Bonjour!

(Bonjour means hello in French)

Why am I talking French on an English blog?

Because I went to the French part of Belgium today.. (Le wallonie, or Wallon) In the providence of Namur (See Namen, the -almost- bottem part of Belgium)

I went there with Mic and Mic's dad on the occasion of Mic's diving training.

It's a place called Platte Taille and it's a huge lake for any diving fans.. in the middle of the lake there's a sunken helicopter, a bus, a tractor and even a mobile phone.. (just try to find that!)

With his diving club The Zeeroos (Searose) http://www.zeeroos.be/Page113029.htm

he got there with other cars (an hour and half driving and it was fekking early!)

It's a beautifull landscape, huge lake and dam and lots of fellow divers!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Eau_d%27Heure

http://www.duiklokaties.com/Duiklokatie.php?id=12 (on Dutch)

Mic has gotten into diving a few months back (October I think it was) he has now got his first star (that means he's done a couple of diving with his instructor and so on.. He allready took his exam to get his second star and he got it through a couple of practical things he had to do.. now he only has to achieve somewhere in the 20 divings to obtain his second star! It's quite difficult no? Well.. it's sometimes really confusing me!

In the meanwhile I went driving with Mic's Dad over a couple of mountanies hills.. It looks like i'm having a problem while driving down the hill now instead of climbing the hill with the car.. The old Mazda did a couple of VERY weird noises!

oooh.. whatever.. I will be carefull with our new car.. (and will not ride in the hills ever!

greetings!

Sara

A CAR!!!!

Hello everyone!
Some exciting news from today!
I bought together with my Boyfriend today..
a real, new, used, secondhand car that looks like new!
Whieeee...
I'm really excited! It's not a small car like I always wanted (a Peugeot 206 light blue) but it's a supersized MAZDA from Ghent. The right name for it's model is: MAZDA 6 Break and it's really huge!
But I allready like it.. because it's so nice and shiny and has a lovely brownish - greenish color!
So.. Mic and I are the proud owner of our own vehicle!
I will probably use it most of the time, cos I need to go to school on places where even no bus goes.
so... here is a picture!
On the note: This is not the right color! Our car has a brown-green look.. Our car comes from that same garage as this car.. at Julien: http://www.julien.be/v2/home/ or see http://www.mazda.be/

Now only my drivers permit and i'm on the road! greetz..
xxSara

A question for you all!

We are planning (for at least another 2 to 3 years..) a trip to America..

We wanted to buy a second hand used car for 2 (or maybe 3) months and drive through North America..

What I wanted to ask if there are places a Belgian tourist HAS to see in America??

Mic and I are looking for some good ideas to go see in the US!

I will list and update my ideas from today to the day we really go! :)

If you have any suggestion please tell me, leave comment and so on..!

Thank you very much..

The things I want to see:

- The city of MIAMI! ... As a huge fan of CSI Miami.. I sure HOPE I will see David Caruso in a HUMMER when I'm there lying on the beach frying up. Are there any other things there?

- I wanna go to SEA WORLD, DISNEYWORLD and other attraction parcs... (Thinking of doing this too in Miami or San Diego)

- I'd love to see the Weeki Wachee Mermaids.. (http://weekiwachee.com/main/) as seen a couple of years ago on the Belgian tv.. 'Salmon for Corleoni'

- Visiting Vancouvers Island and Britisch Colombia (I KNOW this is actuatlly Canada.. but wasn't it too close too the North America border?)

Thanks for the help!

Greetings!

Sara

Pardon my Absence..

Hi folks, and my dearly beloved Blog...
First of all... I want to apologise for my long absence.. I had much work to do! And I must say i've missed this place.
How's my life so far? (well you missed out most of March and April, so here it is!)
- I worked the whole time! Yay me.. it's a school in Kluisbergen (Ruien) and it's called 'De Start'. theire site.. (with also a lot of photo's by me) http://www.gbskluisbergen.be/
Just see.. 2e kleuterklas at Ruien
It started from 'the end of march till the end of the schoolyear' Just two more weeks and it's completely over.. Too bad actually.. I kinda liked the school and the people in it.. The children in my class (20) were a bit of a challenge, there are a couple of difficult kids.. but thankfully these things gotten better after a couple of weeks. It's very nice to get such interims.. I like these more than just work for a couple of hours in this or that school. Since I still got no car (or drivers license) I had to use the public transportation to get to Ruien.. (that means 2 busses, one at 6.50AM to get at Ruien at 7.50AM. Ah well.. I like busses (sometimes, when they are ON time!) I kinda reflect my day at that time or fall asleep.

Here 's my classphoto! (there are 3 kids missing that day.. too bad huh!?) There are 20 children, 10 boys and 10 girls, 12 children from the second class and 8 children from the first class..
Well.. in the beginning I didn't know where Kluisbergen was, so I said yes, maybe a little bit too early! See what i have to do! It's about 30 km.. I live in Deinze see red circle, and have to go to Kluisbergen.. that's almost in our Wallon side! (The French speaking part of Belgium)

- Nothing much happend rond here.. more problems at Mic's work unfortunatly..

• A couple of parties and garagesales that I had to attend.
• Do much, much, much work in the weekends for school..
• Do much, much, much work at school during the week
• I did see 'Angels and Demons' at the cinema about a month ago.. (good movie btw!)
• I met Valentijns new girlfriend :)
• Mic and I went away with his (ex)collegues to a nice restaurant..
• Mic and I went on a bicycle tour with his friend.
• I missed and thought about Belfast a couple of times..
• I lost the bet... (you know what i'm talking about!)
• There has been a Belgian Primeur! A tiny little elephant was born...


• We are kind of planning our trip to the Northsea. (Like Blankenberge and Koksijde..)


• Oh! On the first day of June I went on a beautifull trip to Kluisbos with my Mic! (that's also in Kluisbergen..) they have a very very nice outdoor pool!! http://www.kluisbos.be/ I soooo enjoyed myself over there.. and I was quite tanned too!





And that's about it!

See you guys later!!!!!!!!!!!!
kiss.
Sara