Holland!! Arrival, Day 1

Hello everybody, specially my parents! I hope you read this, because I'm wasting some of my valuable time in Holland to write this down! Last night I was nervous as I had never been. I went to bed early, after a little time of conversation with Bill, and I didn't sleep really well, so I got up at three o'clock in the morning and prepared all my stuff to go. My father drove me to school with the bags, and when we kissed goodbye I was already entering the bus to the airport.

Non of us believed what was really happening, and in five or six hours we would be flying or in Holland!! So I listened to some new muic I had downloaded from Jason Mraz to think about other things and don't be so nervous. We checked in and had to wait there for a couple of hours, as the flight was leaving at 6:45. But the time finally arrived and we got to the plane. I sat on the window, with Maria, and we talked a lot about eveyhing, even the flight was interesting!!

So once we were at Schiphol we had to take a bus to Cals College. It took a while, but when we got there everybody was almost shouting of emotion, specially when we saw all the Dutch mates waiting for us. We said hello to everyone and shared some time together in the entrance, but in that time the schedule started. We had to take a little class of introduction where we had to say what we liked the most about our partners and things like that. Like that we broke the ice and everything went fast, Calvin's father drove Bill and me to Bill's house and I was introduced to his family. At home there was only his mum and little sister, Ghislaine. I unpacked my things and then it was time for my first ride! Bicycles are big in here, and they're not the same as the Spanish ones, but I think I got used to it pretty fast. We were going to an ice cream shop over the river, with Roger, Wessel, Maxim, Andrea, Martijn, Marc, Anna, Tessa, Albert and Tjeerd.  We stayed there for a while, in some rocks, and then went home at about 5 o'clock.

Then I went with Bill to the grocery store, because he had to buy some things to eat. Afterwards, Bill's father drove all the family to a restaurant, a "bufet libre", and we had dinner there. We could get whatever we wanted to and then ask the cook to cook it. I liked it a lot. At home we decided to watch a film, Beowulf, but it was already too late, about ten o'clock, so we didn't finish it, just half of the movie. I said goodnight d went upstairs to my bedroom. Well, so this is my first day in Holland!! I've only been here for som hours and I'm already loving it!!


Song of the day: Jason Mraz - Remedy