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As is evidenced by my lack of blogging, I’ve been more chaotic and all over the place than usual. We have had New Year’s and Yom Kippur and Sukkot and a sadly great amount of time spent in synagogue was on the weekend rather than during the week. Sad because it has meant that I [...]

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Today we kept Thing1 out of Kita to spend the day speaking in English. Tomorrow is her English test and we are pretty certain that she is going to fail it. This entire situation has been a bit of a cluster. When we came to Germany, we were greatly concerned that the girls’ lack of [...]

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Monday, June 9th

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Friday June 6th-Saturday June 7th Amsterdam Delft

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It was a rainy Fridaynight and a wet Saturday as we gathered ourselves up to go see the wild horse round up in Duehlman. It was soggy and gray but we got there about 9 am and walked around looking at the horses that had already been coralled prior to what would be a cutting [...]

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(With all due credit to Diane, from whom I stole the idea) I started another German class two weeks ago. I had thought that I would take some time off, but no, I signed up for another. I really like my teacher, K, and the location (walking distance) really can’t be beat, but I’m already [...]

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So, we wound up going to the Keukenhof on Saturday (just too exhausted on Friday after arriving in the Sauerlands at 0200). We had stayed up chatting and drinking with F and G (my in-laws) past midnight on Friday and we wound up sleeping through our alarm at 0500 and not waking until 0700, so [...]

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Family fun…

The German’s sister has a spare bike that she is giving to us to bring back to Berlin because we are afraid that the bikes we brought from the States are too nice to leave about and will get stolen. F (his dad) has an old bike for him, so we should be all set. [...]

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So I mentioned that we had visited some friends in Dahlem. The smallness of the world is proven because we know this family from our small yown in New York: they lived in our small cul-de-sac neigborhood. K had noticed the German on the subway and mentioned it to his wife; the second time, he [...]

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