Portugal - Feira

Visited Feira medieval fair - I was complaining that I did NOT want to go...tired and just wanted to play on the phone Clash of Clans. However, I did have loads of fun, there was entertainment and things to buy: being a king for a few seconds, watching a jester, holding an owl, drinking the local goodies 

Portugal holidays

With the family in Vale Cambra for the yearly festivity :-) 

I went a week earlier and my parents joined on this day - so pleased to see them - although I did enjoy playing with all my cousins - Beijinhos

And at the end of the holidays we were at the beach :-)

Comics

Finally made it to the Moof museum (opened 4 years ago), on large and small scale figurines of famous (and less famous...) Belgian cartoons.

My parents were impressed with my knowledge of Belgian comic strips, I know most of the characters by now (even obscure ones - all the way from 'A'gent 212 to 'Z'orglub). P

apá says my upbringing has been successful! 

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Stages

I loved two of my stages this summer. One was Laboratory and the other was activities including mini-golf, carting and going to Walibi. Very cool indeed :-) At Walibi I went on all the roller coaster rides even the one where my feet dangle below me. At the lab, I learnt how to make disappearing/appearing writing, separate muddy water into clean, what magnets are, made a volcano and made flying kites and fishing mini-rods.

England holidays

Spent 2.5 weeks in England with grandma and ti'pah. We went to Bath and had lovely lunch at Sally and John's with his dad who taught me painting. We drove back through Marlborough and stopped off at my favourite kind of food - italian; another day at home for fish and chips - well chips are my second favourite food.

England holidays - Henley

During time with Mamã and Papá we visited the traditional boat festival in Henley on Thames. There was some cool stuff with boats, royal rowing boat from Jubilee, cars, bikes, a jumble sale, this amphibian car in the background of the photo and RAF fighter jet helmet. Afterwards we met Josh, Chandni and Vivaan for lunch in pub.

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England holidays - happy birthday

We celebrated Auntie Vicky's birthday. We had loads of fun with the champagne glitter and blowing bubbles. HAPPY BIRTHDAY

WWII - Braine du chateau

.fast forward 130 years to WW II. Happy belated 4th of July to my American friends, a display of American WWII tanks, vehicles...next to lunch at 

La Ferme Rose with grandma and ti'pah. We also saw an amazing collection of models. I asked loads of questions to the two gentleman patiently making them. My parents thought I might just make one myself - what spend all that time sitting quietly..
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Waterloo 200 years - Wavre

After Waterloo, the battle of Wavre (which actually took place the previous day, but never mind...), in which 30,000 French faced 20,000 Prussians in, well... Wavre

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School finishing

My last week of school was sooooo much fun. We had games every day, we did a cross country run (where I did 16 kilometres with my friend Matty) and we visited Côte d'Or chocolate museum today. I loved it especially learning all about how chocolate is made. I brought a big bag of chocolate goodies home including my own made bar of chocolate. I decorated the wrapper too....with a US flag - Happy Independence Day.

School report

My parents are very proud of my school year end results. My grades (out of a max of 10 points; class average in brackets):

Maths 9.6 (8.3)
French 8.6 (7.5)
History/Geography/Science 9.9 (6.7)
Dutch 9.2 (avg N/A)
Physical Education 8.5 (avg N/A)

The cherry on top of the cake is that my behaviour is now excellent, too.

Waterloo - 200 years

What a fantastic time - visiting the bivouacs and Napolean's headquarters. We walked kms - 5 km to go from the French bivouac and N's headquarters and then to Allies' bivouac. Phew. Luckily weather was early 20s and no rain. We ate yummy belgium fast food and I tried beer - yep, Waterloo.

We saw also the new memorial for the bicentenary after seeing the troops leaving for the battlefield.

Next: the three armies met at the battlefield and the battle began...Champ de Bataille de Waterloo.

5,000 troops, 300 canons and 300 horses. The French attack on Hougoumont farm is unsuccessful.

We were with Jenn, Philippe, Florian and Audrey with a great view...a few of the 60,000 spectators.

Sports

The weather is so nice in the evenings that mummy and I have been playing badminton most days. We are all now signed up for tennis with Animer, so now also enjoying this :-) I am not to bad and giving my mummy a run around the court. smile emoticon

Pressies

Nice card & present (piggybank) from me on (Belgium's) Father's day!

 Look at my hairdo...

And on May 10th it was Belgium's mother's day! Cards with messages and a hand painted bag for make-up.

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