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December 17, 2005

I should be packing

...but instead I blog. I'm seriously wondering how I'll get all of this stuff home. Hmmm, what can I blog about? Lessee...

Today we went to a baptism for Silvi's daughter Isabelle at the Begijnhof Kapel. The service wasn't in English or Dutch but in French! Poor Karsten. He's been watching Star Wars in Spanish and will be heading off to Norway to try and pick up a few more words for more confusion. I know now that he doesn't know if he should say Santa Claus or Sinterklaas and just wait until we see the Jule Nissa. Poor fella.

I also took Karsten to a puppetshow today, mainly in English. The puppetier was Dutch and there is a certain word that refers too poo poo that Americans think is bad but the Dutch don't. I tried to count every time this Dutch guy said the word sh*t but lost count. All the American parents would giggle but the kids didn't know why.

We had a great time with Nick last weekend. He beat me to the blog post about comparing and contrasting expat experiences. It sounds as if he even has a little more comparing and contrasting with the zulu culture!

Okay, off to try to cram in 3 months worth of build up into 7 small suitcases. Good thing the exchange rate is so bad or we'd really be in trouble.

Posted by jana at December 17, 2005 10:25 AM