Remember this one? And this one? Tim started school in April of 2010. A couple of weeks after arriving in Australia. He was happy to put on a uniform and start school in KW, with Mrs Wagner. No English, except for yes, no, yellow and hello. Zoë was in Mrs Wagner’s class as well. With…
MY EMU (DUCKU)
This is my Emu. In art class we are using a lot of different materials. I am using paint, shiny blue paper, bark, smooth gray paper and I am also using soft Emu feathers that are real on Ducku. I called it Ducku The Emu because it has tiny legs like a duck. It is…
The Orange Cow
In summer the only orange cow ate all my grass because it was so hungry. On the 22nd of april the same cow ate the beautiful blue flower on the big hill because it was still hungry. The orange cow Once up on a time there was a one and only orange cow his name…
Turtles
During art classes I made this paining of 3 turtles. Zoe
Introducing Tim
My name is Tim Kemna. I am 10 (written in December 2014) I was born on October 13 2004.
Long Easter weekend 2013
Finally a long weekend with no plans or appointments. Although we are in Australia for 3 years now, and we are adapting the aussie lifestyle, we are still not infected with the easter show fever (yet?). Honestly, we do not understand all the fuss about the show bags. Maybe we missed it in our childhood….
Changes
No time to relax with the Kemna Family. It has been a while since our last post, and a lot happend since. Everything is going fine and this week we are experiencing the hot Syndey summer, including the hottest night in many many years. The temperature did not drop under 30 degrees. The newspaper of…
Worldcup 2010, Maus and Poes
About a lost world cup final, a lost friend and a new love.
Herring & Mortgages
Update about what’s going on in the world, the Netherlands and here. Perhaps a little bragging about how fast things have evolved.
And on day 56, man creates post…
Just an update about normal life slowly getting shape. Did I say slowly??
Who do I think I am?
what? who? prove me wrong!
@work
australia, jobs
Off-topic: How salary caps are not the answer to fair play
I’ve been down under for just over a month now and during that time it got out in the open that one of the best National Rugby League teams, the Melbourne Storm, has breached a ‘salary cap’ and they have been punished by the takeaway of their 2007 and 2009 titles, as well as a…
Busy or slow, what’s the difference
how to put a weeks worth in 1000 words.
Traffic Tragedies (or where you die defines how much you die)
it’s probably better to die in traffic than on a barn, but who am I
Some thoughts
just those things that make you go ‘Ehh?’
A new home
we’ve got a home!
Things that make me nervous…
I want my stuff!
Down Under Continued, Day 2 and 3…
cars, money, employment
Down Under, The Trip and Day One
Description of the travel to Australia and the first days Down Under