It was the perfect break from our busy week. The boys hung bug screen and fans, built shed bases, and concrete steps, while I spent the week cooking and cleaning after our company and kids. It was a rushed week, with sunburns and stroke that entitled us to a day off. Alfonz insisted. I obliged….
We hang the petty THIEVES, and appoint the great ones to public office. AESOP Disclaimer: In my new world I am searching for answers to make sense of government with very naive eyes. THIS POST IS NOT FOR EVERYONE! Of course it bothers me how Hungary is viewed from the outside world. And of course I…
❝To have another language is to possess a second soul.❞ ‒Charlemagne Vasali Nagypapa, my grandfather on my mom’s side, was a soldier in the Second World War, knighted for bravery, and was a self-taught intellect. His formal education was about grade two, but that didn’t stop him from ravenously learning. He taught himself to read,…
Our first guests in the rental apartment! Akos and Angela from Budapest Hungary are here to celebrate her 43rd birthday! Angela is Alfonz’s cousin and they share a similar birthday, and with our recent move here, they decided to celebrate with us in France! They started in Paris and did 4 days of non-stop…
Summertime and the livin’ is easy, work is abundant and our time is flying by. Alfonz and I are enjoying our new line of work, even though we literally fall into our beds at night. My favourite part of being a ‘Homestay’ family is trying to adapt the lessons for the children’s own personal issues…
Our Song & Play kids wrap up their first year. These kids amaze me. Most had a very limited understanding of English and over the course of the school year, through repeating nursery rhymes, singing songs, playing games and learning to cook and dance following simple instruction- these fabulous kids learn English. Many times, they…
Have you seen this kid riding his bike through the neighbourhood? Capestang has a new boy in town, one with a goal and a determination measured to none. Daniel received a second-hand bike from us when we first landed in Capestang. With the fabulous weather ahead, we had a line on good used bikes from…
There is something very special about swaying back and forth, side to side in a worn saddle, meandering through a cool forest on a hot summer’s day. We take our homestay students to visit a ranch and let them enjoy a one hour guided horseback ride through the hillside. Camille, the owner of Appaloosas,…
Le Petit Platane Our little French rental apartment is up and running! After 2 coats of primer, plaster and sanding and 2 coats of matte Silver Sage paint and 2 coats of semi gloss Silver Sage paint to cover that darn yellow summer kitchen, I have finished the painting. After years of the…
Pool The guys used a bobcat to take out the big trees from the front yard to make way of our pool and leveled the majority of the grounds. They dug the whole deep enough for a 20 cm concrete slab 6X4.5 metres wide that our 5X3.5 metre pool would sit on. Then went…