Dutch Summer School

Maarten with brother Jorrit and nephew Kian

cousins Minou & Enna-Marie meeting again this summer



friends Ysa & EM are reunited, these two met at last year's summer school

mommy Shirin & baby Sabine

best friends

cousin Nadim



daily morning gathering of the friends for prayers & some singing too

children at the end get some musical instruments that they play while everyone sings



we're glad we joined (& graduated too) the Ruhi Book 5 class on junior youth animator

Wendy...one of the facilitators

two more facilitators, from left: Lauren & Oscar, with Rob & Mahasti from Bunnik

one activity we did was to write some good qualities of a junior youth animator in colorful baloons...

...while on red baloons, we were asked to write the bad things we should remove

EM joined the kinderklas

Maarten & Minou

EM with Dan at the playground

Currently visiting family in Holland

Camping trip

What a wonderful time we spent with the Filipino friends, spouses and children this past weekend's camping. We went to Zelon, Tiberias and stayed for 2 nights. This was the last camping experience with some of our friends (Rhea and Franco Aquino, Marcelina Duldulao, Remigia Cabute and Alberto Japones) as they are finishing their term of service this year. So we had a blast, as always we enjoyed the Filipino food and desserts, siesta and chatting time, games, "kodakan" (picture taking), studying together on junior youth, and swimming.

Our singing girl

Enna-Marie loves singing. Her teacher in Gan recently praised her singing of Hebrew songs. Mommy Menchie lately introduced a song to her entitled "I Am But A Small Voice" which was sung by an international Filipina singer Lea Salonga, who was 10 years old then when her first album "Small Voice" was released in 1981. We will soon post a video of her singing this song. Meantime, here are three photos taken while practicing this song one afternoon at home wearing her favorite blue gown.