MOVING TO AN ISLAND IN THE CARRIBEAN

Hi babes,

It’s been a while, but then I’d have to say, a lot has been going on. 

Yes, it’s official. 

I am Moving to Curacao, a island in the (dutch) caribean, in South America. Kinda crazy, huh? 

So this is how it all happend: 

Back in the beginning of the year, march something, my mum saw a job opening of a job she really liked to do, in Curaçao. My mum asked us what we thought about it and if she should try to apply. We liked the idea, and my mum aplied for the job, even though we never expected this to truly happen. 

And so as my mum appeared to be a good match for the job, we visited the island to see if we would like to actually move there. (Which we did, obviously). 

My parents always had a dream to work abroad, but they always expected it would be for my dad’s job instead of my mums. 
My dad will continue the job he is currently doing, abroad. He works in the container shipping business, so will see how that goes. 

As for me, I’ll continue the same ‘dutch’ schooling as I am currently doing. (4havo for the dutchies). I’ll go to a private Dutch school since I won’t really be able to graduate in ‘papiamento’ (a spanish/ portugese language they speak there besides dutch) in 1,5 year on a local school. I think this also will make it easier for me to connect with others, since those students come and go all the time. 

What do I think about it? Is a question i get asked often. Well, ofcourse i have ‘double’ feelings, on one hand I’ll have to miss all my friends and Family and everything I am used to, but on the other hand I love different cultures and I think you should get out of your comfort zone every once in a while. I think this would be an amazing life experience for me, which will make me grow as a human, as cliché as that may sound. 

Overall I am excited, my parents will go for 3years but I am free to go back in 1,5years, as soon as I have finished high school. And in those 1,5years I’ll go back to visit holland, and my friends and family will go and visit me there. I think the time will adventually fly by. 
We have already bought a house and are currently busy with the entire moving progress etc. We are expected to move around January 15th. 

So, there you have it. 

I’ll continue blogging ofcourse, I actualy think my blog may get more interesting because of this. But keep an eye on my insta & blog and I’ll keep you updated! 

Speak to you soon! 

XOXO

Sophia 

   
    
    
 

BCN diary day3: from the mountain to the sea.

Hi everyone!

Welcome to my Barcelona diary.

This morning we took the underground to Museum d’art, where also the magic fountain is. We walked up the stairs, to get a beautiful view of the city, it was really nice, and so was the magic fountain aswel! Although we didn’t see it at night. 

  

After viewing the city from above, we went to  the park close by, we walked further up the mountain, where you have yet again wonderful views! 

  
   
At this point we were high in the mountains, and we found one other BCN tourist attraction. And so, we went from the top of the rock to Barceloneta, also known as the beach! 

  
Once in Barceloneta it was around lunchtime, we ate at one of those beach lunchspots, and i had a tuna salad and ‘detox’ smoothie. It was pretty good, but as usual at beach restaurants, overpriced and noisy though. 

  
After lunch we stumbled over the boulevard  at the beach. It was extremely hot and i was dying to take a swim, but the beach was crazy crouwded and laying in the hot sand between sweaty tourists didn’t look very atractive, though it would have been nice to take a swim or have one beach day, it’s a lot more relaxed!  So we adventually went back to the centure of the city. We also came across a park with an amazing fountain. 

  
We ate at Parellada we had a really delicous dinner, just really good quality food and a very lovely place to sit. Also when you finished the first dish, it takes about less then 5minutes before they already bring you your next dish. For this place definetely make a reservation, good thing is; you can make it at the day itself. We went here at 19:00, but the place was closed and would open at 20:30, so we made a reservation for 20:30. Quite late to have dinner, but once you’re in the city you’ll notice that everybody eat’s around 10pm, and with the hot weather this isn’t always too bad. 

After dinner we headed back to our hotel, to enjoy a bit of wifi and fall asleep. 
That was all for today, untill next time!