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| Ijsbeer |
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| Bokito the aap |
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| At the play back show |
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| The Farewell Dinner |
Sorry for not writing in this sooner. It’s just not a lot happened the first week and the next week was a week long school holiday and then I was moving to my new home with my second host family. So I will give a small recap of what happened the week before the holidays and I will give a full recap on the other two weeks. So on to more exciting things.
Week of 18-24 of Oktober 2010 So the week before the school holidays was along and boring week. Since most of Vwo5 was away in either America or Slovakia. So while they were away, my class were either cancelled or still in progress with the normal curriculum or we just watched a movie. One of the movies I watched was “How I Killed My Mother”. It was made in Canada but spoken in French with Dutch subtitles. Throughout the movie I could only understand a little bit of it. This week I also started field hockey in Hoorn. The team I’m with is 18A-2, this team is more into playing and having fun while playing the game and not just in it to win. Which is something I like about the team. All in all the week was ok it rained whenever I was outside so that was a bad part but even with the rain the week was good.
So The Holiday Week
Maandag 25 Oktober 2010 I got to sleep in till 9:30am after waking up and getting ready I was off to Abbekerk for my Dutch language class. After that I had the rest of the off which was nice.
Dinsday 26 Oktober 2010 Was another lazy day where I slept in late and had lunch with my host Oma and Opa and Marielle and Kyllian after lunch I went on a small journey to find the Oreo cows. These cows are very cute and special since their cookie cows. My cookie cow friends are all black but a large ring of white around the middle of them. Even when they are babies they are cute and short and very chubby. Their like chubby Oreos. The only thing is you can’t dip them in milk. All in all good windy day
Woensdag 27 Oktober 2010 Today my host family the (Van Glijentebeek’s) and I went to the Anna Frank Museum, which was amazing. When you walk in you get this feeling that you can’t talk and while you go through all the old rooms you and hear the floors creek. After the Anna Frank Museum we went to the zoo in Rotterdam called Diergaarde Blijdorp which I think it was my first time going to a zoo like that. I just loved seeing all the animals. I think so far in my journey here in the Netherlands I don’t think I have ever taken so many photos as I did here at the zoo.
Donderdag 28 Oktober 2010 Today I got to rest from all that we did the day before. I also had plans to go hangout with a friend but they had to cancel so I watched Jack Ass the movie with Kyllian my host brother and his friends. The movie kind of made me think of some of my friends back home but they never did thing that crazy.
Vrijdag 29 Oktober 2010 Today I help my friends Issabelle with here Halloween party which was fun we carved pumpkins and backed cookies and what not. I do have to say having a Halloween party is not a normal thing. The Dutch people don’t really celebrate Halloween like we do back in Canada or the U.S.A. Today I also cooked for my host family here in De Weere . I cooked Poutine which went well.
Zaterdag 30 Oktober 2010 Today was the day that I Skyped with my family back in my home town Summerland. Today also was the day that the Halloween party was on. In the morning I helped with setting up and cooking. After all the cooking was done I went back home to De Weere and was able to talk to my family which was nice since I miss them and my animals. After dinner I went to the party it was fun since I don’t drink anymore I got to watch watch everyone in a different state of mind. I also met a rebound who went to Canada 2 years ago which was nice. After the party I stayed at Issabelle house to help and help clean up.
Zonderdag 31 Oktober 2010 Today I helped clean up and then went home to relax and get ready for school the next day
So this is now the week after the holidays not much happened till the weekend but it was still a good week.
Maandag 1st November 2010 Today I had one class and then I biked to Abbekerk for my Dutch Language lesson. After I went home and Started the sad and boring journey of packing my crap up to go to my next host family in Bovenkarspel-Grootebroek. My Packing job that day wasn’t a lot. He He
Dinsdag 2nd November 2010 Today was a kind of good day since French was cancelled but in Gym were starting tennis and I suck really badly at tennis so it didn’t really work out. But I did wish that we could play try to hit the climbers. Since our class was broken into 2 group one was climbing and the other was playing tennis and well I thought it would help our aim but them again not could help my aim. Well later in gym I did hit a climber but he was close to the ground when I hit him but he fell and landed on his butt. I felt so sorry but it was still entertaining.
Woensadag 3rd Novemeber 2010 Today nothing big happened it was a normal ok day. Went to school came home drew and then had dinner and had a shower.
Donderdag 4th November 2010 Today was a good day I worked on my Hippie presentation and tried a field hockey skirt but it was to small but that’s ok. Today I also went to field hockey since I didn’t go Dinsdag and it went well I met more people which is nice.
Vrijdag 5th November 2010 today was a good day I only had to be at school till 11am then I went to the old part of Hoorn and bought some stuff that I need and some candy the I really didn’t need. Today also was the play back show which was fun but really loud. The play Back show is were kids have a song and then they have to make a dance to it and then show it to the judges and see who wins.
Zaterdag 6th November 2010 Today I woke up late and had to finish packing and cleaning my room so it looks like the way went I arrived. It took most of the day to pack since I hate packing . for the cleaning part I just dusted and vacuumed which didn’t take long. After that I gave my host family here in De Weere their gift which they liked. After that we went out for a farewell dinner which was wonderful and the gifts that I received from everyone meant so much to me. After dinner Luuk , Anouk and I went to a birthday party for one of the Rotary member and it was nice but the music was to loud but other then that they played some good songs. After that we went home and went to bed.
Zonderdag 7th November 2010 today was the day that I moved to Bovenkarspel-Grootebroek to my new family. It was a sad time as well as kind of scary and nerve racking. The day went ok I got un packed and fond out how to get to school and how to get home. The day went by pretty fast it ended with us watching Mama Mia.
