start – middle – end

Finished being a landscaper! the yard is finished. well atleast for me. they only need to do some touch ups but the guys had to move on to another job (tight schedule..) they will return next week for a day or 2 but im done over here. Below a pic of three weeks ago. I have some new ones but no time to get them on the computer yet. no time really to be posting this message either but what the hey. (the pool looks way better now;))

Goals for the next month is finding another job, a cool van, start taking driving lessons (comes in handy when i want to use my oh so cool van!;)) And becomming 22 but remaining 21. Im also going to create “transports of delight”. its going to be a large banner with inspiration for our trip. When the banner is full of pictures and other things possible i hope we can make a decision of whether its going to be a roadtrip or backpacking & also where all this will take place! I’ve already found some pics but they’re not on the banner yet. As soon as i’ve made a start ill update the page!

Lets get started!
Bartorious

After many days of thinking what to write for my dear readers of the sometimes weekly, now monthly news posts, I’ve finally come up with some points.

First of all I’d like to inform you all that I’m sitting in the sun writing this on a peace of paper without a shirt on! Yes dear readers, the sun is that nice. Not to make you entirely jealous, I won’t walk around like this cause the wind is still pretty cold. No picture tho cause that would make you entirely jealous ( ha-ha )

Saumur is coming up and for the ones who don’t know, It’s an international vaulting competition. I’ve been asked by the Belgian team to help them out with their compulsories since one of them is injured. Well.. asked.. It sort of happened automatically. Rob and I have been training for a while now but last week i was getting nervous already. It’s weird cause I’ve never been like this before a competition. The reason is I know I can improve so much on some exorcises in a short period of time. I know cause I’ve been better and this period I’ve been abroad I’ve worked a lot on my physical skills. Ah well.. 1,5 week to go.

Which reminds me, after Saumur I’m planning on going home again. I’m in need for money ever-since there is another great trip ahead. So “The End?” NO! I’m also a bit done living with just a few pounds and euro’s. I do want to continuous vaulting when i come back, so if anyone in the vaulting world is reading this… I’m also looking for a well paid job. (attention! well paid is underlined)

Some business talk: Robs website is going great. It’s really looking good and working nice. I’ve finished the logo for theDutchdesigner.com and the website itself is starting to shape up as well.

Any good?

Clouds are forming, the sun is away, my t-shirt is back on, so a good time to stop writing. Might be the last greetings from France…

Ps. It will be nice seeing everyone again.

een Dinsdag update…. I’ve been busy quite a lot last weeks. i’ve now been working with Phil for a couple of weeks and i will continuous working until next weeks friday/saturday! then from 13 till 20 December i will take a holiday (haha just started working and then already going for a holiday…). No the reason i’m taking a holiday is because it will be my last week here in Scotland this year and Dieter, former trainer and now friend of mine is coming over for a week! i’m exited because i’m finally going to see something Scotland is know about! think about loch ness, william wallace, highlands, etc. the main idea is to travel a couple of days through Scotland. we’ll see what happens exactly.

i drove a car here! haha. let it stand still in the middle of the road but on a second try it went pretty good and the girls where speaking alright about me as a driver. (yes, there’s a voice in the back of my head who says ‘bart.., thats women speaking positive, not men’.

anyway.., more news and stories soon.

cheers buddies!

a toast! the 7th of august i left my country proud and stout! 2 months later im still alive and ready for some more!

this month will end the 2 months of not earning any money. tomorrow i will help phil out on a job. i have no idea what i will have to do but it involves some muscle power which is good! he will probably need my help a couple of days (lets hope so!) and then i’m hoping to finish a website which will provide me of some more money! thumbs up for me cause i’m already spending it in my mind haha.

last week one german left and another one arrived! wenn dein deutsch gut ist kannst du alischa’s blog auch reden! niet dat mijn duits zo goed is hoor :p. i had to google it up a little bit.

i believe this was on thursday. i found some sparklers (sterretjes !) and if you put your shutter speed really slow on a professional camera you get something like this. je weet wel de klik die je hoort als je een foto maakt? als je je camera lang open laat staan dan krijg je dit. dus vanaf het moment dat je klikt op de knop van de camera en dan een seconde of 8 later laat sluiten:

we need some more practice but its a nice first try!

friday the water pressure was decreasing… phil went to have a look if there was something wrong with the water pipes. what seemed to be was that another landscaping company tried to build a pond and hit the main water pipe of this area.. (easiest way to build a pond obviously) so the next day we where out of water. and no its not that nice not having a shower after vaulting.. during the day it was ok. but around 10 at night the horses missed there water as wel. so we where running around with buckets of water, giving the horses there daily needs. then at 11 or so, a big truck with a tank of water (16000 liter) filled up every tank. then on sunday i had a nice warm shower again! the end. haha. too bad though because we wanted to have a fun night out on saturday which now we didnt. we did watch a movie instead and it was alright.

training vanavond maar niet zo’n zin.
in verband met spierpijn van gister,
geen goed begin.
rijmen vanavond een nieuw gewin.
daar maar mee trainen,
voor dat toekomstig lekkerding.

proost

laten we beginnen met een mooi plaatje!

those mountains are my every day view:)! they can look boring too so dont be that jealous.. hha.

Poster for Phil is almost done.. going good! im glad he’s happy with it too. if its finished ill put it online. my website is almost done as well so you guys can almost start advertising for me :p.

This weekend were the Scottish champs. it was boring at times but it was fun to see some of the vaulters i know. also got a call that day from ricky (some of you know who) and we will meet somewhere next week. will be good:). some photo’s of this day:

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