Zwarte Piets

While I was off playing piano at CYM (center for young musicians) Daddy and Ashlynn were playing Zwarte Piets at Daddy's Sinterklaas party. 

Mini zwarte piet on the right.....

Prezzis!!!

Happy Sinterklaas

Thanksgiving Dinner

A year or two ago, we got invited over to David and Andrew's house for Thanksgiving dinner, so we decided that we should invite them over on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
We ate...
Turkey
Broccoli
Cranberry Sauce - YUMMY!
Mashed potatoes
Sweet potatoes
Pumpkin Pie

Yummy yummy!!

Redesigning the World

As many of you already know, I entered into a writing competition. The theme was redesigning the world. Mine was in the top 10!!

 On Thanksgiving Ashlynn and I got off school early and took a train to Amsterdam for the award ceremony. I knew that I was getting one book - for being in the top ten - but I didn't know that I would be getting 5 books, 50 euros worth of book spending money and a lunch with an publisher. I was 2nd!! Out of over 100 entries!!!

Halloween

I went Trick-O-Treating with Lauren, Adelina and Ziyoda.

Yummy! 

I was a Greek princess.

Cruising the Town

As usual we got about an hour to do whatever we wanted to do in the city center. I walked around with Lizzy, Ellie, Adelina, Nora, and Ziyoda. We ended up eating at a Belgian equivalent to Burger King. 

I got pasta. 

My group - Yang, Me, Amelia, Ziyoda, Nora, Adelina, Lizzy.
Mayu, Hannah, Ellie, Emilia

Ellie and Lizzy next to a big church like thing
:)

Splash, splosh

Some photos of the trenches......

The trenches, reconstructed, but we could see shell holes - where shells exploded and made holes in the ground

Very dark tunnel we went into - we couldn't see anything! Think how it would be to live in here!

In some places the water was 20 cm deep 

Ellie and Lizzy

Trenches

For those of you that don't know lots about WW1, the trench system was made in the Western Front. The trenches were on opposite sides of No Mans Land. And basically, if you went 'over the top' (over the top of the trenches) you would get shot down by the enemy. 

The conditions in the trenches were horrible - muddy, wet, stinky, muddy, dirty, rat infested, muddy. You get the point. 

Ellie and Lizzy's boots

Into the reconstructed trenches we went. We had to bring rubber boots so that we wouldn't get muddy feet.

Amelia, Emile, Lizzy and Elli

p.s. Happy New Year everyone!