Life is too short, so kiss slowly, laugh insacly, love truly and forgive quickly



Each windmill has its own job and all
four of them in the photo have different jobs



To Remeber the fallen

The most expensive hotel in Amsterdam

The past week has had its ups and down and i still kinda feel that i might not be able to speak the language by the end of the year, but maybe a  miracle will happen


Monday/ Maandag was kind of boring but I was also extremely tried since I didn’t sleep every well the night before. I had to go to Amsterdam for a meeting at the Immigration centre which should have only taken 30min but it took an hour since the person that was helping us didn’t really know what she was doing. Out the whole meeting I did get my time here lengthened to now march so there’s a plus and I also got to pay less then the normal amount since I’m Canadian and the Netherlands as special agreement with Canada. So instead of 331Ero I only paid 41 Eros’s.

Tuesday/ dinsdag I had to go back to school where I had Gym that day so I had to go searching for the sports fields that are like two blocks away from the school. So One of my friends here got me to ride on the back of her bike so we would make it there in time. So I also fond out that its a lot harder to ride sideways on the back of a bike, then it really looks it takes a lot of concentration and mussel to do that. Right after the very hard biking I had to run laps in the field then play baseball for 2 hrs. which wasn’t that bad but I could have done without the run. After I had French then I got to go home.

Wednesday/ Woensdag was the day that my host brother was leaving for his school camp. So I had to bike to school by myself . It wasn’t bad I actually liked it since I can go faster then I could with his friends but I did find some trouble the was a collions of bike under a bridge. It started with two people but when your biking in a bike train then a domino affect happen and like 30 people crashed in one spot. I was lucky that I didn’t get stuck in it. Once at school I had I had all my normal class.

Thursday/ Donderdag Again I biked alone today but I though I was going to be late so I biked really fast and made it to school by 8:05 which was a new record. So once at school I realized that I didn’t need to be here till later since my first class was cancelled. So me and everyone who has to either take a bus or a train or bike an hour to school was mad since we could have slept in.

Friday/ Vrijdag Today was the day my host brother was coming home. So once I was at school I fond out another class was cancelled so again I could have slept in an hour longer but I cant complain its not that bad since it gives me more time to rest before biking home around 11pm .Around 1pm my host brother came home with my host father , he looked so tired but was very happy to have gone on that trip since it was so amazing. Around 2 pm my host father and I went to the bank to see if my card actually came in which it didn’t so we kind of wasted 1hr . That night I met most of my host families which was nice since it gave me time to get to know and see how they are before I go and live in there house for a couple months. All the families seemed very nice.

Saturday/Zaterdag I got to hang out with Isabelle. We watched couple movies which were all Disney since that’s how we roll. We also worked a little bit on her Halloween party decorations. I was also attacked by her syco kitty he may have been cute with his no tale but he’s the devil in disguise.

Sunday/ Zondag My host family travelled to Amsterdam to go see Anna Frank’s Museum and some other places and go on a cannel boat ride. The Funny thing was that we only really got to go on the cannel boat ride since the Anna Frank museum was so busy that it had a line going all the way around the building and the other place said it was open but really it wasn’t. though we did eat amazing fries with mayo and I had wonderful hot chocolate. Also went into a couple cool churches and a part of Amsterdam that women can not be married they must stay single to live there. The whole day was amazing and we also had wonderful weather too.

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
Maria Robinson