by Clarissa | Mar 11, 2018 | dutch life, family
Last week was a football tournament between a number of local schools. In about November rocket boy came home from school with a letter asking if he wanted to sign up for this. But it didn’t really explain how it worked or when it would be. I guess they assumed...
by Clarissa | Mar 9, 2018 | dutch life, personal, writing
My post on doing the NT2 exams is now published on the Amsterdam Mamas website.
by Clarissa | Mar 9, 2018 | dutch life, family
When rocket boy first started school I wondered why there were a series of small depressions across the school playground, along the edge of the buildings. The answer is that they’re for playing marbles (or knikkers in Dutch – I couldn’t resist the...
by Clarissa | Mar 5, 2018 | personal
For the last month I’ve been receiving daily emails about living a creative life, These were organised by Meghan Genge and Jamie Ridler and they called this series “Love Leters from Trail Makers”. This was 32 messages from different women who work in...
by Clarissa | Mar 2, 2018 | dutch life, family |
Rocket boy is now starting to learn how to do joined-up writing. He’s so excited about it, and does the hooks and flicks on the top and bottom of each letter with such care. I have to be careful not to tell him the right way to do it, as I know that not all the...
