The air shipment is probably already at the customs right now and we hope it to be delivered straight to our new home. Yes! The house hunt is over and even we will get the keys soon, it will take another month till all our household goods will arrive and we will hopefully finally settle down.
Thanks to our realtor we also found a suitable school for Maarten. Quite surprising is that you can enroll your child to school after one of the school holidays only. We seem to have luck in that. This week was the fall break and tomorrow we have an appointment with the school director. I hope Maarten can start soon!
This school should offer a similar program to the Montessori which will hopefully help Maarten to adjust faster. Lessons are given in Dutch, of course, and even there are no English classes for his age, they offer optional French lessons after normal school hours.
We'll know more after tomorrow.
Speaking about languages. To hear Dutch/Flemish around somehow makes a big difference to me. This compared to the years spent in Brussels feeling uncomfortable because of my poor French.
I know I will get over it soon but I still tend to speak English to strangers. And Maarten's permanent jabbering in "Miss Ruth's language" naturally adds to that.
It was similar when we first arrived to California. Then I would react in French when a stranger addressed me.
There are many things we have to get used to again, such as payable parking and restrooms!, small parking lots, restricted openings hours, so many bikers on the streets and above of all the weather!
We haven't seen here much of the sun till now, yet today we had surprisingly nice sunny crisp day which we spent at the beach!
