Nairobi, Kenya - 18th February 2009
By: Tine1969
After a long day at school we went to the pool on top of the hotel. This was the right thing after a hot and dusty day in the slums. It was really calm and we all rested...
Mandarin
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Posted Mar 30, 2009, 4:07 pm
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Thika, Kenya - 19th February 2009
By: Tine1969
Today we went to Thika, a smaller city not too far from Nairobi. After visiting a former student we went to the Thika waterfall which was wonderful.
Mandarin
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Posted Mar 30, 2009, 4:12 pm
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Nairobi, Kenya - 20th February 2009
By: Tine1969
Our last day in Kenya - our last day in the hotel. This was the view from our balcony.
We spent the whole day in the school again. This time the sponsored children of class 3 drew pictures for their sponsors. The children were happy to see us - and we love them too.
Bye, bye Africa...
Mandarin
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Posted Mar 30, 2009, 4:19 pm Last edited Apr 10, 2009, 6:05 pm by Tine1969
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Bedburg, close to Cologne, Germany - 7th March 2009
By: Tine1969
Back in Germany - it was cold, raining every day and we had been sick for a longer time... what a pity!
On the first sunny day we went on a walk to the mill of Grottenherten.
Mandarin
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Posted Apr 10, 2009, 6:57 pm
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Magdeburg, Germany - 21st March 2009
By: Tine1969
Time for a trip again - Tine took us to Magdeburg for the weekend and I enjoyed every minute.
At first we went to a small park close to the cathedral. Then we wanted to see the river Elbe. We had a great walk on the river promenade - during this wak we stopped at a funny monument. There were clocks with different times on this monument. My time was the time of the river Jangtsekiang in China.
Before we went back home again, we visited a special bridge sponsored by some inhabitants of Magdeburg - each of them is mentioned on a star.
Mandarin
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Posted Apr 10, 2009, 7:33 pm
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Tangermünde, Germany - 22nd March 2009
By: Tine1969
On Sunday we went to Tangermünde by car. It took about one hour - then we arrived in a small town close to the river Elbe. We visited the old part of the town and had a walk on the promenade near the river. At the end we went to a playground and had fun with the stoney donkeys.
Mandarin
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Posted Apr 12, 2009, 5:25 pm Last edited Apr 12, 2009, 5:31 pm by Tine1969
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Magdeburg, Germany - 23rd March 2009
By: Tine1969
On Monday it was time for leaving again. But before we left Magdeburg we walked to the Hundertwasser House. This house is really special, it doesn't look like a normal house - look at the photo if you don't believe me...
On our way back to the car we saw a funny monument and other things.
Mandarin
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Posted Apr 12, 2009, 5:30 pm
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Bedburg, close to Cologne, Germany - 1st April 2009
By: Tine1969
Wow - Number 5 arrived - and we all welcomed Lady...
Mandarin
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Posted Apr 10, 2009, 8:06 pm
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Bedburg, close to Cologne, Germany - 1st April 2009
By: Tine1969
The weather was sunny when Lady arrived. Therefore we showed her the nature around her new home - we started with the plan of the lake and the paths around it. Then - of course - we went to lake. Tine took the first and also the last group photos of us, because at the end of the morning Marky and I left the group and went to our new host.
Mandarin
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Posted Apr 12, 2009, 6:11 pm
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Bovensmilde, The Netherlands - 2nd April 2009
By: Avalance
Hi mom!
Today I arrived with HitchaRideMarky at host-mom Avalance here in the Netherlands!
She lives in this small place called Bovensmilde. She lives there with her boyfriend and his parents. Until they found their own house. Right now it's not so easy to find a good house with all the crisis around. OH WELL!
From the left to the righ you see Mr. Bunny from the USA, HitchaRideMarky, me and Percy also from the USA
It's going to be really exciting as my first trip will be going to Germany!
*wooohooo*
~Mandarin
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Posted Apr 8, 2009, 8:26 pm
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Arnhem / Oberhausen, The Netherlands / Germany - 4th April 2009
By: Avalance
My first trip was going to Germany! Host-mom took all of us with her on her shopping trip to Germany at this huge mall called Centr-O.
Here you see from left to right: Bambi & Nutty (they stay in the car of host-moms friend and protect it!), HitchaRideMarky, me, Percy and Mr. Bunny!
We surely had a lot of fun!
Here you see me in the huge mall Centr-O.
~Mandarin
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Posted Apr 8, 2009, 8:52 pm Last edited Apr 8, 2009, 8:53 pm by Avalance
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Bovensmilde, The Netherlands - 10th April 2009
By: Avalance
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Posted Apr 17, 2009, 8:10 pm Last edited Apr 17, 2009, 8:11 pm by Avalance
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Groningen, The Netherlands - 14th April 2009
By: Avalance
On this day host-mom had to go to Uni for a meeting. We had to go by train. When she go to uni, she first needs to take the bus to go to the trainstation Assen, then she waits there for the train to Groningen. In Groningen she has to take a bus again to get to Uni. This takes over an hour of travelling.
The pictures that you see are taken when we were going home again in the afternoon. Waiting in Groningen still.
When I looked outside the window, there was another train waiting as well, it got nice sports pictures on it.
As you see the interior of the train is brown and orange (probably these colors because of their country color)
LOL! This is 2nd class, there is also 1st class, they got other seats. We cannot sit there. As host-mom got student-pass so she is only allowed to sit 2nd class.
I think it's still pretty neat don't you think ^_^ ?!
~Mandarin
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Posted Apr 17, 2009, 8:21 pm
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Assen, The Netherlands - 17th April 2009
By: Avalance
Yesterday was host-mom's birthday, she didn't celebrated her birthday. Nothing was planned and didn't know. But we said to eachother (me HitchaRideMarky and Mr. Bunny) that when Mr. Bunny is leaving, we'll have a surprise for her! Still **happy birthday to you dear host-mom**!
On this free day we went to town to go to the Deercamp in Assen.
It's like a mini animal park, but only with deers and here and there some ducks.
This is the deer statue of the camp.
And these are of course the cool deers!
And here are the ducks
We all had a great talk! The ducks, deers, HitchaRideMarky and me. Mr. Bunny already had seen them so he watched over us so nothing would happen to us. Don't they look so cute ^_^ ?! Hahaha!
Later that day, we went to the carwash, because host-mom is going home this weekend to visit her parents with her boyfriend (then the car needs to look good, *grin*). They will go out for a dinner for her birthday. She's like curious what she'll be getting from her family. Haha! Oh and she got a new bag from her boyfriend. Isn't that sweet?!
We are entering the carswash can you see how dirty the car was?
Here are we all 3 sitting and enjoying the carwash, hahaha!
Have you ever thought we would go into a carwash? LOL! But it was really funny, because we had some jokes to tell to eachother. Some of us bursted in tears. It was really a silly joke. Would you like to hear? Hehehe
~Mandarin
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Posted Apr 17, 2009, 8:45 pm Last edited Apr 17, 2009, 8:47 pm by Avalance
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Arnhem, The Netherlands - 18th April 2009
By: Avalance
Today we are in Arnhem. Arnhem is located in the Province Gelderland, and is in the south east of the Netherlands.
We first had a lunch in town and went to visit host-mom's brother. He lives near the water, but he don't got a home near the water as you see on this picture. We thought it was a nice place to make a picture.
So here you see me at the bridge.
And on this picture you see me with Marky, resting on a rock in front of their house on the playground there.
And then later in the afternoon we went to her parents and we saw a strange something sitting on front of their neighbour's front portch!
It's a tradition or so when you hit 50 years old "Sara", you'll get this. Family / friends make a doll for you so everyone can see that you hit the 50's !!!
~Mandarin
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Posted May 19, 2009, 7:33 pm
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