In March I had a 4 day trip to Spain for school. That was the week Holland had warm weather. I was looking forward to sun in Spain... but we got rain and it wasn't all that warm. I still enjoyed my time there though. Girona is a neat, charming city. I finally had a chance to practice some Spanish and by the time the trip was over I was answering everyone with 'Sí' instead of 'ja' haha!
Richard has been working hard at a project for the goverment and is looking forward to summer vacation! I will be finishing up my second year of school here in a few weeks and, well... I'm always looking forward to vacation!
I had an interview for an internship/practicum at a high school here for next year, and they chose me for the spot! In the coming month I will get to meet the people I will be working with and one of the students I will be supporting.
April 30th was koninginnedag (queen's day) again! We didn't go to Amsterdam this year because the city council doesn't allow the big concert that we always went to at museumplein anymore! The weather was beautiful that day though, so we headed up north with Richard's sister (Bianca), her husband (Marcel) and baby (Jip) to hike around in the dunes at Schoorl.
Last year we bought a groupon deal with some friends for an airsoft adventure game day in Liége Belgium. We finally used it last weekend. We weren't sure what to expect at first because when we originally bought it we thought it was for paintballing. It ended up being soooo much fun!! We all had to put army gear on and we got some heave duty guns. There were multiple groups and 2 teams were made from the groups. We were the rebels and the other group was the national troops. We played out several missions throughout the day. The setting was awesome (but actually pretty unsafe if you think about it).. it was an old broken down village-like place where windows were broken out everywhere, broken walls and cielings, manholes in the ground that you had to watch out for etc. It was at the end of an airport runway, so we heard airplanes flying close overhead and the sound of our airsoft machine guns. At the end of the day the score was tied 2-2 for missions won. I still have a red spot on my leg from being shot on the first mission haha!
Here are some recent pictures!
Here are some recent pictures!
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| We went out to a dance cafe with the students on our last night in Girona. It was funny because the highlight of the evening was not dancing and music, but... BINGO hosted by these rumba boys! haaha! It was entertaining for a while, but it took forever and we just ended up heading back to the hostel after a while. The Dutch students were determined to show them what a 'real' party night out is like when they came to Holland. |
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| Traveling transavia to Spain... |
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| Taking off and going up with the sun. I had to be at the airport at 4.30am!! |
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| Girona by night. |
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| Girona by day. |
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| Our hostel |
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| View from the bridge crossing in to historic old Girona |
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| Waiting for the train at Barcelona airport |
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| One of the nicer days. |
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| One of the presentations from a social worker at a foundation for youth |
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| Lunch in Spain is like dinner at 2pm.. real dinner is at 8pm or later! The youth learning culinary skills to use in the job market made our lunch. YUM! |
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| The romanesque Girona Cathedral |
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| Potluck dinner provided by Girona Uni. students |
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| Some of the crazy students from the social education program @ Girona Uni. |
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| Heading into Barcelona for the day! |
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| Sitting near the port in Barcelona... lots of walking around that day! |
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| A stand inside the market in Barcelona. Everything was so organized and pretty! |
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| Playing on the lions at one of the monuments :P |
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| Richard taking our nephew Jip (pronounced Yip) for a ride up the super long staircase at the dunes. |
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| That's a lot of stairs! Go Jip! |
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| Run for it, mommy's coming! He is getting so big! |
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| With my love at the look out and brownie break :) |
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| Baby in a tree! |
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| The 5 of us at another look out point near the end of the hike. It was a perfect day and Marcel and Bianca treated us to patat to top it off :D |
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| Richard ready to take his kite-buggy out for a run! |
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| A couple weekends ago we headed down to Brussels for the weekend. Here is Richard with Manneke Pis! |
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| A real, warm, fresh Belgian sugar waffle with warm dark chocolate, strawberries and whipped cream SOOO YUM! |
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| Can't leave Belgium without the Bonbons! |
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| Airsoft group! |
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| I didn't do it! |
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| Yeah... we're tough! |
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| These two are supposed to be getting married in August.. Not a good sign if they are ready to shoot each other already!! haha |
Well, that's all for now!!
