49 Days/ RotexRound up and My Europa Tour

49 days left here in the Netherlands

Rebecca Fafard

Medemblik-Koggenland‏ Rotary club,

Bovenkarspel-Grootebroek, Netherlands

Summerland Rotary Club, Summerland

       This past year has had its ups and its down but each up and each down came with a memory that I’m happy to look back on and learn, laugh or cry from. If I had to summarize the past year I would put it into a couple different world like a challenge or  mesmerizing but in the end it end up as another learning curve that will help me in the future. Though as the moment seems I’m looking forward to seeing my family in Canada and just being back in the atmosphere of my small little town. It’s funny after this year I really understand the saying “Home is where the heart is” because as much as I love travelling I feel the best in the country were I grew up in. This is because a person understand and that how your body has learned to grow to understand it is probably why a lot of people who immigrate usually sometime end up after sum odd years moving back to their birth place.

        As this journey come to an end I find myself wondering is it really the end, was this “Home” for the most part and what am I going to miss the most from going back to Canada. Well after having to look back on what I have done this far I would have to say no it’s not the end it’s just the beginning of a lifelong friendship and i hope to be able to travel back to visit everyone that I have met during my stay. As far as I know I have several homes all over but again back to the saying before “Home is where the heart is” come in, my home is where my heart is and my heart is with everyone I have met and gotten to know over the time here in the Netherlands. Hmm now for the last thought what am I going to miss the most I would have to say the people I have met and always being surround by history and the ancient architecture of the buildings though I’m not going to miss the wind and rain that I have been biking in for the past year.

I still can’t really say that I have truly learned more about myself, though I can say I have found myself to be a very quiet and introverted person. Which probably affected my exchange for a big part but I have learned to figure out and problem solve situation fast and I have become more easy going and more relaxed. From being over her in the Netherlands I have become less conservative and more open minded to bad language and the way people act or show affection and as far as I can remember about how myself and my friends and family dealt with or thought about bad language is very closed minded or narrow minded but again in different place very one acts differently but as I say I have opened my mind to it but I still don’t do it so I know I have kept the same about myself. As I find myself coming close to returning home I find myself wondering will everything this be ok or has the way we grown been too far part to be able to still pull together our old friendships.  

           For the up and coming year after my exchange I am going to a community college to get my certificate in business and I hope to then transfer to Kwantlen polytechnic University for my bachelor’s in Fashion design and Technology. I also hope to volunteer and maybe be able to help out with the Rotary Program in my town or with the new exchange student as a rebound.  So well though life we learn that as we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let us down, probably will. You'll have your heart broken and you'll break others' hearts. You'll fight with your best friend or maybe even fall in love with them, and you'll cry because time is flying by. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, forgive freely, and love like you've never been hurt. Life comes with no guarantees, no time outs, no second chances. you just have to live life to the fullest, tell someone what they mean to you and tell someone off, speak out, dance in the pouring rain, hold someone's hand, comfort a friend, fall asleep watching the sun come up, stay up late, be a flirt, and smile until your face hurts. Don't be afraid to take chances or fall in love and most of all, live in the moment because every second you spend angry or upset is a second of happiness you can never get back.

Wadlopen In Groninin

Wadlopen In Groninin

Walopen In Groninin

Wadlopen in Groninin

Hoorn Harbor

Play Field Hockey In Hoorn For the Chanpionship Game

Play Field Hockey In Hoorn For the Chanpionship Game

Marloes and I in Amsterdam

Europa tour 2010 28th may to the 13 of june

For the next two weeks myself and like 30- 40 other poeple will be traveling to Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Lido di Jesolo, Venice, Rome, Barcelona, Lyon, Paris.

So hopefully after i have edited all the photos i will post them.

 So till next time