Category: english

You are a sexy woman!  shouted a little boy from the back in our car, while I was driving the car to the place where he lives, somewhere in the middle of nowhere.  I drove…

In the swing of life here: regular lessons, even tests and a lot of art these weeks. Language lessons from a young woman here from town, music lessons from a Romanian family,  absorbing two other…

Happy new year, Sredan nova godina, Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! A new year fills me always with that feeling of -another chance- As if we get another option. A choice -may it be- with God in the…

During the last hours before Christmas, the city Pecs in the South of Hungary was bubbling. We found a church, and were drawn to the silence. An older woman didn’t seem to give any attention…

  We often get the question “what is the news about the refugee situation?” As far as Croatia is concerned, nowadays “only” 1500-2000 refugees are coming through the country -each single day- not 7000 or…

This woman told us a story and we were listening to this: “”It is centuries ago now, but there was once, one language and many different people. Those different people together started to build a…

You teach yourself! I threw Femke’s book through our little classroom and when I did this for the second time, the girls quietly responded with saying: Mammy, you would have lost your job, now already,…

“PET KUNA, PET KUNA!” (Five kuna, five kuna!) We parked our car on the little road and as soon as the door was opened at least five little guys screamed to us to beg for…

A third of the people who came to the service were able to sit. Never mind. The rest were standing. Nobody wanted to miss this special event: The Roma-church in Apatin got its very own…

Home is made. Old curtains from Toronto are unpacked again, the teapot found its place and even the picture of Jan Steen has landed on the refrigerator again. Books are still unorganized, just thrown on…

Jelle and Janneke Huisman With Marijke, Judith and Femke and Laurens moved from the Knoppersweg in Randwijk to: Cvjetkova ul. 32 31000 Osijek Kroatië The move to the other end of Europe. Last week we…

The golden October sunlight was shining through the high church windows into the choir of the church. Jelle and I were kneeling down to receive a blessing after the promises we had made. Our four…