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My 4th day of school in Amsterdam
Bicycles in Amsterdam by Flickr user _dChris. Commercial use permitted by Creative Commons license.
[This entry is from my 1976 handwritten diary. On August 16, 2012 I posted this to my blog and I added this bracketed language and also the photograph, which is recent, not from the 1970s. Thank you to Flickr user _dChris for permission via a Creative Commons license to use the picture. 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, 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.]
This was my forth day of school. I only said a few words to Andrea (American girl) and I moved my seat over to a boy section instead of a girls section.
I’ve got the job of washing the dishes at home. I am charging a lot cheaper now at home. I charge $1:00 to wash dishes and empty the dish washer. I only charge 1 guilder (37 cents) here and I have to do the dishes by hand.
so that means I get 17 guilders a week (I work 2 times a day 7 days a week plus my 3 guilder alowence.
I am getting used to going to school now. I can to the work so easily and fast I hope I get switched to a higher grade.
