Language Camp Rocks

I got to go to Ceran Dutch class with my best friend Aticus in August. He stayed for 1 week and I stayed for 2 weeks. It was in this amazing old college and we were with other kids who were learning Dutch.

We shared a double room and his brother and sister were there too until his sister had to leave to have surgery on her broken arm. She wanted to be there the most and had to leave. 

Beeks wanted to come, but he already speaks Dutch!!

This is the entrance to the Ceran campus.  There were cows in the field next to this and a ton of fields to play on behind the college.

 At language camp we had lessons and played soccer, basketball, went swimming, played water polo, and went on 4 excursions.   The first was on a canoe trip which was kinda fun, until the counselors left me and Aty behind on the river and we were mad and scared.  Mom wasn't too happy about that!!!

He came to visit me when Mom snuck in to visit me.  She just needed an excuse to escape from her class.  He looks like he was tired of hearing her complain.

The second excursion was to an amusement park and that was a lot of fun.  The third excursion was to the Red Line Museum in Antwerp and that was awesome.  We live close to Antwerp, but we've never been to this museum.

The last excursion was to Mastricht a cool city.  It was ok, but one of the girls wanted to buy cigarettes and she wasn't old enough to be smoking and I had to follow them around while she tried to buy them because the counselors left us on our own for an hour.  That wasn't fun because she wouldn't listen when I was telling her that she's going to die from smoking...yuck.

Mom took me for a night and we went into Spa and saw the place where they make Spa water.

Mom's in trouble because my feet are just about the same size now

Ceran was good and I learned a lot (a lot more than Mom did that's for sure).  Now in school I went from beginners Dutch right past intermediate to the Native Speaking class.  I have the coolest personal tutor too, her name is Christine and she makes my lessons fun.  I use Duolingo to learn online and mom and I made some lists of words on Quizlet and there are now over 500 words on there that we (almost) know.  Well, I almost know them, I can't speak for mom!!!


I was so happy when I came home to these guys