Weekly Updates

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Hello Blog Followers!

     Sorry to leave you hanging. I know that I’m way behind on getting my weekly updates up, as promised. Doing chores and watching the kids in The Netherlands for the past few weeks has kept me busy, and I want to give you the best content possible! I’ve also been unable to post because I don’t have my computer with me and Blogger doesn’t work very well on my iPad. When I get home I will put up all of the photos and in depth updates. For now I’m going to give you the condensed versions of the past 5 weeks. Stay tuned for more!

Week 2 
 Night of 3/13: Going away party for volunteers, drinking, playing pool, and Mexican food!
3/14: First day working on the pirate ship, The Golden Hind!
3/15: Walk to Cockington, a small village with cottages, with friends. Very peaceful.
3/16: Day 2 of being a pirate and “packing party” with one of my roommates
3/17: St. Patrick’s Day! Sunshine and blue skies on the pirate ship. Fish and Chips dinner and dessert kitchen! Hostel game fun playing Spoons and a lighter game with a new hostel volunteer, Martxel
3/18: Bath with my bestie! Roman Baths, Bath Abbey and Sally Lunn Buns
3/19: English Breakfast made by some drunks in the kitchen in the morning, new volunteers, more pirating, and a very silly variety show
3/20: One Minute Challenge card game fun and a new volunteer, Monica

Week 3
3/21: Last day working on the pirate ship, trying the British equivalent to a hot dog, and swimming
3/22: Paignton Zoo, frisbee throwing, Scrabble and card game called Big 2
3/23: Kent Caverns, Dinosaur World, packing, and first beer while playing Big 2
3/24: Train to London, meeting Melissa for pizza and chatting, and going out to pubs and talking with Melissa, her boyfriend Danny, and Brent
3/25: London exploration with Brent before seeing Waitress!
3/26: Traveling to Amsterdam and getting settled in with my new hosts in Ursem
3/27: Watching the kids on a day off from school with Madeline, the other WorkAway-er

Week 4
3/28: First real day working around the house doing some backyard work
3/29: To Amsterdam! Wandering the city and taking a canal tour before ending the night with a hosted-hosted meal
3/30: Biking around Amsterdam and going to the Anne Frank House
3/31: Tulip garden called Keukenhof and heading back to Ursem
4/1: Chores, sunshine and listening to music and Becoming by Michelle Obama, and Dr. Seuss in Dutch
4/2: Songwriting, laundry and trying Bitterballs and a special Easter beer
4/3: Chores and reading

 Week 5 (partial)
4/4: Dishes, no WiFi and missing home, but I was cheered up by watching Forgetting Sarah Marshall!
4/5: Finding a happy space for myself and listening to and playing music.
4/6: Grey day spent lazing around.
4/7: I got to go to the theme park, Efteling, with my host family! Lots of fun with the kids and yummy Chinese food for dinner.
4/8: Sunshine! Cleaning around the house and basking in the sunlight listening to an audiobook on the trampoline.
4/9: Spending the day with one of the kids, Anthoni. We stayed at home playing with legos, doodling, and eating noodle soup.

  Today I’m just at home with the kids, who don’t have school today. Anthoni has his first tennis lesson later in the day, and later I’m going to go to the nearby windmill museum!

Detailed posts are coming, I promise. Better late than never! Thank you for your patience while I have fun on this amazing journey and experience. :)

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