Bonjour, comment ca va. As you can see, I'm starting to learn French. Well, actually Sarah Anne is learning French and I'm sitting in on her schooling. Remember, they have a Canadian homeschool program. So like all good, submissive Canadians, we're learning French. It's actually quite fun so far. I even found an English/French dictionary out here. It's crazy, who would have thought that they'd have such a dictionary out here. Costs an arm and a leg too. 22,500 shillings. 1 USD is 1,820 shillings. So divide, carry the one...subtract? It's after school hours for me so I can't do math. But I'm sure it's a lot of Canadian dollars.

I would like to shout out a word of thanks to all my faithful fans who check up on my blog. That little webcounter is quite an eye opener. I have another counter that tells me where people are logging on from. So I can tell that the den Hertogs (of the Blackburn persuasion) check on it a lot, as well as the Neels family from St. Catherines. And Rob I see you log on too, from work. Mrs. den Hollander, I notice you're checking up quite a bit too. Thanks to all the UK people, who don't even know me but still check it out. I'm trying to keep Dave in line for you, but I think he's a lost case ;). And I would like to end on a note to Rich. Thanks for the comments, man. It helps me think of stuff to write, knowing what kind of updates my fans aspire to. You're holding me to quite the standard there, bro.

Yesterday I was talking to Gerrit Sinke and realized how tough life is here. I mean, all you people only have to deal with ice and snow and freezing weather and polar bears and stuff. Here in the tropics, I'm labouring through each day with 30C weather, bright shining sun, and having to eat all this fresh fruit. Like yesterday I think I ate a whole fresh pineapple. It's a tough life I know, but someone has to do it. So, I'll just continue suffering here so that all you people can enjoy the coldness.

Well I gotta go. Until we meet again on cyber space, this is Mike, logging off.