Abroad
It was my mom’s birthday, the 31st of July, in the year 2000. I got on a plane and arrived on the other side of the globe, in the Netherlands. This is where I would spend my next year. I had graduated from high school in June and this was…
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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…