Shadowing Practice: my first time in netherlands 🌷 slice of life, tulip garden, nijntje, girls trip & trying dutch food - Learn English Speaking with Video

I'm so excited.

What did you see?

This is insane.

I feel like I'm in Musa movie.

What is that?

No, Dr. Seuss one.

He's like an elephant.

Oh, the Lorax!

Yes!

Oh my god!

I don't think he's an elephant.

Hi guys, welcome back to our channel!

It's not our channel.

This is our channel.

Guys, welcome back and welcome to my channel.

My name is Brianna and today we are in the Netherlands with Moni!

And we're on our fifth annual girls trip.

We're going to be in Amsterdam today on King's Day, which is their national holiday for the King's birthday.

And so we're on Amsterdam on literally the busiest day of the year and the streets are absolutely packed.

So we're gonna try to make the most out of it and we're here for the next couple days.

So yeah, let's get into it.

Where Lonnie and I walk through, there is a party.

Oh my god.

Okay, at least they're playing good music.

I don't know if I'm having a good time.

I'm

going to

go to the next one.

I just got an avocado toast and added the oil pan

and cheese and then I also got a matcha with homie

Guys we have made it to cute We made it to Kuchenhof.

I think that's how it is.

I think it's Kuchenhof.

Kuchenhof?

No. Okay, guys.

We have made it to Kuchenhof, which is the tulip garden outside of Amsterdam.

And it is literally so gorgeous.

There are tulips everywhere.

I thought we were coming closer to the end of the season.

So some things have fallen or overbloomed.

But right now, it looks like everything is gorge.

Everything looks perfect.

I know.

They're so big.

I know.

I've never seen a tulip the size of my hand.

Literally look.

And I have big hands.

This is crazy.

They're so pretty.

They're actually massive.

They're enormous.

Look at that one.

I know.

That's huge.

How is that even a thing?

Think about all the bees that are probably here too.

I know.

You guys know how much I love flowers as a gift, whether I'm giving them or receiving them.

And so this is literally just the best place to be right now.

I feel like there's so many different varieties of flowers and they're all in bloom right now.

So it's so pretty.

Lonnie and I are going to try to find the tulip fields now where it's like all the different rows and sections.

So I got a bee.

a bee

guys wait those are flowers? yes no way yes no I think those are the fields

I can see like the flower fields from here like my camera will not zoom enough

but the fields are all the way down there

that's the flowers I have been yelling so

indoor voices now

This was

definitely a bucket list item checked off

so worth it i never thought there would be

so many tulip types i know and there's like all the different names

and the varieties and sizes

so big it's literally the most beautiful garden i've ever been

to everywhere you walk it's absolutely beautiful like this is where

i'm looking at right now like that's insane these tulips are

huge like this is the size of my hand like that's crazy guys we literally got here at 12 30

and it's five o'clock now and we're going home now.

This is what I mean people are saying like you can spend hours here.

I'm so glad we came.

I'm so happy.

The greenhouse area and there's all these orchids on display too.

There's an orchid show today but we didn't hop inside.

Wait Lonnie is this the orchid show?

I think so.

Okay never mind we did make it to the orchid show.

Wow look at these little ones.

Thank you so much.

I got here a cake.

Oh my god, it looks so good.

Cheers.

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We're headed into Walmart.

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Oh my god, look at the L'Bubu outfits.

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L'Bubu as Karomi.

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Oh my god.

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And look, Hello Kitty.

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I wonder if they sell these outfits.

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I have this one, this one, this one, this one.

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I have that one.

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Yeah, that one?

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Oh my god, that one's so cute.

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Yeah.

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I actually, I think I have like this entire top row.

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I love this one.

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I really want these two.

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I did not know that there was a Naruto like Pop Mart collab.

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Because these are so good.

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Should I get a Naruto one?

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I feel like I have to.

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Yeah, you don't have one, right?

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No. I might get a Nyota one.

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I hope I get the one I want.

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I want one of the Uchiha's.

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I got Guy.

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Oh my god, of course I did.

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Guy's actually underrated though.

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This is the one I got.

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Can I do one pistachio and one hazelnut?

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Thanks so much.

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Look at our sweet waffles.

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I'm on

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aux, though.

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This is their three kinds of mashed potatoes.

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Kale, sauerkraut, and I think this is carrots and onion.

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And this is a beef beef ball.

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I got a ice cream.

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It's a beef, like brown beef.

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It's like brown beef casserole, I think.

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And it has mashed potatoes.

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I feel like this was actually a good diet Cause I had pea soup

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And a good virus And mashed potatoes With more vegetables And beef with protein And then now I'm having yogurt Yeah,

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probiotics You pass, you pass, you pass Oh, okay Yay!

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Wait!

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Wait, what's the app?

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Okay, obviously I passed all my exams.

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Yay!

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Okay, one of them was actually better than I thought it was going to be.

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Okay, we're done.

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Okay, that was good!

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Now we celebrate?

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Yes.

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Yay!

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Yay!

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Careful!

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Now we celebrate, get hit by the fucking train.

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It's not

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bad, but I feel like because we waited so long, I'm like kind of disappointed.

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After a 45 minute wait, we have made it into Tune and we're gonna have a little brunch here because it's 1.45 which basically means it's lunch.

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It's no longer brunch. so worth

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it so worth it so good cheers

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I feel like I just love the ones of me and you.

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I know.

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Like, we're so cute here.

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And same with this one.

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Lonnie and I just finished up at another real analog photo booth, and they turned out so cute.

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We did a bunch of different photo strips, and now we're headed over to Brandy, where we're going to do a little bit of shopping

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and then also the naiensha design store because i realized

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that miffy is not the same as naiensha it's like her japanese name i knew she was originally dutch

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and like from the netherlands but i didn't know her name was different

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so that was my bad and i know literally i feel

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so bad but then we also learned a new phrase it's nainche het lief klein con nature

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which means what does it mean girl i don't know i learned the little slogan miffy the sweet little bunny

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and in dutch it sounds better because it's nainche het

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leaf klein con nature i feel like that was really rough

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but we're gonna go to the little design store now guys we found the miffy store there's so much

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there are literally miffy light black boxes there's all these different colors you can get

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or should i just get the original in the white oh my god this is

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so cool apparently the classic Miffy's only sold here.

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We're in a baby store, but I'm about to freaking freak out.

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Guys, look at these jumbo jellyfish.

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I've never seen the big furry one.

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What?

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Oh my gosh, he's so cute.

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Wait, I want so many.

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Should I get the carrot cake?

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Okay, I really do want the carrot cake.

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You know that's my favorite cake?

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Wait, where'd they go?

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We came to Brandy Malvo and I found his top.

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And then I also really like the boy shorts from Brandy.

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So I might just get like this pattern because I think they're really cute.

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I really like this skirt, but I have one just like it that I actually brought on this trip.

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This is the first piece I'm trying on from Versha.

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It's like this cropped French.

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I think it's really cute.

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You can style it a few ways.

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You can have it buttoned or tied.

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I have it tied right now, but there's obviously all the buttons here.

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I'm just trying on some slacks.

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They're a size 4, so I think they're a little bit too loose.

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Even if I wore a belt, I feel like I would want them to take them in that much.

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I didn't see a 0-0, so I might just try and get a 2 because I think that they are very cute.

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Oh, this is so cool.

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This is not so cute You can throw it in here Just like,

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threw them in there And it shows up on the screen Oh my god, thanks!

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This is like, we're getting in like theme Like character I'm dying right now,

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I'm tired Oh Like a cap

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Never wear a hat.

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I feel like I look funny We got our hats!

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We got at the restaurant.

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Hers is a flower, I'm a leaf.

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You're a leaf.

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Leafyun.

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That was a delicious dinner.

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Oh wow, that's a beautiful sculpture that we didn't...

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We didn't do any sightseeing.

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Thank you.

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