The tables have turned...
May 1, 2005 ... A year ago today
“ Safe but Emotional…
So I have arrived in Amsterdam. I am safe. I am emotional. Finally let out all the tears for leaving the place which actually felt the most like home since I left home - Montreal. Realising what I left - the people, the place, my Maison de Fou home....Trying to be open to the new experience ahead.Finding it hard.Am alone in an internet cafe.Have the most dogy room in the world as my new place. Trying to change it.Upset.Emotional. Reflective. Alone. Missing people. Missing a certain person. But I am safe. I have arrived. I am letting out all tears tonight. I am getting ready to embrace my new world. But it does not stop the sense of loss at leaving a place I did not know how much I loved?"
May 1, 2006
This date marks my one year anniversary in The Netherlands. It has now been exactly one year since I arrived in Amsterdam with the feelings expressed about.
It is interesting re-reading the blog entry of a year ago, and realising how far I have come, and how much I now consider Amsterdam as very much my home away from home.
That in a year, I have formed some very powerful and lasting friendships.
I now work in an area that I love, and to which everyday I am finding my motivation and challenges increasing to a level that I actually want them too.
I have connected with new people ( Laura, Michaela, Russell, Eoin, Maria,… god so many amazing people to even list!)
I have re-connected with some very good friends (Bergio, Zoe, Arthur, Amelia, Loz, etc)
I feel I am very much in the place I want to be at the moment.
And that I am the most fulfilled that I have been in a long time.
It makes me curious as to what my May 2007 blog entry will look like –
Where will I be and what will I be thinking?
“ Safe but Emotional…
So I have arrived in Amsterdam. I am safe. I am emotional. Finally let out all the tears for leaving the place which actually felt the most like home since I left home - Montreal. Realising what I left - the people, the place, my Maison de Fou home....Trying to be open to the new experience ahead.Finding it hard.Am alone in an internet cafe.Have the most dogy room in the world as my new place. Trying to change it.Upset.Emotional. Reflective. Alone. Missing people. Missing a certain person. But I am safe. I have arrived. I am letting out all tears tonight. I am getting ready to embrace my new world. But it does not stop the sense of loss at leaving a place I did not know how much I loved?"
May 1, 2006
This date marks my one year anniversary in The Netherlands. It has now been exactly one year since I arrived in Amsterdam with the feelings expressed about.
It is interesting re-reading the blog entry of a year ago, and realising how far I have come, and how much I now consider Amsterdam as very much my home away from home.
That in a year, I have formed some very powerful and lasting friendships.
I now work in an area that I love, and to which everyday I am finding my motivation and challenges increasing to a level that I actually want them too.
I have connected with new people ( Laura, Michaela, Russell, Eoin, Maria,… god so many amazing people to even list!)
I have re-connected with some very good friends (Bergio, Zoe, Arthur, Amelia, Loz, etc)
I feel I am very much in the place I want to be at the moment.
And that I am the most fulfilled that I have been in a long time.
It makes me curious as to what my May 2007 blog entry will look like –
Where will I be and what will I be thinking?
6 Comments:
That was wonderful, Maz. You're so organized to actually make a one-year anniversary blog!
True indeed. Some places have a way of becoming "home away from home," which we could have hardly imagined initially.
Keep on shinin', superstar!
XOXO,
Saki
Thanks Saki babe ... I know it is amazing to reflect on how your attitude can change in a year!
Hugs Maz xx
i, for one, am very glad that you have brought your pinkness to this orange land and added so much colour and joy to my world here by being your authentic self
Thanks babe!!
I really appreciate that :-)
The same goes for you,
Hugs Maz
Mazzy I remember so well the times when u lived in them hell whole halls!! Your bottles of Herbal Essence as you dared to go into the smelly bathroom, the wardrobe door that was set on top of the sink to keep the smell from coming up and the beautiful curtains come blanket!! But you were strong and just got by with a little help from your friends :)
Your soooo amazing you'll make friends wherever you go and I for one am glad you stuck it through that initial month of may! Because the times that came after that will stay in my memory forever! (Some of them best staying in my head than recounting them on your blog he he he!!)
Mic
xxx
Mic babe... I MISS YOU!
Get your Irish BUTT over to Amsterdam ASAP!
Seriously WHEN are you coming to visit???
I want dates and I want them NOW :-)
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