*major gritting of teeth*

A little introduction:

In May my oldest will finish secondary school. After that he'll have to pick a specific education. He wants to join the army, but since he'll be 15 when he finishes school, he's too young to join. But for kids like him there's a special 'bridge' education to fill in the gap. Last year we've been to several information days for that specific education and then we heard he was supposed to apply in November 2006 if he wants to join the 2007/2008 class.

( Now we get to the part where I get very frustrated )

Obviously this was not 'required reading' for those who come across this entry. But I really needed to get this out of my system. I love my country, but the bureaucracy drives me up the wall sometimes.

On a more cheery note...

My youngest wants to do a jumpstyle dance at the open stage day at school next week. So he and 4 of his friends are practicing after school in his room. I'm not sure if you all are familiar with jumpstyle? It's very popular here, especially among young guys. It's a whole special 'thing' where guys jumpstyle solo, or in groups, or do what they call duojump where you have to jump synchronous. It's especially appreciated when someone adds a little personal swing to it, and somehow it's also very cool to let yourself be filmed while doing jumpstyle in special places and then put it on the internet, so YouTube is filled with clips of guys jumping at school, in the train, at a policestation (that was a fun way to do something daring) and in Disneyland (with Tigger jumping along, cute).

Anyway, I've got five 11 year-olds practicing at my house every day, and since it's supposed to look like this, but usually ends up looking like this, you can imagine the ruckus. Especially since they also have gigglefits every now and then.