Christmas is here

We saw the ice sculptures in Brugges on theme of Lord of the Rings - since I have not yet seen the films I did not recognise anything....so then I wanted to watch the films :-) more on this later....
I did the usual toboggan at the end of the visit. Before we went to see the ice sculptures, we walked down the shopping street and into the main square, had one of my favourites for lunch Quick (or Mr Quick as I like to call it), and then saw a WW1 exhibition in the Belfry - lot of info on the German occupation and the trenches. We stopped for a healthy chocolate/coffee and promptly after one taste said I did not like my chocolate...We saw a chocolate nativity scene.

We also went into Brussels to watch Paddington Bear - superb, I laughed so much, also my parents. After we walked to the Grand Place and saw the light and sound show - pretty.

 

We also went earlier in December to see the 'Giants exhibition and walked around the Christmas market in St Katherine's and from De Brouckere...We bought A. Vicky a penguin wooden calendar (planning ahead when the moment arises :-))

Sport

I am loving playing football and handball and Karate - more and more of my school friends are playing football including Maximillien, Matthias R, Anaël, Basile, Alexis, Soren...also there is Max, Yannis, Gabriel, Ayoub....Trainer is Christho

At handball there is Théo, Robin, Sirille, Yannick, Alen, Trainer is Christophe. Carole helps us with the tournaments and sometimes even Papá. Our team was in the local newspaper.

At karate there is Mathias C from school.

I like my guitar lessons too.

 

 

St Nicholas Party

Yes, it's that time of year again - face paining, watching the show, tattoos on my arms, chips and cake for lunch and Wii games...St Nicholas is at mamã and papá's work :-). Even papá was part of the circus show.
I got a (similar make????) MP4 player.
I saw St Nicholas again in Mons a few hours later after the handball tournament. We went to a very good WW1 exhibition about the battle of Mons.

 

 

School Photo 2014 - 4th year

And here I am with the school pose for end of 2014 and official 4th year individual photo :-)

We made sure I was not wearing the same shirt.

Remembrance - 100 years

I have been learning many things about World War 1 as we commemorate 100 years this year. So much loss and bravery. I have been to museums in Brussels, I went with Ti'pah to the cenotaph in Ruscombe for the laying of the poppy wreath by Ti'pah and we went up to London to see the sea of glass poppies around Tower of London, as well as the exhibitions in Trafalgar square museums.
Ti'pah organized a booklet to commemorate the men of Wokingham Borough who fought and lost their lives in WW1.

Grandma's 70th

On 9th November, A. Vicky, U. Keith and Lauren joined us at Grandma and Ti'pah's house to celebrate Grandma's 70th Birthday (from Ocotber). We had a photo session home made. Then we went to a lovely meal at The Greyhound in Peppard Common with chef Antony Worrall Thompson.
A yummy meal and lovely decor too. BIG HUGS AND KISSES, GRANDMA FOR YOUR 70TH.

I got a camera from Grandma and Ti'pah for my birthday the day before so when we went for walk after lunch in Henley, I took loads of pictures, every stained window in the church, every angle of the church and Red Lion Hotel and viewpoints from the bridge :-)

My 9th Birthday

I had two celebrations this year for my 9th birthday. On the actual day, I celebrated in England and Grandma and Ti'pah's house, opening my presents after everyone had breakfast...THANK YOU for all my great and generous presents. Then I went to the cinema with mamã and papá so I could have popcorn (I don't think it's really the film that first attracts me but it is really the popcorn, which my mam knows which of course I want the largest size but get the normal size). We watched Ninja Turtles which was cool. After I had my second favourite food - pizza - we had late pizza lunch....how small the pizzas are in England...so I had a chocolate dessert. Back home, Uncle Josh, Chandni and Vivaan arrived so that was fun too. We had early dinner altogether. It was a great birthday.
I even made a short video reading out my birthday card from Portugal.
Here is the video

Then the following Saturday back in Belgium I had my birthday party with my friends and this year we went bowling - everyone loved it. We had two games, cake and drinks. I had loads of fun. In the evening, we had friends Jenn, Philippe, Audrey and Florian as well as Regina and Johan to celebrate mine and my mamã's birthday for dinner/snacks.

Ekiden race!

 

What great fun...I joined the Charity event where I got to run 1 kilometre into and around the Heysel main Belgium national stadium.

Papá also joined in and ran 10 km of the +42 km marathon relay. Wo, what a day with more than 2000 teams of 5 people running the marathon.

Halloween

Mamã and my first attempt to make a halloween pumpkin...not bad? :-) I drew the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hair and I helped cut out the shapes. Then we had loads of pumpkin soup :-)

Birthday

I made apple cake for papá's birthday. I used the school recipe and cooking apples from the neighbour's garden. I wrote on the cake Parabens and to Papa and decorated it...with loads of decor from London, but I didn't mind. We took papá out for dinner.

Entertainment

While papa is at the P&G Football tournament in Slovenia, mamã and I played football in Tervuren park, ate for the first and only time in the 'Lunch Garden' (where I kept on checking that mamã was ok and liked the heavy food) and then we went to look at the Halloween stuff in Carrefour...i sat and read books while mamã just enjoyed looking at the shop and buying me clothes :-)
We went cycling and joined street pump in Woluwe Saint Lambert.