Sculpture exposition!

Esther Velzeboer’s studio....

Last week I’ve got an invitation from Esther Velzeboer to come and watch all the sculptures from all the students. So we went to the studio this afternoon and it really was so great man! All sculptures were made by Ester Velzeboer’s students, so cool man! A couple weeks from now I’m going to join the students and I will start my lessons there. A few months ago I bought a beautiful piece of stone which I will use to make my own sculpture.

Sculpture made by Esther Velzeboer...

There was a beautiful shell sculpture made of marble.... I liked it so much I think I want to make something like that. I can’t wait till the lessons begin… I think it will be so great just chopping that beautiful stone!

Tonight we collected Granddad and Grandma at Schiphol Airport, they just came back from Spain… man they had a nice summer color! Then we went to our home and Granddad and Grandma had a very nice surprise for my. They bought me a great Ferrari shirt, a very cool red shirt from Ferrari, so cool man! I have immediately tried it one and it fitted great. After that we all had dinner, Mom made a great pan full of mussels…. mmmm….so nice!

It was very nice evening but now I go to bed....bye ….see you tomorrow!

Granddad Frans on vacantion!

This is the way he goes on vacation….

This morning I had to go to the orthodontist in Amsterdam before I had to go to school. I had to go there because they wanted to make a gyps model of my teeth. They made it with pink gyps that tasted like bilberries and peppermint. I really had a mouth full of rubbish! It felt like the pink rubbish came right out of my nose…

They will see now what kind of a brace I’ll get. But that will last 2 months before I’ll hear from them. They have to think about that very long don’t you think?

After my gypsum adventure I have gone to school and I had to do 2 tests today, Dutch language and history....... But now its weekend and tomorrow I’ll go to my bowling training, that’s great.

Tomorrow Granddad and Grandma will come back from Spain, their holidays are over. Grandpa Frans is leaving tomorrow to the south France and Spain. He goes along with Uncle John and Aunt Hanneke by camper.... exciting! It seems so exciting to go on vacation by camper, so cool, you’re always having your home with you!

Granddad, Uncle John and Aunt Hanneke.... I wish you a very nice time and enjoy yourselves! Bye!

Perhaps you can respond on my Blog sometimes when you are on your way? Simply put it at the comments of my blog at "je reaktie graag hier!" This little sentence is under every piece I write every day. (on the Dutch version of my Blog!)

Don’t forget to type the Word Verification, I mean the oddly characters otherwise your comment won’t be seen.

These days a lot of campgrounds have computers with Internet. This summer vacation we had almost every day a computer with internet on it. Just hope you will respond some time on my blog, I love to hear how you all are doing…..Bye!

Go upstairs... bye…see you tomorrow!

Mosquitos, mosquitos and more mosquitos!

Killing the mosquitos....

This afternoon after school I have been busy almost the entire afternoon doing my homework. At first I worked on my new essay about computers and after that I did my history of which I’m having a test tomorrow.

Tonight after dinner I did my TOPO, have to learn Africa all the countries and its capitals, we’re having that TOPO test next Monday.

After the TOPO I have been busy with killing the mosquitos with an electrical mosquito catcher. Man what a smell all those burned mosquitos! There were so many of them, you don’t believe it! I have just killed about 8 of them in our living room….... It’s too warm for the time of the year so they are still here. It’s already autumn and it’s still 22C (72F)! They said on the news tonight that it’s the warmest September month in 300 years!

Go upstairs...bye...see you tomorrow!

Selling Children’s Welfare Stamps!

Calculating and seeing how much money I’ve earned …......

This afternoon school went out at 12.00 PM and we all left with the lists for the Children’s Welfare Stamps. I immediately went to that Lady who bought stamps for €32, - (€34, -) from me last year. But now there was a man who opened the door.... At first I thought…. Oh no, she isn’t here…. But the man bought for €41, - - of stamps from me, so cool man! Oh man what was I glad I went to that address immediately after school went out! After that, I went on selling the stamps. So I’ve collected quite a list of people.

Tonight after dinner I just added up everything and now I have already €138, - ($175, -) so far, not bad eh? Tomorrow I’ll continue …. . Go upstairs....bye…see you tomorrow!

Tomorrow, at last!

Children’s Welfare Stamps …..

Today the teacher at school told us that our class will be out at 12.00 PM tomorrow. We have to sell the Children’s Welfare Stamps tomorrow! Man that is so cool! Last year there was this lady who bought for almost €30, - ($38, -) stamps and postcards from me. I was so happy when I left her doorstep that I had written down her name and address on a piece of paper that I kept very carefully so I could visit her again the next time. So when school is out tomorrow I immediately go to that nice lady and I’ll be hoping that nobody comes there before me….

Can’t wait till tomorrow…it’s so exciting selling these stamps and cards….. Go upstairs…bye..see you tomorrow!

Grandpa's birthday!

Today September 26^th is Grandpa’s birthday!

Yeeeaahh .... Only Grandpa is not there, he and Grandma are in Spain! So Grandpa happy birthday!

Marijke's birthday!

Today September 25^th is Marijke’s birthday! Marijke Happy birthday!

We’re coming over next door to celebrate your birthday and have a nice barbecue as you promised! I love to barbecue, so nice all the meat from the barbecue…..... nice hamburger I can’t wait to have it on my plate! See you soon!

We’ll go to Marijke…..bye…see you tomorrow!

Mussels!

Tonight we had mussels….

Today the weather was wonderful the entire day so I have played outside all day. I played soccer with all the other kids from the whole neighborhood.

Tonight the weather was still nice so we had dinner outside in our garden. Mom had mussels the first ones this year…so good man! So great with nice fresh baked bread and sauces ….mmmm.......so delicious!

Go upstairs.. bye…see you tomorrow!

Ferrari in the street!

Me making a photograph of the Ferrari with my cell phone.....

This afternoon we have been to Amstelveen because there was something wrong with my cell phone, the man in the shop did something like…tac, tac in his computer and it worked!

When we returned home I saw just around the corner of our home a Ferrari which was parked there….. man that was cool! It was so red and shining! So I immediately took some photographs with my cell phone, so great man that car!

Again the Ferrari....so cool man!

I'll go play outside for awhile…. bye ..see you tomorrow!

Delicious tomato salad!

Tomatoes from the garden.....

Today was an ordinary day. Just went to school, then went home and late in the afternoon I went to my trumpet lessen…..

After the trumpet lesson we had dinner. Mom had made a tomato salad from the tomatoes from our garden... the little plants we got from Ria from Domaine de Beauvoir in June when we were there. The plants were all drowned by the terrible rain we had a few weeks ago when we were on vacation. We obtained the tomatoes from the dead plants; they were still very green then. We have put them on the garden table in the sun for the last few week and they turned all of a sudden perfectly red!

So, Ria I can say... those tomatoes were really delicious! Dad was enjoying them so much, he kept saying that they are so much better than the ones we normally buy at the supermarket!

Must stop blogging now, have to go to my second trumpet lesson today, rehearsal with all the other students…bye…see you tomorrow!

No longer mayor!

The mayor of the Haarlemmermeer is no longer mayor…...

Today was the debate concerning the fire in the prison at Schiphol East which was last year. 11 People died there. At that debate they said that there were made a lot of mistakes there at the Schiphol prison and now 2 ministers have to leave, Donner and Dekker. I just heard on the news that our mayor Mr. Hertog from the Haarlemmermeer also is leaving. Gosh... that is crazy, now we don’t have a mayor anymore! Man what a trash…. today........

This afternoon I have been with Mark to the centre of our village and we have bought the hamsters from Albert Heyn from the Air Miles. They are so cool man! You can see them a couple of times a day on TV, when they are in a TV commercial to promote Albert Heyn. On the TV those hamsters are interviewing a very big cow, but then suddenly the cow eats the microphone from one of the hamsters and then one of the hamsters said, it’s all right with me when they make the beef on sale, that commercial is so cool!

The hamsters are interviewing Timmie.....

Timmie liked them too.........

Go upstairs....bye ...see you tomorrow!

Sawing everything!

Dad sawing the wood ….me watching…..

This afternoon I have been with Mark to his soccer match in Haarlem. He had to play a very important match. Cool man, that match! Mark could almost make it 3-2 but unfortunately he did not succeed. So the score finally ended up at 2-2 but that is in fact very well done, because it was a match against Haarlem! (they are very good normally)

Tonight we obtained the last pieces of wood from our front garden. Dad did the sawing job and I have put all the wood in the wheelbarrow, it became a big heap of wood but now our front garden is entirely empty!

An entire wheelbarrow full!

Go upstairs.....bye…see you tomorrow!

State Opening of Parliament! (Prince's Day)

The case of Prince's Day....

Today it was Prince’s Day (The Queen reads the Speech from the Throne. It explains all the government’s plans for the next year) and it was the first time that we were not allowed to watch the Queen’s Speech at school… it was a pity!

So I watched the evening news. It was rather funny to see that there were a lot of people that almost fell asleep when the Queen was reading her Speech from the Throne. Even Princess Maxima almost fell asleep......

Golden Carriage



Prince Willem Alexander and Princess Maxima



The Speech from the Throne by Queen Beatrix

It was also rather funny when afterwards a reporter asked some ministers a few questions about what the queen had said in her Speech concerning a couple of very important statements... Almost nobody could say what that was.... Doesn’t that proof it was deadly dull?

Go upstairs....bye…see you tomorrow!

Holes in my ball!

Entirely ready to play with.....

Tonight after the bowling we have been to Jos Goedhart to get the holes in my new bowling ball. That is a beautiful sight man to see how he does that! At first you have to put your fingers in a fake bowling ball and see if it feels good. Then he looks at your hand and then he measures everything on your ball and then finally it’s ready to bore the holes with a very big drilling machine, so cool man! When it was ready I had to throw the ball a couple of times. I thought it was quite scary to do that in the middle of the shop, I was so afraid that I would throw too hard. But it went ok and it was all right, I can’t wait till Saturday to try it out at the bowling training.

Grandpa and Grandma are in Spain right now and they are having a great time. Thursday they will go with some other people to Seville, we have been there 2 years ago. Seville is great city and there is also a very beautiful church the Giralda and in it there is the Columbus grave!

Giralda......

Square in front of the Giralda.......

The grave of Columbus in the church the Giralda...

That’s me taking photographs in the gardens of Alcazar...

Grandpa and Grandma I wish you a very nice time in Seville!

I go to bed now, it’s pretty late already….bye …see you tomorrow!

Round about the snack bar!

Hamburger special from the snack bar.....

This morning I did some garden work and further on I played outside all day.

This afternoon Piet and Marijke returned from a couple of days in Eindhoven (city in the South part of the Netherlands) and in the evening we all had dinner at their house. I went to the local snack bar to obtain some nice snacks for all of us. I of course took the famous hamburger special, man that is so great at our local snack bar!

Go upstairs ....bye…see you tomorrow!

Grandma and Grandpa to Spain!

Grandpa and Grandma with their suitcases at Schiphol (Amsterdam Airport)...

This morning we took Grandpa and Grandma to Schiphol. They were going on their holiday to Spain to Carhiuela, at Torremolinos.

Just waving goodbye and then they leave…....

The entire afternoon I played outside with Mark and later on with some others…..

Tonight we had dinner outside in the garden, all meat from the stone-grill, that’s so great man!

Having dinner outside from the stone-grill…

Nice sausages on the stone....

After dinner I played outside again ... Really everyone from our neighborhood was outside. We all together played football (soccer), the girls against the boys (5 boys against 10 girls). The youngest was not yet 4 years old and oldest was 12 years old, it was great fun! Those girls were playing that bad so we (all the boys) decided to lie down on the ground, just to take a nap!

Go and play with Timmie for awhile…..bye…see you tomorrow!

The Big Club Action!

Thank you cards from the Big Club Action which I'll have to give all the people who buy my lottery-tickets...

Tonight I have been to my first trumpet lesson this season. There they had the brochures ready to take home concerning the Big Club action. Everyone from my team got a brochure to take home. In it there is everything we need to sell the lottery-tickets. We now need to go by all our neighbors, friends and families to sell those lottery-tickets. Those tickets will cost €2,50 and €2, - - from that is for my own club. So then my club the Showband Prins Willem Alexander can buy new instruments from the money we all collected. I also borrowed my trumpet from the club and if it might break I’ll get another trumpet which is bought from the lottery money. I’ll think it’s a great action, we’ll get new instruments and the people who buy the lottery-tickets can win nice prices!

At first the people must register at a list which I’ll give them and then a couple of weeks later I bring the lottery-ticket which they actually have to pay then. Mom registered immediately for the first lottery-ticket and then I went to Grandpa and Grandma and they registered immediately for second lottery-ticket. After that I went to Piet our neighbor and he registered for 2 lottery-tickets, that’s cool eh?

The trumpet lesson was very nice we got a new part from our teacher, we have to play, a very cool one now, "The final Countdown". Quite difficult but I will study really every day now!

I’ll stop blogging now; I want to play a little part from the new music we got tonight for Mom! Bye…see you tomorrow!

Great lesson at school!

Last remainder Ben & Jerry's ice cream..........

Today we had a very great lesson at school, it was about architecture! I love architecture. That’s so cool man! A couple of years ago I always said I wanted to become an architect, I still like it. Designing houses and everything what comes along. Roads and so on. Almost nobody in my class liked the lesson, but I thought it was a pity that the lesson was over…....... Perhaps I’ll become an architect, maybe ever. Then I’ve to learn very hard, however, but I don’t mind, I love to learn especially arithmetic and drawing!

Tonight after dinner we had the last remainder Ben & Jerry's ice cream (the one we won by the lottery last week)... man it so great and such a pity that it’s finished now!

Go upstairs.....bye…see you tomorrow!

Just building!

Domino construction work.

This afternoon it was very warm... I had started with some garden work at the front of our home but it really was much too warm!

Later on in the afternoon Mark and I helped Niels deliver the newspapers. That is a nice job man! I can take over a newspaper district of 200 newspapers from a friend of Niels. Seems cool ... but Mom says that it soon will be winter and then it suddenly isn’t so nice anymore.... Acch.... I‘ll see, you’ll never know…

The newspaper which we have delivered this afternoon….......

Afterwards Mark and I played some domino-express …we did a beautiful construction work! Mark as I promised here above the photograph! It did well Mark there was only one stop and that was at the bridge.....

Go and play outside for awhile, the weather is still so nice and everyone is playing at the square in front of our home…bye see you tomorrow!

We won a price!

Collected the Ben & Jerry's ice-cream ….. ....

This afternoon after school Mark and I went to the centre of our village to picked up the price we won at the zip code lottery. We won a goblet ice-cream of & Jerry's have and so did everyone else in our neighborhood with the same zip code. It was rather busy there at the ice-cream stand….....

After dinner we had a nice cube of the Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream……....man that was so delicious! Strawberries with cheesecake....mmmmmmm.......

Afterwards the ice-cream I have played with my domino-stones in the living room, that’s a very nice game. Mark has also bought it and says that we must do everything together sometime and built us an extra ordinary big domino stones thing …..so cool man!

Domino-stones......

This afternoon I was in our garden and I suddenly saw the tomatoes of the tomato plants from Domaine de Beauvoir and they turned red after all! They are no longer on the plants Ria from Beauvoir gave us because the plants were all drowned in the last few weeks we were on vacation. There was so much rain these weeks so they are all dead. Now the tomatoes are lying on the garden table and are turned red very slowly. Beautiful eh?

The tomatoes become red!

Going upstairs... bye ....see you tomorrow!

Just a little time for a little game!

Cool game!

Today I went to school all day and worked pretty hard. After school I had do my homework, TOPO, countries and cities concerning the entire world. It was just very hard to do after a whole summer without TOPO, it was rather strange and difficult. The entire afternoon I studied.

Tonight after the bowling I have just played a little game on the computer, rescue the Band, it was a cool game…. But now I must go to bed...... bye…see you tomorrow!

Festival in Vijfhuizen!

Kids-corner....

Yesterday after the bowling-training we went to Vijfhuizen a little village a few miles from our home….... It was the last day of the yearly festival week! There was a very big fair where they sold all kinds of everything and there was so much else to do.

This is fish-stand where they sold fresh smoked eel....smelted so nice! There also was a shoeing-smith who gave all horses new horseshoes, was a beautiful sight man!

Only the horse didn’t want to stand still….

There were also a couple of Indians who were playing beautiful music.

You could also buy a CD with their music. Furthermore there were all kind of stands where you could buy nice things. I got a beautiful watch from Mom, with seconds which shoot all over the dial, so cool man!

Woooouuuuuwww....such a cool thing man!

It was a nice day in Vijfhuizen and I finally ended up with a very beautiful watch, nice eh?

I’ll stop blogging now, I’ll go and do some work in our front garden, just remove some more shrubs....bye…see you later!

Removing the hedge!

Demolishing the old hedge beside our front door.

This afternoon when I came home from school Mom had started removing the hedge in our front garden. It wasn’t nice anymore, only in the upper part were still leaves, the lower part was entirely bald and dead. I really like that kind of work, demolishing that old thing!

When Mom stopped, I continued getting it out of the ground, it had to be out today. Only then the heaviest parts were left, the big branches and the stumps with their roots. Piet the neighbor said that he would give me a beer if I got those stumps out of the ground. I suppose he never expected me to succeed, otherwise he never would have said that he would give me a beer.

After a couple of hours I had one complete stump out of the ground, a tough job man! So I got my beer. Mom looked a bit odd, but I had won the bet and therefore I got my beer, it tasted pretty nice!

Me drinking beer…cheers Piet!

Go upstairs...bye..see you tomorrow!

On the scaffolding!

Woooooouuuuuwwww....what a height!

Today Dad has painted the window-frames on the outside of our house. When I came home from school I had to climb up the scaffolding….so cool man! When I was on top of the thing it was rather scary…., it stormed very hard and the scaffolding went entirely back and forth wards. Man what a wind up there! Dad’s painting work had become very beautiful, only the porch above the door.... That thing, however, got a very strange color light brown …. It looks rather dirty almost like shi…... jaccch!

Go upstairs…bye …see you tomorrow!

My birthday again!

Ice-cream, still at home in the freezer...........

Today again a celebration, my birthday at school and I treated everyone. This morning I went to school with cake and chocolate for the teachers of my school. At 10.15 Dad came to school with a cool-bag with ice-cream...mmmmm.... so nice.

When he left I had to stand on the big table in our classroom and then everyone started to sing “happy Birthday”. After that I gave everyone an ice-cream and afterwards I was allowed to visit all the other classrooms of our school with Mark and Thomas to treat all the teachers on cake and chocolate. We did that in a very high speed. In 10 minutes we had been in all 7 class rooms so afterwards we could play outside for awhile.

Go and play outside for awhile, almost everyone from my class is playing out on the street, the weather is at last very nice! Bye…see you tomorrow!

Choosing a subject!

Books from school…

Today at school we were told when we have to do our book discussion and our lecture. I have to do my book discussion on 20^th of November and my lecture somewhere in April next year.

We also had to choose a new subject for the first essay we have to write this year. I don’t know yet what it will be about. At school I have selected 3 books...

* Philips

* Sculpture

* Computer

I think that it will be the computer.

Go upstairs... bye…see you tomorrow!