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Today is my birthday, and here I am in Munich. This is the first leg of our tour that isn't a part of the Great van Heemstra Reunion of 2008 (rather than staying with my relatives, we're staying with Gillian's freshman year college roommate ( Read more... ) -
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highlights:
*swimming in lake geneva 3 times, including once in the middle of the city in an all-womens swimming area with some swans
*pain au chocolat every day
*really delicious cheeses
*all of my cousins
*slowly reading the time traveler's wife*the wonderful markets full of things like olives, ripe peaches, beautiful aubergine and biodynamic ( Read more... ) -
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Alive and in Amsterdam! My cousin Jetske, who lives in Amsterdam, is in Cairo for the summer studying Arabic, so G and I scored ourselves a free studio apartment for our time here (another cousin, Marjolijn, Jet's sister, lives across the hall, so that makes it easy/even nicer to stay here). This apartment is amazing: decorated with vintage Dutch ( Read more... ) -
leaving
I was just going to write, "My bags are packed and I'm ready to go" and then as I thought it, the song "Leaving on a Jet Plane" ran through my head. So, in an attempt not to be cliche, I'm actually not going to type that line ( Read more... ) -
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I plan to write many, many postcards in the next month. If you want one, and don't think I have your address, post below or email to misstheresa (at) riseup (dot) net. -
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I guess I never write in it anymore because my life for the last nine months was taken over by third graders (see: learntwiceBut now I have something else to write about ( Read more... ) -
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Holiday Preparations
*Are you coming to my regifting party tomorrow? Here are the deets ( Read more... ) -
Holiday Weekend Happenings
This is the first time in a long time I have had an urge to make a post that is not about teaching... (btw if you do want to read about the adventures of my third grade class/wonky Waldorf school happenings, friend my teacher journal at learntwiceThanksgiving weekend and due to awesome teaching schedule, five whole days off. On Wednesday I spent the entire ( Read more... )