Musings

Berlin 2008

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:08:34 GMT

Hello there,
I wonder if anyone will notice this post, as I've been away for such a long long time!
At the moment i am having more time to do things for myself, last few months work has been very stressful, and I had another quarrel with my boss.
And in the meantime i have been to Berlin again, our yearly trip with school.
This year one student got arrested, because of graffiti, one ended up in hospital, because of hyperventilation problems and we had a love drama! for the rest we had a wonderful time saw new things and had alot of fun with 200 students!

Pictures are from:
Eastside gallery
Sachsenhausen (concentration camp)
Biennale 2008
Tacheles

I hope everyone is fine over here!

A bit better and some late pics of France

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:57:36 GMT

Tomorrow I will start working again, still a bit sneezy and not full of energy yet, but we will see...

In the autumn holidays I went to France with 2 collegues, we had a lot of fun, ate to much and I slept far to less, here's an impression of what the week looked like (for those who did not already peeked at my flickr-account)...

flu and blue satin sashes...

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:52:04 GMT

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things
Cream colored ponies and crisp apple streudels
Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
These are a few of my favorite things
Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver white winters that melt into springs
These are a few of my favorite things
When the dog bites
When the bee stings
When I`m feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don`t feel so bad

I am sick, having the flu and what else is there to do then watch a movie on the couch...
Can´t help it, it´s such a naive, old fashioned movie, but I like it, brings me back to my childhood.

Gardens of Appeltern

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:30:24 GMT

Already more then a month ago, Rben and I went to Appeltern with Blutsj and Karien. We had a very sunny day and all the plants and flowers were in good condition (still...after alot of rain this summer!) The gardens of Appeltern are showgardens, fot getting good ideas for your own garden and as our garden still neeeds a total (extreme ;)...) make over, we went there to have a look. Between all the elderly people we luckily were not the only younger people walking around there ;). We saw loads of wonderfull flowers and plants, which i had very green fingers and could easily grow seeds into big plants! hm, think i am better at painting them, ha, ha! Even more pictures can be seen at: "more Appeltern"

Long time no see...

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:07:11 GMT

Well, i always promise to post more and read more here on lj, but somehow i always get tangled up in other things, either it is work, social things, thoughts, etc. Not that I don't think about the persons who 'hang out' here, i do, I DO!!!
But in the evening I just do not end up behind the computer so much for fun, for myself, it's mostly work, yes, I know, HORRIBLE!

nevertheless, there's a lot of catching up to do, to read, to post, to be in contact again, so lets hope i will get to you all!
I noticed that some people have given up on me, well can't blame them, I am hardly here.
Do hope the good ones stay ;)

Well first thing for me to post is some pictures of a day out with my friends IIsolde, Nymphaion en grammaticameid. A few times a year we have a day out and one of us organizes something to do.
Mostly we keep it a secret, so when we meet on that day, we finally know what we are going to do :)
Well, we had a lovely time!

Other news is that our neighbour (from hell) has past away, some of you might remember that he tried to kill my cats! I can't help it, but I think good riddens!!! I am sorry.

Hope you are all fine :)

Oh and for the more curious ones, more pictures can be seen on:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/roma_manouche/sets/72157602339733395/

HANS BÖHM

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:17:37 GMT

Today i sold 3 spaghetti pottery things from Alessi via the internet.
It turned out to be a tv personality who came to my door and collect the 3 alessi's!
Remember 'Ook dat nog' (for the dutch people)?
Well, it was Hans Böhm! How funny!

Besides that i am slowly starting with my work again, bwleeee!
And what is annoying also... my computer videocard is out of order, so i cannot see the images clearly...
For the rest i am fine :)

AND THIS ONE IS FOR RICKY :D HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:33:32 GMT

Spread the Yannick Puig virus (thanks REQ!!)

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:31:42 GMT

Look how beautiful and touching, hmmmmm love it!!!

SCARY

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:36:18 GMT

This year so much has happened in my team at work!

to put it in a row:
* a collegue had a heart attack
* a collegue has got a hernia
* other one got the message she cannot get babies
* one is now being in sergery for a cancer tumor, which not much hope for recovery
* today another collegue heard she had cancer cells in her womb...

What is going on!!!!

April in Berlin

Sat, 26 May 2007 19:05:02 GMT

Last month it was my yearly trip to Berlin with school. This it was with 207 persons and we couldn't make a reservation at the hostel we used to go. So we headed for a new 'adventure', well and it was! This time we had to organize our own security at night and that was no fun at all. We sended 2 students back for misbehaving!
To be honest, i am still so shocked every time again, how much alcohol young people drink!!! Still suprized no one is having a delerium yet!
And another thing to be amazed about is...most of them 9with the exeption of 4 i believe) do appear at the early breakfast everyday and participate with the several excursions we organized!

new things i saw this year were the bunkers underneath Berlin, which I liked, it was a good tour for our students! (See the dark/neon photos) and a new exhibition at the hamburger Bahnhof Museum, about PAIN (Schmertz), which was very interesting!!!) the last 11 pictures are from that exhibition. Oh, and one of our students got into the top 3 from the painscore on the painmachine... OH MY GOD!

okay what do you see:
1, 2= Friedrichstrasse
3-6=Olympiastadion
7-12=Bunkers
13-18=streetart and Tacheles
19 til end= Schmertz exhibition

More of Berlin

GREETINGS FROM HOLLAND

Fri, 11 May 2007 20:01:23 GMT

Many of you probably thought I dissapeared from this planet or something, but i am still alive.
Worked my ass off to save money for a new computer.
Well, this first post in months is from my new PC! Yeehoo!
Only the internet connection will be going up end of this month, so then it is even more ideal!

I hope everyone is in good health and having fun.
Besides working i've not been a hermit all the time.
have been to musea, went out for dinner, visited friends, etc. But i just gave up reporting here with an old pc, it stressed met out, most of the time!

Well, i can put some pictures on lj again, so here are some from Schiedam.
A few weeks ago iisoldeorganized a day out to Schiedam, here's an impression of what we saw.
However, halfway of the day, my battery was empty, so more news can be seen on the lj of iisolde(if you're amongst her friendslist).

PURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:05:45 GMT

As always i make dozen of pictures of our cats, they are like our children :). If we had children that would probably be the main subject to make photos of, but as we only have 2 cats...
Here you can see them, pictures taken in november and december 2006.

Tido, sleeping on Ruben's lap

silhouet of Soefie

Soefie

Soefie with my felted shawl

Tido

Tido

boomschors

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 20:46:06 GMT

boomschors
Originally uploaded by Kiekjes.

Does anyone know how to post more pictures at once on lj, with Flickr? It's quite annoying to show only one with a post...

Herfstkleuren

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 20:31:06 GMT

Herfstkleuren
Originally uploaded by Kiekjes.

I am still alive... i am sorry i am not so often around here, i have such lack of energy these days...
With school things are going a bit better, i am very busy working out my plan for Berlin and it's almost finished.
i hope everyone's fine!
Thank you Tiitta for your most welcome letter, hmmm, it's so great to read your handwritting, i love it!
Anyone already in to new years resolutions???
Well, i do have a wish!!! A NEW COMPUTER!!!

SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:51:48 GMT

Hi there,
I haven't been around here much again. My computer is so utterly slow and things don't work as i want them to...i was a bit fed op with the machine!
So today i am giving it another try.

I want to post pictures, but that takes an whole evening for 5 to place here. I cannot bring up this patience at the moment...

I do hope everyone is fine, though...
I've made a start with all the letters i still have to write, done 5 so far, still much more to do ;)

My students are doing some researce for illustrators at the moment and some of them came up with your work Evalien!!! And with .... van Leeuwen, she studied in the same class as you do i believe??? Oh and also from you Carlijn!
So you are getting famous at last ;P!

Today i had my conversation about Berlin with our head of the school, but this did not go well... i have the feeling i have to ask for help...
Somehow our new managers, want to change everything again and skip the good stuff, which all has been developped!!! It's so utterly demotivating!!!

Well, there isn't much big news anyway, better go check on your lives!

XXX Esther

ps. bunnyman heb je blond haar???

I live with three men in the house

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:54:54 GMT

I am the only woman in my house and I am in love with three men.
Here you can see 2 of them...

The red one is Soefie, he is 8 years old and the grey/white tabby is Tido and he is 5 years old.
Aren't they ADOOORABLE :) xxxx