So 26, there you are. You've been following subject 25693 right? Are you sure that he didn't notice you? It's our first priority to discover as much about him as possible without him knowing. So, let's see what your summary of the last few days is.

Name: 26
Written by: User 99
Date of creation: 10-11-2011
Date of report: 14-11-2011
Amount of words (excluding list of concepts): 553
Amount of words (including list of concepts): 1061
Amount of words (including monologue of researcher): 1160
Content: Life of L.C. Raats (subject 25693) and friends

Friday November 11th:
After waking up and going to school subject 25693, (from now on Mr. Raats) was invited to one of the must see museums of *Firenze* The Natural Historic Museum owned by *unifi*. The content of the museum has a big variety, starting with corals, followed by *stuffed animals* and concludes with wax versions of the human body. It's mainly interesting for *biology* and *med-students*, persons who know less about these subjects may be fascinated by the stuffed animals, but are probably confused when they arrive at the human body. Overall this museum is fairly interesting, it's not a must see though.
On the way back to home Mr. Raats decided to head for a store called *l'Olandese Volante*. This store sells several Dutch products and delicacy's. Our subject entered and came out with a *Stamper*. When Mr. Raats arrived home he decided that he wanted to treat his friends on a Dutch dish called *hutspot*. After peeling a lot of potatoes and carrots and unions, dinner was almost ready. Dinner was served at 9:05pm thanks to help of his roommates. After a night with just enough sleep, Saturday arrived.

Saturday November 12th:
The house was calm during morning. Everybody slept relatively late while a part of the house went out on Friday evening. Another part spent the night listening to the rehearsal of a newly formed band. This band is supposed to have its first performance on Tuesday November 15th on the Spanish night of one of the *Erasmus organizations*. Due to the fact that Mr. Raats is not an *Erasmus student* he chose not to join the band even though he had the opportunity. Despite this he's ninety percent sure to attend the event on Tuesday evening.
But as I was saying, the house was calm on Saturday morning. Though, around noon the house began to live. Everybody was awake, and at home. At that time on a Saturday that doesn't happen that often. This probably had to do with the invitation of their *landlord* to take them out for *lunch*. Indeed, at 12:45pm everybody was ready to leave the house, but they waited until their landlord showed up. He had the intention to take them to *Mario's*. The landlord however didn't reserve a table and their access was denied. After walking around they ended up at *Yellow Bar* where they had a great lunch.

The rest of the weekend was spent in a rather calm way, just like his Monday on which he went to school, and after school he used his laptop to write something. I'm ashamed I've to say I don't yet know what he was writing.

I also overheard a conversation of Mr. Raats with his parents. In this conversation he said that he was planning on writing about *over promoting certain holidays*. To be honest, I didn't exactly knew what he was on about, but I did some research. The meaning of this concept can be found in the *list of concepts with a particular meaning*.

*End of summary*

*List of concepts with a particular meaning*

- Firenze => City located in Italy, Capiluogo of Tuscany and main city of the province Firenze.
- Unifi => Shorter name for the Università di Firenze, website www.unifi.it
- Stuffed animals => Dead animals preserved by taking out organs and filling excess space with stuffing.
- Biology => a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy.
- Med-students => Students of medicine, also known as lunatics.
- l'Olandese Volante => Store in Firenze that sells typical Dutch delicacy's and some other articles.
- Stamper => Machinery used in Dutch kitchen to make mashed potatoes or to mix several kinds of typical Dutch food.
- Hutspot => Typical Dutch main dish made from potatoes, onions and carrots, often served with meat. Stamper REQUIRED!
- Erasmus Organizations => Organizations that organize parties and excursions for Erasmus Students
- Erasmus Student => Student that joined the world wide exchange program of university's across the world.
- Landlord => In this case a 61 year old man that rents apartments to people who are in need of a space to live.
- Lunch => Meal eaten around circa 1:00pm, though during weekend a meal eaten at this time by students is often breakfast
- Mario's => Renounced restaurant known for its Tuscan cuisine and always overbooked.
- Yellow Bar => Nice restaurant known for good food but also for their fast service and an enormous touristic clientele.
- List of concepts with a particular meaning => This.
- Over promoting certain holidays => I'm going to need extra space for this, so see next file.

*Additional file: Over promoting certain holidays*

According to my research over promoting of certain holidays is basically the fact that stores are behaving like a certain holiday is due in a week even though the real date is at least 2 months away. The behaving like a certain holiday is due in a week contains dressing the windows of the store with typical decorations for this holiday. We also have to consider pushing food that's typical for that holiday. Stores in Firenze are at this moment ready for Christmas, and every present you buy can be delivered with a Christmas decoration. Also supermarkets in Firenze are selling Christmas cakes for two weeks by now.
Some of our researchers in the Netherlands said it's even worse over there. Dutch stores have been selling food for a strange holiday called Sinterklaas since medium September. This is remarkable because of the fact that the wind up to the holiday started just last Saturday with the arrival of Sinterklaas. The true holiday will be on December 5th. When you go into a store at December 6th you will find just Christmas decorations. This effectively means that since medium September, until January 1st stores are using holiday themes to boost their sales.
For me this is a very strange thing to notice. Are they all nuts?

*End additional file*

Nice work number 26. You've provided enough information. Great research also on the holiday stuff. And yes, they are nuts, but we can use all this information once we're going to invade earth. Please tell User 99 to prepare number 27 for departure. I expect a new report in a few days.