Post Gathering Depression

Wow... Just wow.

That was amazing, I went to Nerds on Ice in Amsterdam and it was so good.

So I took 4 friends with me to Nerds on Ice and (of course) we went ice skating. In the beginning, the ice skating didn't appeal to me as a very fun thing to do but one of my friends (lets call her Lucy) convincent me and my other friend (lets call him Thomas) to go anyway.

I have to admit, the skating was quite fun and I didn't do that bad. I usually can't skate at all let alone on ice and the last time I ever did was also the last time I held a girls hand. Which is an estimated two years ago.
Despite these facts I went on the ice and weirdly enough I enjoyed it. Not only the ice itself but mostly the nerdfighters on the ice and more specificly the act of riding one lap around the track with another nerdfighter.
There were certain points were someone would say 'I'm going for a lap' and if you thought that person was nice you would just follow.
There was one cute girl (I will keep that kind of talk to the minimum by the way) and we skated a few laps together.
At around three, me and my friends would have some hot choco and leave after that because we would go to a lecture from Daniel Dennett. One friend had joined us, she came from another town but I've known her for two years now and I concider her as one of my best friends (lets call her Camille)

We went to the lecture (which was in English) and to be honest I didn't quite get all of it. The guy was pretty boring and I just didn't enjoy it as much as I liked to but that's okay because Lucy loved it.
We were kind of stuck in there until it was done and I was really bored out of my mind because what the guy told us just didn't made sense in my mind.

After we'd left, we went to eat Pizza. Unfortunattely for me, the cute girl had already left and I didn't get the chance to say goodbye. From there on, things got really awesome. We all ate pizza at this great place ran by stidents. Everyone was having a ball and it was just nerdy. I loved some conversations I had with different nerdfighters.

We talked about post gathering depression, having friends far away, sign language (which I absolutely adore) and all kind of other crazy stuff. Mostly we were just having fun and laughing about jokes someone made.

Three of my friends had already head home (stupid dicision) so it was just me and Thomas now. We went on the train home (1,5 hour trip ahead) and just started talking. That was the best talk I had in weeks. Months probably if you count in that it was a real talk (not trough internet).

We just talked about everything. We went from favorite kind of books to girls, school, parents, friends, social status, problems, writing, diaries (journals I mean), own made theories about human species. We just talked about everything and it was all serious. We laughed but it was a serious conversation. It was like the talk you had been waiting for to have with someone close because every once in a while you need to have such a great conversation.

Now I'm home. Just checking facebook where some nerdfighters already added me to their friends. I feel rather lonely. No one around, I don't smile like I did the last eleven hours. People ahve left and it really feels like that. The last thing I will do is write about them and if I'm finished with that there will be nothing left but counting down to the next gathering.

Wessel