Finding a way ‘in’

Teaching music to primary school classes is not always easy. It demands a lot of you putting energy and drive in the lesson to get the children actively involved. You always have to do many things simultaneously (don’t teachers always do this?). And of course there is some notion in your mind how the children…Read More

Tasting Dutch spring

       Spring in Holland. What a beautiful time of the year. Cherry trees full in blossom, tulips and daffodils everywhere, trees opening their leaves with this very special ‘young’ green. Every day more flowers pop up all over the place. We were so lucky in these very first weeks of spring to have beautiful weather for…Read More

Catching my dreams

Ralph Waldo Emerson says: Once you make a decision the universe conspires to make it happen. Paolo Coelho says it a bit more active: When you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.Well, I want something. And I made a decision. I did not know at that time exactly how…Read More