After 12 hours of traveling, I’ve made it to Holland! Nenad and Stef welcomed me with open arms at the airport. Open arms for a hug…and to help carry the massive amount of luggage I have. It didn’t take long for us to get to Tyndale Theological Seminary from Schipol. I had about an hour to start getting settled in before dinner. The first couple months here I’ll be without a roommate, but he’ll return from visiting his home country of Romania in August. It’s probably a good thing he wasn’t here cause everything got opened up and piled all over the place as I began settling in rather than take a desperately needed shower.
Dinner was fun as all the new people started mingling with the current, and some graduated, students. The food was good, but let’s face it, you can’t really mess up a good BBQ anywhere you go in the world. We then played a few ice breaker games before breaking off for the evening. Several of us decided to take advantage of the beautiful weather and took a walk around town which then lead to drinking tea and talking for a couple hours.
And now it’s 2am Dutch time and my bed is still not 100% put together and I’ve yet to take that now very much needed shower. But, I wanted to share some pics from the first and let everyone know how the day went. Tomorrow brings a pancake breakfast at 8am and orientation at 9am. Some plans have changed for this weekend and it looks like I’ll be talking with Daniel from Crossroads before joining the youth leaders for a BBQ Saturday night and then heading to church Sunday instead of joining the younger crowd for poldersport. Will keep you posted on how things go this weekend!
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