Alex de Leeuw: Day One in Amsterdam

Alex de Leeuw

This week we have our first guest writer. Say hello to Alex the Lion. Alex lives in the class room where my girlfriend teaches and he spends his weekends staying with the children so that they can write about the adventures they have together. The children asked me to look after Alex for a week so I could show him around Amsterdam. Since Alex is Dutch I have translated his writings into English.

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Hello. Mijn naam is Alex de Leeuw en ik ben een leeuw. Ik ga op vakantie naar Amsterdam met Stuart.
Hello. My name is Alex the Lion and I am a lion. I went on holiday to Amsterdam with Stuart.

Alex de Leeuw 1
Hier kijk ik naar de trein tijden.
Here I am checking the train times.

Alex de Leeuw 2
… maar waar is de trein?
… but where is the train?

Alex de Leeuw 3
… oh, hier komt de trein.
… oh, here comes the train.

Alex de Leeuw 4
Ik zit in de trein naar Amsterdam.
Me sitting in the train to Amsterdam.

Alex de Leeuw 5
Hier ben ik bij Stuart z’n werk.
Here I am outside Stuart’s office.

Alex de Leeuw 6
Ik heb dorst.
I am thirsty.

Alex de Leeuw 7
Ik help Stuart met het maken van computer spelletjes.
Me helping Stuart make computer games.

Alex de Leeuw 8
Dit is de muziek studio. Ik doe de stemmen van het computer spel.
This is the recording studio. I recorded some voices for the game.

Alex de Leeuw 9
Ik ga slapen na een drukke dag.
After a busy day I went to bed.

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We will have more from Alex during the week. When you leave a comment for him please remember that he is a very young Dutch lion (keep it clean).

Stuart

Stuart is an accident prone Englishman who has been living in the Netherlands since 2001. Even his move to the country was an unintentional accident, the result of replying to a cryptic job advertisement he found one day in a local British magazine. Since then he has learned to love the Dutch (so much so that he married one of them) and now calls the country home. He started the blog Invading Holland in 2006 as a place to share his strange stories of language misunderstandings, cultural confusions and his own accident prone nature.

17 Responses

  1. Dragonlady says:

    Its brilliant to see Alex again.

  2. Rose DesRochers says:

    Alex got to go to work with you? How cool is that.