Settling In
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While on a run yesterday along the Amstel (extra happily as I’m over a hip injury), I thought about how I would pen a blog post about the day’s big milestone – five years in Amsterdam. Yesterday, half a decade ago, we touched down on Dutch soil, excited for an adventure and yet still a bit fragile. We were all…
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It didn’t surprise me that I had forgotten the logins for this blog, and that I had to reset the password. I might have had this site for four years… Read More
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Just a few weeks ago someone asked me how long I’d lived in the Netherlands for, and I said 2.5 years. Then about 3 weeks after that, I got a… Read More
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Aside from leaving my people, for me, the next hardest thing wasn’t leaving the weather. It wasn’t leaving behind the good things, like Woolies, or Dis-Chem (or doctors who were… Read More
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Someone asked me this week if Amsterdam feels like home, and I didn’t really know how to answer, because I’m not quite sure how I feel. It kinda does, but… Read More
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The other day I was riding somewhere, and I realised that my journey with a bike here hasn’t been dissimilar to our emigration process. There was preparation, falls, highs, downhills,… Read More
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A lot of you have been asking me how to choose a school or what to consider in terms of schooling when moving to the Netherlands. At a high level… Read More
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