by Clarissa | Jan 23, 2018 | dutch life, family
In a previous post I talked about language learning, specifically learning Dutch. About juggling a home language and a community language. But the reality is that there’s always some cross-over. English is so prevalent, and the Dutch generally so proficient at...
by Clarissa | Jan 16, 2018 | dutch life, family |
So with starry girl about to start school I thought it was a good opportunity to think about the differences between preschool child health care in the UK versus the Netherlands. Though I guess I’m really comparing what happened in the two cities we’ve...
by Clarissa | Jan 9, 2018 | writing
Well, I amazed myself with what I managed to write last year. I wrote nearly 114 thousand words, which is an average of 312 a day. That is over twice what I aimed for at the beginning of the year. And I wrote every day: holidays, visitors and Christmas...
by Clarissa | Jan 1, 2018 | family, personal, writing |
As in previous years I’ve been thinking alot in the last few weeks of what I’ve acheived in this year and what I want to do in 2018. Looking back My goals for 2017 were: Dutch exams write every day time with family every day proactive The two big things...
by Clarissa | Dec 28, 2017 | family |
Again we have had our stockings hanging on the wall for Sinterklaas and advent, with an activity to do every day. Here is what we’ve done this year: Sat 18 Sinterklaas arrive Sun 19 See Sinterklaas in Bussum, put shoes out Mon 20 smile at everyone today and look...
