Not Enough!

We sure could use more vacation time. I am definitely not ready to go back to school tomorrow! Amélie says she isn't either, but Abigail wants to see her friends again. For the girls, it is about time. We had a really good week together. Played some games, got plenty of things done, even rested a little bit.

Yesterday we went to Leiden to visit one of my former students from Rotterdam and her parents. Her mom is Chinese, a tax lawyer who quit her job a few months ago. She is thinking about starting up her own businesses now, and one idea she has is to bring groups of Chinese students here who want to study in the West to give them a feel for what life would be like. She wants Naomi and I to give them some lessons so that they can see how different school would be. Hopefully we can give it a try some time this year, and if things work out, it sure would be a nice boost to our incomes!

The girls learned a little bit about computers this week. I gave them a short explanation of how some of the keys worked on a keyboard (shift, delete, return, space) and from that they started typing sentences. Pretty fun to see! Here is Abigail's first email; she sent it to Grandpa:

Abigail types: FRAM DADDY YOU AR GRAF Too GrampA SED WITH DLEPTAP I MAN DADDYZ LAPTAP EN I DNO SAMBATINS ANDU

Translation: From Daddy. You are a giraffe. To Grandpa. Sent with the laptop. I mean Daddy's laptop and I do know some buttons to do.

Abigail drew her seal, again. They both love to draw!