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Goede middag my friends!
There is not too much to report from this past week...
A Friday morning bike ride. The grey fog lifted its heavy foot after a few hours, the sunshine practically singing "It's a Beautiful Day"!

 

 A store called Hippie! Nuff said... 

Don't worry Mom, I didn't buy anything :) 

Helping a friend paint the window trim of his new house. While we were painting an old man came into the apartment from downstairs, falling in the hall. My friend ended up calling the ambulance, and it was a pretty eventful afternoon!

After which we had the most lekker of lekker dinners... The MacLean's were gone so Val and I made dinner. Bacon, poffertjes (small pancakes with icing sugar and butter), garlic bread and brownie pudding! Two of our painter friends helped us eat it, after all many hands make light work! (Also for cleanup...:) And a game of Spoons  for dessert... a really nice evening. We were just getting ready for bed at 10:30 that night when we received a phone call. Did we want to go to a party with a few of the church kids? Fruitcake, yeah! Off came the pyjamas, and ten minutes later we were calmly waiting at the train station. It was a really good evening, topped by an icecream sundae at 2 am (through the McDonald's Drive-Thru by bicycle!) with a bunch of Dutchies.

And on Saturday night it was a friend's birthday party. We were outside in Tshirts around a campfire, so gezellig!

Also, a noteworthy accomplishment of this past week would be my resolve to learn the Dutch language! I could put a few adjectives before Dutch language, but I will simply control my phlegm impulses without puking or mentioning how gross this language is. Yes, there is SO much phlegm involved, it is well... not so 'civilized' as English :) But most of our social events include listening to 90% Dutch conversation, as well as, of course, sermons are in Dutch. So it would definitely be a worthwhile accomplishment!

Exams are next week, and one girl has a bunch of studying to do! So until next week, tot ziends my friends! (Your welcome, I mercifully gave you the one word in this language without phlegm). Have a vonderful veek!