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Last Saturday Spain beat Italy in the final of the European Football Championship. This competition between 16 nations lasted 3 weeks and although I am not a great football fan I followed most of it mainly because I had joined the Africa Family Foundation football pool which made the tournament much more interesting for me. I had joined this pool because half of the proceeds of it went to this charity that supports orphans in Kenya and guess what? I became third in the pool winning 57 euros!…

My 19-year-old daughter Carmen is doing a work practice at Amsterdam airport. She does check-in and boarding of the Easyjet flights. She was working the evening shift this week and a few days ago she rang me up from work with an unusual request: 'Mum, can I bring a stranded passenger home for the night?' What had happened was that this young lady had made a wrong booking. She had come over to the Netherlands  to surprise her boyfriend, who had been travelling through Europe. The couple had…

Today the Euro 2012 Football Competition begins. For the next three weeks there will be football matches on nearly every day. The whole nation seems to have football fever. Throughout the country streets are decorated with orange banners, the supermarket hands out football stickers and the bakers sell orange cakes. Football is not one of my passions and I am not really looking forward to all those matches which my husband and son will probably watch most of. I usually watch the matches of…

Today I invited a family of complete strangers for dinner at my house. Let me tell you what happened. I was scheduled to do volunteer work at the visitor center of a recreational park near my home today. My work started at 12 o'clock and when I arrived at the center the two wardens on duty told me that during their morning round they had spotted a tent near one of the beaches. They had gone up to it with the intention of sending the campers away as overnight camping is not allowed in this…