Greetings from Finland

Terve(hello),

How is everybody doing in America? Is it also as cold as here? It has been almost 6 months since I moved to Finland and it's great, even though it's a bit cold (-11 degrees Celsius during the day). The people here are friendly and the study program I'm following (Innovative Business Services) fits me really well. In the attachments I included a photo of me and my sister trying out this weird Finnish liquorice(drop) ice cream. I thought we liked drop in the Netherlands but here they are a lot crazier about it. They even have liquorice chocolate.

In the meanwhile I had some time left to write a book about time saving and reaching goals called 'The Art of Positive Laziness' which is now available as a paperback in the online bookstore Lulu.com. http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-art-of-positive-laziness/14924801

Would you mind posting this mail on the Diepeveen blog as well? Thanks a lot, and I hope to hear something from overseas again soon. :)

Best regards,

Adriaan

Happy 53rd Anniversary to Bert & Truus!

Bert & Truus Diepeveen celebrated 53 years of marriage today!

The happy couple enjoying a romantic beachside dinner on their special day!

Greetings from Lalibella Ethiopia

Having a great trip with wonderful weather. Have seen only one cloud in ten days. We saw the church where the Ark of Covernant is kept. Did a 15k, 800m ascent today to a rock carved monestary. The group took mules (ala the Valley of the Kings) but I trekked it. Did two full days looking at the rock hewn churchs in Lalibella (sp?). This place is as good if not better than Petra and worthy of being in the Pantheon of great tour sites (i.e. Pyramids, Angor Wat, Machu Picchu, etc.).

On to Addis tomorrow and then to the south for some animal and water fowl safari time.

take care, Jack

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Vera & Jack