Eighteenth week

Hallooo everyone! Another blog again! A little late, but hey whatever haha. I didn't do that much this week, it was just a normal, a little boring week. This week I will tell you more about what my plans are for when I’m going back home. I know that it is still far far away, but it is something I think about a lot. I try to figure out what I want and what I like.

(I totally forgot to share my really mega super cool weekend after New Years!! so here a little review)

The weekend after new years was great!! We went topgolving! That was so much fun, the kids really loved it and we too. I never done it before and also I haven't seen it before. It was harden then I thought but so much fun.

After golving I went with Valerie to DC, because I really wanted to go to DC and see the pretty Christmas lights. I haven't been to DC since the Christmas lights were out so I really wanted to see that. We walked around DC, enjoyed the pretty sunset and the Christmas lights. We grabbed some food and also went to the Black Lives Matters wall.

Ohhhhh and and and!! I made oliebollen!! I was so excited and scared. I had no idea how to make them. I didn't had a package so I had to make it out of scratch. I was scared to make it but It worked out really good! They were so good! Oliebollen are thing we eat during New Years, it is similar to a donut, but a little different. Ryan and Leah, my host parents, also really liked them!

This week I did some fun stuff with the kids! I felt all good again. :) yaayy. We played in the bath, in the basement with the bounce house, we cuddled and played outside. Last week I got a box with some Dutch candy and Sinterklaas things that my parents sended me. In the box were also chocolate letters. Those are literally letters of chocolate. We normally eat that during Sinterklaas, the holiday we celebrate on the 5th of December. So I gave them those and they really liked it!

Weekend!

The weekend was fun! Saturday I went to Baltimore with Valerie. We just walked around her old neighborhood, what was really cute. Her old neighborhood is really pretty. Andddd I got my big cup!! This was really I thing I wanted to have for a long time already, but I didn't had it yet. Until now!! Bucket list thing haha. We walked around a park sat for a little at the harbor.

In the evening I went to Sharon. We watched a movie and talked a lot haha. I also tried some more American candy.

Sunday I had planed a lot of thing, but unfortunately it changed all. It wasn't that bad, because now I had time to talk to my friend back home and talk about what we want to do when I get back.

After my au pair year

I really have no idea what I want to do when I get back. I thought about so many different things, but I don't know yet. I change ideas almost every week. It's hard to know what you want, especially when there are so many options. I'm sad that there is a chance that I can't do everything I want, but I will try my best to do as much as possible. :)

When I arrived here I already had a hole plan for what to do when I get back. But when Covid came I had to change my plan a little, but it would still work. After a month being in America, I started thinking about if this was still the thing I really wanted to do...

My plan was to stay in America until maximum a year and 9 months, so I will come back in the summer of 2022 and I can start my study in September. I was sure I wanted to study Event management, but after I started thinking about it more I started doubting. Also because I would like to see more of the world and if you start a study you are kinda stuck for 4 years. I was thinking that I would be interested in living in another country for a little and maybe work or study there. Just because I love it that you can learn so much more about a country and the culture when you live there. You meet so many amazing people and you see amazing places, that you would see that fast when you just got here as a tourist.

I was thinking for a while that I don't want to study at all anymore, just go traveling and working. I plan changed quickly, because I really want to continue studying and I’m very curious about the student life. The only problem is that I have really no idea what I want to study... I hope to find out where I’m interested in and what I would like to study while I’m here and follow courses for my credits.

My plan for now, what will change eventually, is that I want to study. Not sure yet what, but I want to. Also I was thinking that I maybe want to take another year in between to volunteer in another country and travel there or to work and life in another country before I start my study.

I also thought about studying abroad! That would be so cool!! So all the options are still open, now I’m going to use my time here to figure out what I want. I still have a lot of time to think about. And it is going to change anyway, I know myself haha.

This is something I think about so much and make myself crazy about, what I really don't have to do. But maybe I could help you a little with thinking about what you would like to do after or maybe you can help me founding out more thing I can do. :)

Byyeeeee,

Naomi