family time, work, halloween and pretty Brighton!

Hello world, I am back! Sorry for the long break between blogposts but I have been quite busy and also have been thinking about my future a lot. After my last blogpost I had a normal working week. On friday I had to babysit for a different family and I went home by cab/taxi/whatever you call it in the country you are in. How posh, haha! Dutch families can definitely learn things from British families. My hostparents went to the Dutch design week so I had to babysit all weekend. On Saturday we went to broadway market and to westfield where we saw "the boxtrolls". We had dinner at wagamamas and after that we went home.

Pretty skies in the bus home.

The next week I had to work all day on Tuesday and Wednesday. Sari (the girl) went to her grandma so Linus (the boy) had a friend over. We went swimming one of the days and after that we had fish and chips. 

I was free on Thursday so I met up with Maudi and we went to loafing one of my favourite spots (I wish I could go there every day!). We also went to the breakfast club, it is always lovely seeing Maudi!

After that: family time! My parents arrived on Thursday. On Friday we had dinner and we chatted and on Friday we had breakfast in the deli downstairs wich is a nice café (I had a really nice yoghurt). 

We went to Brighton on Saturday and my parents got to meet my hostparents and kids on Sunday. On the last day we had breakfast in victoria park and I went with them to stratford to drop them off. Not a lot of details about their visit but I had such a lovely time! I was a bit sad to say goodbye to them again but hey, I booked my Christmas flights yesterday so I will be coming home on December 19th (just in time for my dad's birthday)! 

The week after that I spent a lot of time walking dogs, haha.  With my new job I have to walk the dog for about an hour a day and  sometimes this is more, I also have the hostdog in my family so if I have to walk them both on the same day I spent quite a lot of hours outside. And of course when you live in England.... You have to walk in the rain!

On Friday I celebrated Halloween with my hostfamily and their friends. I carved a pumpkin and there were about 11 kids in the house. They took me with them trick or treating which was so much fun because I never really celebrated Halloween like that.

On Saturday I went shopping and I spent some time writing cards in the city.

On Sunday I went to a cooking class where I learned how to make granola, a flapjack, a supersmoothie and another snack. It was at made in hackney which is a company that does community and master classes. I went to one of the community classes. I really liked the class but I think the focus on super foods was a bit too much for me. 

It was movie time after that! I went to see Love, Rosie with Mirjam at Leicester square (oh, and we had some five guys fastfood before that oops!). 

Sorry I didn't really make nice pictures the next week, except for this picture in the park! On Friday I got up really early to get tickets for the jingle bell ball, unfortunately that didn't work out. I had to walk the dog and then went shopping with Laura in Westfield! 

On Saturday I met up with some new people and we basically spent a lot of time in Starbucks talking which was really nice! I went home quite early because my hostparents were celebrating bonfire night in the park with fireworks. This was really nice because the kids invited me as well which means that they really wanted me to be there so I was really happy to be there. 

So that's it for now. It's Thursday now so I got one day of work left. Basically I am spending more days at home, and more time walking the dogs and I have been thinking about my future a lot (as I said before).

The new blogposts will be more frequent, I promise. I just needed some time and I feel good again now :-).