School/Den Haag and Delft

This will most likely be my last post before I leave the Netherlands, because tomorrow is the last full day and we will be late with the goodbye party, then after I need to pack.

Yesterday all of us went to Dalton Voorburg with our host students to observe their classes. I really like the school, and I like how laid back the atmosphere is. I observed Joep's economics, Dutch government, and english classes.
After observing some classes, we went to the Hague to see some sights. We observed the Houses of Parliament, and we also went to a museum about torture and jail in medieval Holland. We then were able to shop, and Daniel and I found Joep who was shopping with a friend for a new bathing suit for himself for tomorrow's swim day at Tikibad.

Today, we went to Delft. First Joep and I went to school "op de fiets" ("on bike", I think that is correct). Joep was able to take the day off school to come with us to Delft, along with many others of the Dutch students, which was nice. We went to a bus stop with the group, got on the bus, then a tram, and arrived at a Delft blue pottery factory. We observed how the pottery is made and saw some of the painters painting the pottery.
We then made our way to the center of Delft, where it was market day. We had about 2 1/2 hours of free time, so Daniel, Joep, Stefan, and I walked around to find some food. They got some haring broodjes (herring on bread) and I got --- (I totally forgot the name) which is piece of meat shaped like a sausage, and after I ate it Stefan told me what it had come from: it is basically a mash of many cow parts, including brains. It was quite good actually, Daniel eventually had some. If you are grossed out, an american hot dog isn't really much different.
We then walked up the Nieuwe Kerk (New Church, even though it's still quite old). We paid to be able to climb the tower. This was quite a hike, it took us about 10 minutes to climb the longgggg spiral staircases, which were extremely narrow and cramped with short steps. It was very good exercise actually, although I bumped my head quite a bit in the small stair space. We got to the top and saw a great view of Delft and we could see Rotterdam in the distance.
We eventually made our way back to school, where Joep and I got on our bikes and rode back home. Joep's father brought home some Israeli food for dinner, which was veryyy good. It was basically a lot of different meats which I forgot the names of, and some pita type bread.
After, Joep, his sisters, and I rode our bikes to Leidschenhage, a shopping mall. We met Joep's father there and we went to Aktie Sport where I got the Netherlands national football team's official jersey for the year, which is really awesome and will be a collector's item for me. We then went to a candy store and loaded up on candy, which I am going to try to save to bring back home. Today was a very nice day, one of my favorites of the trip. Tomorrow should be very fun, I'll try to update tomorrow night but I doubt I'll have time.