by Clarissa | Feb 8, 2016 | dutch life, family
Dutch will be the language of my children’s education. They will do exams in Dutch and their proficiency in that, as well as the subject, will determine which secondary school and then university they will go to. I do find this quite intimidating and I switch...
by Clarissa | Feb 1, 2016 | dutch life, family
…is obviously Italian! I am enjoying being a member of a wind band here in the Netherlands, and I’ve now been playing with them for over a year. And this blog post has been in my mind for nearly that long! I used to play in two orchestras and a wind...
by Clarissa | Jan 25, 2016 | family
Last year I created a series of activities for the children to do every day of Sinterklaas and advent. And this year we did the same, so here is a list of what we did as I’m trying to catch up with all the things I want to blog about: Sunday Nov 15th – go...
by Clarissa | Jan 18, 2016 | dutch life
We’re settling into life here now – I’ve joined an orchestra, started doing yoga & go to church every now and again (that’s another reason to improve the Dutch). Rocket boy has started school & starry girl is about to start preschool,...
by Clarissa | Jan 11, 2016 | family
…when the grass is jewelled. I started writing this a while ago and like the pictures so am publishing it despite it being out of date now 🙂 I don’t know if autumn has been particularly stunning this year, or it’s just the first in a while when...
by Clarissa | Nov 15, 2015 | dutch life
I’m not a coffee drinker now living in a country of coffee drinkers. This has caused a few amusing moments! At our house-warming party last year the coffee I made was described as “coffee-ish”! We had a small building project done earlier in the year...
