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(While I was cleaning up my room) i,,I knew I was right! I already knew Danni liked Pride and it looks like that's mutual. Now all they have to do is admit it, I just hope they'll get to it a bit sooner than Bray and Amber did! That really took ages! I'm already done with my room! I should just do this every now and then and that way it won't get like my old one, that was really bad. But I never was really good at keeping something up, I always stopped about it the middle. Just like when I was little, I wrote a few stories then, but the problem was, I always got bored of it after a while and then when I wanted to continue it after a few months or so, I forgot the password (I wrote them on my computer) and I wasn't able to get to them anymore! So then I started to make ones without a password and when I did that, my brother found them and printed all of them out! Men, that was imbarresing! But I don't think anyone here'll have time to do something like that if I start to write one again. Problem is, I don't have time to write one either! So I guess that'll have to wait! Now then, I'm done, what shall I do now? Maybe I could go help Patsy and Cloe? They have to clean up their room too and I don't think they'll be to happy about that, so I'll go find them then."/i
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(A few minutes later) ,,Hey girls! What are you doing?"
,,We're training Bob, so if Brady does get taken, he can smell her sent and find her!"-Patsy.
,,Please, his name's Bob, not Lassie!"-Ebony (who just walked by, I started laughing).
,,He's a very smart dog! He can do that!"-Cloe (angry).
,,What are you laughing about?"-Ebony (annoyed at my reaction).
,,Nothing, it's just, the last time you said that, you were wrong."
,,I never said that!"-Ebony (looking confused).
,,I know. (Ebony gave me a strange look, like the one's she gives Tai-San when she gets all . . . strange, and then walked away.) Now girls, you still have to clean up your rooms, want me to help?"
,,But what about Bob, we're training him!"-Patsy.
,,I know sweety, but the best way to learn is by repeating, so if we leave him alone for a while, it'll go better next time. And you're rooms still need cleaning up. So we can kill two birds with one stone."
,,I don't wanna kill any birds!"-Cloe.
,,Don't worry honey, it's just an expresion, in the Netherlands we say seven flies with one . . . ihow do I say this?/i . . . splat."
,,Oh, okay. See you Bob, don't forget about what we've thought you!"-Cloe.
,,We'll be back soon."-Patsy.
,,Come on girls."
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(After helping the girls clean up their room) ,,Hey Morgaine!"-Salene.
,,Hay Salene! How's it going?"
,,Fine, you seem to enjoy it here too!"-Salene.
,,Yeah, I like it here. Surrounded by friendly people and everything."
,,You're one of those friendly people."-Salene.
,,How do you mean?"
,,I mean that you are a nice person, not another Lex or Ebony."-Salene.
,,Thanks. You're really nice too, and good with kids."
,,You're great with kids too, I saw you with Patsy and Cloe, they really like you."-Salene.
,,You don't mind, do you? You are pretty close with them."
,,Of course I don't mind, I haven't had much time to spend with them lately anyway, I'm just glad they still have somebody to talk to and play with."- Salene (looking guilty).
,,Don't feel guilty Salene, you've been busy."
,,I know."-Salene.
,,They just need something to do."
,,Maybe we should have a party, I think that would do them good."-Salene.
,,Yeah, that's a great idea, but what kind of party?"
,,If only it was the birthday of one of them."-Salene (thinking).
,,I've got it! In the Netherlands we have a party about a man called Sint Nicolaas, sint means saint, who was very generous, so now we have a story about that on his birthday, instead of getting presents, he gives everyone presents and candy. How about that? We could make gifts for each other! And write poems! It would be great!"
,,And when is his birthday?"-Salene.
,,On december the fifth!"
,,But isn't he an adult? He's dead by now then. There's no point in celebrating his birthday if he's dead."-Salene.
,,That's the whole point! He's been dead for a few hundred years! But we tell the childred that he's alive and we organise it big and everything, the children would think he gave them gifts, but it really where their parents. So it doesn't matter that he's dead, he never was alive when we celebrated it anyway! It's like christmas."
,,But that's a great idea! Everyone would get presents and have fun! It would take their mind of things!"-Salene (starting to like the idea).
,,And I could teach them the songs! Only one problem, the songs are in Dutch and as far as I know, they don't speak that."
,,So translate them, or just learn them to them in Dutch, maybe they'll like it better that way."-Salene.
,,Okay, I'll try, I can ask Sasha to help, he's good with music, maybe he can help with the translations and the tunes."
,,Yeah, but we have to talk to the others about this first."-Salene.
,,How about we go ask Amber and Bray? I'm sure they'll like it, we can ask the others later." ,,Should we tell the kids?"-Salene.
,,No, first see if we can do it, we don't want to get their hopes up."
,,Okay, can you ask Bray and Amber? I have to go, I have antidote duty."- Salene.
,,Fine, I'll go talk to them, good luck."
,,Bye."-Salene.
,,See ya. iI like this, we'll have to get some stuff though, it's not sinterklaas without candy. Now I guess I should go ask Amber and Bray. I'm sure they'll like it./i Hey guys." (walking into Amber's room where they where talking).
,,Hay"-Amber.
,,What's up?"-Bray.
,,Salene and I wanted to have a party for the little one's, to take their mind of everything. So unless you've desided to get married quickly, we wanted to organise a sinterklaas party."
,,What is that?"-Bray (I explained it all to them).
,,That's a great idea! But how are we gonna do that with the gifts? We don't really have anything like that."-Amber.
,,We can make them ourselfs, or look for them in the city. I'm sure we can figure out something."
,,I think we should give it a try."-Bray.
,,Now about you two getting married, set a date yet?"
,,We were thinking about around christmas."-Amber (looking at Bray while playing with her ring).
,,That's a good idea, sinterklaas is a very personal holiday, not with a big party and everything, so with your marrage, we can have a big party and celebrate christmas at the same time!"
,,What do you think about a big party?"-Bray.
,,I think it should be okay. What about you?"-Amber.
,,It would be great."-Bray (wispering something in her ear).
,,I see you would like to be alone, I'll see you around." (smiling).
,,Bye."-Amber and Bray (not even looking at me).
i,,Those two really hit it off! I'm happy for them. Now, let's find Sasha to see what he thinks about the songs. Maybe we could make a few up ourselfs, but I don't think I'm very good at that. Maybe he has a some ideas? But I guess I should find him first and see what he thinks about it, then I can start planning about what songs to sing."/i
,,Hey, what's the hurry?"-Sasha.
i,,Speaking, uh, thinking of the devil!/i Hay! I was looking for you actually!"
,,Me? What is it?"-Sasha.
,,We are planning a party and I was wondering if you could help with the songs, I wanted to teach the kids a few ones."
,,Sure, what kind of party is it?"-Sasha.
,,It's a sinterklaas party."
,,A what? I don't believe I've ever heard of that before!"-Sasha.
,,That's very possible, it's a dutch party (I explained it again, I'm really getting tired of that and then I have to tell the kids and the rest of the tribe! How am I ever gonna put up with that?)"
,,That's a good idea! Could you sing one of those songs for me?"-Sasha.
,,Sure, what about my favorite one? 'Zie de maan schijnt door de bomen', that means something like, look at the moon shining trough the trees?"
,,That sounds fine with me."-Sasha.
,,Okay, it goes like this:
*Zie de maan schijnt door de bomen.
Makker staakt uw wild geraas.
'T Heerlijk avondje is gekomen.
'T Avondje van sinterklaas.
Vol verwachting klopt ons hart,
Wie de koek krijgt wie de gard.
Vol verwachting klopt ons hart,
Wie de koek krijgt wie de gard.*
That was a first bit, there is more, but what do you think?"
,,I think you have a beautiful singing voice."-Sasha.
,,Sasha! I mean about the song!" (laughing).
,,I like it, even though I have no idea what it means. I think we could teach them that."-Sasha.
,,It means something like, finely the night of sinterklaas has come and we can't wait to see what presents we've got. But I guess we should go tell the others about this first, then we can go teach this to the girls." (walking away to tell the others).
,,Where are you going?"-Sasha.
,,To call a tribemeeting to discuss this." (surpised).
,,I wanna talk to you."-Sasha.
,,What about?"
,,Just talking, we haven't really talked about ourselfs. Just about what had happend and planning things, so I wanna know about you."-Sasha.
,,You've heard the intire story about how I got here didn't you?"
,,Yeah, but what about before you got here?"-Sasha.
,,Like what?"
,,Like what where your parents like? Do you have brothers or sisters? What did you wanna do when you grew up? What kind of animals do you like? That kind of stuff."-Sasha.
,,Uhm, I had two great parents, I have two annoying little brothers, who I do miss, I wanted to become a teacher and I love cats, my favorite animal is a cheeta, they are so beautiful! That print and their skin, how smooth! And how fast they are! They're just amazing creatures! But I also love ordinary cats, aspecially white ones, there once was a comercial with all those little, white cats, little ferrballs, they where so cute! I just couldn't watch that commercial without wanting one of those sweet citties!"
,,So you're a cat person."-Sasha.
,,Definatly! We always had two cats at home, and when I was about eleven, one of them died, I was so sad! She had been with us for as long as I could remember! And then to top it all off, a week or so later, on school we had this class where we had to look sad or happy or something and then the other kids would judge who looked that way the best, and when we had to look sad, the teacher said, look as if your cat just died, about a week after she really did!"
,,That must have been awful! But did you say you wanted to be a teacher?"- Sasha.
,,Yeah, I said that!"
,,What kind of teacher?"-Sasha.
,,A maths teacher, I liked math, I hated languages! I was really bad at those!"
,,What do you mean? You're really good at English!"-Sasha.
,,Yeah, at English I was, but we also had, Dutch (of course), French, German, Latin and Greek, and the only other one I was good at was Greek, which wasn't that useful, because you can only use it translate ancient texts, which I didn't thought I'd ever do, so that was pretty useless."
,,That sure are a lot of languages!"-Sasha.
,,Yeah, and I was required to do all of them, except Latin or Greek, because they're not that useful, I mean, I've never had a situation where knowing a bit Latin and Greek helped. So I don-"
,,Morgaine! Can I talk to you for a minute?"-Danni (just running around the corner somewhat freaked out).
,,Sure! Sorry Sasha, but I have to go. I'll see you later!"
,,Bye!"-Sasha (looking disappointed).
,,What is it?"
,,Not here! Come with me!"-Danni (running away).
,,Okay! (following her)
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(While I was cleaning up my room) i,,I knew I was right! I already knew Danni liked Pride and it looks like that's mutual. Now all they have to do is admit it, I just hope they'll get to it a bit sooner than Bray and Amber did! That really took ages! I'm already done with my room! I should just do this every now and then and that way it won't get like my old one, that was really bad. But I never was really good at keeping something up, I always stopped about it the middle. Just like when I was little, I wrote a few stories then, but the problem was, I always got bored of it after a while and then when I wanted to continue it after a few months or so, I forgot the password (I wrote them on my computer) and I wasn't able to get to them anymore! So then I started to make ones without a password and when I did that, my brother found them and printed all of them out! Men, that was imbarresing! But I don't think anyone here'll have time to do something like that if I start to write one again. Problem is, I don't have time to write one either! So I guess that'll have to wait! Now then, I'm done, what shall I do now? Maybe I could go help Patsy and Cloe? They have to clean up their room too and I don't think they'll be to happy about that, so I'll go find them then."/i
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(A few minutes later) ,,Hey girls! What are you doing?"
,,We're training Bob, so if Brady does get taken, he can smell her sent and find her!"-Patsy.
,,Please, his name's Bob, not Lassie!"-Ebony (who just walked by, I started laughing).
,,He's a very smart dog! He can do that!"-Cloe (angry).
,,What are you laughing about?"-Ebony (annoyed at my reaction).
,,Nothing, it's just, the last time you said that, you were wrong."
,,I never said that!"-Ebony (looking confused).
,,I know. (Ebony gave me a strange look, like the one's she gives Tai-San when she gets all . . . strange, and then walked away.) Now girls, you still have to clean up your rooms, want me to help?"
,,But what about Bob, we're training him!"-Patsy.
,,I know sweety, but the best way to learn is by repeating, so if we leave him alone for a while, it'll go better next time. And you're rooms still need cleaning up. So we can kill two birds with one stone."
,,I don't wanna kill any birds!"-Cloe.
,,Don't worry honey, it's just an expresion, in the Netherlands we say seven flies with one . . . ihow do I say this?/i . . . splat."
,,Oh, okay. See you Bob, don't forget about what we've thought you!"-Cloe.
,,We'll be back soon."-Patsy.
,,Come on girls."
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(After helping the girls clean up their room) ,,Hey Morgaine!"-Salene.
,,Hay Salene! How's it going?"
,,Fine, you seem to enjoy it here too!"-Salene.
,,Yeah, I like it here. Surrounded by friendly people and everything."
,,You're one of those friendly people."-Salene.
,,How do you mean?"
,,I mean that you are a nice person, not another Lex or Ebony."-Salene.
,,Thanks. You're really nice too, and good with kids."
,,You're great with kids too, I saw you with Patsy and Cloe, they really like you."-Salene.
,,You don't mind, do you? You are pretty close with them."
,,Of course I don't mind, I haven't had much time to spend with them lately anyway, I'm just glad they still have somebody to talk to and play with."- Salene (looking guilty).
,,Don't feel guilty Salene, you've been busy."
,,I know."-Salene.
,,They just need something to do."
,,Maybe we should have a party, I think that would do them good."-Salene.
,,Yeah, that's a great idea, but what kind of party?"
,,If only it was the birthday of one of them."-Salene (thinking).
,,I've got it! In the Netherlands we have a party about a man called Sint Nicolaas, sint means saint, who was very generous, so now we have a story about that on his birthday, instead of getting presents, he gives everyone presents and candy. How about that? We could make gifts for each other! And write poems! It would be great!"
,,And when is his birthday?"-Salene.
,,On december the fifth!"
,,But isn't he an adult? He's dead by now then. There's no point in celebrating his birthday if he's dead."-Salene.
,,That's the whole point! He's been dead for a few hundred years! But we tell the childred that he's alive and we organise it big and everything, the children would think he gave them gifts, but it really where their parents. So it doesn't matter that he's dead, he never was alive when we celebrated it anyway! It's like christmas."
,,But that's a great idea! Everyone would get presents and have fun! It would take their mind of things!"-Salene (starting to like the idea).
,,And I could teach them the songs! Only one problem, the songs are in Dutch and as far as I know, they don't speak that."
,,So translate them, or just learn them to them in Dutch, maybe they'll like it better that way."-Salene.
,,Okay, I'll try, I can ask Sasha to help, he's good with music, maybe he can help with the translations and the tunes."
,,Yeah, but we have to talk to the others about this first."-Salene.
,,How about we go ask Amber and Bray? I'm sure they'll like it, we can ask the others later." ,,Should we tell the kids?"-Salene.
,,No, first see if we can do it, we don't want to get their hopes up."
,,Okay, can you ask Bray and Amber? I have to go, I have antidote duty."- Salene.
,,Fine, I'll go talk to them, good luck."
,,Bye."-Salene.
,,See ya. iI like this, we'll have to get some stuff though, it's not sinterklaas without candy. Now I guess I should go ask Amber and Bray. I'm sure they'll like it./i Hey guys." (walking into Amber's room where they where talking).
,,Hay"-Amber.
,,What's up?"-Bray.
,,Salene and I wanted to have a party for the little one's, to take their mind of everything. So unless you've desided to get married quickly, we wanted to organise a sinterklaas party."
,,What is that?"-Bray (I explained it all to them).
,,That's a great idea! But how are we gonna do that with the gifts? We don't really have anything like that."-Amber.
,,We can make them ourselfs, or look for them in the city. I'm sure we can figure out something."
,,I think we should give it a try."-Bray.
,,Now about you two getting married, set a date yet?"
,,We were thinking about around christmas."-Amber (looking at Bray while playing with her ring).
,,That's a good idea, sinterklaas is a very personal holiday, not with a big party and everything, so with your marrage, we can have a big party and celebrate christmas at the same time!"
,,What do you think about a big party?"-Bray.
,,I think it should be okay. What about you?"-Amber.
,,It would be great."-Bray (wispering something in her ear).
,,I see you would like to be alone, I'll see you around." (smiling).
,,Bye."-Amber and Bray (not even looking at me).
i,,Those two really hit it off! I'm happy for them. Now, let's find Sasha to see what he thinks about the songs. Maybe we could make a few up ourselfs, but I don't think I'm very good at that. Maybe he has a some ideas? But I guess I should find him first and see what he thinks about it, then I can start planning about what songs to sing."/i
,,Hey, what's the hurry?"-Sasha.
i,,Speaking, uh, thinking of the devil!/i Hay! I was looking for you actually!"
,,Me? What is it?"-Sasha.
,,We are planning a party and I was wondering if you could help with the songs, I wanted to teach the kids a few ones."
,,Sure, what kind of party is it?"-Sasha.
,,It's a sinterklaas party."
,,A what? I don't believe I've ever heard of that before!"-Sasha.
,,That's very possible, it's a dutch party (I explained it again, I'm really getting tired of that and then I have to tell the kids and the rest of the tribe! How am I ever gonna put up with that?)"
,,That's a good idea! Could you sing one of those songs for me?"-Sasha.
,,Sure, what about my favorite one? 'Zie de maan schijnt door de bomen', that means something like, look at the moon shining trough the trees?"
,,That sounds fine with me."-Sasha.
,,Okay, it goes like this:
*Zie de maan schijnt door de bomen.
Makker staakt uw wild geraas.
'T Heerlijk avondje is gekomen.
'T Avondje van sinterklaas.
Vol verwachting klopt ons hart,
Wie de koek krijgt wie de gard.
Vol verwachting klopt ons hart,
Wie de koek krijgt wie de gard.*
That was a first bit, there is more, but what do you think?"
,,I think you have a beautiful singing voice."-Sasha.
,,Sasha! I mean about the song!" (laughing).
,,I like it, even though I have no idea what it means. I think we could teach them that."-Sasha.
,,It means something like, finely the night of sinterklaas has come and we can't wait to see what presents we've got. But I guess we should go tell the others about this first, then we can go teach this to the girls." (walking away to tell the others).
,,Where are you going?"-Sasha.
,,To call a tribemeeting to discuss this." (surpised).
,,I wanna talk to you."-Sasha.
,,What about?"
,,Just talking, we haven't really talked about ourselfs. Just about what had happend and planning things, so I wanna know about you."-Sasha.
,,You've heard the intire story about how I got here didn't you?"
,,Yeah, but what about before you got here?"-Sasha.
,,Like what?"
,,Like what where your parents like? Do you have brothers or sisters? What did you wanna do when you grew up? What kind of animals do you like? That kind of stuff."-Sasha.
,,Uhm, I had two great parents, I have two annoying little brothers, who I do miss, I wanted to become a teacher and I love cats, my favorite animal is a cheeta, they are so beautiful! That print and their skin, how smooth! And how fast they are! They're just amazing creatures! But I also love ordinary cats, aspecially white ones, there once was a comercial with all those little, white cats, little ferrballs, they where so cute! I just couldn't watch that commercial without wanting one of those sweet citties!"
,,So you're a cat person."-Sasha.
,,Definatly! We always had two cats at home, and when I was about eleven, one of them died, I was so sad! She had been with us for as long as I could remember! And then to top it all off, a week or so later, on school we had this class where we had to look sad or happy or something and then the other kids would judge who looked that way the best, and when we had to look sad, the teacher said, look as if your cat just died, about a week after she really did!"
,,That must have been awful! But did you say you wanted to be a teacher?"- Sasha.
,,Yeah, I said that!"
,,What kind of teacher?"-Sasha.
,,A maths teacher, I liked math, I hated languages! I was really bad at those!"
,,What do you mean? You're really good at English!"-Sasha.
,,Yeah, at English I was, but we also had, Dutch (of course), French, German, Latin and Greek, and the only other one I was good at was Greek, which wasn't that useful, because you can only use it translate ancient texts, which I didn't thought I'd ever do, so that was pretty useless."
,,That sure are a lot of languages!"-Sasha.
,,Yeah, and I was required to do all of them, except Latin or Greek, because they're not that useful, I mean, I've never had a situation where knowing a bit Latin and Greek helped. So I don-"
,,Morgaine! Can I talk to you for a minute?"-Danni (just running around the corner somewhat freaked out).
,,Sure! Sorry Sasha, but I have to go. I'll see you later!"
,,Bye!"-Sasha (looking disappointed).
,,What is it?"
,,Not here! Come with me!"-Danni (running away).
,,Okay! (following her)
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