Canoe ride on the canal behind our house in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Canoe picture by Flickr user Martin Cathrae via Creative Commons license
[This entry is from Wednesday, April 14, 1976 in handwritten diary. On February 1, 2013 I posted this to my blog and I added the bracketed language, including this comment, and also the photograph, which is recent, not from the 1970s. Thank you to Flickr user Martin Cathrae for permission under a Creative Commons license to use the picture, including commercially. I was in 7th grade when I wrote this journal entry. I typed this post as I wrote it, including the mistakes, so you can see how I wrote back then. Keep in mind this is my private diary, and I’m sure I could have written with fewer errors had I known I would be showing it to the world years later. On March 30, 1976 my family moved from Chicago, Illinois, USA to Amsterdam, The Netherlands for about four months. I wrote in my diary frequently during that time, and I plan to post all the entries to this blog. To my knowledge, we did not have an English dictionary with us in Amsterdam. The address of the house we lived in in Amsterdam was De Cuserstraat 19, Amsterdam, Buitenveldert, The Netherlands.]
Today is the day we get out early at school. We are going to get bikes tomarow. I am glad.
We rode Arnolds and Oscars conoe today. It was sort of mixed up fun. We kept turning around when we didn’t want to. But when Andy and I were taking the boat out of the water I stuck my foot in and my shoe and every thing was wet all the way up to my knee! It was a funny thing to tell mom Dad came home today from gronenen where he works 3 days a week and I told him too. He bought us some of the things that you turn over and snow comes down (like this [picture of a snow globe that I drew in the diary])
I am getting rough hands so mom says I can’t do dishes any more.
