A

A

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.
My bullet journal

My bullet journal

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...
Voting in The Netherlands

Voting in The Netherlands

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...
A-Z blog challenge

A-Z blog challenge

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...
Judo to teach social skills

Judo to teach social skills

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...

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