Grandpa and Grandma have returned!

The donkeys in Mijas in Spain....

This afternoon after school we went to Grandpa and Grandma just to say hello. They returned home this afternoon from a short break in Spain. They have spent a week in south part of Spain in the village Mijas, the village where I had a donkey ride a few years ago. Those donkeys are so sad man; they have to ride up the hill all the time with all of those stupid tourists on their back.

Well there is not much to tell about last week, nothings exciting happened. Tuesday morning school has started again and everything went the same as the next day. Just making homework and playing outside after that. We had a lot of chats in the large tree on the field were the swings are quite near to our house with other children of my class.

Go up... bye…. see you later!

Clay2Day!

Castle the Keukenhof.....

Today we have been with Piet and Marijke to the Keukenhof. There was a ceramic fair (Clay2Day) in the gardens of the Keukenhof.

Everywhere in the gardens of the castle were statues but the most I liked was the small rabbit which was running through the grass in front of the castle. It wasn’t at all frightened; even when I got nearer it remained sitting in the grass so I took some nice photos with my cell phone. If you look very carefully on the photo here above you can see the rabbit!

In the middle of the fair was a large tent in which was a large castle entirely made of clay. All the children could make a piece and curve in their name and stick it on the castle. You could also make another piece and sat that down near the castle. Well I’ve made a very beautiful bird. When I finished the bird I got another piece of clay and made a nice doggy which I could take home.

Here I am still busy finishing the dog....

This is the castle where everyone has stuck on their name, beautiful eh?

Here a couple music instruments all made of clay, cool eh?

It was a nice fair and I have made something nice for the castle and also I took home a little doggy made of clay……

Go upstairs ..bye… see you tomorrow!

Ajax - AZ!

Ajax won the soccer game, it became 3-0!

Today I have been with Mark and his mother to Ajax - AZ in the Arena in Amsterdam. Man that was so cool!

Van Gaal no goblet, no scale, no ticket! (van Gaal is the AZ coach)

That was the song that everyone was singing after the game… . On the mini film which I’ve made with my cell phone you can hear Mark sing!

The first part of the game was mega bad, but in the 5th minute of second part of the game, Ajax went rather well and had a lot of chances to make a goal. In the 56^th minute it became 1-0 for Ajax, Heitinga scored the goal but in fact he was off-side but the arbiter did not see it. In the 57ste minute Ryan Donk from AZ scored in his own goa, so that was a point for Ajaxl!

Then everyone started to sing: Ryan Donk, we all know him, Ryan Donk, Ryan Donk, Ryan Donk he is a real Ajax man! (Everyone sang that song because he missed a penalty in the final of the KNVB goblet, Ajax - AZ and he therefore it looks like he is always helping Ajax to win the game!)
Eventually it became 3-0 for Ajax....

It really was a great game and a very great day... so cool to see the game live in the Arena in Amsterdam.

Go and watch some TV now… bye...see you tomorrow!

Back home again!

Tonight we had dinner in our garden….

Yesterday evening we returned home from our school camp. Man what was I tired! We did so many things, we had long walks, seen a lot and went to bed pretty late everyday. It was almost 02.00 AM and sometimes 02.30 AM before we went to sleep and we had to get up at 07.00 AM every morning.

Yesterday on the last day we have been to the Efteling. There were a couple kids from my class who were so tired that they took a nap on a bench in the park….

When I returned home I almost went to bed immediately and I did sleep up till 09.00 AM this morning, I had slept more than 13 hours! It was a great camp but very tiring...
At 10.30 AM we all had to be at school and in the afternoon we already watched the film that was made from our camping.

Tonight we had dinner outside in our garden, Mom had made very nice fried cuttle-fish with potato wafers and French fries and a nice salad.............. delicious!
After dinner we have been to the Luilak (lazy bones night celebration) flowers and plants market in Haarlem... Man we bought a lot of plants, so cool! I also got a from stone made rabbit from Mom to put in my little garden, so beautiful man!

But now I am already tired again and I’ll go to bed now..... see you tomorrow!

Departed!

All the bags in the cars............

The cars are ready to depart.....

















Everybody is saying goodbye..... see you on Thursday!

Tomorrow School camp!

Farmers camping De Beukenhof in Well, Limburg (South part of the Netherlands)…...

Just one more night sleeping in my own bed and than we'll go on camping! We’ll go camping 4 days on a farmers camping with my entire class and the teachers and a couple of parents.... exciting man!

So I won’t be able to write on my blog for a couple of days, but when I'm back I’ll write all about it….. So, will be back in a couple of days….bye!

No drinking water from the tap!

E-coli bacteria…....

Since Tuesday evening it’s not possible to drink water from the water tap.

Tuesday morning they have found a bacterium in the drinking water from which you can get abdomen pain and diarrhea. They (the water company) do not know where that bacterium comes from and it can last up till Tuesday for all the water pippin’s will be clean.

Wednesday morning there were no more bottles of drinking water available in the hypermarkets here in our village. Wednesday evening I went to the village centre to see if there were new bottles of drinking water available and just when I cycled up the parking area there came a lorry with lots of bottles of water, so I bought 3 six-packs.
However, it’s rather odd when you're used to drink water from the tap and that isn’t possible right now, it’s just like you’re abroad, on vacation in your own country.....

Later!

Gouda!

The market square in Gouda.......

This afternoon we have been to Gouda, there was a ceramic fair where artists sold their own made ceramics. Man it was busy on that fair!

The market square in Gouda....

It was hardly possible to get to the ceramic stands to see what the artists were selling; so many people were passing the stands.

Here I am just making a bird from the clay I got…. ..

But it was nevertheless pretty nice, but the nicest of all was the stand were all the kids could make their own piece of art from the clay. I of course also had to make something, I made a couple of birds, that was very cool!

Here Dad and I are sitting on a bench, just having a nice bag of French fries…..

Were having those French fries over there because it wasn’t possible to get something to eat at the terraces on the market square; you could only get a drink over there. The cooks in the kitchens were too busy so it wasn’t possible to order something to eat, ridiculous!

After the fries Mom and I went into a sports shop, there was a big sale on and there was that Ajax soccer shirt on sale, $34,- cheaper than in our neighborhood, this is so cool man! Then all of a sudden Mom said that I could have it if I really wanted it so badly, man I was so happy about that!

It was a great day, at first I had a nice play with the clay and after that I got that Ajax soccer shirt!

Go and play outside for awhile, everybody is still outside playing at the little square ... bye… see you tomorrow!

Computers.....

Helllllllp.....

Computers are very handy apparatus…… if they work..... It’s more over a week now since we received our last email. The server to which we are connected too has crashed last week and we didn’t receive any email ever since.

What exactly is going on over there I don’t know but it is very annoying. So if anyone of you has sent me an email which I’ve not responded too this is the reason why I’m not responding. Hope it all will be fixed very soon….

Later!

South America!

TOPO test.....

This afternoon immediately after school I started learning my homework, TOPO.

Well that was much more difficult then I expected. There are very strange cities on that map. Have you ever heard you of Medellin, Recife or Manaus? I have not!

Will go and see it over again… see you tomorrow!

Aunt Hanneke 50 years!

Me doing archery.....

This afternoon we did go to Broek op Langedijk to a large building where aunt Hanneke celebrated her 5oth birthday.

When we arrived there we immediately got tea of coffee with warm apple pie ….. mmmmm that really was delicious! Afterwards we went to an other room were we had a percussion lesson, playing all sorts of drums and afterwards we played archery.

Here I’m playing a big djembé…..

After that we all went to the restaurant were we got a nice dinner.

Here is aunt Hanneke just beside Sarah which they had made for her.....

Aunt Hanneke, it was a very nice day! Tanks!

Go to bed.... bye… see you tomorrow!

Today Grandma's Birthday!

Today May 11^th is Grandma’s birthday.....

Grandma happy birthday.... see you this afternoon!

New shoes!

Woooouuuuwww....cool he?

This afternoon after school we went to Haarlem to buy me a new pair of shoes. Man they are beautiful, Nikes at last! Cool eh?

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

So sad, that pigeon…

Animal ambulance....

This afternoon I run into Jamy when I was playing outside. He just found an injured pigeon that couldn’t fly anymore, so sad man!

Then we went to an old neighbor of Jamy who knows very much about pigeons. Only that neighbor wasn’t at home, yeh….what to do with the pigeon? So we went to Jamy’s home and there we called the animal ambulance. That lasted long man before they came; we waited for more then 1 ½ hour before they finally came!

The Ms who examined the pigeon said that he probably wouldn’t make it, but they took the little pigeon along to see if they could save it.

Dim Sum...

Tonight we had Dim Sum for dinner. Mom went this morning with the neighbor to Chinatown in Beverwijk. There is a Chinese hypermarket and there they sell, about 50 different kinds of Dim Sum bites. So we had Dim Sum and Chinese noodles and we used Chinese Chopsticks, well that was very difficult to eat with, but the food was very delicious!

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

Hoildays are over....

Tonight was the honoring of Ajax at the Museumplein in Amsterdam....

Today everything was back to normal the 2 weeks holidays are over. In about 2 weeks were going on a school camp in Limburg (south part of the Netherlands), so cool man!

This was yesterday in Rotterdam....

Tonight after the bowling I watched the honoring of Ajax, they yesterday won the KNVB Final from AZ. Man what a crowd there was at that square in Amsterdam!

Go watch some more TV now….bye…see you tomorrow!

Liberation Day!

Today it was Liberation Day. Well there was nothing to see here in our village that looked like Liberation Day. Everywhere in the country there were Liberation Day celebrations with music and more but not over here.

This afternoon I went cycling on my new bike with Grandpa. We have made a nice trip to the village centre and to the Bottelierspad (a nice cycling path a few miles from here), man it went great on my new bike. We have cycled more than 4 ½ miles!

Go and watch TV for awhile…. bye…see you tomorrow!

Lay down flowers in our village!

The flower piece Mom and I made this afternoon for the the Remembrance of the Dead ceremonies in our village tonight which we laid down at the monument….....

Tonight at half passed 7 we have driven to the village centre of our village for the Remembrance of the Dead at 8:00PM . When we arrived there it still was rather quiet, but within a couple minutes it all of a sudden became very busy. There was small orchestra of 2 girls and 2 boys and 1 boy who played The Last Post on his trumpet.

The orchestra.....

After the 2 minutes of silence a wreath of flowers was laid down by a man from the municipality house and there was a speech after that. Then everyone could lay down his flowers and I also laid down my piece of flowers.

That’s me placing my flowers at the monument….....

At the end the orchestra played the National Song “Het Wilhelmus” and everyone sang along. It was very beautiful all those people singing.

Here everyone already went home….

It was a very beautiful ceremony…..

Go upstairs… bye ….see you tomorrow!

To Artis!

Central station in Amsterdam........

Today Mom and I have been to Artis just to have a look at our favorite aninmals. We saw them all, Yindee the little elephant, the little giraffe’s and the sea lions.

Yindee the elephant was playing with her bottom right to all the people. That didn’t give nice photos! The little giraffes were also outside; there was one who took a look around the big fence all the time.

Sweet eh?

It was very crowded in Artis, very very busy, but oh so nice!

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