Hello,

Seems you have a nice little home here. Sorry to enter without knocking.
At forehand I would like to apologize for any bad English I will certainly produce. I'm from Holland, but I'm trying...

These days I'm writing my thesis for something similar to psychology. Almost ready (and I shouldn't be here, but I should be writing).

Years ago I bought 'Till We have Faces, because I liked the booklet and it was very cheap. Never heard of Over the rhine. That's changed, and because of the new CD I tried to find some information on the internet and here I am.

I play volleybal, write songs, smoke too much and sleep too little.

I am not a great friend of computers, so I'll be wandering about...

I'm planning to visit you from time to time. Nice to meet you!!

Andre

Glad to have you here in the orchard, Andre.

Nice to meet you Andre!

Welcome to the Orchard!

hi, andre

glad you're here.

Welcome!

Pleasure to have you here -- welcome!!!

welcome. glad you found us.

THANK YOU!

Nice to be here. I'm surprised and really encouraged to come back by your welcomes. As I've said to one of you: It'll take some time to get to know some people here and to read into some of the discussions. So instead of barging in on some topics I'm gonna take some time to read. (Or like the wise men say: Listen, before you speak...!!)

I wont be here everyday, although somehow I already like it here. Forgive me if I spent some days on the outside before calling in. It's a big and quite interesting world outside.

But I'll defenitely be back. Talking from a distance, like a wellbred dutchman. (Don't worry, I'm the quiet type, I tend to listen.....)

Until then.......

Andre

Glad you found this place, Andre!

No need to knock Andre. Our orchard is yours. welcome.

welcome to the orchard.

Whoow, that's been a long time...

I had some problems with my internet, tried to install ADHD-internet and in the preparations I broke my telephonecable...

Well, it's working now...

Andre

Welcome! Did you know that silent and listen use the exact same letters? And while I'm at it... did you know that stressed is just desserts spelled backwards?

Anyway... glad you're here!

You sound very much like two other friends of mine from Holland!

Excellent English, by the way. It'll probably prove to be better than ours! My two friends there say they learned to speak English by watching Monty Python. What role models!

hee andre, welcome! i'm also from holland! it's great to notice more dutchmen like over the rhine, have fun!

Hey good to have you!!

But why are we writing in English to each other?! Strikes me as a bit odd! It's like screaming into a telephone that's on speaker, so everyone in the bus can follow the conversation....

I like it here, hope you have a great time as well.

See you around!!

Andre

PS. Are you from under the Rhine or over the Rhine?

I laughed a lot at that last exchange Andre.... gimme a minute, I'll figure out why...