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  1. 19 hours ago, Evanthe said:

    Hey, we missed you!  Congratulations on those exams! I was off the forums for a long time, too.  My dd graduated in December and starts college in January.  Good luck with everything!  I always enjoyed your posts - especially since we both have kids about the same age.  Tell dd we said 'congratulations!'

     


    Thank you!

    American homeschool highschool was so different with ‘ passing exams in 13 subjects’ that I got lost 🙂

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  2. I just upgraded my ipad to the latest IOS edition today. But I seem to have lost a function in MAIL by doing that.

    Does anybody know how to attach a photo to a mail instead of inserting it?

    I really prefer to mail photos as attachments...

    TIA for helping me

  3. 8 hours ago, Matryoshka said:

    Wow, you guys have to pay to use the library??  I thought the whole point of the library was that it was free.  I have cards at both my local consortium and the one next to me.  I always figured if I wasn't getting much benefit from my taxes for services in the form of public school, I'm sure getting my money's worth from the library!  All my audiobooks are free from Overdrive - and they just recently told us we could also use the Overdrive system from all the other consortiums in the state (even those we don't have cards to). 

    I have to pay an annual fee (depends on the city you live in) , for IBL, dvd’s , reservations, almost everything. Our current library is cheap, but our former was expensive so I bought more books. Children under 18 are free though.

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  4. On 5/4/2019 at 2:46 AM, Violet Crown said:

     

    Don't feel dumb about Gulliver's Travels! You probably don't need a better translation but better notes. It makes little sense in English if you don't know whom Swift is poking in the eye with his satire. Also, his satire is very dry, so it can be hard to tell when he's being serious and when he means the opposite of what he says. 

    Can you list some books you'd have available in Dutch? In fact, what are some classics of Dutch literature? All I can think of is Thyl Ulenspiegel, if I even have that spelled right.

     

    I needed some time to check, but it seems your whole list has been translated and is available through my library.

    Tijl Uilenspiegel is a classic but different languages are thinking it is a classic of their language.

    Max Havelaar is a classic, so is The Good Hope they are not really old but Dutch before 1800 is hard to read. I don’t know how well Couperus has been translated into English but he also part of the dutch classics imo.

     

    sometimes a different translation helps as the idea of a good translation changed during the year. The one I own is a mid 60-70 one: solid but dry and close to the original. A more current translation would be more accessible and would have probably more footnotes to explain stuff 🙂

     

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  5. I read The Hunchback a few years ago and have it shelved in memory as ‘very good readable’...

    From the list from Violet Crown I read:

    1. Dickens, Great Expectations

    7. James, The Portrait of a Lady

    11. James, The Turn of the Screw
     

    I just finished a Faulkner and I don’t think I can handle another one that soon...

    Maybe I should hunt for a better Translation of Gulliver, because that book I left unfinished, because the book went totally over my head... I felt sooo dumb 😞

    I want a book I can read in Dutch as summerreading, if possible.

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  6. I finished this month:

    Ice Princess, from a new to me scandanavian author, and I decided to want to read more.

    The Skating Rink, also from a new author

    An unnecessary Woman, I really liked the book, it was a long time ago I was eager to finish the book.

    Some tame Gazelle by Barbar Pym, I like her books, but this one was harder with all the poem and literature quotes...

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  7. I missed a few weeks I think.

    DD passed her English Written retake, attended German Written yesterday and we just made a studyplan for Maths and Science in April&May.

    I became board member of a ladies choir and that fulfills the hole 'almost done with homeschooling' left.

    So some weeks I hardly read...

    I finished 'through te glasses of Chekhov' a book that travels through Russia along Chekhovs books and letters.

    I also finished 'Woman behind the piano' about Female Composers.

    My currently reads are:

    Days without End

    The sound and the fury

    both slightly too hard to read before bedtime

    My Lent reading is:

    'Fragile Alleluia' about the pelgrim psalms. I learned from past years and picked a book that isn't divided in a reading per day, but just fits in the season.

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  8. 26 minutes ago, wintermom said:

    This could depend on the type of choir and settings for performances. If it's a "specialty" choir, like barbershop or a choir where you include coordinated movements, then something more colourful may be appropriate. If it's a traditional choir in formal settings, then black and black, or white and black, is more common.

    Have fun!

     

    Thank you! I have 🙂

    Next week we have our board meeting about this and after 10 years of ‘just’ homeschooling it feels sooo good to have something outside the house ...

    I think we fit in the ‘untraditional traditional choir’ category 😉

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  9. What does your choir outfit look like?

     

    I became member of a newly founded lady’s choir, and as board member I am in the position to give ideas about the -yet to chose- choir outfit. We are a secular choir, and our country does not have the custom of ‘choir robes’. Most choirs here wear black with black and sometimes an accent color (scarves and ties). But I am open to new ideas 🙂  I understand if someone for privacy reasons don’t post pictures of their own choir, but just something similar from other choirs.

    My mixed choir wears black w. black w. red scarves & ties, so that is not an option.

  10. 12 hours ago, chocolate-chip chooky said:

    Thank you so much for checking. I really appreciate it.

    Ouch! That is a huge shipping cost.

    I love living in Australia, but wowsers it's expensive to get things delivered here.

    Thanks again.

     

    It would be cheaper to send from the Netherlands, somehow Belgium Post is more expensive then the Dutch Post... 😞

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  11. On 1/3/2019 at 7:22 PM, chocolate-chip chooky said:

    Wow, thank you 🌻

    May or June would be just fine. We have plenty to keep us busy in the meantime. I plan on using Fred as a revision tool.

    Any idea what price per book you'd like?

     

    All the best to your daughter for her exams.

     

    I just checked the shippings: those alone will already be about 65 euros without additional custom charges, so I am not sure this will be the cheapest way for you as the Belgium Post consider this as a 'commercial activity' and I have to fill in a lot of custom forms.... I am afraid www.alibris.com wil be cheaper then me...

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