Simon is born!

Dear Blog! Another good news!

My niece Natalie and her husband Jo had a son on Friday 17th of October 2008!!

It's their first child and it's the fourth grandchild for my uncle Ludwig. That means it's our family fourth grand-grand children! (I think it's called that way!). He is named Simon and is born 3 weeks early.

A huge congratulations from me and my family for our newborn nephew and his happy parents!!

*~.~*Congratulation Jo & Natalie!*~.~*

With the birth of your first son: Simon

Ps: Jo and Natalie were the couple who were married last year here in Deinze!

Ilnesses and jobs!

Dear Blog,

It has been a little while! And in the meantime I had a little job! Yayayaya! Last thursday and friday I had the chance to go work in the Sint Vincentius Basisschool at Zwijnaarde. (Near Ghent) It looked like a small school, but after asking there were almost 400 students! I had the class of Mrs Marianna, who was sick. (soar throat). I had to take over all classes and 'lessons'. On thursday I had quite an easy day. The children had sports, and then watched tv. In the afternoon we looked at a rabbit brought by Britt's mother. I went with all my children to Mrs Grietje her class. On friday I had the whole day of play and lessons. I had a real blast! It was so cool, but so very short.

I hope to get a call from them very soon!

btw: You know.. now I have a soar throat! And it hurts like hell.. My appointment with the dentist has to be cancelled.. Damn it.

love..
xx
Sara

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Dear Blog,..
Just a quick note to say I have PASSED my theoratical part of my drivers license!!! YAY! After postponing so many times, I finally managed to get to Sint - Denijs - Westrem where the test took place. I got an 49/50! The rules say you have to get at least a 41.. Yaaay me! I'm very very happy.. Mic was with me and he was thrilled as well!!

Anyone out there (Belgians and Dutch people) you can really find very very very good info and courses on this site: http://www.gratisrijbewijsonline.be/ (the Netherlands rules are on there as well!) It's very good, and you can make plenty of test exams on there too. I really recommend this to you!

Gooo *me* (in a car :P)

Soon.. soon..

love..

xxSara

Some laughs with traffic? Here you go! :P

'And Winter Came' A new album by Enya.

Hello everyone,..

This post all about Enya and her new album. I would like to announce this new Album on this blog as well, (and if you look at my earlier post you can find some info about her previous album 'Amarantine'.

First of all:

* The titel of this album is: 'And Winter Came'.

* Releasedate: In Belgium/ the Netherlands on the 7th of November. In the most parts of the world on the 10th/11th of November.

(Guess who's gonna be the first one at our local musicshop? :P)

* The tracklisting:

(as announced on Enya.com)

*~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~*
1. And Winter Came
2. Journey of the Angels
3. White is in the Winter Night
4. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Latin)
5. Trains and Winter Rains
6. Dreams are More Precious
7. Last Time by Moonlight
8. One Toy Soldier
9. Stars and Midnight Blue
10. The Spirit of Christmas Past
11. My! My! Time Flies!
12. Oíche Chiúin (Chorale)

It looks like this album will have a sort of wintery atmosphere. And Oiche Chiùn will be again on this album, but somewhat changed I hope.

* On the 29th of September 2008 the first single 'Trains and winter rains' is aired on the Terry Wogan show.
--> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/wogan/ (click on 'Listen again' - Monday and when the mediaplayer opens, put the arrow on 1.44.05 (Just like Amarantine aired 3 years ago!)

* An 'onofficial' singlecover has turned up: The single will also be released on the 10th of November. (see at Wikipedia)

A lot of promotional shots has turned up as well.. Keep an eye on it, they're just beautiful! :) For further information please check : www.enya.com

xx Sara

My day..

Dear Blog,

I've been very busy lately, with the whole studying for my drivers - license thing. It looks like I still need more practice, it's not that easy!

But now i'm hear to tell you about my birthday a couple of days ago.. I turned 23 on the 24th of September. Looks old hé!.. Well, I feel so too, but luckely that has faded away :)

Michael had allready set up a plan for me, he was going to kidnap me to a unknown place,.. The only thing of the day he did revealed was the chocolate bar, that we were going to do in the late afternoon. But first we had to take the train to somewhere.. I was really burning of excitement and curiousity. I don't like such surprise I don't know about.. LOL..

But then.. Early on wednesdaymorning we left for the trainstation, it was also Mic's only day of from all of the moving and stuff. We took the train to Gent, presumed it was going to be a day in Gent! But no.. Mic didn't say one thing and we took another train to Ostend! That was the surprise, we were going to the Northsea! :) Yay.. That was very nice!

When we were there we strolled around a lot, went to lots of shops and saw a lot of things.. In the afternoon we went to our second surprise, a little restaurant near the docks. It was there he was invited as well to a bachelorparty. It was a nice restaurant called 'El Mariachi'.
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A Mexican restaurant! We treated ourselves with a bit cocktail Margarita (and it's was huge). We took the first course, something with cheese, chicken and potatoes and after that we had the main course with lamb and cheese. It was d-e-l-i-c-i-o-u-s! It was very good, it was cosy, we had some nice Mexican music and there wasn't too much people. Then suddenly the lights went off and everything died,.. there was a small problem with the electricity in the neighbourhood. Thankfully we were finished allready, payed and took off. We strolled again in the shoppingstreets and walked around at the sea. The weather was a tiny bit cold and there was no sun unfortunatly. By the time we left Ostend it was allreay 5ish and we went to Gent.. the weather was clearing up! It was now very sunny in Ostend!

I got many phonecalls and textmessages.. But I was more excited about our next stop.. LOL.. The chocolate bar in Gent.. I was so excited the previous days I had 2 dreams about it.. Unbelieveble right? :P.. I was getting a bit tired allready, and we took the tram to get closer. Unfortunatly we took the wrong tram and went somewhere completely else! :S.. But the tramdriver was very nice and took us back because she needed to go that way to park her tram at the tramstation.

So.. it was about 7.30ish, we finally reached the chocolatebar.. There were a lot of people walking around, mostly students and we were afraid we didn't had any place anymore.. I was also thinking some others could be there to surprise me! My first thought about the bar was that is was really small, I had something bigger in mind, that because I visited their page and it looked just better and bigger really! But nonetheless, it was very good!! We had the doublechocolate fondue and a really big and yummy brownie, on top a very good chocolate shake.. It was terrific and very good...
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Then afterwards we visited the Kinepolis to go to the movies, but we were too late unfortunatly.. Instead we went on Friday..

This day was just superb! It was one of (I think the best one ever) the best birthday's I ever got. Thank you very much Mic, for this nice B-day.. And prepore for your own day.. I'll be doing something cool too :D.. *starts off planning something on the 14th of March!)
And for now, enjoy this video of our pictures of that day.

The rest of the week we cleaned out the house were Mic used to live, I spend the last night there with him and started off the first night in their new house! :D.. It's really sad they had to move out. I helped a couple of times in September, from cleaning to painting :) I really should clean MY bedroom.. It's a complet and utterly mess!..

Then on friday we went to the movies (Kinepolis Gent) and watched 'The Dark Knight'.. We wanted to see it really, and it's one of the last days I think. I didn't think it was that good,. but Mic really enjoyed it!! :)
I exeptionally wanted to see Heath Ledger to play the roll of the Joker,.. and I think he really did a good job at it. He's soooo mean and sadistic. The batman was too me quite annoying,.. with his too-low-for-speaking-voice. (but as Bruce he was better :P)

PS: I'm thinking about quitting the 'song of the month' posts.. Do you think that's a good idea?