Let's introduce ourselves

This summer a group of 15 young people from Holland will go to Jinja, Uganda. We are going to our friends Paul and Willem. They have a foundation called Kisoboka (http://www.kisoboka.nl/). Kisoboka means: it is possible. We are going to Uganda to see wat Paul and Willem are doing there. We will experience their daily life in Africa. We will help with all kinds of projects that they're doing. One of the things we are going to do is to set up computerlessons. With a mobile computerschool we will teach the kids from Jinja how to work with the computer.
In Holland we had several meetings to prepare ourselves for this impressive journey. We learned about development work, about the computer and about Uganda.
In this blog we'll keep you updated about the trip. You can read what we did and how we experienced it all. But first: let's introduces ourselves!

The first group will go from the 2nd of july until the 2nd of august.

My name is Joep Vedder and I’m 18 years old.
I was born and raised in Boxmeer (Netherlands) and still living there with my parents and the cat.
I have one sister she is 21 years old and she’s living in the city of Nijmegen and she comes in the weekends home.
This year I’m finishing at school and next year I’m going to study Physics.
My hobbies are playing computer games, playing football and filming and editing. I listen to all sorts of music especially rock music.
The reasons why I wanted to go to Uganda are to experience a different culture and learn things of it.
Also I always wanted to go to Africa and this was a great opportunity.
I’m looking forward coming to Uganda and meet you all.
Joep Vedder

I am Babet and I’m 17 years old. I live with my parents and two brothers in a village named Nieuw-Bergen (the Netherlands). I follow the study of nursing for the second year. When I finish my study, I want to work in a foreign country as a nurse. For example I like to work in a country in war with shortage of medical care. My hobby’s are drawing, painting and reading. I also like to socialize with my friends. So now you know something about me.
I am looking forwards to go to Uganda.

Hello I am Jeroen I am 17 years old I live in Boxmeer this please lie in North - Brabant
I follow a technique training in Boxmeer I must year still 1 to school and then am I with the basis technique ready. I gladly still by want as an executants for construction
I have to a lot of sense to your belong to, to look at how your there live and how culture there is.
I hope that I can learn of your something for example how your your own maisonnettes make, how transport your something.
But I hope of course also that your of my something can learn how we live here in the Netherlands.

The second group will stay from july, 25 until august, 23.

Hello my name is Tij
I’m 13 years old
I live in Boxmeer in Holland
I have 1 brother and 1 sister
My brother is named Rik and my sister’s name is Tineke
My hobby is tennis
I go to school in Nijmegen (a big city in the Netherlands)
I’m coming with my aunt because my father is ill
I like to come over to Uganda to learn things from you
This is me see you soon
Tij Verhees

I’m Tineke. I’m 21 and want to become a teacher in social studies. I hope to be graduated next year. I live in Tilburg, with 4 other students in what we call a studentshouse. I like to hang out with my friends, cook, go to the movies and read a good book. Together with my two brothers Tij and Rik, my aunt Marjon, a friend Wout and my boyfriend Sietse, I’ll come to Uganda. I’m looking forward to this adventure. In the Netherlands we tend to think within the boarders of our own country. By going to Uganda and experience the daily life I hope to make my world bigger. Hope to have a great time, together with you!
Tineke Verhees

Hello!
I would like to introduce myself to you. My name is Sietse and I’m 22 years old. I live in Tilburg. That’s a city in the south of the Netherlands. I live in one house with 11 other students. I also want to become a teacher in social studies, like Tineke. This year I am trying to graduate.
My biggest passion is football (soccer). I am a big fan of the football team NAC Breda. It is a (small) club that plays in the middle of the first league in the Netherlands. Besides football I am a member off the boy scouts. I am a leader of young boys from the age off 7 to 11 years. Every Saturday we’re going to the woods and play games.
I’m very curious about you and Uganda. I would like to learn how you live and what Uganda is like, so that I can tell this to my future students.
Sietse Huijben

Hello, my name is Rik and I am 20 years old.
I don’t live with my parents anymore, I study in a different city where I also live. I live in house with 5 other students which is a lot of fun.
I want to be a teacher at a primary school.
I love to hang out with my friends and to do some cool things together.
I also love to cook. I enjoy food very much and I think it’s great to make it myself.
I hope I can do a lot of fun stuff with you in Jinja. I want to know more about your culture and what your daily life looks like.
Rik Verhees

Hello I'm Wout and I'm 20 years old, I'll become 21 on the 21st of August. I live with my parents and 2 little brothers in Malden; a very little town in the Netherlands. My brothers are 17 years old and 10 years old. I like sports very much; mountain biking, snowboarding and running. I like to spend a lot of time with my friends to do nice thing. I like to go to concerts and festivals and I like to watch movies. Playing guitar is also one of the thing I like tot do. Next year I want to go college and I want to study psychology. Now I work in a restaurant and I like that very much.
I like to go to Uganda to discover more of the world and other cultures. I think its very exiting because I think it is a whole different world than where I'm living in right know.
Wout van Gendt

Nice to meet you……………………………………………………
My name is Marjon Verhees.
This summer I will meet you in Uganda. Together with the second group (Tineke, Rik, Tij, Sietse and Wout) I will spend over three weeks in Jinja. I am very eager to get there and see what is going on. I like to tell you about our lives in The Netherlands and of course I want to learn about your way of living.
I am 47 years old. I have two wonderful sons of 19 and 18 years old. I live in Boxmeer and I work as a mathematics teacher on a high school. I like my job very much. In my free time I like to play the saxophone and the bassoon in several music groups. At home I like to be lazy and read a book or watch television. I also like to do crafts, like knitting, crochet and sewing, but I had little time to do that for the last few years.
For a few years I lived abroad, in the USA and China. I never traveled to Africa so that will be a new experience. I am looking forward to that.

The third group will be in Jinja from the 10th of august until the 3rd of September. Hi, I'm Frank.
I'm 14 years old and I live in Boxmeer, a small town in The Netherlands nearby the German border.
My school is the Elzendaal College, which is also in Boxmeer. My hobbies are playing Baseball and playing computer games. I also play keyboard. I spend my day with going to school. What do you regular do on a normal day? I hope to hear from you soon.

Dear friends in Uganda,
I’m Karin van de Weijer and I am 20 years old. My birthday is the 12th of August. This means that I am celebrating my birthday when I am visiting you all. I am living in Boxmeer. This is a little town in the Netherlands. I am living with my mother (her name is Ellis) and my little brother(his name is Roel). We also have a little dog. Her name is PIP. It’s my dog and one of my best friends. With my boyfriend Peter I am looking for a nice place to live. We didn’t find anything yet but we keep looking. My father and his new wife are living about 18 miles away. I am visiting them every 2 weeks. At this moment I am studding to be a teacher. I just did my first year. I like this very much. I love to work with little children. At Saturday I work as a mail delivery person. I like this very much. Its outside and I have much social contact with people. Beside my school and work I love to read. I don’t specifically like a sort of books. I like Romans, history and travel books. I also love to travel. I went al over Europe. I like to meet new people, history’s, languages, cultures en stories. This is the first time I am travelling outside of Europe. I find it a little bit scary but I can’t wait to go on this adventure. I hope I can make a lot of new friends and go home with beautiful stories.
Together with the group how is visiting you all I have been busy organise sum activities. I hope we can do a lot of fun things together. I hope I can learn from you, you country and your culture. And perhaps you can learn something from me.

Dear friends I am gone see you in August.
Love,
Karin

Hello! My name is Lieke. I am 21 years old. I was born in Boxmeer and my parents and my younger brother Joep still live there. I am now living in Nijmegen, a city 30 kilometres from Boxmeer, in a house for students. In Nijmegen I am studying for psychiatric nurse. In a few months I will have finished my study and then I want to go working in the mental health care. In Nijmegen I like doing things together with my friends: we cook and eat together, go to the sport centre and like watching movies. In the weekend I go to my parents in Boxmeer. In the evenings I like to meet my friends there and we go together to the pub. My hobbies are listening to music, reading books and of course I like doing all kinds of things with my friends: talking, shopping and partying. I am looking forward to go to Uganda this summer. I would like to see other parts of the world and learn about your culture. I always wanted to see something of Africa and in this way I get the opportunity to meet Africa. I like to see the life in Uganda and learn about your way of living. I would like to talk with you about our lives and exchange our knowledge.I am looking forward to this experience!
Greetings,
Lieke

Hello,
It is so exciting to write you all, because the day I will see you all looks much closer now! First let me tell you something about myself:
My name is Minke and I am 19 years old. Two weeks ago I did my last exam, so with a little bit of luck I have my diploma of VWO next Thursday (I know it does not mean really much to you, but you can compare it with High School).
Next year I am going to study in Amsterdam. I will be living on my own than, so it is a big step in my life! Now I am living with my parents in Boxmeer. I have a brother and sister, but they are older than I am, so they do not live at home any more.
In my spare time I like to play the trumpet, to play hockey, to do sports in general, chat with my friends, to go out dancing, to be with my boyfriend (he will be going to Uganda as well) and to dream about going to Uganda, of course.
In Uganda I want to learn a lot of you. Music is my passion, so I hope we are going to make a lot of music in Uganda! It will be nice to be in a total different environment, with a different culture!
See you the 11nth of August!

Hi There,
The name is Joep Kusters. I’m 26 years old and I’m living in Nijmegen a Town of 156.000 people in the South East of the Netherlands. I work as a school teacher is Geographic and I’m a part time student at the Radboud University of Nijmegen.
Besides work and school I like to play the trumpet. I play in two orchestras. But my biggest hobby is playing handball. I play for the first team of Nijmegen and I would really like to play sports like handball or football in Uganda.
I like traveling a lot! I’ve been to Africa before in Ghana. This project was organized by Paul and Willem.
I‘m really looking forward to come to Uganda.
With kind regards
Joep Kusters

Hello,
Here am I…….My name is Mieke en I’m coming to visit your lovely country with the third en last group in August.
I’m the companion of Karin, Lieke, Minke, Frank en Joep.
I’m looking forward to meet you and to see your nice country. Meanwhile I’ve learned a lot about the geographic, politics and the lake en falls together with the young ones, but not enough about your all day living. That you can only do by visiting. So, I’m very eager to see en to meet you there. And also to see old friends Willem and Paul en there dogs. I’m interested in how there doing and off course what they’re doing. And also see there way off living.
In daily live I’m a teacher and I’m having at to moment a practice for children en young one from the age 4 till 23. Children are coming to me with all kind of psychical problems en they speak or play about there problem. I’m also working with the parents of the young children. I see those kids about 13 times for an hour in the week and that’s enough to see them smile again en have a nice life.
I’m also married and have a son of 14 years. Besides that I’m having several hobbies.
I like to work with children, reading, working in my (vegetable) garden, visiting other countries and cultures, cooking, listing music, doing social activities with family and friends, walking and sports. Never a dull moment!
So, I hope this is enough about me. The best way to meet you is to come in August!
I’ll see you then. Nice to meet you!!