Wendy

As the Ozzie's say "he'll be right".

You will find that he will love it when he gets there, it will be you and your wife that will have trouble.

BRICKY ADE

I see that bleedin Wends got a front row seat the trollop

Sorreeeeeee...but ya know what its like, right.......where were we ????

furkew

not me. Lived in clogland for 19 years.

I will miss mum & dad, but 1 1/2 weeks per year in Holland or 5 months Oz. Now thats a diificult one !

I am sure that it will be fine when we get here. It's just now that I feel crap.

don't worry too much about me. Tomorrows another day !!

Wendy

I'll send you some Karma in the morning. Don't want to blank you

furkew

we was talkin about d**cks. sorry I mean kids.



Wendy needs 2 front row seats from what she keeps saying !!

furkew

K back to you.

It must be gone 12, i'm not shooting blanks any more.

Wendy

tum

OK, here is the one at fault speaking. My idea is that I (the one who made Paul feel like this) can better be upfront about this 'crappy situation' right away. I've emailed Paul about it and that I feel sorry he feels really bad about this (mind you I would feel like this too if I was in his situation, so b****cks is a good title for the topic).

I've explained him what I'm about to do, apologized (as I do 'know' him from BE/but it took some time finding out who he was on BE ), and hope this will sort things out.

And the most important thing I hope Damiean now can really start posting on xpdite without any worries. I already reacted to one of his posts telling him about my son (4) and myself and asking him some questions.

Take care,

Miranda (please don't hate me )

Hutch

Hope it works out okay for all involved. I'd say that online forums were probably the single most useful development to arise out of the Internet, particularly for niche groups like kids moving abroad. Bottom line is, it always helps when you know there's someone in the same boat as you - and that they've survived the experience.

snowbunny

I wish there was a sympathy emoticon here!

Anyone new to a forum is awkward at first, and for a boy of eleven I imagine it's very difficult, especially since he's only just had the news.

At eleven it can be hard to express yourself well even in your native language!

Does your son have hobbies or interests for which there's a Dutch language forum? It might help him to write more about something which he's familiar.

Amy
schoon-Dutch

furkew

First of all, thanks to everybody that replied to my post. Secondly a real big thank you to Miranda.

I feel better with myself today. spent all day out with the kids, first with them at their rugby matches, and then the afternoon wandering round Tiel.

I dont want you to feel bad Miranda, because all you was doing was keeping a parents eye on the kids forum. I was only annoyed with myself.

Karma for everybody on this thread.

This was my first "down" moment in my move.

Thanks again everybody.

BRICKY ADE

Does this mean its all sorted then ???

Wendy

Glad you're feeling better honey

thebears

Lots of my mates back in NZ and Oz are Dutch. Dont think your son will have difficulty meeting new friends when you arrive.

Tell him just to be himself. Pretenders dont go down well.

furkew

I was feeling better until I received another bill for €1500.00 from my migration agent

thanks again everybody.

things are better at the moment, things where getting on top of me at the time. (lots of flowers needed for Mothers day, long days & short nights)

Bears, Luckily where we are planning to go, there is quite a large Dutch expat population, so thats not the prob. It was just the way things went last week.

cheers all.