My street celebrates an annual "Belle Epoque" market. Most of the houses in my neighbourhood were build at that time. This year I decided to try to sell some of the stuff I never use anymore. Also, our school had a bunch of French books and an old encyclopedia which they gave me (they were too old!!). But... on May 24th I was on my way home from Barcelona (a schooltrip). So Sofie was so good to arrive early at my place. I must say: when I finally arrived just after noon (from a night sleeping on the bus), I found her sitting there looking rather cold. The sun just started to appear and it was finally getting warmer. We had a good time looking at people passing by or just counting how much our neighbour was eating...I had some old books of Physical Education out - it looked rather silly, but at least two persons were interested in teh book "Learning how to Swim". We had some fun trying to get rid of all the old French books... no one was interested in them. In the end we urged people to take a French book when they had bought something else. Some people found it very difficult to decide how much they wanted to give us: our rule was "we do this for the Flemish Alzheimer League, the Ensorinstituut and the Vloedlijn... You may give whatever you want to give..."
Thanks Sofie (and your mom) for sitting there in the cold morning!
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