Mennorode

I Love Mennorode. I just had to get that out there :p Mennorode is this really big building, origianally a Mennonite retreat centre, but now since there are less Mennonites in Netherlands, it caters to a larger cliental. The building is surrounded by a beautiful forrest that is really different from our forests, because parts of the ground is completely clean from various debris and you can see really far into it, which is kind of disconcerning. The inside is pretty much white, but there are tons of windows and a really sweet display/show of pictures of abstract objects. The rooms are pretty standard, two single beds per room, a fairly nice bathroom and a t.v. that mainly has programming in Dutch. It is really wierd to hear Phineas and Ferb in Dutch.
The best thing about Mennorodes though, handsdown, is THE FOOD!!!!!!! Oh, it is AMAZING!! Heres a typical meal plan:
For breakfast there is a buffet table thing with like 10 different types of bread, some really delcious granola, and some not so delicious oat stuff, 3 types of yogurt, some kind of canned fruit, and a couple types of sliced cheese and meats. On another buffet table there is usually bacon, scrambled eggs and hard-boiled eggs and fresh fruit.

Lunch has that same buffet table of bread and granola and stuff, but the yogurt and canned fruit is gone, replaced by more sliced meats and cheeses. On the other buffet table is usually either some kind of noodle or rice mixed with various tiny pieces of meats and sauce and stuff, and something deep-fried. Once there was deep-fried cheese ( beyond description) once, fish sticks, and there is also this patty of chinese-like noodles with a delcious sauce that is deep-fried into this circular thing. Kinda wierd, but really good. There is also a salad bar, and usually two different types of soups. But there is never a large piece of meat.

Supper still has that same bread and meat buffet thing. This time though, you have to sit down when you come in, and these servers come and tell you the option of usually two kinds of appetizers (usually soup). After that you go to the buffet table and there is usually some kind of fish, some other kind of meat, something vegitarian, a couple types of veggies, and ofter several different types of potatoes done in different ways. There is still the salad bar there as well. After that delcious meal there is an interesting dessert. There is always, ALWAYS whipped cream. Like a plate of straight whipped cream. Then theres usually some flavoured whipped stuff. If your lucky there might be icecream or something.

Kay, I know its wierd I went into detail with the food, but it is just SO GOOD.
But to get to stay here we have to work. Mostly we are just washing windows, but we have also hoed a garden and washed some mouldy seats. Fun, hey?