Woke up at 6:30 a.m. Same as last week, when we travelled to Schiphol Airport. Now I’m checking on Mama Irma. She’s already awake, just like Mem. We chat a bit about sleeping and dreams, drumi i sonya.
Then off to Jan Doret, to Miss Sjadezka at Santa Klara College. She wants some help in October to stimulate reading enjoyment among the pupils; she thinks there is a poor reading culture.
She promises to inform Theo Tielman, an official at the Roman Catholic Church, and to set things in motion for approval by the continuing education department.
Picked up some groceries from Centrum and stopped by Janus with a coffee roll to thank him for his help yesterday. Good guy, that Janus!
Had some salad for lunch.
Siesta.
At 4 p.m., I went to Elly, the innovation coordinator at RKCS; it’s her birthday and she invited Edgar, me and some other officials for a drink. It was very nice and fun to see her new house in Curasol, near Blue Bay. And her new dog, Reina, who came running up to her and stayed..
Home at 7.30 p.m.
Made a sandwich and chatted with Mem, who told me that Mum doesn’t like Ensure, the protein drink they give her.
I sat outside and looked at the full moon. Beautiful. How many full moons have I seen here?
The little man in the moon
What harm has he done?
Once upon a time, it was winter, bitterly cold
He had no coal and no wood
So he went to the forest
And stole a bundle of wood
If only he hadn’t done that
Then he wouldn’t be standing in the moon now.
This rhyme came to mind; my father always recited it to us.
At 9.30 p.m., I went to bed after reading another chapter of The Bonfire of the Vanities.