As you might be aware, I've never been much of a fan of the whole blogging phenomenon. As I am aware, most of you are not particularly big blog consumers, yourselves. But since there are more of you than I can regularly keep up detailed email correspondence with, I decided I'd take a stab at sharing some of my experiences and perspectives as I try to adjust to becoming a permanent resident in the Netherlands. A country so small that, were I to start at any point in the country and drive the same distance it would take to get from my former home in Maryland to visit my parents in Rochester, NY, I would be at least one country away from where I started. A country where, at 5'6" tall, I cannot reach half of the cabinet or closet space, I can't borrow anyone's bicycle because I am too short to reach the pedals, and my biggest communication problem is not the language, but the crick in my neck I get from having to look up so damn far to talk to most of the natives.
To those of you to whom I have not yet managed to write personal emails, I apologize. I will write to you. Eventually. To those of you who will see things I have written to you repeated here, I apologize. I will continue to write to you, but perhaps in less detail, as the general details will go here. To Leslie, thanks for being entertained enough by my emails to suggest I consider blogging. I'm doing so as much for therapeutic purposes as to keep people posted on life here, but I hope to continue being entertaining.
We've been here for five weeks now, so there's a little catching up to do. I will be back soon!
Debbie and Wijo,
ReplyDeleteI hope you're happy with your decision to leave the United States. I imagine by now you're starting to miss your freedom!? Well, I guess you guys decided in favor of socialism and now will have to deal with it. Didn't you realize what a poor country that place is when you saw all the pictures of people riding around on bicycles? I also hear that their dryers are just hollow metal boxes with metal drums on the inside turned by a crank, is that true? Do they have TV there? And how is the Americanization coming along? (Glenn asked me to ask that question!).
Sarah Palin