Murder...

This week we've heard in the news that former minister of healt care Borst was found dead in the garage of her home. Because the docter was not sure that her dead had a natural cause, due to several injuries and the blood where she was found the police did a lot of extra research. After a long investigation they still were not convinced that she died by accident. Today came the news that after section on the body it was sure she didn't died by accident or natural cause. In my opinion we have than just one option left, murder..........

Who on earth would kill a 81 year old ex politicus of healt care? That's the question..... 

Olympic games

Last weekend, the Olympic games began. With immediately the 5 km for men. With our best skater ever Sven Kramer and of course a few other very fast skaters. As always the expectations were very high.  However I cannot blame the Dutch, because the history has proved we are indeed not bad at skating. Also this time the results were more than good, gold, silver and bronze for the Netherlands! On Sunday there was the 3 km for women and Ireen Wust was capable to keep her head cool and won the 1 place, another gold medal for the Netherlands. Today during working hours the 500 meter was scheduled. luckily it was live on the NOS website so I could see another 1-2-3 for the Netherlands. This was the first time ever we have won this distance. Now we have already 7 medals, and we are very curious howmany there will come.

Preparing II

It's all English nowadays for me during the weekends. In my urge to prepare as good as possible I searched the web for all kind of different useful help. I've found a lot of teachers on youtube  who all wanted to share their knowledge from almost every subject non native speakers have to understand to speak and write English properly. In my search I've found a website I submitted to, http://englishworldwide.ning.com/
I don't know if you have ever heard of it? It's some sort of communety with al kind of people from all around the world. I can write, chat, and speak with them about almost all the topics you can come up with.
I have already 2 friends and just posted my first blogpost. Of course I'm curious about your comments and therefore I copy it here for you, my only reader:-)

Blogpost on LEWWWP:

With facing an upcoming exam and the knowledge I could really fail the exam I started to search on the internet for extra help. First I've found the Flo-Joe website with a lot of practice for the exam. Than I found this site. It made me curious and so I started to be a member.

The exam will be the CAE (Cambridge Advance Certificate) and my main problems are:
speaking, and grammar. I still manage to use the present and the past in on sentence, and some more maybe common mistakes. I still think Dutch and so I get mistakes in word order. All together I makes me insecure. However if I never do an exam I will never know what my level is. I hope to learn here to overcome my fear to write and speak. After all no one will kill me if I make msitakes. And when I write someting really stupid please note I didn't meant to hurt someone

Preparing

I've found it; the website you mentioned during our last meeting, Flo-Joe. They've a Facebook page as well, very handy to use, with a lot of exercises and information. You can find them on facebook using the following link:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Flo-Joe

I've stuff enough now to prepare. However the most important part, time is still missing. Last weekend I convinced myself to do a few exercises and a listening test. Before I knew it the weekend was already gone and I hadn't done anything at all. This has to change if I want to get a good outcome off the exam. Thank god I still have time.
One of the things which kept me from studying was our Basil. For the last two weeks I had in mind to brush and cut the hair above his eyes and off his feet and wash him after this. After this I have to dry him with the blower and when we finally are finished he is always so beautiful and cute. See the photos to prove I'm right.


This morning I went by bike to the university. It was cold with a beautiful sun. The road looks very slippery due to the freezing at night. So in the beginning I felt a bit scared, and when I saw all the other bikers go fast without any hesitation I thought don't be so scared and bike! So I did manage to arrive at work without falling or slipping.

Tomorrow it's my Basil day; therefore I have to go home during lunch time. I never go by bike then and I have a legitimate reason to use the car.
If the weather is nice around 13.00 hours it is possible I'll go back by bike.

The rest of the week the forecast predict a lot of rain so it is not likely that I'm going to cycle this week. If I'm right with this prediction I can tell you coming Friday.