The previous post was about my way back home from work, this one is about one day with strong wind. Then I prefer the train. Many pupils from Hurdegaryp and other villages surrounding Leeuwarden go to their Secondary Schools in Leeuwarden by train, and park their bikes at the train station. The PR department of our school has taken notice of this very well, and posted big and intriguing posters for the open day, emphasizing the international character of the school. I couldn't help thinking of the burka, the long and all-covering veil women in Afghanistan wear, only showing the eyes of the woman wearing it. International, indeed :-)
Monday, March 12, 2007
International
The previous post was about my way back home from work, this one is about one day with strong wind. Then I prefer the train. Many pupils from Hurdegaryp and other villages surrounding Leeuwarden go to their Secondary Schools in Leeuwarden by train, and park their bikes at the train station. The PR department of our school has taken notice of this very well, and posted big and intriguing posters for the open day, emphasizing the international character of the school. I couldn't help thinking of the burka, the long and all-covering veil women in Afghanistan wear, only showing the eyes of the woman wearing it. International, indeed :-)
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Erik, it is good to see your country side looking so tidy and green. The stork looks very happy there.
Do you take your dog to work with you? My is not a great assistant in my studio but she keeps me company and puts up with my music.
Do forgive me for not returning to your posts very often, I will try harder. This blogging thing is very good for the brain but time goes so quickly.
I am steadily reading through your posts now.
My school was "High Anglican" almost more Catholic than the Catholic! I do not think the teachers expected it to be so risqué this was after all 1968 or 9.
I love your geese at school. Now my elder daughter has flown the nest the geese have gone too.
Robert, wacthing your picture more closely I see you are busy with a dog sculpture. No, I cannot take my dog with me, we are a big undergraduate school and you know the reason: if everybody would take his/her dog with them it would ... etc. Of course there is an exception for dogs guiding blind people, but I didn't notice one here yet, I did in Nijmegen where I used to work at the computer centre in connection with research (in the seventies, there were no pc's yet, only computercards and large prints with output), there I co-operated with a blind ICT-programmer, he got all output in braille. He brought always his dog with him.
I am aware that I live in a beautiful, tidy yet at the same time rough piece of the Netherlands. The greenness is caused by the abundance of water we have, falling and also in the ground at often only 10-20 cm. deep. The ditches prevent the land from being flooded. There's no hard soil here, everything is soft and wet outside the paved roads.
I appreciate your attention for my blog. I'll pay the same to yours, although I'm not very knowledgeable about the art issues you discuss, but I do my best, and learn a lot, as I also do from those "wonder children" Conrad and Chris King (my link list: "A Grand Experience"). (Don't let them read this)
Well Eric I am back again. Forgive me for being so slow, but there is so much to read. You have written a great deal since I was last here.
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