The Cows Spring Party

I saw a cows' spring party.  Some of the cows ran out and in the barn.  And I thought it was funny.

St. Elizabeth's Flood

I found this interesting from the St Elizabeth's flood:  

In the period up to about 1000 A.D. Holland could hardly be called habitable; it consisted of marshes with small sluggish streams, separated from the sea by a belt of dunes, and the inhabitants had to hold their own mounds. It was only after 1000 A.D. that they succeeded in checking the water to a greater extent. In the raw climate prevailing in these parts they had to keep warm by burning dried peat and wood from the neighbouring forests. Their existence in those years must have been extremely rough and distressing indeed. In the period up to 1400 the centres which led to the rise of the towns were formed. The land was repeatedly ravaged by floods, when large tracts were swept away and disappeared into the sea; inland seas were formed (the Zuiderzee was formed thus about 1300), villages were destroyed, and great were the losses in goods and chattels and human lives. A notorious flood was the St. Elizabeth's Flood, from 18 to 19 November 1421, when in a single night 72 villages and hamlets were swallowed up by the water and thousands of men, women, and children with thousands of cattle met their death in the waves.  (source: http://www.let.rug.nl/polders/boekje/history.htm)

The St. Elizabeth's flood of 1421 was a flooding of an area in what is now the Netherlands. It takes its name from the feast day of Saint Elisabeth of Hungary which was formerly November 19. It ranks 10th in the list of top ten (10) worst floods in history. During the night of November 18 to November 19, 1421 a heavy storm near the North Sea coast caused the dikes to break in a number of places and the lower lying polder land was flooded. 72 number of villages were swallowed by the flood and were lost, causing between 2,000 and 10,000 casualties. The dike breaks and floods caused widespread devastation in Zeeland and Holland.  (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Elizabeth%27s_flood_%281421%29)

This is a painting that was painted when the flood was happening.

 

Liam eating an apple and the Egyptian museum

 This is Liam eating an apple while reading.

This is Eric, half of Liam's face and I with real bones at the Egyptian Museum.  I think these human bones are from at least a thousand years ago. 

In a Pancake Restaurant

At Oudt Leyden on March 15, 2013 which means last Friday Eric, Liam, Kai, Juliet, Brandon and Marie had Pancakes for dinner!!!!!!

Mine was apfelstrudel.  Would you like pancakes for dinner? I liked mine.  If you had pancakes, would you like apfelstrudel?  In apfelstrudel was apple, almond paste, raisins, sugar and cinnamon. 


 

A totempole from the Pacific Northwest

It's Kai again!

Hope you guys are doing well!

This is a story:
We went  to the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde on Wednesday and I took these three pictures.  Those pictures are of a totempole and that's how it actually went.  And this was from the Pacific Northwest. 

End of the story.

Hope you enjoy!

the giant sundial

This is a message that my teacher from my school wrote:

Dear Kai,

We miss you!! It's so strange not to see you every day. I'm so glad you have found a violin to play. So do you bike everywhere? Where do you go? I want to know! :-)

love,
Akhri


We do bike a lot in Leiden, but not going out of the town.  We take a train then.  On March 13, 2013 Eric, Liam and I biked to a sundial, a  GIANT sundial!
 This is the sundial:
 

A rental shop, our bikes, and my lock

It    's Kai! (:

 This is a man fixing a violin in a violin rental place where I rented a violin.

"These are our bikes and my lock."