exchange student

  • Immersion

    “What language is that?” I was asked as she stated at my phone, realizing the settings are not the normal words one would expect when looking at the screen. “It’s Dutch.” I replied and explained that I was an exchange student in the Netherlands for a year and wanted to…

  • Unity

    Last weekend, our younger boy attended a birthday party of a friend from his spring hockey team, which he played on last year.  This was 6 months after spring hockey ended and the team came together again at this boy’s house in a neighbouring town to us.  A majority of…

  • Standoffish

    When I was 17 and moved to the Netherlands for a year, I had a horrible last few hours of my flight over.  I felt ill and spent the majority of those hours getting sick in the tiny airport washroom.  I had mentally prepared for moving away and not being…

  • Apprenticeship

    Having various experience is life enriching.  From ‘The Artist’s Way’: “All the arts we practice are apprenticeship.  The big art is our life.” This doesn’t necessarily have to be an ‘art’ but anything you are passionate, excited or curious about.  They can all be considered apprenticeship.  They don’t have to…