Update No. 2

Oh let's see where to begin. Well, I'm super busy here, haha. I have something to do basically every day. I'm doing volunteer work at an elementary school and now there is an American boy in the class that I'm helping with. He's a cutie, but a bit quiet. I copy lots of papers and help out in the class. The kids are really nice and if I don't understand something they explain it. The other day I did an art project with the kids, haha. We made a soccer player with a soccer ball for a head, it was really cute. I got my hair cut too! It's pretty short, but really easy to do! Yesterday, Harmen and I went to Den Haag, where Parliament is in the Netherlands. We saw government buildings and where the Queen lives. We also went into a large church, that was no longer used as a church, and there was an exhibition "Stop Child Labor". That was pretty interesting, but I was more interested in seeing the parts that were actually of the church. The weather here is pretty crazy. Today it was sunny, and then all of a sudden for 5 minutes it was pouring down rain and very windy, then it was sunny again. Since I've been here, I've read 6 books.....all in Dutch, haha....the Shopoholic series and a couple other books (Romantic books, there is always love in them!) Haha, it's like watching a chick flick, but instead I'm reading it.
I think almost every day we eat potatoes with dinner, but they're always delicious. :) Haha, I still don't have pictures to put on the site, because my laptop battery is dead. But I'm going to charge it tonight, so hopefully later tonight or tomorrow I'll try to put some pictures up. Well, I've got to go now. I hope everything is going alright there!

Hello! Long time no update! :) Haha......oops! I never have been very good about keeping up to date. I've been in the netherlands now for 3 weeks and one day! Life is a routine. Monday and Tuesday mornings I help out at an elementary school with Group 5 (8/9 year olds). Wednesdays are mainly random things and Thursday I go the whole day to the elementary school and Friday usually in the afternoon. Luckily, school doesn't start until 8:45, but I have to bike about 20 minutes to get there :) It's really amazing here! I don't really have any pictures yet to add, that'll come later :) I've gone shopping a lot too, haha :) Who can resist? Oh yeah! I celebrated my birthday in the Netherlands! It was crazy, the whooooole day people came, but it was really fun! :) Sitting around drinking coffee, talking, everything plus tons of presents :)

Marloes (the sister from Harmen) and I also babysat 2 of their cousins, it was fun! We stayed the night, so after the kids went to sleep we watched a chick flick, hehe, hooray for girls' nights!

Well, I think that is all I have to report for now. More will come later :) I'll try better to update once a week. Oh! One more thing, Harmen, Rutger, Paula and I are going to Germany in July for 10 days! Hoorah, vacation! Okay, now, I will update later (in more or less a week) :) Bye! :D