by Clarissa | Apr 1, 2018 | dutch life, writing |
A is for Appel Standard alphabet learning isn’t it! But there’s also aardappel – literally earth apple, or potato; and sinasappel – orange, though I’m not sure what sinaas means.
by Clarissa | Mar 26, 2018 | personal, Tech |
The middle of last year I started a bullet journal, and now I don’t know how I lived without it! I use it as a planner, to-do-list, scheduler, habit tracker, and to keep track of what I’ve done. You can buy special dotted notebooks to use as a bullet...
by Clarissa | Mar 23, 2018 | dutch life |
Earlier this week were the elections for local Councils here in The Netherlands. A few weeks before the day we get a long list of all the candidates. These are split by party, and ordered by each party. So we had a list of 210 candidates across 10 parties for 31...
by Clarissa | Mar 19, 2018 | dutch life, writing |
This year I’m going to take part in the A-Z blog challenge. So for every day in April (except Sundays) I will be posting something related to each letter of the alphabet. And each post will be able one (of more) Dutch words that start with that letter. These...
by Clarissa | Mar 16, 2018 | dutch life, family |
At the school my children go to one of the local judo schools come in to give lessons. And I think they do the same in a number of schools in the area. With the emphasis on teaching the children social skills. Judo has at its core the idea of respect for each other...