My name is Miranda and welcome to my new blog! I’m quite new to blogging (as in: I’ve never had one before). I thought you know what, I’m going to set up myself a WordPress website and buy a domain name and just give it a try. On this blog I will be writing down my experiences in LIFE: love, information, funny-ness and extra’s. I know, that’s quite a lame abbreviation but still: it works! I will be writing about my work (as a middle school teacher at an independent school), my holidays to almost everywhere in Europe (to Germany, France and The Netherlands), informative articles (see below) and some funny stuff.

My holidays
Over the past years I’ve been travelling quite a lot: I have been to the United States, The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Italy. I always wanted to write about my experiences abroad and it looks like now is the right time. Usually when I go abroad I like to visit cities (I’m not the type of person that lays on the beach all day) and experience the local culture. Cities that I have been to include Berlin, Copenhagen, Leiden, Rome, Venice and Paris. Eating the local cuisine is definitely one of the more awesome things to do abroad than just baking on the beach or stuffing your mouth at the eat-all-you-want buffet!

Informative articles
As a middle school teacher at an independent school I like to teach but I also like to learn, that is why I will be posting various informative articles on my personal blog here. Once in a while I organize a project for my students to learn about a unique subject (for them to show off to their parents and siblings :P). We had various projects, for example about peanuts, honeybees, how paper is made, medieval times, electricity and much more. All of the information for these articles I get from online resources (such as websites and PDF files) and just plain old books. I will be writing some reviews about the websites that I have used in the past for different school projects so that other teacher’s can make use of these resources.

Hobbies
I don’t really have a lot of hobbies, most of my hobbies evolve around my professional life (i.e. my life as a teacher). I like teaching (my favorite subjects are history and geography), cooking (I’m not a great cook but with the proper cookware I can make a pretty delicious dish), biking (I really enjoy mountain biking) and sleeping (duh!).

Closing
Well that is it. I hope I will be sticking to this commitment of writing and updating my personal website for as often as possible. I know it will be difficult but it will be my new goal for this year. I’m not really a great writer but I will definitely do my best. If you have any questions, pointers, suggestions or if you just want to say hi you can always send me an e-mail.