Dear family and friends, we will not stay here for long. We measured our possibillities. Is is finished. We have to put our focus on Europe again. We have had a good time on the Philippines. Not always easy to be in the same house with other people. But overviewing everything, it was more than worth doing this. I and also Sanna, we have had the time of our life. It was always great to laugh and to play with the kids. There was crying also. Tears come loose when you feel that there is love. I hope that the children of the slums will receive much love from many christians, motivated by reading mijn blog. What we can, everybody can, if you believe in the Savior Jesus Christ who came for us during Christmas. We will celebrate Christmas here and than we will go to the Netherlands. That makes that we arrive th 28^th of december in Holland. The airplane from Kuwait Airways will bring us first to Frankfurt, from there we will take a ICE international train. We hope to have our stay in Holland for 14 days. Than we travel on to Aland, an island that belongs to Finland, located between Sweden’s and Finland’s mainlands. There we will spent the winter. When the spring comes we will return to our little house in Bennas(10 km away from Jakobstad). We bought it, just before we left. We have to fix it. The last owner has allready made a start. We will finish it up.

Hello folks, we are back on our base. Did we have a good journey? Sure we had. A better bus from the boat to the airport on Kalibu. About the flight there is something worth to mention. The pilot counted for us that the flight would take 41 minutes. On the end it took about 45 minutes extra to reach our destination because it was so crowded in Manilla. A fotographer told me that the airport is working with some old equipment. It was good that I got to know this later and not before the flight. It goes truly here in the air the same as it goes in the traffic on the ground. Than you can hope that they’ll take enough fuel with them when they get in a traffic jam in the air. We had a taxidriver that nicely got his car through Metromanilla for a price that was not too nice, but in Manilla you can be happy that you can keep going and not get stuck somewhere, so for the rest nothing to complain. That way we arrived safe in Antonio back to Holger and Laarni.