I found some of the games we used to play when I was still a child, but now on the internet... which is brilliant, yet addictive... remember these?
Yahtzee
Hangman
OXO
The multimedia thing is going out of their borders, on Wednesday night I had to click on a button to become friends with Tom, whom I have known since kindergarten. He accepted the friendship right away, but now I have this schedule; Tom and I are friends since June 27th 2007, now our children won't believe it if I tell them we met when we were about 3 years old. same thing happened with Lies en Jon....tsssssssss
Friday, June 29, 2007
careful
This is the pic of a coffee cup (yep, I am an addict, I admit to it), stating that it's hot....unfortunately "careful" is not translated as "opegpast" ;) OPEG stands for something else if I am not mistaken... ;) But I thought it was cute ;) So I took a subtle picture of it, pretending to be sending a text message, only forgetting that if I don't turn the sound off, the mobile makes a clicking sound, so long for my subtlety ;)
Growing pains
I am finally growing up, well and truly...
I have come to a point where I realise I should really start to make decisions which will need to last through for well... euhm... about the rest of my life.
I know I have talked about the matter that I did not know what I want to be when I grow up... well... I am getting there. Thing is that we have been looking for ways to make our life that tiny bit easier... We have been keeping options open, we have been thinking a lot of things through, like one of us looking for a job closer to home, without the shifts, because they are weighing through a lot now. Better hours, maybe one of us even parttime...
What's most important is that I want one of us to be here when the boys are older and are coming home from school with homework to do, that they can do it with one of us nearby to help them out, to watch them doing what needs to be done, as well as making sure we can eat at more regular times. Nowadays, we often prepare food with Soufyan and Yaesseen knock out on the sofa, then waking them up and sitting at the table with a whining four-year-old and a cranky and whining three-year-old. When they'll be a few years older, this won't be an option though... because it'll be too much for them to do their homework after they are knackered from school and pre- and afterschool care.
Add to that the fact that even though I still enjoy what I do and have the feeling I am good at what I am doing, I really don't see me doing this until my retirement... And the clock is ticking and I have a family depending on these decisions, I don't have a lot of time to mess around, trying to find a job I like better, with the risk of getting unemployed at a certain period and not earn enough to look after them (which is one of my biggest fears, therefore holding me back to take a risk and apply for another job). But with the government that is now coming up (they still haven't made a real new government after the elections yet, but they have an idea), we haven't heard a lot of positive things for our company in the news, which is a bit frightening. I know that I am in a safe spot where I am right now, because they will always need operators on the line to make sure that problems will be fixed, they are more important then sales operators, but still... I am afraid of losing the benefits that are keeping me there in the first place.
That's one of the reasons I called to one of our bosses today, well it's actually the man who organises our work force, asking for my options on working parttime, the shifts, the organisational options (five days a week, working four hours a day, or two days one week, three days the other, working eight hours a day, the weekends, the shifts... etc.). I also informed on the payment, the benefits the union will give me on top of that payment. And that is one of the reasons I have this site open.
Yes sirs, I am thinking about becoming a teacher, I would like to start my studies September 2008, so that I will finish by the time I'll turn 32 and then start a new carreer, by that time Soufyan will be 10, but it also means my parttime work will have started before he starts primary school, so it should work out the way I want. I am still unsure though. I have talked about it with Icky.
However, today I kind of dropped the matter to Soufyan and Yaesseen, who thought it was a joke! :D Soufyan thought I meant going to school with him, and he doesn't want me in his class, he says I am too big for his class, and if I want to do so, I should first be a baby again. I wish it was just as simple as that... I'd love to be a baby again, however today I'd rather not be our baby, since he is really ill, but still, I'd like to do that again, but skip puberty... :D
But in a way it's all exciting, me getting to the point to where I have an idea on what I want to be when I grow up, but it's scary as hell, because there is a lot more to it then just a lot of holidays :D And the fact that I cannot screw up this time is even more scarier. I will be a lot older then most other students, I will probably be the only one with three toddlers in the house, I will be the only one not drinking and not skipping classes, because I had my time doing so, and it didn't work out back then. And I will not allow myself making the same mistake.
I am already getting cold feet and I only started making real plans around all this yesterday, the thought of going back to school has been up for a while, but I am scared, which is good, because I remember me having cold feet when I left for Scotland and look how that turned out (however, I'd like to get out of this experience without turning pregnant ;))
I have come to a point where I realise I should really start to make decisions which will need to last through for well... euhm... about the rest of my life.
I know I have talked about the matter that I did not know what I want to be when I grow up... well... I am getting there. Thing is that we have been looking for ways to make our life that tiny bit easier... We have been keeping options open, we have been thinking a lot of things through, like one of us looking for a job closer to home, without the shifts, because they are weighing through a lot now. Better hours, maybe one of us even parttime...
What's most important is that I want one of us to be here when the boys are older and are coming home from school with homework to do, that they can do it with one of us nearby to help them out, to watch them doing what needs to be done, as well as making sure we can eat at more regular times. Nowadays, we often prepare food with Soufyan and Yaesseen knock out on the sofa, then waking them up and sitting at the table with a whining four-year-old and a cranky and whining three-year-old. When they'll be a few years older, this won't be an option though... because it'll be too much for them to do their homework after they are knackered from school and pre- and afterschool care.
Add to that the fact that even though I still enjoy what I do and have the feeling I am good at what I am doing, I really don't see me doing this until my retirement... And the clock is ticking and I have a family depending on these decisions, I don't have a lot of time to mess around, trying to find a job I like better, with the risk of getting unemployed at a certain period and not earn enough to look after them (which is one of my biggest fears, therefore holding me back to take a risk and apply for another job). But with the government that is now coming up (they still haven't made a real new government after the elections yet, but they have an idea), we haven't heard a lot of positive things for our company in the news, which is a bit frightening. I know that I am in a safe spot where I am right now, because they will always need operators on the line to make sure that problems will be fixed, they are more important then sales operators, but still... I am afraid of losing the benefits that are keeping me there in the first place.
That's one of the reasons I called to one of our bosses today, well it's actually the man who organises our work force, asking for my options on working parttime, the shifts, the organisational options (five days a week, working four hours a day, or two days one week, three days the other, working eight hours a day, the weekends, the shifts... etc.). I also informed on the payment, the benefits the union will give me on top of that payment. And that is one of the reasons I have this site open.
Yes sirs, I am thinking about becoming a teacher, I would like to start my studies September 2008, so that I will finish by the time I'll turn 32 and then start a new carreer, by that time Soufyan will be 10, but it also means my parttime work will have started before he starts primary school, so it should work out the way I want. I am still unsure though. I have talked about it with Icky.
However, today I kind of dropped the matter to Soufyan and Yaesseen, who thought it was a joke! :D Soufyan thought I meant going to school with him, and he doesn't want me in his class, he says I am too big for his class, and if I want to do so, I should first be a baby again. I wish it was just as simple as that... I'd love to be a baby again, however today I'd rather not be our baby, since he is really ill, but still, I'd like to do that again, but skip puberty... :D
But in a way it's all exciting, me getting to the point to where I have an idea on what I want to be when I grow up, but it's scary as hell, because there is a lot more to it then just a lot of holidays :D And the fact that I cannot screw up this time is even more scarier. I will be a lot older then most other students, I will probably be the only one with three toddlers in the house, I will be the only one not drinking and not skipping classes, because I had my time doing so, and it didn't work out back then. And I will not allow myself making the same mistake.
I am already getting cold feet and I only started making real plans around all this yesterday, the thought of going back to school has been up for a while, but I am scared, which is good, because I remember me having cold feet when I left for Scotland and look how that turned out (however, I'd like to get out of this experience without turning pregnant ;))
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Traffic signs in Belgium
just for the record:
"pijpen" = blow job
"kont" = butt
"aars" = arse
"reet" = butt
yep... welcome to Belgium... ;)
The last day of the schoolyear
Friday school will finish early and the afterschool care is closed... so I ended up taking the day off. But I cannot believe how fast that year has gone by... it was already Soufyan's second year at school, and if I think about how little Yaesseen was when I dropped him off for his first day in November 2006, I cannot believe how much he has grown, and I do not mean that in a physical way. But Soufyan has gone even further, it's unbelievable, two of my babies are growing into actual boys...
Tomorrow I have to pass by the school at noon to go talk to their teacher, because I had to work the late shift when there was a teacher-parent meeting thingy on Tuesday, the teacher asked me to drop by to have a talk about our two eldest.
Which will bring me to the following: they have this amazing teacher, called juf Wendy. She is about my age, has a daughter who is only a month younger then Ilyas and what she has done for our boys is well and truly amazing. Last year it didn't go all that well on school for Soufyan, he had a lot of problems with his teacher who couldn't really deal with him. Which ended up in him stepping out of the classroom, slamming the door during his second week at school, aged 2 and a half... But this year he really learned a lot and this teacher really got to him and dealt with him the way he needed. Hats off for her, since she did not only have Soufyan, but Yaesseen as well in her class, as well as 25 other toddlers, I couldn't do it... give me an angry customer any time a day, but don't ask me to quiet down 27 toddlers... I'd be the one stepping out of the classroom, slamming the door and cry... ;)
But yet another schoolyear has flown by, I don't remember them doing so when I was still at school. But it will do our boys a lot of good, because they really need some time off, however two months might be a month too many, but still...
So now they are all going on a summer holiday... but I get the feeling we already had the summer in March, April and May... hopefully there will still be some sun, so they can go outside to play :D
(Nine years from now I will be nagging you about my boys in puberty... yes... reality kicks in... ;) )
Tomorrow I have to pass by the school at noon to go talk to their teacher, because I had to work the late shift when there was a teacher-parent meeting thingy on Tuesday, the teacher asked me to drop by to have a talk about our two eldest.
Which will bring me to the following: they have this amazing teacher, called juf Wendy. She is about my age, has a daughter who is only a month younger then Ilyas and what she has done for our boys is well and truly amazing. Last year it didn't go all that well on school for Soufyan, he had a lot of problems with his teacher who couldn't really deal with him. Which ended up in him stepping out of the classroom, slamming the door during his second week at school, aged 2 and a half... But this year he really learned a lot and this teacher really got to him and dealt with him the way he needed. Hats off for her, since she did not only have Soufyan, but Yaesseen as well in her class, as well as 25 other toddlers, I couldn't do it... give me an angry customer any time a day, but don't ask me to quiet down 27 toddlers... I'd be the one stepping out of the classroom, slamming the door and cry... ;)
But yet another schoolyear has flown by, I don't remember them doing so when I was still at school. But it will do our boys a lot of good, because they really need some time off, however two months might be a month too many, but still...
So now they are all going on a summer holiday... but I get the feeling we already had the summer in March, April and May... hopefully there will still be some sun, so they can go outside to play :D
(Nine years from now I will be nagging you about my boys in puberty... yes... reality kicks in... ;) )
Boombal
There is a new upcoming trend, and it's everywhere these days... and by everywhere, I mean all over Flanders, or it might just be all over Antwerp. Anyway, it's called "boombal", you could literary translate it as "treedance", but that would be wrong as boom in this case stands for the name of a suburb of Antwerp. (I was mistaken by the fact when I was first invited to go to one of them, asking "what the hell do they do on a boombal, do they dance around trees", which was absolutely not true... so again I embarrassed myself within five minutes, I seem to do that a lot :D) (Good thing it was a really loyal friend of mine (Jonathan) who invited me, and who has known me for 11 or 12 years now (damn, time is flying by) and he has seen me at my best and at my worst, so he's not holding it against me)
What it really is... a dance in two parts. The first part takes up to an hour where you get a dance initiation, covering the most common dancesteps. Afterwards folkmusicians will get the audience to dance. It has the image of a regular party with the exception that young as well as old people will dance together on live folk music.
Today I got a flier in the mailbox inviting us all to a real authentic Boombal, here in Lier, in the open air, on Zimmerplein, which is only a four minute walk from our home, on July 11th at 8p.m.. I won't drop a word to Jonathan though, otherwise we'll all have to go there and I don't think we'll be any good, dancing in the open air, in front of all the pubs... ;)
What it really is... a dance in two parts. The first part takes up to an hour where you get a dance initiation, covering the most common dancesteps. Afterwards folkmusicians will get the audience to dance. It has the image of a regular party with the exception that young as well as old people will dance together on live folk music.
Today I got a flier in the mailbox inviting us all to a real authentic Boombal, here in Lier, in the open air, on Zimmerplein, which is only a four minute walk from our home, on July 11th at 8p.m.. I won't drop a word to Jonathan though, otherwise we'll all have to go there and I don't think we'll be any good, dancing in the open air, in front of all the pubs... ;)
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