During the week the children go to school (since the beginning of the second term, last week, Laurens as well). Camiel and Eline go 5 days a week and Laurens only on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Eline and Laurens are at an international preschool around the corner from our house. I can sometimes see them... Continue Reading →
Sinterklaas in Tokyo
Although the children were born and raised in Germany, we still celebrate Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas), instead of Santa Claus, as Dutch people do. On the first of December Sinterklaas visited the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Tokyo and we were there as well! It was the first time for the children to... Continue Reading →
November Parties
We´ve had several parties this month. It started off with a birthday party of two Star Class kids of Elines school: Tokin and Gregg. It was at Gregg's house. He was moving out (into a hotel) the next day, because they were moving to Singapore the week after. It was fun being there with so... Continue Reading →
Camiel 8 years old!!!
Today, 8 years ago, Camiel was born! Laurens, Eline and I sang for him and gave him his birthday cards. We had to get up early and take him to his bus stop. He had an early release day in school and we could pick him up at 3 PM again. We decided to take... Continue Reading →
Container arrival
Yesterday was an exciting day. Our container arrived!!! Sander is away a couple of days for work, so I was on my own... The moving company arrived shortly before dropping Eline off at Kindergarten. She wanted to stay home and see what would happen. I had some problems dropping her off, but finally I walked... Continue Reading →
Autumn break
Eline and Camiel didn't have school this week, it was autumn break! And it came just in time. They were both exhausted from all the new impressions over the last couple of weeks. Getting used to everything is sucking out all of their (and our) energy. The weather was great and gave us a chance to... Continue Reading →
A warm autumn weekend
We've had a very nice family weekend! Yesterday we visited Tokyo Sea Life Park in Edogawa. It's very nice and has a lot of aquariums! We saw shark, many colorful, large and small fish and a large school of Tuna! The kids had a lot of fun. We had lunch there and went home again. We had... Continue Reading →
And then there was… culture shock!
We've had a trying week! Culture shock definitely showed its face this week. On Monday I was at home and there was a knock on the door. When I opened it Eline stood before me, where she SHOULD be in the kindergarten. I asked her how she got there and if the kindergarten knew she... Continue Reading →
Laurens 3rd birthday!
Last night Sander got home from Belgium. It's good to have him home again! It was a busy week! Camiel got his school uniform and is doing well in school. He's getting extra English lessons and will soon start with homework for that. He's participating well in class, but of course a little quiet. He... Continue Reading →
First day of school!
Sander is now in Belgium for work. We had a productive Saturday before he left, getting most school supplies and iPads. I ordered the remaining supplies online, which were delivered yesterday. We don't have the school uniforms yet, but they should arrive this week. Today was the first day of school. We had to get... Continue Reading →
SCHEL in Japan 