wrote he prefers New York, because there everybody is an immigrant.

Thx

Thanks to everybody for the information, I will have another serious talk with him.

Mieke

I prefer the neighbourhood I live in because almost everyone here speaks with an accent. But when I stop thinking of myself as Russian/Jewish/Dutch/Ukrainian and start calling myself an immigrant, I think I will be saying: "I am nobody" or "I don't know who I am". But that's my perception of myself. :)

Arnon

I know you aren't invited. You could come to see us! :)

Sasja

If I'm not mistaken Arnon is Dutch what his pasport concerns and that is to him nothing more than a commodity. It doesn't imply an emotional bound with the Netherlands. That's how I interpreted some of his writings.

Arnon

Did you feel rejected?