This morning the Cabel guy paid us a visit. He has fixed our telephone kabel so we can call and go on internet again. So now I can tell you more about oure plans for the comming year. Matthijs has got an offer from work that he will be put on a tenure track. A tenure track is a contract where conditions are listed. If matthijs realizes this condtions he wil be assistant profesor and he will get a contract at the technische Universiteit delft for unlimitied time. So a verry good careere oppertunaty.
One of the conditions was that he has to go abroad for one year. About 2 moths ago it became clear that this one year abroad will start in coming september.
Offcourse this came verry unexpected, especially now I just started school. I thought about it for some time but disided to go along with matthijs. The alternatieve to stay home and continue school was not really attractive because we would not see eachother for over one year.
I contacted my school and work. I got a year off from work with the garanty that I can come back at Steinmetz after one year. I was verry lucky because a colleague of mine wanted to go to school coming year. Now she can because of my absence of one year. It was pure luck! After one year I can come back and continue school and work as if nothing happened.
At this moment we are planning to move to to Freiburg im Breisgau (germany) on friday the 21st off september. We will life there for aproxametly 5 months (untill the end of february)
At the end of february we will move back to the Netherlands with all our stuff. We are now plannig to stay a couple off day’s in Holland to repack and than continiu oure journey to Boulder, Colorado (US). I will be staying there untill the end off august and matthijs is coming back to the Netherlands somewhere in september. My school starts again in september that’s why I have to go back early.
This sabatical year is not just a year off holliday for me. I would get board verry soon. So I wrote an project for myself. I want to learn more about the way handicapted childeren live and spend their time abroad. The idea came from my fisit to Shanghai and my work at the Schakel (NL). The care for handicapted children is so different in both countries but not bad ore better just different. It made me curious about the care in onther countries.
I want to collect information from two companies in germany and two companies in amerika. To learn more about the workmethodes in both countries. I want to put all the data in a database and hopefully I can use the information for my end report from school (scriptie). For the coming year I will recive studie pionts for school.
The project can be as bigg as I want it to be, there are many countries nearby Freiburg with homes for handicapted children and maby I can get the help from other students that go aroad (after I return to the Netherlands) so I get as much information about other countries as I can… So far nobody has made such a database. You can imagine I’m really exited about it!
In the coming months we have to organize: housing, moving, packing, renting out oure home in rijswijk, visa’s for Amerika, planetickets and mush more. Although it is a lot to organize we are so happy that we can get this change. We grab it with both hands and enjoy!
Greatings José
Nederlands:
Het KPN mannetje is langs geweest en heeft onze telefoon en internet verbinding weer gerepareerd. Dus nu kan ik jullie eindelijk meer vertellen wat er staat te gebeuren:
Matthijs is op een tenure track gezet. Dat is een contract waarbij hij aan bepaalde voorwaarde moet voldoen. Als hij dat doet dan wordt hij na twee jaar vast aangesteld bij de Technische Universiteit in delft als Assistent profesor. We kregen ongeveer twee maanden geleden te horen dat een van de voorwaarde is dat matthijs een jaar naar het buitenland moet en wel vananf september.
Zoals het er nu uitziet vertrekken we op 21 september naar Freiburg im Breisgau (duitsland) we blijven daar 5 maanden tot eind februari. We komen voor een paar dagen terug in NL om vervolgens naar Boulder, Colorado (US) te verhuizen. Daar blijf ik tot einde augustus en matthijs komt in september terug. Ik moet namelijk weer naar school in september.
Van mijn werk heb ik terug keer garatie gekregen en kan weer op de zelfde locatie terugkomen en instormen in de tweede klas SPH.
Ik heb nu dus een jaar vrij. Ik zou me snel gaan vervelen als ik niets zou doen dus heb ik een project voor mijzelf geschreven. Ik ga inforamtie verzamelen over hoe gehandicapte zorg in het buitenalnd is geregeld. Ik wil in duitsland twee bedrijven bezoeken en in amerika. De inforamtie die ik verzamel zal ik in een database plaatsen. Ik hoop dat ik deze dan weer kan gaan gebruiken voor mijn scriptie.
Nu zijn we dus al druk bezig met alle voorbereidingen zoals: reis regelen, data plannen verhuizen, huis verhuren, visa’s, tickets en nog veel meer. We hebben er beide heel erg veel zin in en zien het echt alls een geweldige mogelijkheid, die we met beide handen aanpakken!
a day searching came down to two notebooks; the Acer 5920 and the HP6570. At first I liked the acer more because it had a dolby surround system, but when I went to the media markt and had a look at the acer laptop I was not so impressed. I didn't like the looks (gray collor) and the dolby surround sounded awful. The keyboard started vibrating when you turned on the music. So after that the chooise became easy. This is the notebook that I am going to buy:
It has got everything I like for a reasonable price. I will probably buy it on tuesday in the store. First I have to go to work today. Unfortunatly because I allready dreamed about heving the notebook at home :-))
