painting the kingdomhall with both congregations: Soest and Baarn

Here are some pictures I've made during the three days we were painting our kingdomhall. at the bottom you'l also find two movies with the result.

love merel

library;)

before

getting ready to start

fenna and corrie, who took care of the lunch and snacks

tiny mom, tall dad;)

having lunch and coffee

eve

fiona and eve painting the window frames

br ruben anders

br carlo van eeten

my dad just before we started topain the bakcground of the platform

gaby and her little girl leila

fiona

br wim kabout

fulco and winfried

lex and carin

tristan our little builder
br martin hardorff

birdie and my grandma
carin
sister ellie donkersloot with her great indonesian cake




brdie helped us by cleaning the windows (like the brother who conducted the watchtower said: 'she came all the way from the USA to paint our kingdomhall'..)




niels and matthijs getting the chairs in order

two movies of our new painted kingdomhall:

it's been a loooong time

hello you!

I'm sorry I haven't thought about posting anything.
But I'll tell you what I've been up to lately. I started school again, which I had to get used to again. It had been almost 6 months since last time I went to school. But everything was going so quickly and we had to keep up with all the courses so I got used to really quickly. I also started my internship at my old highschool a couple of weeks ago. All the teachers constantly ask me whether I'll come and join them in their lessons. Me and another student started doing a small project with one of our classes. We're doing task based learning, which means that the teacher is not instructing the students but supports them. We had to set up a webquest for one of our courses at the faculty and we're using that now. (if you'd like to see it: http://be-our-guest-webquest.webquestmaker.nl/city_trip)
Yesterday we've started painting our kingdomhall. Some brothers chose the colors and set out a plan for thursday through saturday. I went working in the hall yersterday and worked so hard that I was hurting this morning..I guess I should have taken a break..:P Anyway it is definatly worth it. While everything was in it, the chairs and everything it sure did look nice. But once you take away everything and get a close look you can see it definately needs some new paint. The new paint is a little too pink in my opinion, but as long as it looks good and clean I'm ok with it:)

I've made a bunch of pics, so I'll upload them when we've finished so that you can see the before-after differences.

AND!!! most important, birdie arrived this morning!! me and my mom went to the airport to wait for her, then Lori took her home and brought her in the afternoon. She's spending the weekend at our place since Lori is away for twoor three days with her husband's family.
She'll probably go to her daughter after that, but that depends on how the situation is.

I'll upload the pics later on! Hope you're all fine, please let me know

Love you!
merel

note

I've got a whole bunge of other pics, basically of the second week that I will upload later on since it takes quite a while.

love merel

pics part two

At brothers vazilius's place after the meeting saturday night..

Our walk through the ravine

Greek man who was taking care of his olivetrees while we passed by

Our appartments and the beach/rocks

sights in the mountains:

beach pics

Irapetra and its market, boulevard etc

He probably didn't survive..his mom wasn't there. The Island of Crete is famous for 'the thousands of wild cats living on the streets.

Restaurant on the boulevard that day and our view on the small beach next to it: