by Clarissa | Dec 13, 2017 | dutch life, personal
Last week I found out that I passed my re-take of the Dutch NT2-2 exam. So I have now completed the qualification. My First New Year’s Resolution completed for 2017! Doing the exam the second time around I knew what to expect and I used the time better. The...
by Clarissa | Dec 4, 2017 | dutch life, family
I love the idea of Sinterklaas and that it is endemic in dutch life. It is literally everywhere and there is an annual national tv series about his visit here. It airs daily for the month or so leading up to his arrival and during his stay in the Netherlands. It...
by Clarissa | Nov 21, 2017 | dutch life, family |
Since moving to the Netherlands we’ve had to negotiate how to include Dutch into our family life. Or whether we want to at all. Obviously we are a British family, and our main language is English, but in order to integrate better here we were keen to all learn...
by Clarissa | Nov 11, 2017 | dutch life, family
The Netherlands don’t celebrate Armistice on the 11th November. I guess because they were neutral during the First World War, so the date isn’t so relevant to them. (They do celebrate Liberation Day in May to celebrate the end of Nazi occupation.) Instead...
by Clarissa | Nov 6, 2017 | dutch life, family
For rocket boy’s first two years at school I volunteered to be one of the class parents. When I did it I wasn’t entirely sure what I was getting myself into, but I thought it would be good to get to know other parents at school and to help with my Dutch...
by Clarissa | Oct 19, 2017 | family, personal, writing |
There’s been a lot of publicity over the last few days about the prevalence of sexual assault and harassment. Mainly against women, but we are by no means the only victims in this. My Facebook feed has been full of comments saying “Me too” and...
