Read here the birthday actions around the world?

Loesje celebrated here 25^th birthday all over the world.

That’s why, she send banners around the world to hang them at beautiful spots in different countries.

To this countries the banners where send

NEPAL FINLAND SWEDEN FRANCE RUSSIA LATVIA ESTONIA SLOVENIA RUSSIA NORTHERN IRELAND MACEDONIA SPAIN MEXICO SYRIA EQUADOR GERMANY AUSTRIA HUNGARY BELGIUM.

Mail loesje25jaar@loesje.nl and tell us what you did on her birthday and we will announce it on this page.

Look for the pictures on the next side.


THE NETHERLANDS

Its not always necessary to know from who your surprised or why. Its about the surprise itself!
A present on your shoe, a poem in your pocket or an unexpected party in the street.
Jump into the unexpected, go with the flow and see how your day will go.
Maybe your day will be totally different than planned and better, much better than expected.
Maybe you find something what is not nice, don't walk away, but try to change it.

Because thousand miles from here there is another one smiling.
Just imagine how many people there are thousand miles from her.
We hope these persons also let someone laugh and a smile will travel all over the world.

On the 24^th there are more places who celebrate Loesje's birthday on the same way.
They all got the same banner and thousand miles from here, they also make people smile.

So easy is it. Did you already let someone smile today?

The banner arise, on the bridge of Arnhem and here its still hanging

FINLAND

Loesje Finland couldn't wait for her real birthday, since it was a perfect day to celebrate 25year old Loesje on 10th October, the national day of Literature. Loesje and her friends took over Tullintori square with chalk pens, Loesje posters and old Finnish Loesje texts. The oldest ones translated in Finnish were from 1991, when Finland saw Loesje for the first time. Some little Loesje-notes were also hanging from strings attached between the trees.

After a while Loesje got company. Some girls and a children family stopped by and joined the drawing. The children were interested in dancing on the footsteps drawn on the ground. Old man stopped reading the texts and was delighted with the texts. Loesje was smiling.

Soon she was smiling even more, eating birthdaycakes (yeah we had to bake many so that there's enough for her friends too). In Finnish way the party included also sauna of course.

So the Loesje's big birthday celebration has got started, but this was just the begin, naturally. Loesje's Finnish friends will celebrate later on 24th November in sportive way!

greetings,
Linda

http://picasaweb.google.com/zwervertje/Loesje25
pictures from the happening

MACEDONIA/ SKOPJE

On a cold Monday morning in the soc-realistic building of the State University of Skopje,
Loesje decided to shine a little light by spreading her progressive thoughts around.

She put a big banner in the main hole of the building
and although the smell of apathy was in the air two nice guys helped her to get it on the nicest spot.
Then she decided to stick some posters on the walls, and while doing that two other girls were so fascinated by her wit that they shipped in to stick some of her posters too.
They decided that the streets are also in a desperate need of Loesje`s thoughts, so they took some posters with them to spread around.

After that day at the university she went to another part of the town where she remains until today- smiling to all the other people a thousand miles away from here.

Loesje is a big girl now, although she gained her wit a long time ago;)
Happy 1/4 of a century!

Greetings
Jasna

GERMANY/ BERLIN

We invited Loesje to our office on Monday at six. We did not tell her we were going to have a surprise party with 25 presents, cake and coffee. The clock stroked six, but Loesje was not to be seen.

We waited until seven, but when she still had not come we decided to go out in the city and leave the birthday presents there, maybe she would find one, if we made her a map of where we hid them, or then other people would pick up the presents and hopefully like them.

We walked around Berlin two hours until we got cold and hungry. Then we went back to have cake and coffee at the office. Some friends and neighbours joined the party. They came with toys and good stories, so we played games and had a good time.

So Loesje, if you read this, happy birthday!
Wherever you are.

//Maria and the Berlin crew"

SPAIN/MADRID

We were in Madrid during the Loesje birthday weekend and we decided to hang up the poster in La Latina.

La Latina is a neighborhood in the center of Madrid and on Sundays a lot of people go there to spend the evening drinking cañas and eating tapas.We thought will be the best location because a lot of youth and people are passing around.We meet there around 4 in the afternoon and look around the possible good locations for the banner.We found the metro station the best one and we hung it up there.
People looked at us and at the banner and started to smile.
It was a great feeling!

Greetings Mery maria