These next few months… and years are about to get intense.
Starting in August, I’m going to be entering back into the world of Student-dom. First, I will be taking a twenty hour/five day intense Dutch course. I’m hoping that it will really help me with my speaking and grammar so that I can consistently and effectively communicate with family, friends and colleagues in Dutch. I’m really looking forward to these courses and can’t wait to see the outcome. I’m really hopeful because I already understand so much. Being able to form sentences and speak and express myself is just the next exciting step of living here… plus it is about time anyways. It’s so frustrating wanting to be able to communicate and not being sure how to put together sentences even though I know the words, or when I go to put sentences together, my mouth forgets what it’s doing and a whole jumble of awkward sounds come out. Super embarrassing.
At the end of August, I will be embarking on my part time education journey with the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA for short) (aka the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences) in an International Business and Management course. The program is four years long. I’m really open to the opportunities it will open up for me both in the work I’m doing now and for perspective things in the future. It will also be so so so nice to finally have a degree. Classes for this will be twice a week for 3.25 hours a class.
Job is also embarking on a part time educational journey in the IT field. He is also doing his education with HvA and will have classes two nights a week.
Although we are both very excited, it’s also a bit of a bummer because we don’t have classes on any of the same days, which means we will probably only see each other three times a week. But it’s nothing we can’t adjust to or handle! To say we’re not used to it would be a lie as we spent almost a year and a half living on different continents. It will definitely be a big adjustment though, as now we’ve lived together for over a year and a half.
Needless to say, we are definitely going to be doubling down and prepping for school in the next coming month.
Wish us luck!
The Traveling Spoons 