zaterdag 24 oktober 2009
welcome, and first steps
Welcome one welcome all.
My name is Maarten Schroders, currently 17 years of age and living on the island of Terschelling in the Netherlands.
I am currently in the planning fase of spending one year studing in the US of A, with the aid of the AFS ( http://www.afs.org/afs_or/home ) and my loving parents (who will be paying for my little trip) I hope to gain life expierience, new insights, cool things like that
I created this blog with my own two hands, and a laptop, to give you, yes you insight into this life journey, do with it whatever you want.
As you may or may not have noticed, this is in English, not in Dutch, if you havent noticed please rub out your eyes, begin reading again and this time, pay attention.
The reason I do this is so I can practise my english a bit more and because Im planning on giving the link to here to some of my penpals, who in general know little to no dutch.
sofar, I went to the doctor for some information, they dont let just anyone in!
They havent asked me if I have Aids, or the swine flu, but they do want to know if I had the measels and headaches, priorities I guess.
The doctor didnt have a list of what injections I got and when, so we have to call someone else for that, I did get this other test though, not sure what, you get some stuff injected and if it goes red after a few days, your screwed.
The med story will have a tail, but I also placed a order for my first passport.
In the NL you have to carry around some form of identification, like a small plastic ID pass, people make a huge fuzz out of that, dont know why.
Thing is, in order to travel outside of the EU I must have a passport, not just a small ID pass, but a passport is more expensive, more likly to get stolen and harder to carry around (its so big and heavy) so that was a dillema, buy a ID pass now and deal with the whole passport thing later or buy a passport now.
If we bought the ID pass, itd mean we pay for 5 years but only use it for less then 1, and itd mean wed have to deal with the passport thing later and its always better to get that stuff done early, because of the stressfactor right before the trip.
If however we bougth the passport, wed have the risk of losing it, wich would be a very big load of crap for yours truly and prementiond loving parents.
We decided to buy both, this way I can use the ID for everyday use, like if the police suspects me of murder, I can ID myself! And the Passport wil be kept at home for safekeeping.
Sofar my first post, hurray! Ill form the blog later, for now this will do.
Voor Volk en Vaderland!
update* the medication info is in!
My name is Maarten Schroders, currently 17 years of age and living on the island of Terschelling in the Netherlands.
I am currently in the planning fase of spending one year studing in the US of A, with the aid of the AFS ( http://www.afs.org/afs_or/home ) and my loving parents (who will be paying for my little trip) I hope to gain life expierience, new insights, cool things like that
I created this blog with my own two hands, and a laptop, to give you, yes you insight into this life journey, do with it whatever you want.
As you may or may not have noticed, this is in English, not in Dutch, if you havent noticed please rub out your eyes, begin reading again and this time, pay attention.
The reason I do this is so I can practise my english a bit more and because Im planning on giving the link to here to some of my penpals, who in general know little to no dutch.
sofar, I went to the doctor for some information, they dont let just anyone in!
They havent asked me if I have Aids, or the swine flu, but they do want to know if I had the measels and headaches, priorities I guess.
The doctor didnt have a list of what injections I got and when, so we have to call someone else for that, I did get this other test though, not sure what, you get some stuff injected and if it goes red after a few days, your screwed.
The med story will have a tail, but I also placed a order for my first passport.
In the NL you have to carry around some form of identification, like a small plastic ID pass, people make a huge fuzz out of that, dont know why.
Thing is, in order to travel outside of the EU I must have a passport, not just a small ID pass, but a passport is more expensive, more likly to get stolen and harder to carry around (its so big and heavy) so that was a dillema, buy a ID pass now and deal with the whole passport thing later or buy a passport now.
If we bought the ID pass, itd mean we pay for 5 years but only use it for less then 1, and itd mean wed have to deal with the passport thing later and its always better to get that stuff done early, because of the stressfactor right before the trip.
If however we bougth the passport, wed have the risk of losing it, wich would be a very big load of crap for yours truly and prementiond loving parents.
We decided to buy both, this way I can use the ID for everyday use, like if the police suspects me of murder, I can ID myself! And the Passport wil be kept at home for safekeeping.
Sofar my first post, hurray! Ill form the blog later, for now this will do.
Voor Volk en Vaderland!
update* the medication info is in!
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