Late Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Late Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Sorry this is much too late. I never got around to writing Christmas cards this year. Thank you so much for what you have sent me during 2006, I have truly appreciated everything.
This had been such a busy year. Everything at work seems more and more complicated and time consuming. There are so many meetings and so much planning to do. Being head of the library means I have more and more administrative work, since we buy all the books not just for the library, but also for all the classes. We have to get the teachers who teach the different subjects to make lists of books they need. Then later we have to look through all those lists and then decide what to buy. Naturally we can’t make everybody happy, but we’ll have to do our best!
Unfortunately our principal and vice-principal often have different opinions about things and often I have a meeting with one of them and then do what we have agreed, and then the other comes and wants it changed. I told them I cannot keep working like that and asked them to find out what they want before coming to me, hopefully they will do that now.
The past thirty years we have had about 35 counties here on Fyn, but a new reform has forced them to “merge” (that’s probably not the correct word) to 7 bigger counties. That means we suddenly have to work with many more schools and people and a lot of things are going to change. We are all anxious – and a little nervous - about what will come.
At the moment we have more students than we have room for. We simply don’t have enough classrooms!
In June Craig Beckner and his wife Gloria were here for four days. They live in Newcastle, Wyoming. She teaches in Newcastle and he works for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service in Custer, South Dakota. They had been in Germany to visit family and then came here. It was great to see him again for the first time since 1982 when we met him and his first wife (she died in an accident about 17-18 years ago) for breakfast in Ogden or Provo, Utah. Teri and Jack do you remember? It was on our way to Reno. We did a lot of talking and went to see a few things. We spent a day in Copenhagen, but really needed more time. They then flew to London to visit Ernie Brown, also from Kremmling.
I had a few things to finish at school before starting my vacation. I went back to Sweden, but did not go as far north as I had planned and wanted to. More than anything I really needed to relax, so I just took my time, read a lot of books and enjoyed what I saw. I borrowed a digital camera from school and I will try to include a few pictures from this summer.
I still don’t have a digital camera, so I can’t send you pictures from the far north now, but I’ll get some from 2003 scanned and send later. My two old cameras really need to be replaced, but I keep putting it off. I want to save up to get what I want and I also need new lenses. A good telephoto lens is more expensive than the camera.
In October we have a week off and I went to Schwarzwald (The Black Forest) in south-western Germany. It is really pretty there. Mountains, forests and many lakes and rivers and I had a good time. The German freeways (the Autobahn) officially don’t have speed limits; but the traffic is really getting bad through Germany, so we simply can’t drive very fast anymore. Of course with a trailer you can only go about 60 mph. On the way home there has been an accident with 3 or 4 trucks involved. It took more than 10 hours to clean up and more than 4 hours for us to go 8 miles! Fortunately no one had been seriously hurt.
For the past 30 years we have spent Christmas eve with my sister and her husband and their three children and the boys’ girlfriends. The oldest, Jesper graduated from the university in August and now works for a big company that supplies energy for most of the country – and making more money than me! Number two, Søren, is studying engineering. He’ll be done in June. He studied in Holland last year and there he met a girl from Australia. The youngest Maria will finish junior college in June. So there was quite a crowd this Christmas, except I was sick and had to stay at home. Fortunately I could see them at my father’s birthday on December 29.
That was a little about what has been going on here this past year. Again, sorry for doing it this way.
Take care and have a great 2007!
Love
Niels
Sorry this is much too late. I never got around to writing Christmas cards this year. Thank you so much for what you have sent me during 2006, I have truly appreciated everything.
This had been such a busy year. Everything at work seems more and more complicated and time consuming. There are so many meetings and so much planning to do. Being head of the library means I have more and more administrative work, since we buy all the books not just for the library, but also for all the classes. We have to get the teachers who teach the different subjects to make lists of books they need. Then later we have to look through all those lists and then decide what to buy. Naturally we can’t make everybody happy, but we’ll have to do our best!
Unfortunately our principal and vice-principal often have different opinions about things and often I have a meeting with one of them and then do what we have agreed, and then the other comes and wants it changed. I told them I cannot keep working like that and asked them to find out what they want before coming to me, hopefully they will do that now.
The past thirty years we have had about 35 counties here on Fyn, but a new reform has forced them to “merge” (that’s probably not the correct word) to 7 bigger counties. That means we suddenly have to work with many more schools and people and a lot of things are going to change. We are all anxious – and a little nervous - about what will come.
At the moment we have more students than we have room for. We simply don’t have enough classrooms!
In June Craig Beckner and his wife Gloria were here for four days. They live in Newcastle, Wyoming. She teaches in Newcastle and he works for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service in Custer, South Dakota. They had been in Germany to visit family and then came here. It was great to see him again for the first time since 1982 when we met him and his first wife (she died in an accident about 17-18 years ago) for breakfast in Ogden or Provo, Utah. Teri and Jack do you remember? It was on our way to Reno. We did a lot of talking and went to see a few things. We spent a day in Copenhagen, but really needed more time. They then flew to London to visit Ernie Brown, also from Kremmling.
I had a few things to finish at school before starting my vacation. I went back to Sweden, but did not go as far north as I had planned and wanted to. More than anything I really needed to relax, so I just took my time, read a lot of books and enjoyed what I saw. I borrowed a digital camera from school and I will try to include a few pictures from this summer.
I still don’t have a digital camera, so I can’t send you pictures from the far north now, but I’ll get some from 2003 scanned and send later. My two old cameras really need to be replaced, but I keep putting it off. I want to save up to get what I want and I also need new lenses. A good telephoto lens is more expensive than the camera.
In October we have a week off and I went to Schwarzwald (The Black Forest) in south-western Germany. It is really pretty there. Mountains, forests and many lakes and rivers and I had a good time. The German freeways (the Autobahn) officially don’t have speed limits; but the traffic is really getting bad through Germany, so we simply can’t drive very fast anymore. Of course with a trailer you can only go about 60 mph. On the way home there has been an accident with 3 or 4 trucks involved. It took more than 10 hours to clean up and more than 4 hours for us to go 8 miles! Fortunately no one had been seriously hurt.
For the past 30 years we have spent Christmas eve with my sister and her husband and their three children and the boys’ girlfriends. The oldest, Jesper graduated from the university in August and now works for a big company that supplies energy for most of the country – and making more money than me! Number two, Søren, is studying engineering. He’ll be done in June. He studied in Holland last year and there he met a girl from Australia. The youngest Maria will finish junior college in June. So there was quite a crowd this Christmas, except I was sick and had to stay at home. Fortunately I could see them at my father’s birthday on December 29.
That was a little about what has been going on here this past year. Again, sorry for doing it this way.
Take care and have a great 2007!
Love
Niels
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