This is my daughters student room, drawn by memory. It’s part of a “sinterklaas” surprise. In the Netherlands we don’t give presents at christmas, but at the feast of St. Nicholas, december 5th. Children get toys, but grown ups give each other surprise presents, often with a little pun. Even if you can’t read it, guess what I wanted to tell her with this picture?
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Nikira 6:53 pm on December 3, 2009 | #
if its a dorm, its a really nice room, so you outlining things she brought from home? Or it is her dream room, with cats in the cage??? This what she wanted in her room?
renefijten 11:55 pm on December 3, 2009 | #
We would never put cats in a cage of course, she has 2 small rats, Spip and Pepper, they keep sniffing around.
Nikira 12:23 am on December 4, 2009 | #
So you still didn’t solve the mystery of writing. I fell in love with one naked rat in the petstore, we named him Pidor, but I was afraid to get him, because of my cats. So we visited him in the store, till he was taken.
Ziza 12:57 am on December 4, 2009 | #
Rene, I wanted to comment yesterday but… you know already – I couldn’t. All is nice and good reminder of Dutch! I just wonder how come this green doggy is actually white?
renefijten 2:14 am on December 4, 2009 | #
The mystery is the total mess of the room. Empty drinking cartons and used teabags lying around, wash hanging for weeks, piled up unread newspapers. No different than my own room when I was a student, but she does not need to know that.
Ziza, that’s called artistic freedom.
Ziza 4:31 am on December 4, 2009 | #
Actually Rene, it does not look messy here, Your style is so neat + nice handwriting = a bit crowded yes, messy no.
Rats? Yack! Good thing is you captured them. Now, how are you gonna get rid of them: through the window into canal or sell them to a Chinese restaurant?
renefijten 5:39 am on December 4, 2009 | #
Imagine, they are pets. When one got hurt we even had to go to the vet (dierarts). And worse, as a good father I had to pick up the bill.
Margie 12:53 am on December 7, 2009 | #
This is a wonderful present for your daughter – I imagine she will love it.
My husband and I had pet rats – we LOVE them! They are extraordinarily smart and social.. and very clean. The only problem is they live quite short lives… 2 years.
CloudyDay 2:26 am on December 7, 2009 | #
“Clean up your room!” I guess some parental sayings are universal.