First game!

Yesterday I had my first bowling game for the region championships. Rather cool man! We played at our bowling house here in the Haarlemmerliede. My team and I became 6^th , not bad eh for a first time?

Next time we'll have to play somewhere else in a bowling house in Huizen. Exciting man! Go now, I’ll have to rise pretty early tomorrow at 6.15 AM, it’s just an ordinary school day.....

Later!

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!

Orvelte!

The entire group, 77 children, 3
1st grade classes....













I'm standing somewhere in the back, can you me find? The rest of the photographs you can find on the Internet site of my school.

It was splendid in Orvelte, we did quite a lot there. We had to make a lot of assignments, drawings and much more. Also we have cycled a lot, to Westerbork and went to bed very, very late. We did not go to bed one night before 1.30 AM. Man what was I tired when I came home, I went to bed at 7 o'clock and slept till the next moring 8.15 AM. At 9 o'clock we had to be at school again to work on our assignments again, but at 1 o'clock school was out again.

In the afternoon Mark came by and at 8 o'clock that evening I went to bed again and slept pretty long again. Man it was great Orvelte, but afterwards You'll have to sleep...long...very long....... Now I'll go upstairs to do my homework for tomorrow.... bye..... see you later!

Back home again!

Our arrival at school this afternoon at 3.30 PM….

It was a great project’s week.... but now I’m so very, very tired. Go to bed now.... Bye…later!

School project week!

De Borckerhof in Orvelte....

Here I'm again! Was very busy last week. For the first time I had a whole week school at my new school and got lots of homework to do. French, English and much more.

In the morning I'll have to go to school at 7.15 AM and come home at 3.45 in the afternoon. Than I'll have to do my homework and before I know it it's dinner time. But it is quite nice at my new school. Tomorrow we're going on a school project week trip to Orvelte in Drente. There we will do a lot of assignments in Westerbork.

Well go to bed now, have to rise at 5.45 AM have to be at school at 7.15 because the coach to Orvelte will leave at 7.30 AM tomorrow morning... bye.. see you in a week! .

Kalkar!

This is the cooling tower at the Kalkar nuclear reactor, its more than 148 feet high, this nuclear reactor never ever worked…... It was completed in 1985, but there were so many protests in the country that the government in 1995 decided to close Kalkar for ever and now it’s turned into a “Theme park”.

Friday afternoon after school we immediately left for Germany to Kalkar where Grandma and Grandpa gave their 50^th anniversary party. Man what did it take long before we finally arrived there; it took us 3 hours to get there, one traffic-jam after another. When we arrived there Grandpa and Grandma were waiting for us at the entrance of the hotel.

After we had put the luggage in our rooms we immediately went to the restaurant where we had a drink and a nice bite to eat. Man there was lots and lots of food and you could choose what ever you wanted to eat and you could go as much to those food-tables as you wanted. I went back every time to those tables, sometimes to get a nice fish and sometimes to get a nice ice-cream…..... mmmmmm....so great man!

After awhile Ruud and Femke and the children also arrived and we all had a nice dinner. After dinner we gave Grandpa and Grandma their present. We had made a very large bride and groom basket with in it 50 presents for all the years they are married. Grandpa and Grandma loved it!

The present we gave Grandpa and Grandma....

After the present we have been to the cellar of the hotel where we had a drink.

Here we are in the cellar bar of the hotel......

Saterday morning we had a delicious breakfast, there was so much to eat that it was imposable to try everything… .. mmmmm.... it was all great.

After the breakfast there was a guided tour around the park. It was a pity I could not follow the guide it was all in German I couldn’t understand a word of it. I however, did see the cooling tower (photograph 1) from the inside which was pretty cool man, there was a great echo in there!

The cooling tower from the inside... it's completely empty now...

The upper part of the tower seen from the inside of the tower…......

After the visit to the tower I have been with Kim, Roy and Michiel to the theme park and we went in the roller coaster more than 6 times, that’s so cool man!

Here are Dad and Grandma leaving the tower and here you’ll have a very nice view over the entire park.

Here we are all in the roller coaster; I’m sitting in the second carriage with the dark pullover on.... Man that went fast!

Afterwards are we went racing… man that went fast. Here I’m in the I first car.

After that we watched Ruud and Roy they went drag racing. Those racecars go so fast man they go from 0 to 63 miles per hour in 3 seconds and that on a special track. That is so cool man I have never seen that before. You must really drive that car accelerate and change gears by yourself, you really drive a real racecar. To bad that I wasn’t allowed to drive such a car you’ll have to be 15 to do so. Roy was lucky; he just turned 15 a few months ago so he was allowed to drive! Roy did very well; he became first in one race, great eh?

Here Roy in its own racecar just beside his father... Roy won that race....

After the dragrace Michiel, Rand Femke went Quad driving all through the mud......

This photograph was taken by Mom just before we went home and the exit from the theme park.

Man it really was fantastic weekend, much food and drinks the entire day as much as you liked and riding the roller coaster... what a great, great time I had.

Grandpa and Grandma Thanks for the fantastic, great, great weekend, I want to go back there!

But now I’ll go upstairs to bed… must rise at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning, yes just an ordinary school day tomorrow…. bye…see you later!