Our little daughter turned 16 !!! A big event today and the friends got the daytime exclusiveness with Sarah, so we organized the family evening and celebrated with a cake, champagne and a very philosophical discussion on…..if we remembered when we turned sixteen? For Mum it was probably shuttling on a bus between Kikwit, [...]
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April is approaching and we are heading into the hottest month of the year. So what else is there to do than wake up very early, have a breakfast at the Riverside and plan for an event of maximum two hours. By 11 am it is too hot to be outside. This Saturday we [...]
Waw, we have been silent for two months on the blog. This does not mean we have not been active, on the contrary. The months of December and January still kept us busy with finding the niches and routines in the big and enormous house we live in. Sebastien has become an adventurous explorer. He [...]
November was a very busy month which left us very little time to update the Family Blog. Marc was in the hospital for a week and got his belly button removed. A 12 cm incision is all what is left, so his number of overseas abdominal surgeries is starting to add up. His only talking [...]
Hi there and many thanks for taking an effort to visit the site. This month it has been 11 years since I started the pages on the Angelfire Lycos servers… I still keep an opening there, but lost most of my archives. I should work on their recovery one day, but not now…. We are [...]
Yes. We finally found some time to post a first message out of Cambodia on the blog. We are now five official residents in Phnom Penh and even if we are still looking to move into our final dwelling, we already feel as if we have settled. The change in country happened smoothly even if [...]
Yesterday I sold my bike. The separation was difficult and when I am now looking at the pictures, I might start to regret the sale. Reason for it was the expensive transport which came close to 500 Euro for a bike which is worth about 1500 Euro’s. I also discovered that the Indian spare parts [...]
Delhi is sizzling with a high day temperature. The maximum recorded last week was two degrees above the average at 43 degrees Celsius. The minimum in the morning was 30 degrees Celsius, three degrees above the average for this time of the year, yet we still call the mornings pleasant. The high humidity level, recorded [...]
Last weekend was filled with again another Regional Track and Field Competition for Sebastien. The school is now part of the MESAC together with 5 others: the American Community School, Abu Dhabi ; the American School of Doha, Qatar; The American School of Dubai Dubai; The American Academy, Dubai; The Cairo American College, Egypt and [...]
These were the exact words of the Field and Track coach after the 2011 SAISA track events, we were wondering why he mentioned the ‘Derveeuws’ as a family but we know for sure that Sebastien contributed again to another victory of the American Embassy School by doing extremely well in all the events he competed [...]
