and exciting. I wonder if Papa and Mama think we should go to Australia. Do I want to go there? It sounds exciting, a new country and a new language. But it also sounds scary. I fell asleep, dreaming of sitting in a lovely big house, on a mountain, overlooking a long sweeping beach.
When I got up the next morning, Papa was already in the kitchen. Whilst we set the table for breakfast, I asked him, “Do you think we might go to Australia, Papa?”
“I don’t know, there are a lot of things to think about. But, Mama and I are going to look into it. If we think it’s suitable, it could mean a new beginning for the family. What do you think, Marijke?”
Papa is asking my opinion? Wow, he thinks I am old enough to give him my opinion!
“I don’t know either yet. It sounds exciting and I think it would be a really good place to live. But it also sounds scary, because they don’t speak Dutch, and it’s so far away. What would happen if we don’t like it there, Papa? Can we come back again?”
“I don’t think that would be so easy, that’s why we have to make sure we really want to do this. It’s a big step for the whole family, and we need to be one hundred percent sure that it is the right thing to do,” Papa said.
I floated around on air the rest of that day. I felt that Papa had given me a chance to give my opinion on a really important matter, and had taken my opinion seriously.
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