Merry Christmas!
Door: Charlotte
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25 December 2012 | Verenigde Staten, Fort Bragg
To my dear family and friends,
First of all, Merry Christmas!
How's everything in Europe? Someone's having a white Christmas?
Sorry, long time no blogging from me. It was crazy busy the last couple of days, so had not enough time to update my blog.
But now I do, so I will tell you all about last weekend and of course Christmas Eve!
So after Jessica and Andrew went on with their travelling, I was the only helper left in the Weller House. On Saturday we did lots of preparing for the high tea. Sunday was then our 2nd holiday high tea. A very nice couple from San Francisco, Martha and Michael, checked in early on Sunday so they could join us for high tea at 2 pm. It was so relaxing to sit with them and have the high tea with just the four of us. Vivien knew them because they are also very into the tango scene. Haha, it was lots of fun spending the afternoon with them and Michael is such a funny guy. That Sunday morning, Vivien got a call from three boys, with the question if we had any room left for three new workawayers! The boys are named John, Ellezar and Bryan and after they got settled in their rooms, I took them out to have some pizza in town at Piaci's. They were starving, haha. They all met each other on a farm, their first workaway place elsewhere in California. But it turned out to be horrible there, so they bonded and literally escaped from the farm. That's when they got in touch with Vivien and got to Fort Bragg. Actually they've known eachother now for only a week and they'rel all from different cities in the US. John's from Boston, Ellezar's from Chicago and Bryan's from Berkeley. One of the great things about travelling is that you meet people from all around America, and also all around the world. It's kind of funny to be the only girl now, but the guys are great helpers and really funny too. Happy to see new faces here :)
Yesterday was Christmas Eve! In the morning the mailman came and had a big package for me. It was the Christmaspresent my parents sent me from the Netherlands and it came right on time for the holidays! That was a great start of the day. After that I skyped with my family, who just finished their Christmasdinner (still not getting used to the time difference, haha) and I was so happy to see them all, that I couldn't stop the tears of happiness flowing down my cheecks. Just after that another couple checked in, tangopeople from Albuquerque, whom Vivien met at the Albuquerque tangofestival years and years ago, and they became great friends of Vivien. In the afternoon we did a big grocery-shopping-spree and every single one of us prepared a dish for the big dinnerfeast we were about to have. I made traditional potatosalad and everyone loved it! Next to that we had local fish, as well as gamba's, artisjoks, salad, bread and last but not least Vivien's caramelized dreampears as desert. I gave Vivien my gift from Holland, and she adored it! We had lovely conversations and everyone had a good time. The tangocouples ended up in the ballroom, to dance some passionated tango.
This morning I wanted to do something special for breakfast on first Chirstmas day, so I made traditional dutch Poffertjes, hihi.
Today I will take it slow, because I did many hours of work last week. I enjoy doing all the work, but I do realize that I'm pretty burned out today ;)
I'm hoping that you are having a great Christmastime, I sure have :)!
Miss you,
Love you,
Big Christmas-hug,
Charlotte
First of all, Merry Christmas!
How's everything in Europe? Someone's having a white Christmas?
Sorry, long time no blogging from me. It was crazy busy the last couple of days, so had not enough time to update my blog.
But now I do, so I will tell you all about last weekend and of course Christmas Eve!
So after Jessica and Andrew went on with their travelling, I was the only helper left in the Weller House. On Saturday we did lots of preparing for the high tea. Sunday was then our 2nd holiday high tea. A very nice couple from San Francisco, Martha and Michael, checked in early on Sunday so they could join us for high tea at 2 pm. It was so relaxing to sit with them and have the high tea with just the four of us. Vivien knew them because they are also very into the tango scene. Haha, it was lots of fun spending the afternoon with them and Michael is such a funny guy. That Sunday morning, Vivien got a call from three boys, with the question if we had any room left for three new workawayers! The boys are named John, Ellezar and Bryan and after they got settled in their rooms, I took them out to have some pizza in town at Piaci's. They were starving, haha. They all met each other on a farm, their first workaway place elsewhere in California. But it turned out to be horrible there, so they bonded and literally escaped from the farm. That's when they got in touch with Vivien and got to Fort Bragg. Actually they've known eachother now for only a week and they'rel all from different cities in the US. John's from Boston, Ellezar's from Chicago and Bryan's from Berkeley. One of the great things about travelling is that you meet people from all around America, and also all around the world. It's kind of funny to be the only girl now, but the guys are great helpers and really funny too. Happy to see new faces here :)
Yesterday was Christmas Eve! In the morning the mailman came and had a big package for me. It was the Christmaspresent my parents sent me from the Netherlands and it came right on time for the holidays! That was a great start of the day. After that I skyped with my family, who just finished their Christmasdinner (still not getting used to the time difference, haha) and I was so happy to see them all, that I couldn't stop the tears of happiness flowing down my cheecks. Just after that another couple checked in, tangopeople from Albuquerque, whom Vivien met at the Albuquerque tangofestival years and years ago, and they became great friends of Vivien. In the afternoon we did a big grocery-shopping-spree and every single one of us prepared a dish for the big dinnerfeast we were about to have. I made traditional potatosalad and everyone loved it! Next to that we had local fish, as well as gamba's, artisjoks, salad, bread and last but not least Vivien's caramelized dreampears as desert. I gave Vivien my gift from Holland, and she adored it! We had lovely conversations and everyone had a good time. The tangocouples ended up in the ballroom, to dance some passionated tango.
This morning I wanted to do something special for breakfast on first Chirstmas day, so I made traditional dutch Poffertjes, hihi.
Today I will take it slow, because I did many hours of work last week. I enjoy doing all the work, but I do realize that I'm pretty burned out today ;)
I'm hoping that you are having a great Christmastime, I sure have :)!
Miss you,
Love you,
Big Christmas-hug,
Charlotte
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26 December 2012 - 15:40
Hetty Van Tongeren:
ik ben net weer thuis nadat ik bij Ruud ben geweest en tot mijn verrassing was er jouw verslag.
Je hebt het wel heel erg druk maar misschien is dat met de feestdagen zonder je familie wel goed.
Ik vond het fijn dat ik niet allen was met de Kerst.
Ik lees met heel veel plezier jouw verslagen en bekijk de foto's.
Groetjes, oma Hetty xxx -
26 December 2012 - 16:30
Sandra:
Lieve Charlotte,
Het heeft veel te lang geduurd maar eindelijk weer een berichtje vanuit Sittard. Allereerst natuurlijk Merry Christmas hohoho.... Wij hadden een rustige 1e Kerstdag met z'n vijven. De jongens hebben allemaal een gerecht gemaakt samen met JC en het resultaat was prima. Ik lees bij jou dat het erg handig is als je goed kunt koken dus de eerste stappen voor de boys zijn gezet. Joep en Roel zitten weer midden in tennistoernooien en samen met de boodschappen ben ik daar ook wel druk mee. De verjaardag van Juuith was erg gezellig. Je pa en ma waren er ook, oma Hetty, Ruud, Maggie en de kids dus o-p Max en jou na was de Van Tongerenclan compleet. Jullie krijgen 24 en 25 mei een nieuwe kans want dan hebben we het huisje voor oma Hetty gehuurd in de Ardennen. Het weer is hier ontzettend nat, Het regent al dagen en het ziet er niet naar uit dat het stopt. 31 december gaan wij ook og even naar het 'buitenland'. Een midweek naar de Eifel met de schoonfamilie. Gezellig.
Hou je taai, geniet en maak de nieuwe guys niet gek.
Veel liefs uit Sittard. -
28 December 2012 - 02:42
Charlotte Van Tongeren:
Hetty: Ja ik had het zeker druk de laatste dagen, maar alle kamers waren bezet met gasten! Ik vind het altijd wel fijn om genoeg te doen te hebben, houdt in ieder geval verveling uit het zicht :) De kerstdagen waren wel hartstikke gezellig en we hadden een mooi kerstdiner, dus dat deed me een beetje denken aan onze 'traditionele' kerst met de familie. Ik ben blij dat je het met zo veel plezier leest, ik schrijf met net zo veel plezier! Ik vond het heel leuk om met je te skypen, hopelijk zien we elkaar de volgende keer ook ;)
Sandra: Heee! Leuk om wat van de sittardjes te horen :) Ik krijg aardig veel reacties van jullie, vooral op facebook, ben ik altijd blij mee! Ik had het de laatste dagen dus erg druk, maar heb nu meer tijd om te multimedia'en, haha. Ja ik ben dus nu hier de kok een beetje geworden, en ik maak vooral recepten die wij vaak thuis maken of die ik van mama/oma heb geleerd en bak heeeeeeeel veeel taarten, koekjes, etc. Tot nu toe vonden ze het allemaal 'delicious' en ik doe het ook met veel plezier. Jullie hebben het er dus ook aardig druk mee, maar 31 december even erop uit klinkt goed! Oud en nieuw in de Eifel neem ik aan? Leuk! Ik heb inderdaad van Hetty gehoord, we hebben geskyped, dat het familieweekend eind mei is. Tof, dan kan ik er ook bij zijn in de Ardennen, en mijn adventures delen. Hier is het weer erg wisselvallig.Vivien zei dat tijdens deze periode van het jaar het gewoonlijk alleen maar regent, maar we hebben de meeste dagen stralende zon gehad. Ik bof maar! Vandaag was de mooiste (zonnigste) dag tot nu toe in Fort Bragg, dus ik en de jongens (die ik natuurlijk heeeeeeeeeeeelemaal gek maak, haha) zijn even naar het strand gelopen, even lekker de frisse buitenlucht in.
Bedankt voor jullie reacties, erg leuk en allemaal een hele fijne jaarwisseling!
Dikke kus
Charlotte
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